Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-05-18
SENATOR BACON'S REMARKS.
About the Alleged Frauds in
Island of Cuba.
CALLS FOR AN INVESTIGATION.
Says One Cuban Officer Purchased Per-
sonal Apparel with Cuban Funds-The
Clark Case-Red CONSIDERATIONS Bills
Passed.

Washington, May 18.-The house
passed the senate bill to incorporate
the American National Red Cross. No
progress was made with the Alaskan
code bill, owing to the inability of the
two sides to agree as to the time to
be allowed for general debate. The
conference report on the District of
Columbia appropriation bill was re-
turned after extended debate. 1t was
agreed that the minority of the judi
ciary committee should have until
Monday to file it's views upon the anti
trust bill and resolutions reported by
the committee yesterday. The agree
ment was not reached without diff
Guilty.
The naval appropriation bill was
sent to conference. Messrs. Foss Ill),
Dayton (W. Va.) and Cummings On.
W were appointed conferees.
Various Bills Passed.
Washington, May 1S-Discussion of
the administration Of affairs in Cuba
by agents Of the United States occu-
pied the attention Of the senate. Mr..
Bacon (Ga.), in support Of his resolu-
ton directing the committee on rela-
ton Of the conduct of financial affairs
of the island, said it was due the peo-
pie Of this country to know just how
affairs in the island were being con-
Quoted, and since the steals in the
postal service the obligation upon
congress was doubly heavy. He urged
that the honor Of the country was at
stake. He insisted that the govern
ment Of the United States had no au-
thority in Cuba, and demanded to
know how soon it proposed to redeem
it's pledge and leave the government
of the island to its inhabitants. Mr..
Bacon called attention to the state
ments in reports submitted by the Sec
rotary Of war to the senate which
showed that during the year 1899 the
receipts in Cuba were $16,346, OILS,
while the expenditures were $14,0S5,-
sos. "If," said the Georgia senator,
I'VE had before us only the naked fact
that the receipts on the island during
a single year were more than $16,-
100000 and the expenditures more
than $14,O0O,00O, we would be bound to
investigate the subject to see that this
vast sum had been properly and justly
spent" He then presented a state
ment showing the receipts and expend-
lures of the various states, including
Georgia, Missouri, and Massachusetts.
They were in every instance less than
those Of Cuba. ''These expenditures in
| Cuba" said Mr.. Bacon, ARE SO much
| larger in proportion than those OF
| many states that, even if there were
| no rumOrs of extravaganza and fraud
and corruption in connection with
Cuban affairs, they would call in
trumpet tones for an investigation.
Mr.. Bacon declared that one of the
prominent officials in Cuba had used
the Cuban funds with which to pur-
chase personal apparel, and asserted
there were well-founded rumors that
there had been the most extravagant
expenditures of Cuban funds for fit
ting up luxurious quarters for officers
and furnishing these officers horses,
carriages, and liveried servants. The
resolution finally was made subject to
the call Of any senator.
The house bill repeating the provis-
| ion of the law allowing merchandise
passing through the United States
from any foreign country to be trans
ported free of duty, so far as the Mex
| lean free zone is concerned, was
passed, as was resolution offered by
Mr.. Lodge calling upon the secretary
of the treasury for information in re-
gard to the influx Of Japanese labor
ers into the country.
A bill was also passed providing
that all honorably discharged soldiers
or marines who saw service in the
civil war, in the Spanish war, or in the
Philippine war, shall be given prefer
ment in civil service appointments,
| age or loss of limbs not being regard
ed as disqualification.