Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1902-11-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Regular Correspondent)
! Washington, D. c., Nov. 20, 1902

lfrom Our Regular Correspondent
H Washington, d. c., Nov. 20, 1902
With view to surmounting the many
difficulties which threatenened his Gu
ban reciprocity progress, the President
in conjunction with Secretary Hay, has
adopted plan which he believes will
meet with the cordial approval of the
Cuban authorities and will ensure to
United States virtual monopoly of the
Cuban trade. The treaty which Gener-
al Bliss, as Minister Plenipoteniiary
has gone to Havana to negotiate pro-
vides that in return for reduction of
20 per cent. from tho Dingley schedules
on Cuban goods entering this country,
Cuba shall maintain her present rates
of duty on goods imported from the
United States and shall increase rates
not less than 80 per cent. on the same
goods coming from all other countries.
While General Bliss is instructed to Sc
cure this concession in return for a 20
per cent reduction from the Dingley
rates, he is authorized to make the re-
duction 25 per cent. il necessary to OBJ
tain his object.
Notwithstanding the fact that in
many instances members of Congress
were more or loss severely rebuked by
their constituents for their opposition
to Cuban reciprocity, there will be an
organized effort made at the approach
ing session to defeat the Presidents
and it would seem the peoples wishes,
Mr.. Henry L. Oxnard mead of the Beet
Sugar Trust, has engaged winter resi-
dence in Washington and Is already or
ganizing for the winter campaign. Op-
en- opposition will not be the policy
of the opponents of Cuban reciprocity.
On the contrary, they will out-Herod-
Herod in their desire to promote recip-
rocity and their efforts to carry into eff
feet the recommendations in the COM
ing message Of the President. Their
idea is to make the ratification of the
Cuban treaty conditional on the ratih-
cation of the Kasson treaties, These
treaties are seriously opposed by many
senators and it is believed that in the
successful effort to defeat them the Gu
ban treaty will go down with the
wreck.
The election of Senior Portnondo to
the speakership of the Cuban House OF
Representatives, the news of which has
just reached Washington, is regarded as
boding no good to the task set General
Bliss. The new speaker is known to
be intensely anti-Americae and will
doubtless present serious obstacles to
the negotiation of the proposed treaty.
Those western newspapers which re-
ported Representative Babcock as pre-
dieting that the president would call an
extra session to consider tariff revision
were evidently mistaken. There is alb
solutely no ground for believing tha
Mr.. Roosevelt will take such action
Referring to the trust situation recently
the President said to several callers, a
moug them Senator Spooner, that some
thing ''must be done" The Presiden
further said that from present indica
tions, he might even have to call Con
gress in special session If no time was
found to consider the matter during th'
short session. 1t was doubtless tina
converse tion of which Milwaukee re
porters got an inkling In this con
nection, it may be said that Senate
Cullom is now in Washington preparing
a digest of the existing laws and a brie
which will set forth the manner il
which those laws may be amended t
to cover the object of the President ant
attorney-genoral,