The age-herald., 1901-05-20
Report Will be Submitted to Convention by Committee ROOTS TALK SATISFACTORY Authority Will Make a Report
 Against Acceptance THE SPANISH WANT ANNEXATION pn Majority Report Several Additions and Changes Are Recommended.
 Minority Object to Naval
 Stations for United States.
THE SPANISH WANT ANNEXATION

Havana, May 1s.-The committee on re- iations of the Cuban constitutional con vention will submit majority and minor ity reports to the convention tomorrow The majority report, in an introductlon' quotes article one of the treaty Of Paris the joint resolution of the United States Congress and the Platt amendment and then proceeds as follows:
 s1nasmuch as Secretary Root, being authorized by President Mckinley, says that the Platt law has for it's object the guaranteeing of the independence Of Gu ba and does not mean interference with its government, or the exercise Of pro tectorate or of sovereignty, and also that intervention will only take place when fn- dependence Is endangered by outside pow CTS or grave interior disturbances, crea- ting anarchy; and, inasmuch as Secretary Root has said that the naval stations will not be used for vantage points of inter vention but only to protect Cuba against foreign powers. we report as follows:
 ''That, in view of the fact that the Platt law, in it's preamble, says 1t Is fuIfllment of the joint resolution and has been adopted by Congress with the prin- eipaI object of establishing Independence, we do propose to the convention to &C., cept the following as an appendix to the constitution"
 The first, second, fourth and fifth clauses are quoted in their entirety. The third clause has the following addition:
 '1t being understood that the United States have the right to intervene to pre- vent the action of foreign power or disturbances causing state of anarchy and that the intervention shall always be the act of the United States and not of isolated agents. The intervention shall suppose neither sovereignty nor a pro tectorate and shall only last sufficiently long to establish normal conditions. Said Intervention, it is also understood, shall not have the right to interfere in the gov ernment, but only the right to preserve in- dependence
 An addition to the sixth clause says that the ownership of the Isle of Pines shall be settled by a future treaty.
 The Naval Stations.
 An addition to the seventh clause says: ''It shall be understood that the naval stations don't give the United States the right to interfere with the interior gov- ernment, but are established for the sole purpose of protecting American waters from foreign invasion directed against Cuba or the United States. Cuba will sell or lease the near lands at points to be agreed upon later"
 An addition to the eighth clause says of -R the same time a treaty of commerce based np reciprocity.
 The minority report says:
 1.-The explanations given to the commits sion In Washington show that the Platt law does not express the wishes of the United States. It was intended to protect the independence of Cuba. but the word- ing gives other Interpretations.
 "The United States are inconsistent in asking naval stations, when the amend ment provides that no concessions shall be given to foreign powers. Such a de- mand raises the question whether the United States don't consider Cuba a part of their possessions.'
 Monroe Doctrine Endorsed.
 The report of the minority party ac- pepts the first and second clauses. For the third clause the following is substi- tuted:
 'The the government of Cuba sub- ,ucribes to the Monroe doctrine and will help the United States to enforce it against other nations trying to violate"
 For the fourth clause the following is substituted
 "Cuba does not recognize acts of in- tervention which are not in conformity with the Foraker resolution and the laws Df the United States.'
 The seventh clause reads:
 Cuba will maintain naval stations, Aanding them over to the United States in time of war"
 The report of the majority has caused considerable surprise. It was believed that the committee on relations would recommend acceptance of the Platt amendment on the basis of the interpre- tstion given by Secretary Root. but it was not expected that such additions would be made to various clauses as the majority recommended. A prominent Cuban lawyer said today;
 '.Ihe majority report Is not an accept ance of the Platt amendment, as 1t dis- tinguishes intervention on different grounds"
 A person who is in close touch with the Spanish government made the following statement to representative of the As pociated Press:
 Spanish Want Annexation.
 'Tt is a fact, to which the attention of all Americans should be called, that not only Spain, but Spanish residents in Cuba both those who have retained their Spanish nationality by inscription and those who have become Cuban not by in scribing are closely watching develop ments in this matter of the relations be- tween the United States and Cuba. This