Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-04-24
CUBA HARMONIOUS
Gov. Gen. Wood Lets In Some
Light On Heretofore
Dark Places.
CORRECTION OF ERRORS
The Governor General Says There
Has Never Been Aught But Har-
mony In the Island
Yellow Press Correspondents Have
Sent Out Many False and Base
less Reports.

New York. April 2i.-General Leon
ard 4. Wood. governor general of
Cuba. with Mrs. Wood and his pri-
yate secretary, arrived here last night
ON the Ward liner MORO Castle.
General Wood. who expects 10 return
to Havana tomorrow by way of Jack
sonyille Fla, has made the hurried
trip 10 this country for the purpose
of Introducing 10 President Mckinley
before the latter leaves Washington
for the Pacific coast, the five members
of the special commission on foreign
relations appointed 10y the Cuban CON
stitutional convention which is still
in session and is expected to take up
for consideration soon the electoral
law which will regulate the system
by which the first president of the
Cuban republic will be chosen.
AS soon as the steamship was made
fast TO its pier, General Wood, his
wife and secretary, We're transferred
TO the tugboat President and carried
TO Jersey City in time To catch the
go p. III. train for Washington. Gen
eral Wood did not hesitate to talk
about affairs in Cuba. The object
of my hurried visit here he said
lis to introduce the five members of
the special commission on foreign re-
lations appointed by the Cuban con
stitutional convention to President Nc
Kinley. The members of the commit
tee represent all the different groups
of Cubans composing the constitution
al convention. They have come To the
United States for the purpose of con
ferring with President Mckinley on
matters which the convention does not
thoroughly understand. and when they
return and make their report l am con
vinced that there will be thorough
understanding on all sides of the con
troyersy.
The constitutional convention has
never voted on or rejected the Plat
amendment. This | can state posi-
lively. Notwithstanding the reports TO
the contrary which have been seut TO
the United States from Havana.
Things have been cabled here which
had not the slightest foundation in
fact, which described strained rela-
tions between the representatives of
the United States and those of the
Cuban people. Everything has been
harmonious since | went TO Cuba and
the convention now i'll session is q
thoroughly representative one. Before
the Platt amendment was passed by
congress the Cubans knew the desires
OF this government on the issues which
the amendment contains, because they
We're submitted to them through the
executive. Intervention and the estab-
lishment of naval stations are the two
things which they don't properly com
prehend. and | think that when they
are fully explained in Washington the
only Indication of a difference of opin-
ion will have been removed
There are really but two great
questions vet to be settled. One il
the reduction of the duty on sugar
and the other is the passage of the
constitution. One is economic and the
other political yet in measure they
are akin. After the constitution has
been properly framed and adopted the
economic question will disappear, as
there must be a great reduction In the
duty on sugar. Then Cuba will be
prosperous and its relations with the
United States settled on a solid ba-
sis. That will end the whole difficulty
and in "a hours the country can be
turned over to the representative
chosen by the Cuban people. Today
all the departments on the island are
practically in the hands of the Cubans
who have been instructed as to how
things can be managed. and when the
time arrives all we will have TO do
on hand"