Milford chronicle., 1901-06-21
WASHINGTON NEWS.

WASHINGTON NEWS.
1t has been years since SO much
interest was taken in reciprocity as
there is at present. 1t will be re-
membered that while the Mckinley
Tariff Bill was being framed in the
Ways and Means Committee room,
some twelve or fourteen years ago,
James G. Blaine, then Secretary of
State, called and denounced the bill
because ''it did not furnish a mar
ket for another barrel Of pork or
another sack of wheat y Owing
to his insistence, which was so VIC
lent that he smashed his hat against
the table, the reciprocity provisions
were added to the bill and numer-
Gus treaties were made under them
treaties that were violently abro-
gated on the accession of President
Cleveland. Now things have
changed President Mckinley stand
ing where Mr.. Blaine then stood,
while another wing of the Republi-
can party sands where Represen-
tative Mckinley -aa-1 stood. Hence
the great interest now taken i'll the
subject. The President himself
started the ball rolling on his west
ern trip by his carefully worded
references to reciprocal commercial
relations with foreign countries,
and there has been a daily increas-
ing amount of agitation i'll the pub
lie press which has served to arouse
the politicians and cause the de-
tenders of extreme high tariff to
rally to resist the aggressions of the
'reformers." Associated with rec
iprocity is the proposed revision
of the tariff, urged by Mr.. Babcock
especially on articles whose manu-
facture and distribution are con
trolled by alleged monopolies, the
same men who advocate the prin
Ciple OF reciprocity being in many
cases vigorous opponents Of tn,
: proposed revision. There will un
doubleday be a strong effort in tn,
beginning of Congress to lay thi
troublesome question. Some of til,
older members Of the Ways an,
Means Committee having in mine
the serious effects of a prolonge,
tariff discussion, and at the sam
time looking out primarily for tn
integrity of the Dingley act, are ex
.4pssted to attempt to secure a con
ference of Republicans, probably no
approaching the formality of a eau
Gus, to deprecate further talk abou
the tariff and to put an end to al
uncertainty.
The probability at present is tina
the first President of Cuba will b
-inaugarated OIL February ? 18th next
the anniversary Of the beginning c
the last rebellion against Spain
There will be plenty to do in til
meantime, the establishment of tn
Island government being by Il
means completed by the adoptio
of the Plat Amendment in-the forl
adopted by Congress. An elector;
law must be passed, nomination
must be made for the President;
and ce-Presidencial officers an
members of the Cuban Congre:
named and elected. While the:
formative processes are being take1
the United States army will renal
The election law is the most trol
blesOme point at issue. AlthOue
the new constitution provides f,
universal suffrage, there are still
Cuba two factions, one of which i.
sists upon retaining this provisio
while the other demands that Il
constitution shall be amended
that the right of ballot shall be I
stricted to those possessing pro
erty and educational qualification
The last named faction consists
the conservative business interes
of the island which view with sor
apprehension the successful outcor
of the effort to allow the suffra
to all. In the municipal electio
held last summer in Cuba, no O
was allowed to vote unless he cou
read or write, or was possessed
real personal property to the amou
ofSIoo, American gold rhadserv
in the Cuban army prior to July
1898, In the elections for delegat
!. to the constitutional convention t
same restrictions were imposed,
addition to which the voter was
quife1 ro be a native born M;
Cuban, born while his parents We
temporarily resididg abroad, OF
Spaniard who had not announC
his continued allegiance to the Spa
ish crown. These conditions Ii
rowed the right of suffrage to a &C
siderable degree, and led to the V
Orous effort on the part of the "a
Gals to abolish them i'll the elect
Of a Cuban President.
Extraordinary interest has be
taken in. the recent marriage h
of Miss Elizabeth Moore Flagl
daughter of the late General D.
Flagler, to DR.. G. w. MacKe;
Miss Flagler came into wide not
iety several years ago by shoot
down negro boy, Ernest Green, "
was taking pears from one of
fruit trees at the back of her ia
er's house in the suburbs of
city. Much indignation was eau
by the hole and corner way in VIII
the case was disposed of. The c
oner acquitted Miss Flagler of
tentiona1lv killing the boy but Ia
She was indicted by the grand j
aud held in $4,000 bail for trt
The trial was FASHIONED until F
ruarv, 1906, and the prOeeedil