Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1895 — NEW MOVE IN THE GAME. [ARTICLE]

NEW MOVE IN THE GAME.

Spain Will Try to Bmlje Proposed Re- ■ taUatory Meaenree. A Washington dispatch, Dee. 27, says: The government of Spain, fa an aamest desire to avert the threatened tariff warfare between Cuba and the United States, has under serious and favorable consideration the cession to Cuba of'the privilege of arranging *her own revenue budget, including tariffs with the United States. This Cuban budget is to be subject to the approval of Spain. The negotiations now pending at Madrid are partly on these lines, but the State Department authorities are proceeding, nevertheless, with their retaliatory plans, as, they do not believe Spain’s concessions to Cuba can be carried out and made beneficial to us for some month? to come. The significance of the matter in its commercial and political aspects is fully realized. It is said that Spain will be careful not to relinquish her sovereignty over the island, nor to permit this to become the first step toward Cuban Independence. For that reason the contemplated privilege will not include full “home rule.” There will be no Cuban Parliament, with independent authority to make laws, similar to Canada’s colonial system under Great Britain. On the contrary, the general purpose is to give Cuba advisory powers. Her local officials would take up the economic necessities of the island, estimate the needed revenue from tariff duties, and advise.the Spanish Gov ernment of duties that should be levied and of other measfires which ought to be done In order to secure the best results for the island.