Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-04-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

President Mckinley has conferred
with number of senators and repre-
/ sentatives on the back and forth action
of the Cuban Constitutional Convention
ON the conditions offered Cuba, and its
/ deciding to send a commission to Wash
ington. The president viii courteously
receive the commission, but will make
! it plain to them that the conditions
offered are final and that they must be
accepted sooner or later. The opinion
of the president and those with whom
he has conferred, including democrats
as well as republicans, was reelected in
the following statement made by Sena-
tor McComas, just after having had
talk with the President: 1.-The Cubans
are simply standing in their own light
by not accepting the terms of the Platt
amendment. This amendment was
necessary, just and ultimate We can
not change single one of the provis-
ions of the amendment in justice to the
Cubans themselves, not taking into con
sideration our own interests. Each
/ provision is prop to the future repub-
lie. If IA committee come mp here from
think they win find that out. They
certainly cannot accomplish anything
in the way of modification to the Platt
amendment. They will learn what
they ought to know now, that the
president has no power To repeal or
modify an act of congress They are
to be treated all right when they visit
| Washington, bat believe they will go
back home with palmer ideas of the
intentions of this government.
There is no foundation for the story
that negotiations for new treaty with
Great Britain, dealing with the Isth-
mas Canal question, have been started
After the lapsing of the lIay-Paunce-
forte treaty by the failure Of Great
Britain to accept it. President Mckin-
ley directed Secretary Hay t. aseer-
tain, if possible, from senators, wheth-
ct bWp-thiFuS Ol bHC hcbdiC Eoulb DC
counted upon tovote for the IN titication
of treaty that would, in it's main
features, be acceptable both TO this
government and that of Great Britain.
This task, by no means an easy one.
Secretary Hay is still engaged on, and
until it is completed, there will be no
negotiations, as until then Secretary
.fHay will be unable io even ncqualnt
the British ambassador with the basis
upon which this government win ncgo-
tiatc.
A prominent civil engineer of Wash
ington, who ON the strength of the
recent rumor that an American syndi-
cate, headed by j. Pierpont Morgan,
had bought or were about to bny the
franchise of the Panama Canal Co,
wrote to the headquarters of the Pana-
ma Railroad Company, in New York
offering his services, has received a let
ter from S. Deming, treasurer Of that
company, saying that there was no
truth whatever in the report that j. +.
Morgan. or any one else had purchased
or were negotiating for the purchase Of
the franchise of the Panama Canal Co.
That effectually disposcs of that fake.
Lieut.. Gen. Schoffield, who came to
Washington to preside over the con-
gress of the Loyal Legion, of which he
is president, held last week, said Of the
Philippines: II regard ii as good
thing for the people of this country
that there is a problem to be worked
out in the Philippines. The young
men win find opportunities ont there
and the Improvement of them will be
benefit TO the country"
1t is said that Senator Jones Of
Arkansas chairman OF the Democratic
National Committee, will be up against
a hard fight when he tries for re-elec-
ton, owing to the ambition of other
figuring on electing a majority of the
Legislature in Arkansas for a few years
to come.
Mr. 6. Randolph, an Alabama Re-
publican, recently said OF the intended
Acknowledgement of negroes in the
state: "The negroes are not now al
lowed to vote, and even if formally
disfranchised the loss of their ballots
will not figure in the results any more
than now"
England, Japan and the United
States favor making the indemnity to
be demanded OF China one that can be
paid, but the other powers are united
in favor Of making it so large that
\ China would have to be divided up to
pay it. The end is yet uncertain.
Secretary Hay is entirely competent,
when the proper time comes, to ne
gotiate with Great Britain on the
a,,asffnn of an isfhmian canal vvithouf