assed that the sum asked for be appropriated.

In the House of Representatives the request was not so quickly granted.

Some of the Congressmen met the demand with a plea that the resolution
for the appropriation be added to the Morgan Bill for recognizing the
belligerency of Cuba, and that the two matters be discussed and voted
on at the same time.

This did not please the majority of the members, and the House adjourned
without a vote being taken about the Relief Fund.

This does not mean that the House is unwilling to help the Americans in
Cuba, but that the friends of Cuba see in it a chance to push the Morgan
Bill forward, and are trying to make the best they can of the
opportunity.

Whatever the fate of the Morgan Bill, there will be a day or two of
delay in passing the resolution for the Relief Fund, but it will be
passed without doubt.

Some progress has, however, been made with the Morgan Bill.

Three members of the Committee on Foreign Relations waited on the
President, and asked him if he had received any fresh news about the
state of affairs in Cuba.

The President sent them to the State Department, with permission to read
all the official documents about Cuba that were on file.

It is stated on good authority that these papers showed such a state of
intense suffering and distress, that when the Senators reported to their
Committee the things they had seen and read in the State papers, several
of the members declared that they would no longer oppose the Morgan
Bill.

The Bill was discussed in the Senate after the appropriation had been
granted, but no decision was arrived at.

Should it pass, the first benefit the Cubans will gain from it will be
that Spain will have to treat the people she captures as prisoners of
war, or else be prepared to quarrel with the United States over the
matter.

At the present time she is able to declare that every prisoner she makes
is a rebel, and to shoot her captives down like dogs, without trial. The
soldiers are in the habit of seizing boys and old men, most of them
innocent of any crime whatever, and marching them to prison as rebels.

In most of the military towns, it is stated that at dawn every morning
one or more of these captives are led out and shot in the public square
as an example to the rest of the people.

To venture outside the lines in search of food is a crime for which many
Cubans have forfeited their lives.

The President is not unaware o