Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-07-04

Authority Route Elaborate
Official Junkets Arranged for Diversion Of
Members - Congress Asked to Sanction
: transportation Of Cattle Forty Hours Without
| Rest, food or Water -CrowinshieId's Offense
| COndOned.
I UFrom our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, June %, 1902.
! Republican Senators and members
are to be treated to new experience
during the coming campaign and
many of them do not relish the pros
pect. The President has announced
to his friends that he has not given
up the fight for Cuban reciprocity and
that he intends to go out into the
States whose members of Congress
have opposed his Cuban policy and
preach his doctrine OF recipr ocity with
Cuba to the great discontinue of
those members and Senators who will
stand for reelection. Not content
with having caused split in the party
which already augurs i'll for the COM
ing elections, Mr.. Roosevelt will carry
the fight into the very bailiwicks OF
his opponents and, as q Republican
member from Minneapolis said, pa
thetically, yesterday, "The result will
be that the President will stand fair to
have Democratic constituency in the
House, at least. to carry out his pet
schemes" and he added, significantly,
"But you wait until the National
Convention.
Throughout the past session Repub.
lican Senators and members have
grown accostumed to being sent for
from the White House and to being
scolded and upraided. but it never en-
tered their heads that their "sirenu-
GUS" President would go even further
and allay himself with forces bent on
their destruction in their own States
and now that they face to face with
that prospect they arc aghast. For the
present, the President has given up all
hope Of reciprocity legislation and,
deeply Inundated at the outcome OF
his efforts in that direction, has left
the city with the expectation OF re-
turning for period only long enough
to permit of his signing the many
measures which will be rushed through
Congress during the closing hours of
the session. Without waiting for the
sanction of his plans by Congress he
authorized the carpenters and masOns
to proceed with the renovation of the
White House and they have now made
the old mansion uninhabitable, and,
therefore, Secretary Cortelyou has
rented a private house on Lafayette
Square where the President will reside
and transact business when in Wash.
ington, between now and the first of
October. With the White House torn
to pieces their is nothing for Congress
to do but appropriate the funds which
the President has demanded for its
renovation.
The Senate completed all the more
important work before it and is now
"killing time" pending adjournment.
The bill providing for the Appalachian
Forest Reserve was passed this week
and day set for the consideration of
the Omnibus Statehood bill, Dec. 10
being named, these being the only i'm.
portant matters with which the upper
chamber had to deal. The canal bill
is still in conference where it will have
to be somewhat revised, for the meas.
ure as passed reflects little credit on
Senators Spooner and Hanna who are,
presumably, its authors. The House
conferees have agreed to accept the
amendment, with some changes in
phraseology, which means the con.
struction of the canal along the Pan.
anna route.
Tuesday in the House of Represen-
tatives marked the close OF general
debate on the Philippine bill and was
notable for the eloquent arraignment
Of the Republican party for its Philip.
pine policy, delivered by Represents.
tive Williams of Mississippi, whose
oratory crowded the chamber even
drawing in all of his opponents. Mr..
Williams characterized the Republican
Interpretation of the treaty OF Paris az
supporting the principle that q des.
pot had the right to sell the independ.
ence Of, and nationality of, free and
independent people TO free republic"
Concluding his remarks, Mr.. Williams
said that never before had the Ameri.
can flag "gone anywhere where it was
not hailed as hsrbinger OF liberty and
as protector of a helpless and de.
fenseless people against savages and
against foreign power" The vote on
the Philippine bill will be taken this
afternoon but the great differences be.
tween the House and the Senate meas.
ures will have to be settled in confer.
ence.
Senator Foraker has planned very
delightful iunket, at public expense OF
course. and hopes to get his resolution
through the Senate during the closin 2
hours when bills OF this description
are not too closely scrutinized. Mr..
Foraker proposes that the Committee
on Cuba and Porto Rico visit those
Islands before the next session in or.
der that the members may legislate
tOt S-iO IoiHuuo tuOJO lutcIlIRcOtIy.
Hawaii will also be included in the
committees itinerary. Another de.
lightful junket 10 being considered in
the House Committee on Insular AT.
fairs, as Chairman Cooper believes il
would be advantageous for the mem.
bers Of the committee to visit the
Philippines. Action on these matters
will be deferred until the close of the
session is nearer at hand.
Apropos OF meritricious measures
passed during the closing hours of a
session, the House committee on Com
merce has reported bill which should
excite the indignation OF, and elicit
protests from, all thinking people. II
provides that the period for which cat.
tie may be continuously transported
without unloading for rest, food or wa.
ter shall be extended from % to 40
hours. The bill is backed by certain