Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1901 — Cabs Rejects Platt Amendmaent. [ARTICLE]

Cabs Rejects Platt Amendmaent.

At a private session in Havana, the convention, by a vote of 18 to 10, adopted a motion expressing the opinion that the convention is opposed to the Platt amendment on account of the terms in which some of its clauses are drawn, and the contents of others, as the third, sixth and seventh. After voting this it was proposed to dissolve the convention. The question of sending a commission to Washington was not voted upon. It is considered that the convention’s action is a half-hearted way of rejecting the Platt amendment, and that It was largely due to the animosity of some of the delegates against General Wood, they being anxious to show him that he was wrong in his forecast that the convention would adopt the amendment