Milford chronicle., 1901-04-19
WASHINGTON NEWS:

President Mckinley has con-
ferred with a number of Senators
and Representative on the back
and forth action of the Cuban,
Constitutional Convention on the
conditions offered Cuba, and its
deciding to send a Commission to
Washington. Tie President will
courteously receive the Commits
sion, 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, includ-
ing democrats as we'll as republi-
cans, was reflected in the following
statement made by Senator McCom-
as, Just after having had a talk
with the President: The Cubans
are simply standing in their own
light by not accepting the terms
of the Plat amendment. This
amendment was necessary, Just
and ultimate. We cannot change
a word of the provisions Of The
amendment in justice to the Gu
bans themselves, not taking into
consideration our own interest
Each provision is a prop to the flu
ture republic. If a committed
comes up here from the Cuba1
Constitutional Convention, l thinl
they will find that out. The,
certainly cannot accomplish any
(, thing in the way of modification
= to the Plat amendment The,
will learn what they ought t
know now, that the President ha
no power to repeal or modify a
: Act of Congress. They are to b
, treated all right when they Wis
Washington, but I believe the
= will go back home with yplainS
. ideas of the intentions of tn.
government. Senator Cockrell,
democratic member of the Sena
= Committee on Cuba, who has ju
T" returned from a visit to the islam
expressed the opinion that Il
" Convention would in the end a
10 cept the Plat amendment, a
though, he said, he would not
surprised if they took several mo
:" indecisive votes before doing s
, He evidently believes that son
~ of the members of the ConventiC
:. wish to be persuaded.
:. Mrs. John A. Logan made pu
" lie a statement in answer to or
icism of the bronze panels on
~ ! sides of the pedestal of the stat
- of Gen. Logan that was unveil
u last week, in which she said: 81
one doubts that it wasn't known
20 the sculptor, the statue cOmmissi
and myself that Vice-President 4
en- thur did not administer the oath
YIN Gen. Logan as a Senator; that M
ton was dead, and that Senat
Thurston was not in the Sem
when Gen. Logan was sworn
zoe for his second term. Of cour
~ we knew all this, but we disrega
he ed, because we wanted those pan
~ to portray the most prominent n
;cb in the history of the country W
,rr were in the Senate during the S
mo teen years that my husband wa
az Senator. The selection of tn
mo who were to be represented on tn
e3 panels was left to me, and 1 tr
hi, to select men who served at Sol
No, time with Gen. Logan and v
were representative of the CO
try's history. In this connect
I want to say, too; that the c.
=, mission appointed by Congress
: have charge of the erection of
nus statue decided that the money
ms propiated by Congress should
SIS a; applied to the base and to the
3teU ures of man and horse. 1t
~ agreed that the other funds 81
que toward the statue should be [
M. MI for the making of panels and o.
l ne decoration of the pedestal.
pei other money was contributed
Ong the army of the Tennessee,
Grand Army of the Republic,
( the bv private individuals"