Show A CONGRESSIONAL SITUATION TION Chairman Pay Payne e of the House Ways and Means leans Committee and his chief assistant Representative ti c Gro Grosvenor Yenor of Ohio appear to have en entangled tall tall- gle I themselves uncomfortably with both the Administration Ad Ad- ministration and the Senate because of their extreme ex cx- S trenie activity in promoting the repeal of all war wari i tax J thereby forestalling and as they have hoped t. t defeating any nay legislation securing tariff reciprocity I r with Cuba There is reason to believe that our beet and ca cane e growers rowers have b been en too precipitate in assuming i that Cuban reciprocity was dead It is not so 1 t ken en essl Payne and Grosvenor have been forced to declare that they had no idea of killing it and only desired to get the war taxes off oft from the slate after which the they would immediately have jumped into the rill ring to o g give gi e Cuba Culm what President Secretary Root and other statesmen are tt determined the tile island shall have Th Tho situation is peculiar and interesting rather than satisfactory Should the House bill abolishing abolish abolish- ing all al war ivar taxes go to the Senate that body is re- re t d as certain to send it back with an amend amend- cutting down the Dingley tariff on Cuban Cubano k o twenty sugar twenty five per cent In the improbable event e that the Senate Renate should recede from its pool pool- k ti 1 mid and the the bill bilio go to the President without any reciprocity c ty provision pro it is the he consensus of political p i nl in Wellington th that lt he would promptly it Jt itt f t Aside from these dan dangers dangers or ers or or alleged danIg dan- dan Ig r to gc to to our home su sugar m interest it is quite hIe li hat t should the tile House Honse prove obdurate and refu re re- 1 fu fus' fus to fo pass a reciprocity measure the Adminis- Adminis 1 tr fI iJ would negotiate and the Senate ratify a jo freaky with with- Cuba granting the concession proposed by fly R leaders in ill close touch with the lute WIte House In spite spire of the objections offered by bym byI I m many n Representatives s th that t such a course would be bet unconstitutional there e is every reason to suspect that i they are wrong and arid that on occasion the Su Su- rr e Court wOl would ld uphold the action artion of af the treaty treaty- t mating power lower As the m matter ha has developed tle it appears to be sufficiently that the A Administration ministration will h 1 its way and that in the end whatever may happen in relation to the war taxes Cuba will get et the twenty five per cent reduction which Tomas Est Estada ada Palma President-elect President of the island says W would not be enough to save sa her from ruin and starvation tar It is as well to look the prospect in the face For present purposes it is not essentially a l gloomy one oe At least for some some time to come the j introduction pf of Cub Cuban n sugar will not amount to competition with the native product We c are ae buy huy r two million tons of su sugar ar abroad S Sonic Some of of that mi ht as well come come com from the tile Antilles s aS ai as c elsewhere re te- te Later On n it is of c cour ur p pbs pbs' s sible that the development of Cuban Cuban ir i 4 v vI I J f I 1 1 r 1 t v 1 increase the island production dangerously dangerously danger danger- l hut but t it is to be remembered that the same bame power er that will vili reduce the duty can raise it |