Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-18

ply remarking that he has n ot found 1T
convenient to take the question up.
He does not know when .ba will go
into the case
Mrs. Henderson in Califtrrnia.
Mrs. Henderson, wife of the speak
er, is in Long Beach, Califor n ia, with
ner father and mother, who al q, SO and
81 Years of age, respectively Miss
henderson, who had been in i'll health,
mas fully recovered and is studying
hard, in Florence, Italy. The speak
ers family are literally seattle red to
the four corners of the earth.
Another Wilson Story.
The periodical story to the effect
that Secretary of Agriculture w TYSON
IS slated for early retirement from the
cabinet circle, has again appea. .ed
This time it is not because his ma sc
has been put out of joint by another
loWan, but because he me a.
died In the Cuban tariff propositio a.
AS matter of fact there is nothing IN,
that story, either. One of the clerks o
the department of agriculture is re :
ported to have been exerting his in
fuence with congressman on the sugar
proposition, and that is all there is in
that mares nest. The President would
not give not give such trifling mat
tire consideration, even.
DoIIiver Talks to Taft.
Senator Dolliver has been putting
in all the spare time he could snatch
from pressing official duties in the
senate Philippine committee room,
listening to the testimony of Cover
nor Taft. Senator Dolliver finds great
comfort in the testimony he has heard
form the lips of the Governor of the
Philippines, and says that if the testi-
mony is worth anything; if we are to
place credence in the words of Ameri-
can officers and American soldiers,
rather than in reports from Filipino
sources. that the conditions of affairs
in the Philippines is more satisfactory
than the American people had suppos-
ed.
"Pairs" Were Fixed.
The opponents of the Oleo bill were
in close quarters the afternoon of the
vote. Everybody absent had been
paired" and still it was found that
two opponents to the bill were absent
and impaired. Unless something was
done quickly these men would go on
record as absent and not voting, and
it might be difficult for them in future
to square themselves. The Texas del
egation were violently opposed to the
cleo bill on account of its effect upon
the price of steers. One Texan rushed
up to the pair" clerk and said: 81
depend on you to protect us in this
matter; If there is no one to pair with
Mr.. So-and-So, dig up man or rip
up another pair; he must be paired"
And he was. Frank J. Stillman
Washington. Feb. 14.-When the
house met today Payne took the floor
as the leader of the majority and gave
notice that on Monday he would call
up the bill for the repeal of the war
revenue act The house then went in
to committee of the whole and took
up the consideration of private pen
sion bills. During the debate upon this
bill, Wheeler of Kentucky, created a
sensation by speech denouncing the
attitude OF the administration and the
state department in connection with
what he termed the recent exposure
of Great Britain toward the United
States"
Disposed Toward FIunkeysm.
Wheeler excoriated what he termed
the modern disposition toward eur
opean funkeyism." Until 1896, he said,
all Americans had gloried in the splen-
did isolation of the republic and its de-
termination to hold aloof from any
foreign entangling alliance. Less than
five years ago. he declared, the Presi-
dent legged on by a pitiable turnkey
In the state department" had stretch
ed his arms across the seas in adula-
| ton to the people of Great Britain and
today the government was hugging to
its bosom the nation that since the
battle of Yorktown had systematically
and persistently plotted our downfall"
He sneered at the "shoulder-strapped
gold lace hunkeys" who were to be
dispatched across the Atlantic to bend
their knee to and kiss the hand of an
English king whose government, he
declared. had attempted to form CO.
alition with European governments to
thWart us while We were seeking to
strike the shackles from Cuba. Hon.
est, straightforward American diplo-
macy, he declared, had given away to
| ISuiopSdu ulplOmhCy. I1S bdlQ ne re-.
spected the present occupant of the
White House. He was, he said, too
straightforward for many of his party
colleagues, slightly Quixotic, perhaps,
and hasty tempered, but honest and
brave enough, he thought, to "boot
out that man in the state department
who had brought us to this humiliating
position"
BIames U. S. for Other Things.
| Turning to England's war in South
Africa he denounced her tyranny and
the part we had in it, in allowing war
material to be shipped from our shores.
If half that is said of this man
Pauncefote, is true" he declared he
ought to be shipped across the water
and the Sooner the better"
Talks About Alice Roosevelt.
Referreing to the report that mem
Der of the Presidents family was to
attend the coronation, Wheeler said it
was perhaps, unbecoming to allude to
it, nevertheless he said he considered
it most unfortunate precedent to
be lamented by every liberty loving
American. 1t was but one more link
in the chain