The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-01-21
President Wilson Sends General
crowder TO Cuba to Help
It Out OF Trouble.
INTERVENTION NOT UNLIKELY
Congress REEVES War Finance Cor.
poration, Despite veto-Senate
Committee Debating Disarma-
ment Pians-Gompers As.
sails Supreme Court
. for Labor De-
cision.
BY EDWARD W. PlckARD.

Cuba must clean house. If she Is
unwilling or unable to stabilize her
financial and political conditions.
Uncle Sam may find it necessary TO
do ii for her. That is the warning
the island republic received last week
from the administration in Washing
ton.
The serious condition of affairs in
Cuba has been matter of common
knowledge for some, time, but our gov
ernment's intention was made known
only when II was announced that
President Wilson had sent Judge Ad-
vocate General Enoch Ii. Crowder to
Havana TO confer with President
Menocal. General Crowder went on
the battleship Minnesota and with
him was a staff of army officers In
announcing his mission President
Wilson said:
1.-THE moratorium and financial
crisis in Cuba continues, the solution
of which appears more difficult on ac-
count of the unsettled presidential
election. A continuation of the pres
mental 10 the prosperity of Cuba and
harmful TO the relations between the
United States and Cuba.
AS this cannot be but n matter OF
| the closest concern to this govern
ment. because of the special relations
| existing between the two countries,
| the President has instructed General
Crowder to confer with President
| Menocal as 10 the best means of rem
edying the situation"
Actual Intervention. which would be
| under the Plat amendment. Will be
avoided by the administration If pos
| sible. II IL is necessary. il Is not GER
tain that military forces would be
required.
Cuba's troubles are both financial
and political Last summer. when
sugar brought such high prices In the
| United States. the island went sugar
| mad and enormous fortunes were
| made. Then came the sudden col
| lapse OF prices. and the cane mills
| closed and Cuba. generally speaking,
went broke. The industrial situation
grew worse daily. and financial con-
Germs we're In great distress Many
| banks went into insolvency and a
moratorium was established. which has
| recently been extended another month.
/ All this is complicated by me polit-
ical mixup IN the island President
Menocal's term expires on May -. but
no one knows who Is to succeed him.
! After the recent elections numerous
charges OF fraud were made and the
winner has not yet been determined
l American bankers. who are vitality
| interested in Cuba. disapproye of the
moratorium. Some time ago Albert
| Rafhhone was sent TO the island as
financial adviser and he submitted "a
he Cuban government number of
recommendations which we're ap-
proved by ou- State department but
apparently Menocal and his cabinet
have taken no action toward adopting
them. The Cuban minister in Wash
ington was surprised by the sending
OF General crowder and Immediately
asked an explanation. but he did not
receive much satisfaction.
| Congress Is determined TO .relieve"
American business and agriculture in
its Own way. despite the opposition
Of President Wilson. As had been ex-
pected. the President vetoed the bill
10 revive the War Finance corpora
ton. and first the senate and then