Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-06
CABINET IS DIVIDED
Presidents Advisers Not in Ac-
cord on Question Of Cuban
Reciprocity.
Payne. Shaw and Wilson Not
Willing to Endanger Beet
Sugar Interests.
Republican Leaders Confer With
the President Question OF
Sugar Bounties.

l,o,son opd REPRESENTATIVE Cannon,
=. ul;nois called at the white house
Yesterday and discussed Win Iiesiue'''
Roosevelt the subject of Cuban reei-
nrocity and sentiment thereon IN the
lhouse. Active canvassing continued
among republican members yesterday
preliminary to the third caucus on Gu
;,.n rec;nrooity to be held tonight. The
most positive claims were mace ny
those opposed to Representative
pavne's 90 per cent reciprocity plan,
that there was clear majority against
/ t.. Mr.. Payne and his associates dld not
/ concede this, however and expressed
the belief that concession to CUBA VI
! timately would be granted. 1t was SAID
in this connection that Speaker Hen
! darson is now favorable to the position
taken by the majority on the ways ana
means committee, and that this would
oyert much influence in shaping the
| final outcome.
During the day several members OF
| the cabinet We're called on by Messrs.
Tawney, of the ways and means COM
mittee, who has proposed the rebate
plan as substitute for Chairman
| Fayne's 90 per cent reciprocity plan,
and Norris, of Minnesota. who also has
proposed a plan differing from the one
| CT Mr. Payne. AS an outcome of these
| calls, it was asserted that three mem
bers of the cabinet, namely Postmaster
/ General PAYNE Secretary Shaw and
/ Secretary Wilson, were hopeful of see
ling a solution of the problem which
would not endanger any American in
| dustry. This was construed in some
quarters to show division in the cabi-
ret, but it was stated by those CONVEX
SAINT with the situation that the atti-
| tude of the cabinet members did not
warrant any such construction.
/ Later in the day Representative
4 Tawney Joined several of his associates
who are opposed to the Payne resou-
ton. 1t developed that Mr.. Tawney had
told the president there was little or
no possibility of adoption of the Payne
plan by the republican conference, and
| if it was adopted some forty republican
members would carry the question to
the floor of the house, where there
would be additional complications. ow-
ling to the attitude of democratic mem
/ bers.
The president is understood to have
made his position quite clear and in SO
| doing is said to have removed several
misapprehensions which have been
aeoat of late. He said he had no inten-
ton at present of sending special
message to congress on the subject
The president expressed the most earn
est solicitude that a satisfactory adj
Ijustment be reached by congress, say
ing that this was an Inherited prob
lem meaning that 1T had come to him
from the Mckinley administration
Furthermore, the president, it is as
serted, indicated no positive determine
ton in favor of any particular idea, but
rather desire that congress should
deal with the subject according to Its
best lights.
After hearing from Mr.. Tawney. his
associates expressed the belief that the
president would accept the rebatt
proposition if congress sent 1T to him
They also We're encouraged to hear
from Mr.. Tawney that the president
was not laying down any emphatic vi.
timatum in favor of the plan presented
by Mr. Payne
While these conferences were coins
ON at the white house Chairman Payn-
/ and members Of the ways and means
committee supporting him We're in con.
ference. Later one of the members
said that he was confident the Payne
reciprocity proposition commanded {
majority of the republican members
but that the majority was so large anc
was so disposed to carry the contes
into the house that Mr.. Payne and hi:
friends recognized the seriousness o
the situation. However. there was n,
bate plan. as 1T was stated that thi:
was merely repetition of the plal
proposed by the head of the beet suga
organization two months ago.
Members of the house wlare informed
during the afternoon that teveral mem
the president on the Cuban question
but so far as could be learned al tn
capital the only members of the cabine
TO call We're Postmaster General Pawn
and Secretary Root, and the nature o
their conferences Were not divulged.
Beet Sugar Bountes.
Washington. March 6.-The state de
partment received a reply from Unite,