Evening star., 1901-06-13
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Senators and Representatives Call on
the President.
PLEASED WITH CUBA'S ACCEPTANCE
Looking After Offices in Washing
ton State.
SOME OTHER CALLERS S

Mrs. McKinley's improvement enables
| the President to spend much more time in
his office than for the last two weeks, and
today he saw and talked business with
| eight or ten callers, four United States
senators and two representatives being in
| the number. The senators were Foster of
Washington, Cockrell Of Missouri, Bur-
rows of Michigan and Elkins of West Vir-
ginia. The representatives were Richard
son of Alabama, who succeeded General
Wheeler, and Hepburn Of Iowa.
| Senator Foster will leave this city to-
| night for his home. He came here re-
gardng several Offices the terms Of the
| occupants to expire. The term of the
| marshal of Washington will expire July
l. and Senator Foster has recommended
| that Charles B. Hopkins of Spokane be ap-
| pointed to the place. The marshal for the
| last four years has been Clarence Ide. The
term of the district attorney does not ex-
pire until next spring. In the fall of this
year the term of the collector of customs
at Seattle will expire. This office is the
most lucrative one in the state. To these
and all other places Senator Foster wants
| to appoint strong men who will be of
service in building up the republican party
| in the state. He had a long talk with the
President on this line this morning.
Senator Foster said that there is not
much talk of politics in his state, but of
| the men mentioned for the republican nom
| ination three years from now he thought
| Senators Fairbanks and Spooner had many
friends THE politicians and the papers
are now talking" said the senator, but
no one knows this early who the people
want"
Senator Burrows on Cuba.
| Senator Burrows pleased at the ac-
| tion of the Cuban constitutional convention
| in accepting the Platt amendment. This
| action" he said, "ought to lead to speedy
| and desirable results. 1t ought to be fol-
| lowed by Cuban independence and home
| government. There will be nothing
| in the way of the establishment of a re-
| public in Cuba and 1 expect to see that ac-
complished and troops withdrawn. The re-
| public of Cuba will shortly be one Of the
| nations of the earth. We are now fulfill
| ing our promise to Cuba and to the nations
| of the world.
| Senator Elkins' Conference.
| Senator Elkins conference with the
| President related to the West Virginia
| judgeship, which has beef hanging fire so
| long. The conference was without result
| as nothing will be done until Senator Scott
\ comes here from Colorado next Tuesday.
| The two senators will try to get together
| on man for judge.
| Speaking of Cuba Senator Elkins said:
| Il always believed the Cubans would ac
| cept. They have simply been playing and
| dickering for the best terms they could get
| What they have done is the best thing that
| could have happened to Cuba. No people
| have ever obtained their independence be-
| fore al such a small cost of blood and
| money. This government has dealt most
| literally with Cuba more literally than any
other government would have done"
| Senator COckrelTs Views.
! Senator Cockrell thought the acceptance
| of the Platt amendment would open the
| way for the Cubans to establish their
| government. He supposed that the mill
| tary governor of the island would soon is
| sue call for an election, and that the
| Cubans would show their good sense and
| handle this affair in satisfactory manner.
| Senator Cockrell presented J. s. Burnett
| of St. Louis to the President. Mr.. Bur-
| nett wants to be a judge in the Philip
| pines, and the President was impressed
| with his candidacy
Representative Hepburn Talks.
! Representative Hepburn saw the Presi-
| dent about a West Point cadetship. Mr..
Hepburn is much gratified over yesterday S
| work of the constitutional convention and
| the prospect of American withdrawal from
| the island but he fears that the Cuban
| republic will not be able to stand alone
| Il should like to see every political tie be-
| tween the United States and Cuba sew
| cred" said he, but l realize that we will
| be obliged to exercise some sort of super
| vision over the island. In my opinion the
| Cubans are not capable of self f-government
| and my prediction is that in twelve months
| the Cubans will be at each others throats
| Then perhaps We will be forced to inter-
| vene. l should regard 1t as great mis-
| fortune If the United States should ever
| annex the island, with its turbulent popula-
| ton Guerrilla warfare against our au-
| thority would go on in the island and it
would cost us much in blood and treasure
| to suppress it, / remember that the Unit ed
| States enlisted 31.0OO men to put down the
| Indians in Florida, and when they were
| finally rounded up there were exactly sew
| enty-one of them. The situation in the
| Philippines is different. We can take con-
troll of all the larger cities and towns and
| let the natives learn gradually with the
| lapse of the years that obedience to our
| authority is to their interest,"
| Some Other Visitors.
| Attorney General Knox and Secretary
| Hitchcock saw the President on business
| relating to their departments.
Gen. S. B. NJ Young visited the White
| House and bade the President goodbye.
He leaves tonight for San Francisco. where
| he relieves Gen. Shafter as commander OF
| the department Of the Pacific.
Alabama's Constitutional Convention.
| Representative Richardson called on the
President to pay his respects and to in
| quire about Mrs. Mckinley. Mr. Richard
son says that the Alabama constitutional
convention, now in session. will not adopt
| the harsh amendments against the negro
proposed by Senator Morgan. The con-
| vention is composed of conservative and
| able men," said Mr.. Richardson, "and they
| know what the provisions of the fifteenth
| amendment to the federal Constitution are.
| In my opinion, they will frame constitu-
| ton in conformity with amendment, such
| a constitution as will stand the test before
| the Supreme Court. OF course, the constt-
| tuition will disfranchise many negroes That
| is what is desired"