Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-19
ARE INCONSISTENT.
President Roosevelt Points Out That
Opposition Senators Are Not Repre-
sentins the Correct Sentiment of
Their States on the Reciprocity
Question.

Washington, June Ex-senator Platt.
Of Connecticut, chairman of the COM
mittee on Cuban relations, today was
an early caller at the white house.
where he had conference with the
president on the subject of the proba-
bic fate of the Cuban reciprocity
measure In the senate. He declined to
make any statement concerning the
presidents views as expressed to him.
but said that, speaking entirely for
himself, he would force the senat tors
who are holding out against reciproci-
ty to cast their votes either with or
against the party. There is not bee;
sugar sttae," said the senator, "where.
| if the question was put before the re-
publican convention, reciprocity would
not be endorsed. Where lot of men
are setting themselves up in opposition
to thier party, they should be forced to
go on record by their votes"
Senator Millard, of Nebraska. who
opposed the reciprocity plan, was pres
ent during part of the conference
and the president remarked to him that
Nebraska had endorsed his (presi
dents) course and turned down her
own senators.
TO number of his callers today
President Roosevelt stated he finds
sufficient endorsement of his stand on
the Cuban question in the action of the
conventions recently held in South
Dakota, Kansas and Nebraska. To a
personal friend today he said he felt
particularly grateful to Congressmen
Burkett, of Nebraska. and Martin, of
South Dakota, for their attitude in
their conventions: also that he took
particular pride in the endorsements
from the three states above named, be-
cause he was peculiarly close to those
states.
It is known the president would ne
gotiate a treaty with Cuba, provided
he has assurance that fifty sena tors
would vote for it, but he does not want
to try this experiment without a guar
antee before hand that it would carry.
Those close to the president assert his
feeling now is that if reciprocity is not
granted at this time it must come soon
er or later: that those senators who are
at present opposing it will be led to see
that our duty and obligations toward
cuba must be carried out according to
the pledges made.
The republican senators who favor
reciprocity with Cuba are not vet
ready to acknowledge that nothing can
be done. They say with thirty-fi five
votes in the caucus they do not think
they need surrender to nineteen who
declared themselves last night against
the bill. Two methods are suggested:
One, to negotiate a treaty with Cuba,
the other, to bring in and pass the
house bill. The action of the Nebraska
republican convention yesterday in en-
dorsing the presidents message and
reciprocity with Cuba was commented
upon quite freely about the senate to-
day and the reciprocity senators cuiz-
zed Senators Millard and Dietrich in
a goodnatured way about the manner
in which the Nebraska platform dif-
fered from their statements made in
the caucus last evening, when Dietrich
declared four Nebraska congressional
districts would go democratic if the re-
ciprocity bill passed.