Show DID A WISE THING Cabinet Officers Comment on Action of Cubans Buffalo N Y June 12 Secretary of War Root was tonight shown the Associated As-sociated Press dispatch from Havana announcing the adoption of the Platt amendment by the Cuban Constitutional Constitu-tional convention He said I tho Cuban convention has adopted the Platt amendment it has done the wisest and patriotic thing possible for Cuba It means the Independence of Cuba and all that is best and Ircest in Cuba will be backed by all that is best in the United States When Secretary State Hay read the dispatch he said As an old friend 1 of Cuban independence for the last thirty years Lam most gratified to learn that the Cuban convention has conventon done what i i so clearly to the advantage I advan-tage of the Cuban people |