The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-02-28
BILL
WILL PASS
President Said TO
Have Made tits
Point.

NFw YOHK. February it a special
to the sun from Washington fays
President tlooseyelts rscHr .Handaiions
flf tafln concessions 40 cuba. submit
ted bon W. annual message to congress.
viii be acted upon during the coming
week A. soon 40 the BIN ah1llshinE
the internal revenue war taxes shall
have passed the House. Tuesday after
noon in accordance with special rule
that viii be- adopted tomorrow Tor u1n-
sideration Of The bill the Republican
members of thr ways md Means Conn
mittee viii hold "a conf'r'u.r ana agree
upon a programme Cor framing and
passing the cuban tariff reduction bin.
This programme was agreed o. ~
white House conference this morning
between the President who called 3d.
and Speaker Henderson. Representa-
tiyes Grpsvcn1r and Cannon, and Sen
aturs Platt Of Connecticut, Spooner, Al
drich and Allison. President Roose-
Welt told the Senators aud Representa-
tives during the talk which lasted Tor
m hour and a half, Just how import
ant be thinks IL 10 that the United
States shall keep rs written and I'M
written pledges TO cuba, and said In
I language 50 plain that IT could not be
misunderstood that he had not weak
ened In the slightest degree since send
ing his message TO Congress in De
cembcr. Some one had reported him,
| he said, as being willing to compro-
mise. but there was nothing for him
to compromise In view OF the fact that
all he wants rs legislation that viii re-
! lleve Cuba's crying distress and make
good 10 her the implied promises Of the
| United states.
/ Before this had been accomplished
! the legislative situation In the House
was considered and the President was
| Especially anxious for Information as TO
/ the programme for the passage on
. Tuesday Of the bin abOlishlng the war
revenue taxes. The Speaker and Rep
/ resentatiye Grosyguor explained to him
the rule that would be adopted on Mon
| day setting aside that day and the next
| for debate on the hin and providing for
Ia vote AT o'clock Tuesday.
! The President was told that the re-
| port Of Representative TaWney, the Re
publican whip of the House. shows that
/ there would be a majority Of at least
twenty-five for the adoption OF the
rule, although IL Is feared that a few
Republicans under the lead OF Repre-
sentative Babcock may refuse to vote
for the rule, being disgruntled at the
recent action of the Ways and Means
Committee in refusing to accept the
Babcock tariff reduction bill as ar
amendment, or 10 accept any sugges'
tions as TO general tariff changes.
Another important matter decided II
that the Senate viii accept the bill
abolishing the war taxes as IL passes
the House, with only such unimportan
amendments as may be found desirable
when the bill In under consideration b,
the Finance Committee. The Hous'
plan TO wipe out all the war taxes viii
be agreed TO, and the attempt at tar
in changes or tariff debate will thus
be checkmated. II was the unanimous
opinion that there In every reason why
there should be no tariff legislation a
this session, and there will be none.
As to the precise form of the bill re.
duclng the tariff on Imports OF Cuban
products into the United States, Their,
Is still much uncertainty. Some Re
publican members OF the Ways anc
Means Committee are adverse to sup
porting any bill OF this kind. At leas
two OF the gentlemen who were at tbs
White House conference represent So
called beet-sugar States, and they say
that 10 lower the duty on Cuban sugar
would be TO ruin the beet sugar indus
try of their constituents.
In view. however OF the earnestnesi
Of the Presidents recommendation
that the appeals OF Cuba be needed, and
accepting the advice Of their party col
leagues In the Senate and House, these
men agree to stand by the programme
of onacting a bill for Cuba's relief. The
work will be taken mp as soon as tn,
war tax bill is disposed OF Tuesday