Middletown transcript., 1901-04-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has confer
red with a number of Senators anC
Representatives on the back and fortl
action of the Cuban Constitutional Con
vention on the conditions offered Cuba
and its deciding 10 send Commission tC
Washington. lie President will courte,
ously receive the Commission, but will
make it plain to them that the conditions
offered are final and that they must be
sooner or later. The opinion of the
President and those with whom he has
conferred, including Democrats as well
as Republicans, was reflected in the fol-
lowing statement made by Senator Nc
Comas, just after having had talk with
the President: "The Cubans are simply
standing in their own light by not ac-
cepting the terms of the Platt amend
ment. This amendment was necessary,
Just and ultimate. We cannot change a
single one of the provisions of the amend
ment in justice to the Cubans themselves,
not taking into consideration our own
interests. Each provision is prop to
the future republic If committee
comes up here from the Cuban Constitu-
tional Convention, think they will find
that out. They certainly cannot accom-
pIish 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 Wash
ington, but believe they will go back
home with palmer ideas of the intentions
of this government" Senator Cockrell,
a democratic member of the Senate Com
mittee on Cuba, who has just returned
from visit to the island, expressed the |
opinion that the Convention would in
the end accept the Platt amendment, |
although, he said, he would not be sur
prised if they took several more indie
cisive votes before doing So He evil
IDENTIFY believes that some of the members
of the Convention wish to be persuaded.
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Mrs. John A Logan made public a
statement in answer to criticism of the
bronze panels on the sides of the pedestal
of the statue of Gen. Logan that was
Loot ,raol> -, ,,b;ob cJo co;J. /
No one supposes that it was not known
to the sculptor, the statue commission
and myself that Vice President Arthur
lid not administer the oath to Gen. Lo-
gan as Senator; that Senator Mortc n
was dead, and that Senator Thurman was
not in the Senate when Gen. Logan was
jworn in for his second term OF course,
We knew all this, but we disregarded it, {
because We wanted those panels to por-
ray the most prominent men in the his I
Dry of the country who were in the
senate during the sixteen years that my Z
husband was a Senator. The selection
# those who were to be represented on I
hose panels was left to me, and tried =
o select men who served at sometime II
With Gen. Logan and who were repre-
entative of the country's history. In
his connection, want to say, too, that =
he Commission appointed by Congress d
0 have charge of the erection OF the a
tatue decided that the money appropri- q
ted by Congress should be applied to "
he base and to the figures of man and t.
orse. 1t was agreed that the other ST
lnds given toward the statue should be o.
sed for the making of the panels and q,
ther decoration of the pedestal. This II,
ther money was contributed by the al
rmy of the Tennessee, the Grand Army o.
the Republic, and by private individ- w
ais" &C
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A prominent civil engineer of Wash estt
gton, who on the strength of the recent
lmor that an American syndicate, U
eaded by J. Pierpont Morgan, had -
ought or were about to buy the fran Ct
lise of the Panama Canal Co., wrote to
e headquarters of the Panama Railroad
in New York, offering his VI
ryices, has received letter from S.
eming, Treasurer of that company,
wing that there was no truth whatever to
the report that J. P. Morgan, or any fol
Ie else had purchased or were negotiat- Pc
g for the purchase of the franchise OF "
e Panama Canal Company. That Al
ectually disposes OF that fake.
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Lieut.. Gen. Schofeld, who came to 20
ashington to preside over the Congress w w
the Loyal Legion, of which he is Pres O.. O..
ant. held last week, said of the Philip .'i
1es: 81 regard it as good thing for the sn~ no,
ople of this country that there is ~,
,blem to be worked out in the Philip u0
les. The young men will find oppor- 0'"
mites out there and the improvement
them will be benefit to the country" :
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There is no foundation for the story TIN
It negotiations for new treaty with ant
eat Britain, dealing with the Isthmian ira
nal question, have been started. After cor
lapsing of the HayPauncefote treaty fro
the failure of Great Britain to accept $12
President Mckinley directed Secretary ate
V to ascertain, if possible, from Sena- I
!. whether two thirds of the Senate ply
Id be counted upon to vote for the Brc
fication of treaty that would, in its Me-
N features, be acceptable both to this ant
ernment and that of Great Britain. STR
S task, by no means an easy one,
retary Hay is still engaged on, and Re
il it is completed, there will be no
citations, as until then Secretary Hay E
be unable to even acquaint the sive
ish Ambassador with the basis upon seco
oh this government will negotiate. tn