Gilpin observer., 1902-05-22
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

thought that because we whipped a lit
tie nation, which had only a little navy,
that, therefore, we can whip anything
that comes along"
Former Senator Henderson of Ne
braska, who has been attorney for two
beet sugar companies, was before the
Senate committee on relations with
Cuba. He related details of the cut in
sugar at Missouri river points and said
the action of the trust was for the pur-
pose of destroying beet sugar growing.
He said that all previous legislation
had been an invitation to grow beet
sugar but the proposed concession to
Cuba had prevented several factories
from being started. He said that farm
ers were going from the middle west
states to Manitoba but that the beet
sugar growing had arrested this emf
grafton for a time. Mr.. Henderson con-
tended that every tariff bill and the
governments experiments have invited
them to embark in the beet sugar in
dustry. ITO injure it," he said, "by
direct or indirect methods, is to my
mind as Objectionable, if not to say as
criminal, blow as this country could
receive" The proposition for twen-
ty-per-cent. reduction. he said, had
caused many prospective beet sugar
factories on arid land in the West to
be abandoned temporarily. Answering
question by Senator Plat, Mr.. Man
derson said that If we Americanize
Cuba, either by annexation or any
other means, there would be a rise in
the price of labor there which would
raise the cost of sugar production.
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appropriation bill in the House Mr..
Mudd of Maryland offered his
amendment to exclude from the ma
val academy and from ships and gov
eminent libraries the history of Edgar
Stanton Maclay. Mr.. Dayton made a
point Of order against the amendment,
and the chair sustained the point.
Mr.. Mudd then offered a substitute
amendment providing that no part of
the money appropriated in the para
graph under consideration shall be ex-
pended in the purchase of any history
of the American-Spanish war written
by Edgar Stanton Maclay. for use at
the naval academy. in ships libraries
or N any part Of the naval establish
ment Of the United States. Mr.. Dayton
made the usual point of order against
the substitute amendment, but the
chair held that the amendment was
germane. Mr.. Mudd, having succeeded
in getting this matter before the House.
said that the President of the United
States had stated to him that his work
should never be used. In reply to a
question of Mr.. Dayton, who asked
why he wanted to put the amendment
on the bill in view of the fact that the
President would hold over the next
fiscal year, Mr. Mudd said that while
Mr.. Roosevelt was very lively force
at this time, and promised to live out
this term and be ready to take an
other. he wanted to guard against any
contingencies. The amendment was
adopted without a dissenting vote.
In his testimony before. the Senate
Philippine committee, George G. Board
man, formerly of the Twentieth infan-
try, said that before the order Of Gen
Jacob II. Smith to kill and burn, the
soldiers Of his company, being in such
constant fear of massacre, would sud
denly awake in their fright and ex.
claim, Get 'em, boys; get EN-" After
General Smith issued his order, he
said, the natives for the first time un-
derstOod that the Americans meant
what they said. and the troops felt
safe. The difficulty, he said, was be-
cause a certain order by General
Otis for the killing of outlaws never
was executed and this made the natives
bold in their resistance They all de-
plored the death Of Luna, but hailed
with delight AguinaldOs capture. Wit
ness said that Filipino prisoners We're
treated too good. so much so that they
preferred to remain prisoners to being
sent back among their people. The
general course of conduct Of Ameri-
can officers and men toward peaceful
Filipinos, he said, was humane. The
men, however, were discouraged on ac-
count of the food they got and officers
would not object when the men were
hungry to their going icto house and
taking food. "The whole tendency of
the army" said tine witness, twas to
make the men anything but pleasant
toward the natives. They used the gun
to shoot rather than to preach the Cos
pei with" His orders We're to treat
the Filipinos kindly. but. he added.
war is hell. and the boys are going to
give the F'ilipinos hell while war pre-
walls"
Following Is the text Of the Presi-
dents special message to Congress in
relation to the Martinique disaster: ''To
the Senate and House of Representa-
lives: One of the greatest calamaties
in history has fallen upon our neigh
boring island of Martinique. The con-
sui of the United States ut Guadaloupe
has telegraphed from Fort De France.
under date of yesterday. that the dis
aster is completes; that the city of St.
Pierre has ceased to exist, and that the
American consul and his family have
persisted. He is informed that 10000
people have lost their lives, and that
10000 are homeless and hungry; that
there is urgent need Of all kind OF pro-
visions and that the visit Of vessels
for the work of supply and rescue is
imperatively required. The government
of France while expressing their
thanks for the marks of sympathy