New-York tribune., 1901-02-09
PRESIDENT AND CUBA.
QUESTION DISCUSSED WITH
SENATOR'S.
THE ADMINISTRATIONS POLICY UN.
CHANGED PROSPECT OF AN
EXTRA SESSION.
EXTRA SESSION.
rBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRrBUSE.I

Washington. Feb. S-A party of Senator's
called on the President this morning TO discuss
Cuba and extra session of Congress The
burden of the conversation the part OF the
Senators was that the Cuban question could
be handled in such manner before the close
of the session as 70 relieve the President OF the
necessity of summOning the lawmakers here in
special session. What impression their talk made
the Chief Executives mind is not known.
unless satisfactory Interpretation can be
put on an expression attributed to the Presi-
dent and which was elected by OF the Sem
ators saying:
THE flag must never he pulled down IN
Cubar'
Indeed II must" the President is quoted as
saying. "Just the Cubans are ready
TO attend TO their own affairs must turn
their Government ove= to them"
The man who has quoted the President says
he also reminded his Senatorial visitors OF the
language he used IN a message sent TO Congress
in December 1899. which outlined his Cuban
policy and which has since guided his
course with reference to Cuba. In that message
the President said:
This Nation has assumed before the world
grave responsibility for the future good govern
ment of Cuba We have accepted a trust. the
fu1ilment of which calls for the sternest In
tegrity of purpose and the exercise OF the high
est wisdom. The Cuba yet to arise from
the ashes Of the past must needs be bound 20
us by ties OF singular intimacy and strength II
its enduring welfare is to be assured
Whether these ties shall be organic or con-
ventional the destinies Of Cuba are In some
rightful form and manner irrevOcably linked
with own. but how and how far Is for the
future to determine in the ripeness OF events.
Whatever be the outcome. we must see to 1t
that free Cuba be a reality. not name, per
feet entity, not hasty experiment. bearing
within itself the elements Of failure.
Our mission. 10 accomplish which we took up
- h1NT T1a Il not ha fIfaH hvr
turning adrift any loosely framed common
wealth TO face the vcissitudes which too often
attend weaker States whose natural wealth and
abundant resources are offset by the tncon-
gruities Of their political organization and the
recurring occasions for internal rivairies to sap
their strength and dissipate their energies
In view of the fact that the President referred
his callers to this message. many OF those who
have looked it up and examined il closely have
considerably modified their opinion that he
could be dissuaded from calling extra ses-
sion They infer that the President adopted this
method for the twofold purpose OF convincing
them that there has been not the least swervlng
from his original Cuban policy, and that he is
determined TO make Congress share with him
the responsibility for finally determining the
status of the island AT the same time the more
radical opponents of an extra session still hope
that some arrangement can be made to avoid
one
The favorite means TO this end still is the
suggestion Of the adoption of joint resolution
defining this country's attitude toward Cuba
In it's present state. prescribing the relations to
exist between the United States and Cuba and
directing the President not to withdraw the mill
tary forces from the island until the conditions
prescribed are provided for in the Cuban Consti-
tuition. II is generally thought that this
resolution will be attached to the Military APP
preparation bill when that message reaches the
Senate