| Show PLATT PLAIT WOULD FORCE THEM 4 June Jun If Senator WASHINGTON Iv Platt PIatt of Connecticut COR chairman chahI wf of the committee ton on Cuban rela relations relations t today toJa an hotly early ry caller at the White House Roue where here ae lle had i a eon ference f with the president on the sub subject subject Subeet j of the probable fate of the Cuban reciprocity r measure in the senate He Hed declined d to make any statement con oon concerning cernIn c the presidents views as ex cx expressed expressed pressed p to him but said that speak speaking speakIng ing l ug entirely for himself he would force the he th t senators who are holding out against a reciprocity to cast cut their vote ote ither e with t nit br i against the party There Thre is not u a beet sugar state said aid s the senator sena r where if the ques iol t was put pu t before a Republican con convention convention v reciprocity Would not been bh bb en d Where a lot of men are set setting tiny ting t themselves up in opposition to their heir t party they the should be forced to togo togo too go g o on record cord by their votes Senator Millard of Nebraska who op opposed posed po p oled the reciprocity plan was pres present present ent c ut during part of ot the conference and the he t president remarked to him bim that Nebraska had endorsed his the presidents pr l dents d course OUre and nd turned down her hr own o wn senators sen fors To a number of oC callers today Prest President president dent d ent Roosevelt elt stated that he be finds a au sufficient u nt endorsement endors of his stand am air tt the Cuban que question in the action of or tire tile conventions c recently held in South Da Dakota D kota Kansas and Nebraska To a t pet per personal onal s friend today he said he lIe felt par particularly t grateful to Congressmen But Bur Burkett kett of and Martin of South Dakota for their attitude in their cop con conventions also that he took a 8 particular pride J in it the endorsements from the three t states stat s above named because he h heep wae ep p pc I y close clo to those thoe t tIt v vIt It is known knon that buH the tiie president ld nt wo negotiate te a treaty with Cuba uba provides provi he h had bad the s assurance of fifty senators a t rs that they would vote for Jor it but he does doeg not want ant to try this expedient without a guarantee beforehand that it would carry carr Those close elo e to the preat president president dent assert that his feeling now is that if reciprocity is not grunted granted at this time It must come sooner or later r rand and that that those senators who are at aA present opposing it It eventually will 1111 be led to see that our duty dut and obliga obligations toward Cuba Cubs must MuM b be carried out according to the pledges made The Republican senators who reciprocity art are not DOt yet ready to ac acknowledge l knowledge that nothing can be done doneThey do 1 I They say 87 that with votes voles In Inthe Inthe I Ithe the caucus they do not think they need surrender to the nineteen who declared themselves the last night against the bill I Two methods are suggested sugg one to ne negotiate negotiate a treaty with Cuba and the tp theother other to bring it in and pass pas the house bill The action of the Nebraska Re Republican publican convention yesterday in en doming the presidents message and reciprocity with Cuba Cubs was s commented on quite freely about the senate nate to toda today day da and the reciprocity senators Senators Millard and Dietrich h ia is a way about the man maa i ncr ner in which the Nebraska platform I differed from their statements made in ill caucus last evening when Mr Dietrich declared that four Nebraska congressional con districts would go o Democratic if the reciprocity bill was passed pu |
