Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-05-02
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS
WHAT 1T HAS BEEN DOING THIS WEEK

WHAT 1T HAS BEEN DOING THIS WEEK
The President and Gen. Funston Sharply Crit
icised in the Speech of a Tennessee Senator
Sugar Trust Holdings to Be Investigated
The Oleomargarine Bill Passes and Goes tt
the President Excitement Over Philippines
Cruelty The Naval Appropriation Bill,
Two extended speeches occupied the
Senate's entire attention Friday. Mr..
McCumber of n. ID. discussed his bill
TO prevent the misbranding and mis-
representation of food products which
enter into intestate commerce. Mr..
Carmack of Tenn, one of the minority
members of the Philippines committee,
spoke in opposition to the Philippine
government bill now pending. He
sharply criticised the president, not
only for the policy he is pursuing in the
Philippines, but for utterances which,
the senator declared, tended to fan the
flame of the insurrection., He also de-
nounced Gen. Funston whom he char
acterized as the iayhawker brigadier
from the wind swept plains the might
lest Sampson that ever welded the
jawbone of an ass as weapon of war. -
The House passed 145 private pen
sion bills, including bills to pension
the widow of Gen. William Ludlow at
$50 a month and the widow of Par
son" Brownlow of Tennessee at $50 a
month. The remainder of the day was
devoted to general debate on the agri
cultural appropriation bill.
The Senate Monday agreed to the
House amendments to the oleomargar
inc bill~passed by the Senate and the
measure now goes TO the president for
his signature. Mr.. Simmons of North
Carolina addressed the Senate in oppo-
sition to the Philippine government
bill. He declared that the Philippines
ought TO be turned over to the inhabi-
tants of the islands. He denounced
the ''cruelties and barbarities" which,
it is alleged, have been committed on
the Filipinos by the American army,
and said that he felt like calling upon
the great, brave and humane man now
in the White House to probe these
things to the bottom and at least to
make them odious. The conference re-
port on the Chinese exclusion bill was
adopted.
The House took up a general debate
on the agricultural appropriation bill.
During the discussion, Representative I
Sibley of Pennsylvania severely de-
nounced Gen Jacob H. Smith for the /
orders he issued during the Samar cam
paign. He declared that Gen. Smith I
was a disgrace to the uniform he wore. |
He expressed the hope that the presi- /
dent would strip him of his uniform
within As hours. This was received .
with approval by both Republicans and
Democrats and was more remarkable
in that it came from Republican who
left the Democratic party on the issue
raised by the Spanish war and who
since has been an ardent ezpansionist.
The Senate held a spirited discus
sion on the Philippine situation Tues
I'd to have been issued by Gen Jacob
A. Smith. to make the island of Sa-
mar a bowling wilderness and to kill
al male inhabitants over the age of 10
'ears. The debate took a wide range.
It was agreed by all speakers that the
order attributed to Gen. Smith was re-
'olting to every right minded person.
)ne speaker pronounced it disgrace !
o the American army and people. :
Under special order which allowed :
uItt uOulS deDdlt, tHe IlOuSt passed 7
IN omnibus public building bill, which {
will distribute SIT, 405, 450 among ia I
titles. As the bill covers into the
81, 5s5, 600, the total amount
arried by the bill is reduced to that /
xtent. The bill provides for II new e
buildings and sites, six buildings on !
ties already purchased. II buildings |
n donated sites and - increases in {
preparations for buildings already Y
1t also provides for the q
urchase of lG sites. Consideration of /
he agricultural appropriation was then c
/
There was a warm discussion in the 5
enate Wednesday over the resolution k
alling for Mai. Gardiner to come i'm d
lediately to Washington as a Philip {
inc witness in the present investiga- L
ion. The majority were for waiting f
ntil the majors return and the mi IL
GRITTY inSinuated that the issue was
eing evaded by petty bubble and n
lat no real investigation was desired Il
y the Republicans. The majority al p.
} objected to calling these witnesses ~
asired by the minority: Aguinaldo, n
lxto Lopez, Mabino and some prison a,
s of war on the island of Guam: H. h
!. Bray, an agent of the Filipino jun al
at Hong Kong, and two Associated II
ress correspondents. An amendment ~,
the Sundry civil appropriation bill. II
,propriating $3.50, 900 for the purchase ",
the ground and building now occu- "
ed by the census bureau was adopted. -
ne House passed the agricultural ap q,
opriation bill. =,