Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-10
70 CONFER ON CUDA
Republicans Will Make An.
other Effort to Settle Reci-
procity Question.
Members Of the Committee Diff
fer as to the Best Course
to Pursue.
President Roosevelt Declines to
Accept the Scheme for a
Rebate.

! Washington June 10.-Indication:
now are that republican conference
will be called the latter part of the
week to settle the question as to What
shall be the attitude of the senate or
Cuban reciprocity legislation.
| The comittees representing the ex-
IRENE views on this question have ha6
several meetings, and have failed tc
reach an agreement. The conference
Saturday was not entirely an amicable
one, and it is doubtful if they will get
| together again.
The committee representing the ma
jority of republicans is composed OF
Senators PlatS spooner and cuilom'
members of the committee on relations
with Cuba.
! These three senators are in favor of
reporting and passing the Spooner bill,
which provides for reduction of 20 per
cent on Cuban tariffs for five years,
with provision giving the president
power to suspend the operations of the
law at any time when he may discover
that the benefits of this concession are
going to the sugar trust instead of the
sugar producers.
Senators Elkins, Jones of Nevada.
and Burrows compose the committee
representing the faction opposed 10 all
tariff reduction for Cuba. They have
said they have votes enough to prevent
"a republican majority for the bill and
4 bot Z y,.-;1J
While Senators Burrows and Elkins
have talked rebate on the outside, it is
said positively they have made no such
proposition to the representatives of
the committee on relations with Cuba.
There was no conference of those two
committees yesterday, and unless Ell
hins and Burrows ask for another con-
ference there will be none
Members of the republican steering
committee in the senate are growing
impatient over this situation, which
threatens the harmony OF party action
on this important question.
Republican leaders feel that they
should submit the question of Cuban
reciprocity TO republican conference
or caucus. They intimate that such a
conference will be called before the end
of the week, and expect the action of
the majority to be regarded as binding
upon all republican members OF the
senate.
The debate on the canal bill will con-
tinue thru this week and vote will be
taken either Saturday or Monday next.
With that question disposed of the SEN
ate will be ready to take UP the Cuban
reciprocity bill.
The reports that have been circulated
that the president row approves a re-
bate scheme are denied at the white
house. The president wants reciprocal
trade relations with Cuba. and knows
of no other legitimate means of secur-
ing such relations except by giving
Cuba certain tariff concessions in re-
turn for like concessions on imports
from this country.
The ablest lawyers in the senate who
have tried to devise a rebate bill hat
would be constitutional have failed, and
the president does not care TO start
this new relation with Cuba in a way
to have 1T declared unconstitutional by
the supreme court.
The president had as his guest at
dinner last night Senators Allison,
Platt of Connecticut, Aldrich, Spooner,
and Foraker, Secretary Root and Gen.
Leonard Wood.
The guests remained until II O'Clock,
and there was full discussion of the
status of various important
The reciprocity plan with
Cuba was considered quite thoroughly.
SO far as any of those at the dinner
would speak, the impression was con-
seyed that the presidents attitude on
the Cuban reciprocity plan is about
what it has been all along--favorable to |
/ reduction In the duty on the imports
from the island.