The age-herald., 1901-02-25
CUBA MUST COMPLY WITH
 UNCLE SAWS CONDITIONS
BY ALBERT HALsTEAD.

foreign nation, with whose citizens Cuba had contracted indebtedness, would take dra stir mea sures to collect that indebted ness in the event of Cuba's refusal to pay the interest or principal, knowing that such interference would be regarded as unfriendly by the United States. This Senator thinks that it might be well, or even necessary, for United States troops to remain in Cuba even after the Cuban government had been formed and in working order. He believes that the Cubans would not object and would rather prefer to have our troops there. for period at least, that Is until the new government was in fairly good running order and the further relations with the United States had been settled.
 There are two methods, at least, of settling the Cuban question. The one is to have supplementary document or resolution of the Cuban convention ready for Cubas relations to the United States and the other for Congress to state in the form of a resolution exactly what conditions will be required of Cuba, conditions that later would be expressly stated in a treaty between Cuba and the United States, which would be ratified by our Senate and by the Cuban govern ments. The objection to the first is that it would not be so binding as treaty. The objection to the second is that 1t might require the recognition of the Gu ban government and the withdrawal of our troops before the treaty could be ratified. Certain 1t is that the United States has never made a treaty with a people whose government 1t has not rec ognized-that has been invariably the ments, which are constantly being over thrown.
 It has heen argued that the Cuban gov ernment might be recognized, but that American troops might remain to make certain the agreement of that govern ment to the treaty specifically stating what shall be the relations between the two countries. It is possible that both methods proposed might be adopted, the supplement to the Cuban constitution be- ing required, then the passage of a reso- lution outlining the relations between the countries and the recognition of the Gu ban government with the supplementary document as a security for good faith. followed by a treaty dealing with the points involved The whole question Is embarrassing and presents problems and difficulties never before faced by the United States. Precedents offer no as- sisstance and one will have to be estab- lished. Thus the consideration of the question develops complexities and per plexes even the most learned of Ameri- can public men.
 In the information that comes from Cuba, both through the newspapers and from other sources, there are suggestions of the interference of foreign consuls and of American politicians with the settle ment of the Cuban problem. The former adroitly make suggestions to the Cubans calculated to arouse suspicion of Ameri- lean purposes with the view of gaining advantages for the trade of their own nations, and the latter are writing let ters to Cubans connected with the con stitutional convention, intended to em- barsess the administration by casting doubt upon It's good intentions and to encourage the Cubans to hold out for conditions that cannot be granted For both of these causes the work of getting a satisfactory agreement with the Gu bans has been hampered. The foreign consuls and the American politicians who are placing obstacles in the way of a set clement of the questions now imminent are doing great harm to Cubans. They are making the establishment of the Gu ban republic more difficult and delaying the withdrawal of American troops, all of which is in the direction of making annexation sooner or later more probable and possibly of forcing it as the only solution of the difficulties.