The Holly chieftain., 1902-06-06
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

Representative Shafroth says he has
not lost hope of securing passage in
the House at this session OF his bill
apprOpriating x2J0.O00 for branch
National Soldiers Home at Denver.
Mr.. Shafroth is collecting data from
various soldiers homes showing the
| number of old soldiers annually turned
| away and unable to obtain admission
on account of the overcrowded condi-
| tion of these. During the past five
years 1,JOO applicants have been re-
| fused admission to the LeayenWorth
| home because of lack Of room. Mr..
| ShafrOth's bill is on the House calen-
| dar and he has assured Speaker Hen
| derson Of his willingness TO take it up
on suspension day." when a majority
Of two-thirds of the House is necessary
to pass bill. He is satisfied he can
get practically unanimous vote for
the measure il he receives recognition.
Messrs. Shafroth and Bell of Colo
RADIO were the principal speakers
against the Hill subsidiary coinage bill
in the House. In a strong speech Mr..
Shafroth set forth the damage such
legislation would do TO the currency
of the country. 1t proposed. he said.
not only to melt up all the silver dol
lars of the country into subsidiary
coinage, but to take all the bullion now
in the treasury and coin it into subsid-
, iary coin. Mr.. Bell declared that every
great panic from which the country
had suffered had been precipitated by
the currency tinkers" like Hill. The
ultimate act of Mr.. Hill and his
friends, he said, was to create an all
nnUarful ~ m
control the issue of paper currency. II
this program was carried out, he said,
all the currency would disappear eX
cept gold and bank paper The pend
ing bill, he said, was one of three and
the only one the Republicans dare pass
in the face of the congressional elec-
tions.
Felipe Buencamlo. one of the found
ers of the Federal party in the Philip
pines, has arrived in Washington from
San Francisco, and had short con-
ference with Secretary Root. He was
accompanied by Lieut.. Arthur L. Con-
ger, Nineteenth infantry. Senor Buen-
camno will be presented to President
Roosevelt and 1t is expected that later
he will appear before the Senate Phil
ippine committee. Buencamino was
one of the principal figures of the So
called Aguinaldo government, holding
the office of secretary of state when he
was captured. in company with Aguin-
aldos mother, Immediately after the
battle of Tarlac. The primary object
of his visit is to get better acquainted
with our people and institutions and to
visit his sons. students at Berkeley.
California. He also is charged by the
EaHn nrnI 1C,.t,, 10 v,Nfr
make pilgrimage to the grave Of
Washington and to deliver messages
| of sympathy and respect to Mrs. Nc
Kinley and Mrs. Logan.
Senator Morgan, from the committee
on isthman canals, has submitted to
the Senate the adverse report of that
committee on Senator Hoar's bill plac-
ing the selection of a route for an
isthmian canal in the hands of the
President. The committee opposes the
bill on the ground that 1t makes no
provision for further exploration of
routes and leaves the President to
make a selection on the statement of
the facts already ascertained. 1t is
contended that "however safely the
country may rely on the wisdom and
discretion of the executive, the policy
is not wise nor safe as rule of gov
ernment" The report discusses at
length the protocols with Colombia
and Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and 1t
is stated incidentally that former Co
lombian Minister Silva was invited to
appear before the committee, but de-
clined to do SO. OF the agreements
with Costa Rica and Nicaragua it is
said that "they are definite and
complete as to the character and scope
of the rights they have agreed to con-
cede to the United States" and it IL
argued that II they are ratified nothing
will be left to do but to carry the
agreement into effect. Colombia, on
the other hand, is charged with play
ing for delay, and 1t Is stated that ito
hold Colombia to her present offer 1t
is necessary, under article 27, that
ratifications shall be exchanged within
eight months from Its date, and the
practical impossibility OF concluding
all the necessary arrangements pro-
vided for in her proposition within
eight months shows that her most ear
nest purpose is to cause delay" 1t is
charged that Colombia does not, by her
protocola, propose to sell US the Pan
ANA canal and railroad property free
of all existing claims, concessions and
incumbrances, but leaves us to. work
out title with the Panama cd pany.
The report adds: Colombia il anxious
to get rid Of the Panama Canal Com
pany without giving oifense to France.
SO that she can seize and possess all
| the MINT Of fhe canal cOmmnv aII