Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-18
President Roosevelt Earnest in Ills
Desire to Have Cuban Treaty
Ratified at Once.
HOPES the PRESENT SENATE WILL ACT.
feet frsm Leaders Of the senate
Executive SessfSa HeId-@eeretaFy
C0xteIyOa Announces Appoint
Ae1ts-0ther washlRgto1 News.

RlS mllG TO call an extraordinary Ses~
szon Of the Fifty-eighth congress- He
however, is considering the praetiea-
b5lity of doing 80. When he was in
formed that i: was the intention of
The senate so to amend the Cuban
reciprocity treaty as to render action
upon it by the house OF representa-
1ves necessary to make effective, he In
formed some members of the senate
that he would hold himself free to call
az extraordinary session Of the con-
gre&s in order to secure action upon
It. No definite time was mentioned
by the president for the meeting of
the extraordinary session
In Much In Earnest.
The president is much ia earnest in
his desire TO have the Cuban treaty
ratified and made effective. 1t car be
said that SO strong is this desire tina,
be even has considered the advisable
1ty of calling the congress into ex-
traordjnary session this spring. if the
senate should permit the Cuban
treaty TO fail through lack of quo
Eum- That, however, is contingency
which he considers improbable.
Believes Senate VIII Act.
The belief Of the president and his
advisers is that the senate will take
definite action upon beth the Panama
canal and Cuban reciprocity treaties
a. the present extraordinary session.
Assurances To that effect have been
received from the leaders of the sen
ate. The president believes. also, it
can be said, that this work of the sen
ate will have been accomplished by
the last Of mex: week.
Executive Session.
Washington. March 14.-Ten min
N1eo after converting Friday the sen
ate, on motion Of Senator Cullo1n. went
into executive session. Senator Ha wiley
tConn~) WAS in his seat after long
absence, due TO Illness
Senator Morgan entered on dis.
cuss1on of Attorney General Kryx's
opinion as to the validity Of the It'll.
TO the Panama canal property " hict
can be given by the new Panama
Canal company. This opinion he at
tackled as defective in some points
and especially in it's failure to dea
with the jurisdiction of the French
courts. which have passed upon the
canal company's title.
At the instance of Senator Teller
the senate adopted resolution call.
ing upon. the president for informa
ton as to whether Great Britain has
made formal protest against tn.
Cuban reciprocity treaty.
Names Clerks.
Washington. March 14.-Secretary
Cortelyou has announced the follow.
ing appointment. in the department |
Of commerce and labor: Chief Clerk |
Frank II. Hitchcock, of Massachu
sets; disbursing clerk, William L
soleau, Of Michigan.
Cabinet Meeting.
Washington, March 14.-Only fou,
members Of the cabinet attended Fri.
days session, the other five members
Hay, Root, Moody
Postmaster General Payne and At.
torney General Knox~-being on, OF
the city. Only routine business was
transacted, it being announced that
no subject of serious Importance was
considered.
Calls for Warships.
Washington, March 14.-A dispatch
was received at the state department
Friday from William C. Wilt, United
States vice consul at Ceiba, Hon.
duras, announcing that Ceiba bad
been captured by the revolutionary
forces and suggesting that United
States warship be sent to Honduras
waters. The dispatch bears date OF
March IL.
Sentenced.
Washington, March 14-Harry A.
Barrows, formerly disbursing officer
of the census bureau, who was dis
missed some months ago for embez-
has been sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary.
Blockade Raised.
Washington, March 14.-The state
has received cable
gram from United States Charge
Russell, at Caracas, announcing that
the blockade of the Orinoco river,
declared by President Castro on
March z, has been raised.
Badly Shaken Up.
Chicago, March 14.-Hundreds of
on a north-bound sub