Show f 44 4 4 4 1 REL RELATIONS TI NS WITH CUBA i- i t. t 4 44 4 44 4 i I 44 4 6 44 4 6 6 e 4 4 4 4 44 4 I I 4 4 4 4 4 t The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Relations' has agreed to report an amendment to the sundry civil bill bill providing for diplomatic and consular representation in th the new republic of Cuba This action is taken in pursuance of a recent recommendation recommendation recommendation dation on the subject made by President Roosevelt Among other things it is proposed to provide for fora a minister resident at Havana who is s to receive a salary of twelve thousand dollars a year and for two wo secretaries of legation one at two vo thousand the other at fifteen hundred bundred dollars annually We Ve desire to make the comment that this proposition proposition prop prop- is not a. a t fair one The pay proposed for the minister is liberal perhaps liberal perhaps more so than is actually actually actually actu actu- ally necessary in the circumstances while circumstances while that provided for the tho first secretary is inadequate and niggardly The latter official has much social duty ut to perform and associates on equal terms with the leading members of the corps corp diplomat i e wherever wherever wherever ever his post may be Two thousand dollars a year means that one second representative in ana Havana who in the absence of his chief would become charge must either occupy a mortifying po position in the society of the Cuban capital will will be unable to return courtesies extended to him by other diplomats or 01 els else necessarily will have to be bea a person of independent means means mind and nd live and entertain enter enter- tam tain almost entirely out of his bis own pocket On the other hand band the minister could get along very tery well in Havana on less than twelve thousand dollars s. In our opinion it w would W be an excellent thing to lop off about three t thousand o dollars of his bis pay pay and and add acid it to too the the p pay y of f t the first secretary |