Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-02-01
IS SLOW 70 GIVE UP tOBA.
Congress Discusses Question OF a
Protect0rate.
WHAT CUBANS ARE DOING
It Is Asserted They arc Preparing Con-
stitution Which In Every Detail Ignores
the Exist ence of the United States
Subsidy BILL

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question as to whether the United
States shall permit Cuba to be free,
independent and sovereign country or
insist upon the exercise Of prot -ctor-
ate has been discussed by members OF
both houses of congress. Opinion IS
widely divided. Some members think
that under the resolution passed IN
1898 the United States pledged itself
to give Cuba full sovereignty and that
it cannot now exercise a protectorate
unless the Cubans invite the Unitsd
States to exercise such authority Sen
ators and representatives alike, how
ever, agree that the Cubans in prepar-
ing a constitution which in every d.
tail ignores the existence of the United
States have shown themselves unmlnd-
full of their obligations to this country.
Members of the committee on foreign
relations are positive in the opinion
that congress has no juris 1iction over
Cuba in the face of the joint resou-
ton recognizing the independence OF
Cuba, approved April 20, 1898. what
the president is being advised to DO is
to lock up the copy Of the Cuban con-
stitution when it reaches here and intl-
mate to the Cubans that they cannot
have an independent government un-
til they manifest a disposition to pro-
tect the interests of the United Stats
in their constitution.
P"lygamy stirs Up the House.
Polygamy in Utah threw the house
into a ferment for half-hour. Charges
we're made by Representative Lands
Ind.) that the United States agricu.-
tural college in Utah is presided over
by polygamists. An amendment which
he offered to the agricultural appropri-
alton bill cutting off the appropriation
of that institute so long as those con-
ditions existed was adopted on the spur
of the moment by a vote Of ~ to "A.
Two hours later the amendment was
voted on again, when the bill was on
final passage, and the amendment
knocked out by vote of GO to 10. Rep
resentative King (Utah) opposed the
amendment vigorously. 1t was o1fered
in bad faith, he said, and was an af'
front to the people of Utah. 1t was an
afterclap of the crusade which led to
the expulsion from congress Of a gen
tleman from his state. The practice
of polygamy in Utah, he said, was
thing of the past. He retaliated by Of
fering an amendment that no teac er
or trustees shall be appointed to an ag-
ricultural college in any state who has
been engaged in any lynching, and I'M
til proof shall have been FURNISHED to
the satisfaction Of the appointing pow
err that such teacher or trustee shall
not have been guilty of immortality.
Speak Against the Subsidy Bill
The shipping bill was kept at the
front in the senate throughout the day.
No appreciable progress was made,
most of the time being occupied by MI.
Turley (Tenn.) and Mr.. Jones (Ark.)
in speeches opposing the bill and Sc
verely arraigning it's alleged favorit-
ism. Mr.. Jones declared it should be
entitled "a bill to permit select cote
rie of ship-owners to loot the United
States treasury" After the speeches
the formal reading of the bill was COM
pleted, but the CONSIDERABLE of amend
ments was not entered upon. Mr.. Aid
rich gave notice of two amendments.
one providing that applicants for sub
sily shall contract to build a new YES
sci within the United States Withil
three years. and second providing
that tie utmost limit Of subsidy shall
be fifteen years. instead OF twenty
years, as provided in the bill.
Mosquito Fleet Is Safe.
The navy department received a :
cablegram announcing the arrival of |
tile mosquito fleet at the Canary ISL
ands
For Suffrage to All.
Havana, Feb. 1.-The Cuban consti-
tutional convention voted by large
majority to insert clause in the con-
stitution allowing universal suffrag,.
Senior Aleman said it was a right de-
manded by the Cubans, and that the
convention would not be dealing fairly
with the people if it failed to accord
this right.