Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-01
ARE UNEASY
Opposition Among House Repub-
licans to Cuban Reciprocity
Growing Restless.
Henderson, Payne and Grosvenor
Said to Be Opposing the
President.
Roosevelt Said to Be Determil-
ed on Carrying Out His
Policy.


derson and his lieutenants, Payne Dali
zell and Grosvenor, have begun to
sauirm under the criticism of their
neglect to report a bill for Cuban rec
iprocity Payne made public state
ment yesterday denying that the ways
and means committee in reporting a
bill to wipe out all war taxes was
meant as refusal on the part of that
committee to provide for Cuban reci-
procity Payne said that the commit
tee had taken no vote on the subject
of Cuban reciprocity, and there had
been no conference among the republi-
can members or exchange of views on
that subject. Payne showed much IT.
ritation over the charge that he ana
DalZell and Grosvenor were opposing
the recommendations of the president
and said that this subject OF CUBAN
reciprocity is to have full and early
attention of the committee on ways and
means. This promise OF Payne that the
ways and means committee will again
take up Cuban reciprocity is a sore dis
appointment to the beet-sugar lobby
which yesterday claimed n victory by
side tracking Cuban reciprocity with
bill to wipe out the WAR taxes.
Grosvenor has also been compelled
to explain that he and the committee
en- ways and means are not opposing
the presidents policy. Grosvenor does
not say that the ways and means COM
mittee will agree to a bill carrying out
President Roosevelt's' Recommended
lions for Cuban reciprocity. but he COM
plains that they have been unjustlY
charged with opposing the president.
Dalzell is another member of the
committee who is today explaining his
position. He has NOT yet had time to
go over the reports of the hearings and
determine what should be done. But
he squirms at the charge that he Is OPP
posing the presidents Cuban policy.
The speaker and his, lieutenants have
been completely deinoralized by the
unmistakable evidence that the people
are with President Roosevelt and that
the president has resolved to fight for
his policy without regard to the oppo-
sition of the ways and means commit
tee, Henderson, Payne, Dalzell and
Grosvenor thought that President
Roosevelt would be compelled to re-
verse his policy toward Cuba as Pes
ident Mckinley reversed his policy to-
ward Porto Rico to save the house or
ganization. But President Roosevelt
has shown no sign OF weakening. He
discussed this subject with his cabinet
again yesterday ard insisted that
there must be tariff concessions to Gu
ba. All the high tariff men on the
committee on ways and means who
opposed Cuban reciprocity are ex-
planning.
REPRESENTATIVE Hopkins, of Illinois,
and Representative Mccall, of Ms.ssa-
chusetts, are the two republican mem
bers of the committee who have been
open advocates of Cuban reciprocity.
They are standing by the presidents
recommendation and insisting that the
republican congress must act in har-
mony with the presidents policy or its
action will be repudiatts by the Aineri-
can people. Hopkins has made Wig
orous fight in the committee for reci-
procity, not as charity to Cube, but
as matter of justice and good bust
ness legislature in the interest OF ex-
tending our trade in agricultural sta
pies, such as flour and meat products.
that are exported to Cuba. The major
ity of republicans in the house arr with
Hopkins and are impatiently waiting
for the committee on ways and means
to report bill.
The beet sugar lobby now is discour-
aged by the apologize attitude OF
Payne. Dalzell, and Grosvenor. Thurs
day the lobby was jubliant over its APP
parent victory, and boasted that the
history of the Porto Rico bill was to be
repeated. Yesterday Oxnard and his
followers were silent, as they saw
their champions making excuses and
apologies. The beet sugar lobby has
for two weeks made its headquarters
in the ways and means committee
rooms. They have assumed to be at
home there and converted the commit
tee rooms to their own uses. OSnard
has appeared as a dictator, giving his
orders and threatening as dictator,
orders and threatening those who OPP
posed him. He has again assumed to
represent the farmers of America, as
he did when the Porto Rico bill was
under consideration and said to the
committee that, If the Fifty-sixth con-
gress failed to keep US the tariff wall
against Porto Rico, the farmers would
elect a congress that would do So