Arizona republican., 1897-12-01
THECUBAN CONGRESS
Headquarters About to be Re- opened at Washington
IA FIGHT FOR RECOGNITION
Little Hope that Anything will
 be Accom- oliShed
The Wisdom of the DinGley Bill Be- comes Manifest in Prosperity on this Side and Depression on the Other Side of the Water.

Washington, Nov. 3O.-The Cuban junta has arranged to reopen head quarters at Hotel Raleigh as soon g congress convenes. Palma llimse expects to have charge and he wi make renewed attempts to indu, congress and the president to giv some form of recognition to the in- surgents. Among his arguments will be a list of battles fought in Cuba, with the result of each, a list of towns captured by the Cubans, the number of prisoners taken by Cubans with disposition of same and a showing of the comparative faint hold Spain now has upon the island The plans of> Gomez may be revealed to the presi- dent privately although this point has not yet been settled, owing doubtless to question as to whether Mckinley would consent to listen.
 The Dingley bill is already begin ming to gain ground rapidly as a rev.
 
 October were valued at $49, ,969,8I compared with $42.4O7,4 for Sep tember. That is an astonishing gain when it is recalled under what disad- vantages the bill has labored for the first few months on account of antici- patory importations. The dmporta- tions for October were only about $500,000 in value behind the same month of the preceding year. There is wide differnce, however, and in ia vor of this year in the fact that a much larger amount of revenue was produced from importations of this October. A large proportion of the importations of the preceding Octo- Der came in free under the Wilson act, but in the present case these 9,00O,- 900 of imports represent money in the United States treasury for GUS toms dues. There was a decrease in domestic imports from October some thing over $500, 900 compared with the previous month At first glance this may seem bad showing for this country but closer sturdy of the fig ures indicates the opposite
 As the decrease is largely in manu- factured goods it is taken to mean that American manufacturers are finding a market in this country fca their wares.
 It is we'll known that during the YsoSf fou uoorc Inf inn fb-c country American manufacturers were compelled to sell proportion of their output in foreign countries although they did so at Guinous prices in competing with the products of foreign pauper labor. Thsy had to keep their plants at work and they sought the unremunerative markets of other countries rather than lose all at home.
 Now the home market is beginning to absorb the wares, less Is selling selling abroad.
 Senor De Lome's claim that sx- Minister Taylor is an enemy of Spain is not based entirely upon his public utterances. There are other circum- stances to make the Spanish minister regard Taylor with suspicion, and net the least of these is the fact that the late minister to Spain is boarding his wife and family with the Macias family here. The Macias family be- longs to the old Cuban aristocracy, and their mansion is constantly filled with Cubars and Cuban sympathiz- CTS. Evangelina Cisneros is a board- CT there at present.
 It is now known that the monzEary commission will not meet again until Dec. 15. The commission has con cluded not to make public any plan or proposal of it's own until President McKtnley's message has gone to con gress. In answer to inquiries, the commission has received about hundred different plans of so-called currency reform. The members are also said to have several '3pla S of their own. This will give some idea of the variety of opinion Whatever recommendations are made to con- gess will go to the eleven members of the committee on banking and cur rency, who, after spending all last winter on the subject, could rot re- port bill because not more than two or three of them could come to any agreement. This will convey an i'm pressiOn of the difficulties fin the way of any currency reform, but of course. as the republicans put it, the discus sions will be educational, and it is only by educating the people on the subject that amy decision will ever be reported