Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-06-05
CUBANS' ACTION REJECTED
Administration Insists on the Platt
Amendment Without Modification.
DECIDED AT CABINET MEETING

Covernor-CcneralV Wood Notified Tint tho
Qualifications and Interpretations of
the pIatt Amendment Adopted by
the Convention Cannot Bc Accented
Regarded as u Perversion OF the Germs.
Washington. II. C.-Thc action OF
the Cuban Convention on the platt
Amendment has proved unsatisfactory
to the United States. Ii is so unsatis-
factory that it has inspired anger
among tho Presidents advisers. and
has led to the taking OF tone much
less conciliatory toward the CuhauS
than any that has hitherto been taken.
At the Cabinet meeting on Friday 1t
was decided to reject uncQuivocally
the action OF Cuba on the platt Amend
ment. Secretary Root was directed In
inform General Wood of the PIrS-
dents decision
The Cabinet held that the amend
mcnts and interpretations and the
wealth of whereascS placed by the Gu
ban Convention upon the Amendment
amounted TO Il practical modification.
such as was beyond the power of this
Government TO accept. The message
of rejection sent to General Wood nd
visos the Cubans in unqualified lam
guaCe that there is no power resting
in the United States Government to
change the terms Of the Platt Amend
ment and that this Government insists
on the acceptance of the Platt Amend
mcnt. without change or qualification
. The three main points IN which the
action of the Cuban Constitutional
Convention is regarded rs unsat-
isfactory relate. it Is said 10
coalinG stations. sanitation. and inter
vention. The Cuban Convention took
from the coaling stations para graph of
the Platt Amendment it's obligatory
character. and merely authorized the
Cuban Government. i'll It's Judgment To
allow the United States to possess
coalinG or naval stations. Tho United
states VIII insist on IN absolute agree
ment TO grant these coalinG stations.
WIKI respect 10 sanitation. ;hc Gu
bans do rot agree 10 carry out plans
already devised. and in acceptin. the
Piatt Amendment modify it's provi-
sions so as to change them consider
ably. In the matter of Intervention
the objection is that the CubanS have
so changed this vitality important part
the right to intervene an ambiguous
and doubtful matter. whereas the Uni
ted States insists on straight un-
equivocablc ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of its
right TO Intervene when in it's Judgment
intervention is necessary To assure Gu
Dan independence or stable govern
ment
The patience OF the Administration
is exhausted and the policy of concilia-
ton and explanation seems to have
vanished. In surrounding the platt
Amendment with notifications. and
III adding clauses to it. the Cuhans
have given much offence: but more
irritation is felt over their action in
endeavorlnS 10 make their interviews
WIN secretary Root Il part of Il law
adopted by the American Congress-.
Something of this feeling was voiced
by General GrOsveuor. of Ohio. after
tie decision of the President became
known. General GroSvenor said. when
asked if lie thought the decision would
Dc likely TO be regarded as Il sunrise:
y surprise TO whom? Who mag
ineu tlat those fellows would he nj
ioWed TO sit in Congress Gown there
IN Cuba ana amcud laws of the United
states! We have stood all the nom
sense We are going To from them. Tho
sooner they stop this foolishncSs and
attend to business the better it Will he
lor them. for il Congress ever "cts
another shot ut them, they won't get
OH so easily rs they diu before"
y significant remark WAS also
cropped by senator Platt. of Connect
cut VINO. with Senate" Spooncr. has
heeh IN conference with the President
over the situation in Cuba. He said
~
taIklnG about the "acccptancc" of the
iatt Amendmcn, by the Cubaus. The
Cubans could neither accept nor reject
n law ci the United States. /, is The
pufFo,c OF the Administration to i'm
press upon the CuhanS that the pIDtt
Amendment is law. and that they hovn
no power 10 change IL. They have
peen regarding it hitherto as if it were
Il treaty. General Wood is cxpecteJ
TO convince them that this is an or.
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