The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-05-03

Of General Macarthur by Senator Cuber-
son Brought Out Statements
That the Filipinos Had as Many Rights as Were
Considered Necessary by the Witness-Texan
Was MerciIess i'm His Questions.

develop that the fundamental rights had
not been implanted In tne islands. General
Macarthur maintained, however. that all OF
the fundamental rights except trial by Jury
and the right TO bear arms were In opera.
tion AS FAR AS CONDITIONS WOULD
PERMIT. He read a proclamation he had
issued, specifying most Of the constitutional
rights.
Secretary Root is writing TO Senator Gull
berson an explanation Of the reason why
the war department has thus far made no
response to the senate resolution adopted
April IT, calling for exact and detailed
statements Of the cost OF the war In the
Philippines. The secretary will show hat
from the moment the resolution was re.
ceived every one Of the supply bureaus Of
the war department has been engaged in
collecting material for the answer. The
, difficulty In the way of making sats.
factory response was enormous, and In
many instances 1t was found actually IN.
| possible to answer specific questions by
approximate statements.
! The question is complicated by the fact
that many expenditures are made in lump
sums without reference to any particular
| locality or destination or service OF troops
Another complication arises from the re
quiremcnt OF law that the army shall be
maintained at a maximum strength of &c.
! 600 men. II the surplus force were not in
the Philippines, then the war department
would have to quarter and supply the men
here, that the expense on that item
| would remain constant regardless Of the
! Philippines insurrection, Mt least up to 50,
/ Geo men, and the question arises whether
| Secretary Root. in his answer shall con.
slider rs EXPENSES attributable to the Phil
| ippines war only the cost OF maintaining
the army strength above that figure.
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/ committee will either report no agreement
and be sent back to the work by the two
! houses or will report an agreement on GER
tsln items concerning which there are no
! differences Of opinion and disagreement
| on others. A well Informed person says 1t
| will be quite impossible for the bill to
! fail to go through at this session While.
! as was stated In these dispatches last
| night. the house will doubtless sGS ht to
! uphold its conferees up to certain point,
1 1t will override them and agree to the
| items urged by the senate rather than en-.
| danger the bill. The conferces from the
house are, Of course. opposed In, gen
| eral way to all of the senate amendments
! with particular reference to the following
| projects In perhaps about the order named:
/ Coosa River. Louisiana; Henderson's Point
! n. H.; Oakland. Cal. harbor; Miami Fla
| harbor; Galveston inner harbor. Mr.. Bur
ton will carry his opposition 20 these
| projects particularly as far as possible and
were the house to hack him up solldly
! the result might be permanent deadlock.
! Bat, as heretofore stated It Is likely that
| tho house win make material concessions
rather than make the defeat OF the whole
/ bill possible.