Mr. President. that in the Spanish treaty of Paris provision was nade. for the liquidation and adjustment of a large number of claims. It turned out that the commission appointed for that purpose had passed upon those claims and allowed a small portion of them. but. if Senators will recall the facts. they will remember that most of those claims were preferred by Cubans naturalized. men who owned sugar plantations and other property in Cuba. who had moved to this country and become naturalized so as to claim the immunities and privileges of American citizenship in respect to their property in Cuba. I repeat. most of those clains were preferred by such men. and it is a matter of history that to a large extent those same gentlemen financed the insurrection that prevailed for many years in Cuba. The same thing.
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Generalization that naturalized Cubans were primarily plantation owners seeking American citizenship for financial gain and supported the Cuban insurrection.