Show CUBA SINGLY VERSUS DINGLEY XV S N INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL The announce announcement ent that to ask asic for Wood is coming from Cuba twenty per cent more than the offered reduction in the tariff is not surprising Everybody acquainted with tho sitUation situation situation situa situa- that this reduction tion has testified material benefit benefit ben ben- t was Vas too small to be of any cut to Cuba and th that t a r re reduction on Of t at and tobacco least fifty per cent on sugar was needed The propped proposed d rel relief ef I is no relief ellet at nt all That is probably why WIlY the protectionists agreed d to It I MINNEAPOLIS TIMES Queer things happen in Congress How flow strange It would be If the Senate enate regarded as ns the bulwark of high pr protection tion should upon a tariff conCession concession concession conces conces- Cuba of ot forty per cent sion In favor of Inthe in Ia inthe grant proposed double the meagre to also should decide the House House and and makes maltes remove the time limit which now any concession practically valueless If the Senate decides upon the forty per percent percent cent reduction the House will be made to agree as ns in other cases of difference NEW YORK EVENING POST Even supposing the Cuban bill gets through the House after still further mangled form or delays and in some other it will not cl clear a sailing Inthe in inthe inthe the Senate Sena Senator tor Bui Burrows rows is organ organ organizing izing an opposition and says flatly this morning I will Ill resist the re reduction of ot the tariff In dubas duba's Cuba's Cubas behalf t to the last extremity Now in the Senate th the last extremity means at l least ast determined obstruction and endless endless' t talk lk and dely dey de- de kiy ly y heaped upon delay elay We consider It safe to say therefore that Congress will deliberately refuse any real relief so far as IlS this this' years year's crop of Cuban sugar is concerned The small planters for whose aid the tho bill bUl was most urgently needed will be forced to sell their sugar at a loss Yet we expect them to love us though we slay them NEW YORK TRIBUNE Mr Palma and other representative Cubans say ay that the the tw twenty enty per pel cent re reduction reduction reduction re- re of the sugar tariff contemplated conte in the RIU now before the the- House of Representatives Representatives Rep Rep- ves vill wil will willot not ot h be k erio exo enough gh to r re relieve lieve liev th the In Industrial depression of of Cuba It will not be bee enough io to o enable able the Cuban Cu Cu- ban bait sugar crop crop to to be hai harvested hal vested and marketed In the United States at a profit In competition with the bounty c coddled sugar of Europe That may be The best authorities authorities upon upon the subject in the he United Stati States s Who vho have Invest Invest- Sated gated and st gt studied studied- d d the matter thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- declare that th the reduction of tariff to be efficient ent should should be as much muchas as fifty per cent or at least three thirty and third one-third per cent If the House does not see fit tit to o amend Its oWn vl bill by raising the percentage of concession the Senate will doubtless give that matter due consideration when the bill comes before It It INDIANAPOLIS JOUR JOURNAL L It is i inot not l surprising to l learn rn that prominent Cubans in New Ne YO York k including including ing Mr l Estrada Palma President-elect President of the Cuban republic express great disappointment at the measure which has been peen Introduced In the House Mr Palma says it is not for tor him to criticise the action of Congress but he feels sure that the sentiment in Cuba will be one of deep dj disappointment It would not be at all surprising If It should take the form of despair and result In a demand for annex annexation to o othe the United States This could be accomplished by treaty negotiated by the President and approved approved approved ap ap- ap- ap proved by the Senate and from the moment moment moment mo mo- mo- mo ment of Its its ratification there would be absolute free trade between the United States tate a and ad d C Cuba ba In On all the products of both cou countries Such an outcome would be De rc retributive r j Justice for the Interests that have stood have stood In Inthe the w way y of Justice to Cuba Cubs J |