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Domestic News
April 11, 1896
The Scranton Tribune
Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
What is this article about?
President Cleveland's cabinet held a routine meeting in Washington on April 10, lasting 90 minutes, with no urgent action on congressional Cuban resolutions; Secretary Olney arrived late. Emphasis placed on president's message stressing international obligations over sympathy.
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CABINET MEETING.
President Cleveland in No Hurry to Act on Cuban Resolutions,
Washington, April 10.-The cabinet meeting today lasted barely an hour and a half and was apparently devoid of any exciting features. In fact so little beyond routine business was expected to be brought up that Secretary Olney forgot all about the meeting till twenty minutes past the time of assembling, when he jumped up, looked at his watch and hastened over to the white house. No programme of action on Cuban affairs was submitted by the president nor were any of the other plans outlined in sensational despatches brought forward. Every indication points to the president taking his own time and acting in his own way, if he acts at all, on the Cuban concurrent resolutions of congress.
Much emphasis is laid by those supposed to be close to the president upon this passage in his annual message:
"Whatever may be the traditional sympathy of our countrymen as individuals with a people who seem to be struggling for larger autonomy and greater freedom, deepened as such sympathy naturally must be in behalf of our neighbors, yet the plain duty of their government is to observe in good faith the recognized obligations of international relationship."
President Cleveland in No Hurry to Act on Cuban Resolutions,
Washington, April 10.-The cabinet meeting today lasted barely an hour and a half and was apparently devoid of any exciting features. In fact so little beyond routine business was expected to be brought up that Secretary Olney forgot all about the meeting till twenty minutes past the time of assembling, when he jumped up, looked at his watch and hastened over to the white house. No programme of action on Cuban affairs was submitted by the president nor were any of the other plans outlined in sensational despatches brought forward. Every indication points to the president taking his own time and acting in his own way, if he acts at all, on the Cuban concurrent resolutions of congress.
Much emphasis is laid by those supposed to be close to the president upon this passage in his annual message:
"Whatever may be the traditional sympathy of our countrymen as individuals with a people who seem to be struggling for larger autonomy and greater freedom, deepened as such sympathy naturally must be in behalf of our neighbors, yet the plain duty of their government is to observe in good faith the recognized obligations of international relationship."
What sub-type of article is it?
Politics
What keywords are associated?
Cabinet Meeting
Cuban Resolutions
President Cleveland
Secretary Olney
What entities or persons were involved?
President Cleveland
Secretary Olney
Where did it happen?
Washington
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Washington
Event Date
April 10
Key Persons
President Cleveland
Secretary Olney
Event Details
The cabinet meeting lasted an hour and a half with routine business. No action on Cuban resolutions was submitted by the president. Emphasis on passage from annual message about sympathy for Cuba but duty to observe international obligations.