Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-27
FOR AND AGAINST AN EXTRA SEES.

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FOR N AGAINST AN EXTRA SEES
SION.
Despite the effort to settle the dis
pute between the Cubans and the adj
ADMINISTRATION over the Cuban constitu-
ton so as TO allow no pretext for the
calling of an extra session of Congress,
there are some powerful influences
back of the President watch want an
extra session, some of them not con-
nected with Cuban affairs, and it is
not improbable that an extra session
will be called If there is a shadow
of pretext for it.
AS syndicated capital has dictated
to the President in the past and caused
him to suddenly recant and retract,
as the tobacco and sugar trusts forced
him to sign a lbill providing for a tar
III duty against Porto Rico after he
had stated that our "plain duty was to
admit Porto Rican products free, and
as the sugar trust compelled Secretary
Gage to place a countervailing tariff
on Russian sugar, bringing on a tariff
a just so is syndicate capital inter
ested in Cuba or in schemes that failed
to get through the present regular ses-
sion, now likely to compel the Presi-
dent to call an extra session of the
Fifty-seventh Congress, which will
have a big enough Republican ma
jority to pass any measure of imper-
ialism or private loot.
The most prominent interest de-
manding an extra session is the Van
Horne syndicate of Canada, headed by
Sir William Van Horne, president of
the Canadian Pacific railroad. 1t has
a lien on most of the money-making
enterprises in Cuba, and wants the
aid of the administration and Con
gress in enacting legislation to pro-
tect its monopoly of such projects.
This is a scheme which appeals direct
ly to the senslbilities of the admin
istration and the leaders of the e. o.
D., and besides, it is English, you know,
although among its in~corporators are
a score Of American multi-millionaires.
Next comes the mighty Boss Plat,
of New York, who heads a syndicate
that wants legislation giving it con-
troll of certain territory in New Jer-
sci, near New York, known as the
Jersey flats, on which it wants to erect
immense docks.
And last, but not least. is the Hon.
Marcus A. Hanna, who wants to put
through his $500 GOO ship subsidy
grab.
These are the influences now work
ing together for an extra session of
Congress, and although other reasons
will be given if an extra session is
called, the real reason will remain as
stated.
Selfish promoters and money-making
syndicates desire the aid of the United
States in ~bulldoizng Cuba and grab
iping all sorts of privileges and fran
chises in the island. regardless of the
rights and interests of the Cuban peo-
pie, the owners thereof, and as Mr..
Mckinley, with these interests is as
clay in the hands of the potter, an
extra session is likely to be called, al
though disinterested Republican lead
ers have called the attention of the
President to the fact that no propo-
sition is now pending that cannot be
deferred until December, and have even
agreed to a compromise in the matter
OF the Cuban constitution, which it is
thought will be acceptable to the Gu
bans and remove all reasonable pre-
text for a special session on that ac-
count.