. An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results. Driven into Havana. OFFICIAL information from our consuls in Cuba estab-lished the fact in the spring of 1897 that a largenumber of American citizens in Cuba were in a stateof destitution, suffering for want of food and medicine as a re-sult of Weylers order for concentrating the country people inthe towns. Early in May, Consul-General Lee reported thatfrom six to eight hundred Americans were without means ofsupport. The local authorities, even if kindly disposed, wereunable to relieve the needs of their own p
. An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results. Driven into Havana. OFFICIAL information from our consuls in Cuba estab-lished the fact in the spring of 1897 that a largenumber of American citizens in Cuba were in a stateof destitution, suffering for want of food and medicine as a re-sult of Weylers order for concentrating the country people inthe towns. Early in May, Consul-General Lee reported thatfrom six to eight hundred Americans were without means ofsupport. The local authorities, even if kindly disposed, wereunable to relieve the needs of their own people. PresidentMcKinley assured General Lee that provision would be madeto relieve the American citizens, and to that end on the I7th ofMay he sent a message to Congress recommending an appro-priation of $50,000 to be immediately available for use underthe direction of the Secretary of State; and it was desirablethat a part of the sum might be left for providing transporta-tion for such American citizens as desired to return to the United States but had no means to do so. (358). DEBATE UPON THE MORGAN RESOLUTION 361 Public opinion in the United States was again stronglyaroused. At a large mass meeting held at Washington, pre-sided over by Senator Gallinger, strong pleas for interventionand sharp criticisms of the mild policy of the previous admin-istration were made. Spain watched these developments in the United Statesvery anxiously, and the conservative Spanish journals advisedthe government to make no more concessions, and especiallyto forbid us to interfere in Cuban affairs. But the govern-ment was aware that such a policy would at once strengthenthe warlike feeling in this country, and so it was officially an-cording belligerent rights to the Cubans, which passed by adoned on the Kings birthday and that Spain would place noobstacle in the way of relieving the American reconcentrados. The message was followed by three days of long and ex-citing debate in the Senate over th
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