Show CUBA WANTS A BOUNTY Washington Feb 27Without some concessions or an advance in price oc sugar another year will see t state of affairs disastrous even with the most prosperous Cuban planter This is the substance of a report tote to-te department oc state by Walter B Baker United States consul at Sagua La Grande Cuba upon the subject oc the financial embarrassments of the sugar planters He says that they are at the very beginning of the grinding season in a most deplorable condition and that bankruptcy appears Inevitable to ninetenths of them The very low price of sugar centrifugals now at I1 cents per pound Spanish gold with indications in-dications of n further decline In prices renders the situation so discouraging that some mills have ceased to grind and planters are suspending TheIr only hope is that Cuban sugar may be favored by the United States In com pensatlon for the concessions made by Spain to the United States In the matter mat-ter of exports to Cuba |