Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-01-31
THE CUBAN TREATY.
Ratification Would Settle Sugar
Question For Time.
WILL CONTAIN FIVE TEAR CLAUSE
Unless Repealed, Acceptance of the
Treaty would Insure an Undis
turbed aga Tari1 For That Term.

AENSNNE
turbed Sugar Taria For That Term.
A Statehood Plank.
Washington, Jan. II. 5eesai.l-It
the Cuban treaty Is ratified. Il IS claim
ed that it will settle the sugar question
for i've years. That is Il reason
WHY men who opposed reciprocity last
sunmer are anxious 70 have the treaty
completed. Sugar has been an inter.
esting factor in politics and tariff bills
for a long time. Ii the Mckinley bill.
when raw sugar was placed on the free
list and q bounty given to home pro-
ducers. 1t was decidedly conspicuous.
In restoring the duty and repeating the
bounty It was the great feature Of the
Wilson bill. The sugar schedule in the
Dtngley law was one Of its most i'm
portant features and caused a great
deal Of talk. No wonder men would
like to have the sugar tariff settled for
d term Of years. OF course, II the
treaty Is ratified it will contain the
i've year clause, but this does nothing
but pledge the faith Of the senate not
to disturb the tariff Of sugar. Is a
matter Of fact, this congress cannot
bind the next or any succeeding on
gress either 10y treaty or law. Repeal
is always a power of every congress.
Annulment of treaties by legislation
also has been declared legal by the su-
preme court, so that legislation in the
Cuban treaty on sugar may be repeal
ed if congress SO decides. But If two
thirds Of the senate votes for the
treaty a change in the sugar tariff IS
not likely in the time specified. The
beet SUGAR men think their business
viii be wen established by that time.
Party Platforms and Statehood.
During the discussion of the omnibus
statehood bill we get a little Of every
thing, and occasionally there is a dis
cussion of party platforms. especially
that plank in the Republican platform
adopted at Philadelphia which specis'
ically declared that the three terri
tories under consideration should be
admitted. Senator Beyeridge main.
tains that it should not be binding
when an investigation by the commit
tee of the subject has convinced a ma.
49,
jority Of the committee that admission
should be delayed. Senator Nelson
says that the men who adopted the
platform knew very little about it and
were not under oath, as were thes sen.
ators. Senator Hanna says that with
other great issues before the country
it is not to be expected that a single
plank should carry so much weight as
some senators attach to IL. Mr.. Hanna
also expressed the hope that, mo mat
ter what might be the hope of the In
dividual men to represent the three
proposed states In congress. a desire
perfectly laudable," no drastic meas
ures would be adopted to bring the
states in. AS Delegates Flynn, Rodey
and Smith were sitting by and evident.
ly the men referred to, those in the i'm
mediate ~neighborhood gave them a de.
risiye smile.
All Sorts Of Things Discussed.
A great many things In connection
with the statehood bill are discussed,
ranging from the thirteen original
states to the personal appearance OF
a senator population, progress, rail-
roads, irrigation, race, soil, climate,
productions, comparisons and, in fact,
everything pertaining TO the proposed
states. One day Senators Beverage
and Burton entered into IN animated
talk about rainfall and the conserva-
ton of waters, the floods Of the Mis-
sisslppi as well as several other topics.
On another occasion Senator Beveridge,
talking of the political features, said;
1.-THE senator does not answer"-this
to Senator Clay, and he went on:
81 thought perhaps the senator from
Tennessee, whom l see there. my good
friend and able and brilliant senator,
might have done So"
is the senator speaking Of me or my
colleague?" asked Senator Carmack.
II include BOTH responded Bever-
,dge, but 1 was particularly speaking
of the handsome, young and brilliant
senator who just arose to address me
and whose consciousness OF the fact
that he was addressed led him to rise
and make the Inquiry.
kncw7 His Buslne1.
Sometimes Senator Frye may make
a slip in saying over and over again
the routine formulas for ~disposlng of
business Ia the senate, but not often.
In the transaction Of the business Of
the senate. in the reception of reports
and bills, The putting Of questions and
recognition OF senator's addressing the
senate, all OF which tends TO facilitate
the business of the body. he makes no
mistakes. II has sometimes been said
that any n could preside over the
senate, but this is not the case. Many
men who have been in the body for
years when temporarily presiding ONE
times find themselves in Il parliament
tary tangle and have to consult the ex-
perienced clerks to get matters straight
ened out. Not so, however, with the
junior senator from Maine. He is new,
err troubled about parliamentary de.