The Holly chieftain., 1902-06-13

appropriating S5u.OOO for an eQueS-
trian statue of Baron Steuben, 10 be
erected in Washington.
The international Red Cross Confer
ence at st. Petersburg passed resolu-
tions urging all countries to prohibit
the use by manufacturers for COM
mercial purposes of the Red Cross
symbols, and to give manufacturers
six months notice of this decision
Representative Lacey's bill for tho
transfer of control of certain forest re
serves from the Interior to the Agricul-
tural Department Is now assured of
passage by the House The fact that
the bill is strongly endorsed by the
President and that he has personally
requested many members to give it
support is accountable for the large
vote 1t will receive.
The House committee on commerce
has taken action which insures fav-
orable report on the Nelson bill Great
ing department of commerce. Mr..
Mann of Illinois offered an amendment
favorable to consideration and report
of the bill. The amendment carried,
seven to four, and the committee then
proceeded to perfect the measure. AS
il came from the Senate it provided
for a department of commerce and la
Dor. BY vote of eight 10 four. the
provisions as TO the labor branch We're
struck out, limiting the new depart
men; TO commerce.
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 compro--
mise measure. 1t provides that the
diffcrential 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
In the Senate Mr.. Mitchell of Ore
gon in a vigorous speech handled
without gloves the proposition to build
the canal by the Panama route. and
incidentally the Spooner amendment.
by the adoption of this proposition"
he said, "the United States would be
lacking on to one Of the greatest frauds
and pieces of corruption known since
the world began" He could not be-
lieye, he said. that the Senate pro-
posed to consider seriously PROPOSE
tion which will involve the United
States in a legal controversy for hun
dred years. l want the Senate to know
the facts and to determine whether we
really shall take up this rotten concern
across the sea-" He urged Congress
TO assume the responsibility of select
ing the route and not turn that respOn-
sibility over to the President.
Discussing the Isthmian canal in the
Senate, Mr.. Morgan of Alabama,
chairman Of the committee on inter
oceanic canals, said his study of the
situation had convinced him that really
there was no greater danger from vol
canic and earthquake disturbances to
the Panama route than to the Near
aqua route, but he was satisfied that
little danger to either was to be anti
cipated. Mr.. Morgan reviewed at
length the political conditions in Co
lombia, finding in them grave menace
TO the United States in the construc-
tion of canal by the Panama route.
He presented also the present phases
of the diplomatic negotiations looking
TO the building of a canal by both the
Nicaragua and Panama routes. He
closed with strong appeal for the
passage of the Nicaragua bill
On June 2nd the House by vote of
129 to 46 suspended the rules and
adopted the joint resolution extending
the thanks of Congress to Secretary of
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 1t was finally taken up, Mr..
Clark Of Missouri made twenty-bn min
ute speech in opposition to its adop-
tion on the ground that Mr.. Hay had
abused the occasion by injecting ere
publican stump speech" into the ad-
dress. General Hooker of Mississippi.
one-armed Confederate veteran, de-
liyered an eloquent defense of Mr..
Hays address, denying that it con-
tained anything Objectionable from
political standpoint.
Representative Richardson of Ten
nessee. the Democratic floor leader,
has introduced the bill reviving the
trust bill, which passed the House in
the Fifty-sixth Congress and failed In
act by making more stringent restric-
toss against contracts and combina-
tions in restraint of trade, gives n