The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-28
HOLDS FAST TO CUBA
Mckinley Plans Long Tenure OF
Island if In Power.
MAY LAST OVER 1902
IMPERIAL POLICY HESITATES
TO GIVE LIBERTY.

New York. Oct 27.-The evacuation Of
Cuba by the United States is not likely
to take place quite so soon as has been
anticipated in some quarters, says a
Washington dispatch to the Journal OF
Commerce. The withdrawal of the Amer
lean troops will not take place in any
event until some form of domestic gov
eminent has been established and Is not
likely to be ordered by the executive de-
partment OF the government without the
authority of congress. The Cuban con-
stitutionaI convention, which meets In
November. is likely TO be in session for
several months-prObably much longer
than after the adjournment of the com
ing session of congress on March 4. 1901
The new congress, to be elected on Nov 8,
next, will not meet in regular session I'M
til December 1901, and will hardly do any
important business until the spring OF
1902. by that time representatives OF the
new Cuban republic may be ready 10
denIonst rate to the appropriate commit
tees of congress that they have gov
eminent completely organized and cap
able of maintaining treaty obligations
such a government can hardly exercise
its functions until authorized by congress
Whether it shall be permitted TO exercise
United States will be for congress to de
ternine. The president is not likely to
assume the responsibility of putting the
new Cuban government IN operation even
under the tUtelage of the United States,
without the direct authority OF congress.
1t would appear therefore. that the new
Cuban republic could not begin to eXer-
else its functions until the summer OF
1902. The mere machinery Of putting the
new government in operation, therefore,
| will require considerable time The Unit
ed States assumed several serious respon-
sibilitieS in Cuba by the treaty with Spain,
but these were more or less waived by the
= sixteenth article, which declared 1T Is
understood that any obligations assumed
in this treaty by the United States with
respect TO Cuba are limited to the time
| of its occupancy thereof but il Will. upon
/ the termination of such occupancy, adj
| wise any government established in the
| island to assume the same obligation.
The bearing of this pledge lies in the
/ Interpretation of it Among the aSSur-
ances given by Spain, subject TO this
| limitation was that the rights of prop
! erty secured by copyrights and patents
acquired by SpaniardS in the island of
/ Cuba and in Porto Rico. the Philippines
and other ceded territories, at the time
/ OF the exchange of the ratinca lions of this
! There is also the provision that the
United States will assume and discharge
/ the obligations that may under interna-
! tiOnal law result from the fact OF its Oc-
| cupation for the protection of life and
property"
/ President Mckinley will undoubtedly
prefer to leave 10 congress the determine
/ ton how far the advice of the United
States, under their pledges to Spain, shall
/ be made valid and congress may not care
l to decide the question by snap judgment
before the character Of the new Cuban
| government has been tested by time.