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STRONG PLEA
FOR CUBANS
Is President's Message to Extra
Session of Congress.
RECIPROCITY IS URGED
Whole Document is Devoted in Its
Entirety to Needed Legislation
Regarding the Island.
The president’s message was read
In both houses of congress- Tuesday.
It dealt entirely with Cuba and was as
follows:
“To the Seuate and House of Rep
resentatives: -1 have convened the
congress that it may consider the leg
islation necessary to put into opera
tion the commercial treaty with Cuba,
which was ratified by the senate at its
la»t session, add, subsequently, by the
Cuban government. 1 deem such leg
islation demanded, not only by our
interests,' but by our honor. We tun
not.,': tyith propriety, abandon the
course upon whics we have so wisely
embarked. When the acceptance of
the Platt amendment was required
from Cuba by tbh action of the con
gress of the. United States, this gov
ermpent thereby definitely committed
Itself to the policy of treating Cuba
as occuppying a puique position as re
gards this
tha **en beeftuie a free
sTie should
stand relations with us
us'tn, certain" some within
our system policy;
hihl it necessarily followed that she
muol also to a certain degree become
within tlu> lines of o£r eco-
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mately concerns us to develop and se
cure the rich Cuban market for our
j farmers, artisans, merchants and
manufacturers. Finally, it is desir
j able as a guaranty of the good faith
j of our nation towards her young sis
! ter republic to the south, whose wel
fare must ever be clcsely bound with
ours. We gave her "liberty. We are
knit to her by the memories of the
blood and courage of our soldiers who
fought for her in war; by the memo
ries of the wisdom and integrity of
our administrators who serve her in
peace and who started her so well on
the difficult path of* self-government.
We must help her onward and up
ward, and in helping her we shall help
ourselves.
“The foregoing considerations caus
; ed the negotiations of the treaty with
Cuba and its ratification by the sen
ate. They now with equal force sup
port the legislation by t.he congress
whicli by the terms of the treaty is
necessary to render it operative. A
failure to enact such legislation would
come perilously near a repudiation of
the pledged faith of the nation.
"I transmit herewith the treaty as
amended by the senate and ratified by
the Cuban government.
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
“White House, November 1). 1903.’’
Tuesday’s session of the housie oc
cupied less than half an hour, an ear
ly adjournment being taken out of re
spect to the memory of two deceased
members. The president’3 message
was road and referred to the commit
tea on ways and means, the member
ship of which is yet to be announced.
The message also was ordered print
ed. Aside irons making provisions for
mileage of members, no further busi
ness was transacted.
The speaker announced the follow
ing committees:
Rules —Tile speaker, Dalzell, Pann
s-yivania; Grosvenor, Ohio; Williams,
Mississippi; De Armond, Missouri.
Mileage—Reeder, Kansas; Jackson,
Maryland; Flack, New York; Lewis,
Georgia; Butler, Missouri.
The first three on each coerifnittee
are republicans and tiie las*'two dem
ocrats. ,
The house then /adjourned until
Wednesday. »
Tuesday’s session of the seiate was
also of brief duration. The session was
devoted exclusively to the reading of
tiie prendent message in support of
reciprocity with Cuba and to the rou
tineer incident to the receipt of tiie
message.
/ The message received the careful
1 attention of tho senators and when
its reading had been concluded Mr.
Collum, of Ilinois, was recognized and
moved the reference ro the commit
tee on foreign relations of the mes
sage and the Cuban treaty, the text of
which had been transmitted with the
message. Tiie senate then adjourned.
FIGHT ON CKIIVI IS ON AGAIN.
lor Second Time President Sends Name of
Colored Collector to Senate.
A Washington dispatch says: There
will be very likely another fight in
tho senate committee on commerce
over the confirmation of the negro
collector at Charleston, Dr. Crum.
" The president sent the name of
Crum to the senate again Tuesday,
and the democrats have announced
determination to prevent the
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such action should be taken. This
■hi displace Senator Morgan as chair-
Fnan of the committee.
TROOPS ON WAY
TO ISTHMUS
Report that Cokmbia Has Decided
to Fight the Matter Out.
WASHINGTON IS NOTIFIED
Dispatch Stated that Four Army Corps
Under Four Generals Were En
Route to Inaugurate War.
According to advices from Guayaquil,
General Plaza, president of Ecuador,
cabled to President Marroquin, of Co
lombia, sympathizing with him in tke
recent events on the isthmus of i an
ama.
President Marroqu'n replied thank
ing General Plaza and adding that
General Reyes, Cabelleres, Os-pina and
Holguin were marching on Panama
with a large army to subdue the isth
mus.
Punish “Isthmian Traitors.”
The Colombian minister to Peru has
published in Lima cablegrams receiv
ed from his government, dated at Bo
gota, November 10, 11 and 12, respec
tively. The cablegrams say that the
Colombian government has taken
measures to suppress “the isthmian
traitors” and add that ail the parties
and classes hare offered to the gov
ernment their lives and property in
defense of tho national territory.
What Will Uncle Sam Do?
Rumors were current in Washing
ton Friday that the government in
tended to send United States troops
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to the isthmus of Panama, but posi
tive official denials were made that
such was the intention of the adminis
tration which some time ago asserted
its purpose to prevent fighting that
would endanger the free transit of the
isthmus.
Situation at Bogota Critical.
It is rumored that the situation at
Bogota is extremely critical, and that
there is a continuance of the manifes
tations of furious despair over ohe
loss of the isthmus. The feeling
against President Marroquin is grow
ing in intensity and one rumor has it
that he has been deposed. The popu
lace of Bogota is talking of sending a
big expedition to recapture the isth
mus at any cost, in their excitability
losing sight of tho futility of such an
attempt. It is believed here that Ad
miral Glass, commander or the Uni
ted States squadron, wiM soon call of
ficially on the junta, and that hi 3
squadron will salute the flag of the
republic.
PROMINENT NEW YORKER KILLED.
Andrew Green, “Father of Greater Mew
York,” Shot Dead by Crazy Neqro.
Andrew H. Green, tho “Father of
Greater New York,” and one of the
city's oldest and most remarkable
citizens, was shot and instantly killed
on the steps of his home, on Park
avenue, New York city, Friday, by
Cornelius M. Williams, a negro who is
believed to be insane.
The shooting was evidently the out
come of an insane delusion on the
part of the negro that Mr. Green had
slandered him, for when he was
asked why he had committed the mur
j dor, he replied: “I did it to save my
; character.”
There were three witnesses to the
tragedy, Mrs. Anna Bray, a domestic
in Mr. Green’s family; Emil Michel
son. an errand boy, and Patrick Dyer,
a caiman.
Parker in Charge of Olympic Mills.
At a meeting of Lhe directors of the
Olympia cotton mills at Columbia,
S. C., Friday, W. B. Smith-Whaley re
signed the presidency, and L. W. Par
ker. of Greenville, was elected presi
dent temporarily.
COLONIAL RECORDS Cf GEORGIA
Are Received by Ex-Governor Candler for
Purpose of Transcription.
Former Governor Candler, who is
compiling the revolutionary and Con
federate records of Georgia, has re
| ceived from London several volumes
j of the minutes of the executive coun
i oil of Georgia embracing a period of
1 39 years, frern 1732 to 1752.
These records were not in the Geor
gia file, having been stolen or mis
placed. and it was necessary for the
legislature to appropriate a sum of
money to have them transcribed from
the original copies, which are now m
London in the government library.
AFTER REID SMOOT.
Question of Eligibility of Mormon Sub
ject of Livdy Debate in the
Senate.
The session of congress Friday took
on somewhat of an interesting turn.
Immediately upon assembling the sen
ate plunged into a discussion of the
question of the eligibility of Read
Smoot, of Utah, to a seat in the sen
ate.
Mr. Dubois, of Idaho, took issue
with Mr. Hoar’s remarks of Thurs
da/-
“I contend that these various or
gaaizations of Christian men and wo
men,” he said, “have a right to peti
tion the senate and that it is tneir
duty to do so. Of course, we all ap
preciate that this is a judicial ques
tion, which must be determined oy
the facts, but it is not an idle ques
tion, and it is properly betcre the sen
ate. It is the same question that was
involved in the case of t-he polyga
mous Roberts, for whose unseating by
the house of representatives many pe
titions were filed.
“If the allegations now on file with
the committee ea privileges and eiec
tione can be proven, I do not believe
there is a senator here who would
vote to have Mr. Smoot continue in
his 9eat, but if they are not priven, 1
think we would all unito in asking
atm to remain.”
Mr. Hoar said that in his remarks
he bad merely called the attention of
some of his own constituents to tha
fact that they are pointing out to the
senate the determination of a judicial
question in regard to which the sena
tors are the judges.
Mr. Hale took the position that the
question of Mr. Smoot’s eligibility had
boon improperly raised at this time.
He considered it a very grave and se
rious matter, and while, he said, he
had appreciated the force of what
Mr. Hoar had said as to the judicial
character of the proceedings, he did
not quite with that senator that
in determining the right of a senator
to his seat the senate should be con
sidered purely as a court of law. He
referred briefly to the moral aspects
of the Smoot case, and said that,
grave as tney are, they are not more
important than “the intrusion of a re
ligious hierarchy like the Mormon
church into the political affairs of the
country.'
He suggested to the senate the im
portance of not prejudging the case.
TMe senate adjourned until Monday.
In the house, the bill to make effect
ive the Cuban treaty convention,
which, without objection, was read
by title and referred to the committee
on ways and means.
Mr. Payne naving moved to adjourn,
Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, inquired
if he was ready to announce the pro
gram of the majority.
Mr. Payne said a meeting of the
ways and means committee would be
called Friday, and he hoped to report
the bill to the nouse then.
Mr. Thayer, of Massachusetts, ris
ing to a question of privilege, asked
if a member would be considered dere
lict in his duty if he would go home
to get his winter’s wood, with the un
deerstanding that he would return
when the six or seven men, who, he
said, constitute congress, should an
nounce .hat something was to be doae.
Mr. Payne observed that he was
about to request unanimous consent
that the gentleman from Massachu
setts be excused for the remainder
of the session. The house then ad
journed.
Ways and Means Committee.
Speaker Cannon announced at Fri
day's session of the house that the
ways and means committee would be
as follows:
Republicans—Messrs. Payne, of
New York, Dalzell, of Pennsylvania.
Grosvenor of Ohio, Tawney of Minne
sota, McCall of Massachusetts, Bab
cock of Wisconsin, Metcalf of Califor
nia. Hill of Connecticut, Boutell of Illi
nois, Watson of Indiana and Curtis
of Kansas.
Democrats —Messrs. Williams of
Mississippi, Robertson of Louisiana,
Swanson of Virginia; McClellan of
New York, Cooper of Texas and Clark
cf Missouri.
FOR STUDY OF THE RACE PROBLEM
Mixed Committee is Appointed by the Col
ored Sociological Society.
The National Sociological Society,
to consider the race problem, closed
its sessions at Washington by the
adoption of a scries of resolutions on
the subject. One of the important
results of the meeting was the crea
tion of a mixed special committee of
six members, three from each race, to
carry the plans and conclusions into
effect, to lay the matter before con
gress. to gather material and to ale,
as a permanent body in the solution
of the race problem.
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