The herald., 1896-11-11
And Dent Desire AngIO-SaxOn
Recognition
THE PRESIDENTIAL PLANS
Are All Safely Locked in Grover Cleve-
lands Breast
Secretary Lamont Speaks With Some
Emphasis Regarding Attempts to
outline the Presidents Policy.


CHICAGO. Nov. 10.-A dispatch to the
Tribune from Washington, D. c., says:
There has been no change in the policy
of the administration regarding Cuba,
said Secretary Lamont, land as far as
/ know none has been contemplated
since the adjournment of congress. Sc
far as the visit of Consul-General Lee to
Washington is concerned, it has no more
significance than my walking from the
war department to my residence would
would have. There are private matters
demanding General Lees attention in
this country, and he came home to at
tend to them. He took advantage of this
opportunity to enlighten the president
as to the condition of affairs and the ex-
act situation in Cuba
What the Presidents intentions may
be in this matter are known to himself
and the speculations and surmises about
a proclamation according belligerent
rights to the Cubans are manufactured
out of whole cloth.
''As a matter of fact. the president has
not even begun the preparation of his
annual message to congress. Nobody
has been taken into his confidence on
the Cuban question, and the people who
are attempting to outline plan for him
are simply indulging in rot. This Gu
ban matter has been settled and unset
tied so many times by clique of stock
operators that it has become amusing
to witness their movements. One day
there is a rumor started which sends
stocks soaring upward, and the next
day there is another yarn which causes
a corresponding depression of the mar
ket. 1t can be put down as a certainty,
however, that the president will pursue
the same course in regard to Cuba that
mas marked his administration regard
less of clamor from the outside.
1T should be borne in mind, too, that
the president is by no means ,unadvised
as to the people and condition of Cuba
for at the close of his first administra-
ton he went down to the island with a
party of friends and studied things very
closely while he was there.
There has been no communication
between the president or secretary of
state and the representative of any for
eign government in regard to the Cuban
situation, and consequently no member
of the diplomatic corps is competent to
give any information concerning the
plans of the administration on this
question. All sorts of stories are likely
to be circulated but they have abso-
lutely no foundation nor authority from
any member of the administration"
There is a difference of opinion in dip
lomatic circles here from that expressed
J,x,t ho IF nd hav
of the diplomatic corps are not at all
backward about expressing themselves
One of the leading foreign representa-
tives, who voices the feelings of the
Spanish government. inclines to the be-
lief that the president of the United
States will make a recommendation in
line with the policy already indicated in
former dispatch. That course is to
throw the entire responsibility upon
congress.
This diplomat has had interviews with
Consul General Lee, Secretary Olney
and the Spanish minister within the las,
week, and he is more than ever con-
WINGED that nothing will be attempted
by the United States before the re-as-
sembling of congress.
1T is not for any lack OF sympathy
with the Cubans,' said the diplomatic
representative, but because it does not
seem the proper time for the United
States to interfere.
And another argument against tbs
intervention by the United States ir
Cuban affairs is that there is ten
dency on the part of the Cubans them
selves to oppose any determination witt
the Anglo SaXOnS"