Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-04-03
SPECIAL CUBAN MESSAGE
President Asks Congress to Author
ize Establishment Of Diplomatic
Relations with Island.
ENUMERATES PROVISIONS FOR TREATIES
Recomm ends Minister PlenipOten.
Legation, IL Consul General Mt Ha-
vana. and COnsuls at CienfuegOs
ana Santiago.


vana. and Consuls at Cienfuegos
ana Santiago
Washington, March as.-The presi-
dent Thursday afternoon sent to
congress the following message rec
ommending the provision for diplo-
matte and consular representation in
Cuba:
'To the Congress of the United States:
commend to the congress timely consid-
Grafton of measures for maintaining d-
plomatic and consular representatives in
Cuba and for carrying out the provisions
OF the act making appropriation for the
support of the army for the fiscal year end
ing June Thirtieth Nineteen Hundred and
Two, approved March Two, Nineteen Hun
dred and One, reading as follows
Relations with United States.
Here the president enumerates the con-
ditions insisted upon by the United States
and already incorporated in the constitu-
ton adopted by Cuba concerning the rela-
tons to exist between the two govern
. ments
Article 1 provides that the government
OF Cuba shall never enter into any treaty
or other compact with any foreign power
or powers which will impair or tend to inn
pair the independence of Cuba.
Article provides that said government
shall not assume or contract any public
debt beyond power of Cuba to meet
Article provides that the government of
Cuba consents that the United States may
exercise the right to. intervene for the
preservation of Cuban independence.
Article provides that all acts Of the
United States in Cuba during its military
occupancy thereof are ratified and
validated.
Article 5 provides that the government
OF Cuba will execute, and as far as neces-
sary extend, the plans already devised or
other plans to be mutually agreed upon,
for the sanitation of the cities of the is
land.
Article provides that the Isle of Pines
shall be omitted from the proposed consti-
tutional boundaries of Cuba, the title there
to being left to future adjustment by
treaty
Article provides that the government
OF Cuba will sell or lease to the United
States lands necessary for coaing or raval
stations at certain specified points, to be
agreed upon with the president of the
United States
Article then goes on to state that the
above provisions shall be embodied in a
permanent treaty with the United States.
Should Fulfill the Pledge.
"The people of Cuba having framed
constitution embracing the foregoing re-
quirements, and having elected a president
who is soon to take Office, the time is near
for the fulfllment of the pledge of the
United States to leave the government and
control of the island of Cuba to it's peo-
pie. I am advised by the secretary of war
that it is now expected that the installa-
ton of the government of Cuba and the
termination of the military occupation of
that island by the United>States will take
place on the Twentieth of May next.
1T is necessary and appropriate that the
establishment of interna tiOna1 relations
with the government of Cuba should coin
eide with its inauguration, as well to pro-
vide channel for the conduct of diplomatic
relations with the new state as to open the
path for the immediate negotiation of con-
ventional agreements to carry out the pro-
visions of the act above quoted 1t is also
advisable that consular representation be
established without delay at the principal
Cuban ports in order that commerce with
the island may be conducted with due re-
gard to the formalities prescribed by the
revenue and navigation statutes of the
United States, and that American citizens
in Cuba may have the ustomary local re-
sorts open to them for their business needs
and, the case arising, for the protection of
their rights.
Asks Provision for Envoy.
st therefore recommend that provision
be forthwith made and the salaries appro-
priated. to be Immediately available for
'(a) Envoy extra ordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to the Republic of Cuba,
$4,000
"(b) Secretary of the lega tion So OOO
go Second secretary of the legation, ST.
90 Consul General at Havana, s., 00O
"(e) Consuls at Cienfuegos, So OOO San
tiago de Cuba, $4,000.
To Abolish ConsuIates.
at do not recommend the present restora-
ton of the consulates formerly tanned
at Baracoa, Cardenas, Matanzas, Nuevitas,
Sagualla Grande and San Juan de Los
Remedies. The commercial interests at
those ports heretofore have not been large
The consular fees collected there during
the fiscal year. 1867, aggregated $752. 10.
1t is believed that the actual needs al the
six offices named can be efficiently sub
served by agents under the three principal
consular Offices until events may show the
necessity of erecting a full consulate at
any point.
THE commercial and political conditions
I'm the Island of Cuba, while under the
Spanish crown afford little basis for es-
aimating the local development of inter-
course with this country under the influ-
ence Of the new relations which have been
created by the achievement of Cuban in
dependence and which are to be broadened
and strengthening in every proper way by
conventional pacts with the Cubans and by
wise and beneficent legislation aiming to
E'AAiiIiioIC LiiS COIIlleICe between the Two
countries, If the great task we accepted in
1898 is to be fittingly accomplished
6oIsneuI Il nEOUOKE ROOSEVELT
White House, Washington, March q,
| 1902
Gen. Otis Retires,
s. Washington, March 26.-Mai. Gen.
Elwell S. Otis closed his active career
in the army yesterday by reason of