The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-06-10
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

| State John Hay for his address on the
| occasion of the Mckinley memorial
exercises last February. Unanimous
consent for the consideration of this
resolution was objected to by Mr.. De
Almond of Missouri some time ago,
and when it was finally taken up Mr..
| Clark of Missouri made n twenty min
ute speech in opposition to its adop-
tion on the ground that Mr. Hay had
abused the occasion by injecting RE
publican stump speech" into the ad-
| dress. General Hooker of Mississippi,
a one-armed Confederate veteran, de-
| livered an eloquent defense of MIR.
Hays address, denying that it con-
tained anything Objectionable from
| political standpoint.
The views of the minority members
| of the Senate committee on the canal
| bill We're presented to the Senate by
| Mr.. kittridge. The report advocates
| the substitution for the House bill of
| the Spooner bill, leaving the selection
| of the routes of an isthmian canal to
| the President, but il is devoted largely
to the purpose of showing that the
Panama route is preferable to the Mic
aragua route. This contention is based
upon the last report of the Canal Com
mission. The assertion is made that
all the natural advantages are with
| the Panama route, not the least of
which is the comparatively brief time
necessary to traverse the canal. Doubt
is also expressed as to whether a right
of way can be secured through Nicar-
aqua, while il is declared that there
are no legal obstacles in the way of
securing the Panama cumpany's right
of way. 1t further Is contended that
from an engineering standpoint the
Panama route is superior. on the
point of possibility of destruction or
damage to locks or dams for the canal
from volcanic eruptions or from earth
quakes, the minority assert that the
Nicaragua route is directly in line
with numerous volcanoes more or less
active, which in the past have wrought
great destruction to the surrounding
country; that the entire country
through which the Nicaragua canal
route runs has been frequently disrupt
ed by violent earthquakes, while the
Panama route has no volcanoes, eN-
tinct or otherwise nearer than 200
miles.
Senator Clark of Wyoming has re-
ported from the public lands commit
tee a bill to prevent discrimination in
the issuance of grazing permits in for
est reservations. The bill was designed
especially to relieve conditions exist
ing between Utah and Wyoming in re-
gard TO the Uintah reservation. The
secretary of the interior refuses to
grant grazing permits in Utah to the
herders of Wyoming. The herds of
Utah go into Wyoming during the win
ter to Craze without molestation. The
bill abolishes the rule that no grazing
permits shall be granted to stock
growers of another state and also pro
vides that no wool growers union or
stock growers association shall desig
nate the persons to be given permits
as has been the practice in the past.
Senator Dietrich of Nebraska, who
stands with the beet sugar interests in
opposition to the reduction of duty on
Cuban sugars as proposed by the Re
publican members of the Senate com
mittee on Cuban relations. has intro
duced n bill on the subject which he
thinks will be accepted as a compro-
mise measure. 1t provides that the
differential on refined sugar shall be
abolished, but that an equal amount
shall be added to the duty on raw su
gars, and then it gives Cuba twenty
five per cent. reduction from this in
creased duty. Senator Dietrich says
that he has consulted the President
with reference to the terms of the bill,
and that it is acceptable to him. He
also assured himself that it will be
satisfactory to the senatorial friends
of beet sugar.
Felipe Buencamino, former secretary
of state in Aguinaldo's Cabinet, was
heard through an Interpreter by the
House committee on insular affairs.
Chairman Cooper asked Senior Buen-
camino why he had come TO the United
States He said he was here represent
ing the Federal party, and the influen-
tial element of the insurgents and the
Katipunan society. He said his coun-
try, the Philippines, was like sick
man convalescing from dangerous ill
ness. 1t was still bleeding from the
wounds of war. Its aspirations We're
those of Washington, liberty with jus
tice, under American society. which
they loved. They looked to Congress
to give them n just and liberal govern
ment. He detailed the facts connected
with the early uprising of the F'ilipinos.
Aguinaldo was an idol, and the people
| believed him when he told them that
Dewey had promised them indepen-
dence. He revived all that had been
done since the outbreak, and spoke of
the gradual extension of American au-
thority and practical pacification of the
greater part of the. islands. There
We're now 800 municipalities estab-
lished, and they had proved satisfac-
tory. Under the Taft system, he said,
the Filipinos have greater liberty than
they would have enjoyed under the
Agunaldo government had it been es-
tablished. Governor Taft now was the
idol of the people. He said the people
of the Philippines would have their
political status fixed whether they are
Americans or Filipinos. He preferred
that they should be Americans. The
happiness of the people depended upon
American sovereignty. I'VE would like