The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-06-27
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to- High Pitch of Interest and En-
ttusiasm.
Washington, June 24.-The senate to-
day passed bills creating a national
forest reserve in the Southern Appala-
chian mountains and ratifying the
agreement between the Choctaw and
Chfckasaw Indians, of the Indian ter
ritory and the United States. The first
bill provides for the purchase of four
mi lion of acres in the southern Appala-
chan system at a cost not to exceed
ten millions of dollars. The secretary
Of agriculture is to designate the lands
to be purchased and is to take measures
to preserve the hard wood forests which
they bear. Senators Burton, of Kansas,
and Simmons, of North Carolina, spoke
in behalf of the bill.
Mr.. Quay, of Pennsylvania, was una
BILE today to secure consideration for his
motion to discharge the committee on
territories from further conSiderat ton
of the Omnibus Statehood bill, but gave
notice that he would demand that it
be taken up tomorrow.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
Two notable speeches marked the
closing of the general debate upon the
Philippine civil government bill today.
They were made by Mr.. Landis, an In
diana republican and by Mr.. Williams,
Mississippi democrat, and aroused the
respective sides in which they were de-
livered to the high pitch of enthusiasm.
There were big demonstra tions after
each concluded. The other speakers to-
day were Messrs. Ball, of Texas; Jones,
of Virginia; Shafroth, of Colorado, and
Crumpacker, of Indiana. The latter
closed the general debate for the bill
with a strong speech.
Mr. Lands during his speech engaged
in sharp passage with Mr.. Clark, of
Missouri. He described Mr.. Clark, after
war was declared as charging up and
down the aisle boasting that the demo-
Gratis had taken the republican party
by the scruff of the neck and dragged
it into war. This drew from Mr.. Clark
a challenge to Mr.. Landis to place in
his speech the name of the eighty-five
republicans whom he described as the
kickers and who, he said, went to
President Mckinley and Threatened to
vote with the democrats to recognize
the independence of Cuba unless he
sent the right kind of a message TO con-
gress.
"That is a fiction" cried Mr. Lands,
while Mr.. Cooper, of Wisconsin, who
said he was a member of the committee
that waited upon President Mckinley
denied that any such conversation oc-
Cured.
Mr.. Lands repeated his statement
that Mr.. Clarke had boasted that the
democrats had dragged the republicans
into the war.
That's what we did," shouted Mr..
Clark.
Uhnd +ho, 1rba, tho v,or cop,a with
it's problems, consequences and reSpon-
sibilities,'' flashed back Mr.. Lands,
you turned your backs and ran away,
a tremendous burst of applause greeted
this reply. For fully a minute it con-
tinued unchecked by the presiding Off
GER
There is not word of truth in that
statement" retorted Mr.. Clark when
the applause died away.
When Mr.. Lands referred to Mr..
Clark's former criticisms of Grover
Cleveland, the Missouri m mber cor
rected him and declared "the second
election of Grover Cleveland was the
greatest calamity that has befallen the
human race since the fall of Adam
Didn't you vote for him." queried
Mr.. Landis.
yes" responded Mr.. Clark amid
great laughter, "and that is one thing
I expect to pray Almighty God to give
me absolution for on the day OF Judg-
ment."
Mr. Jones, of Virginia, at this Joint
utilized a few minutes. as he said TO
expose the record of Buencamino, a
member of the civil service commission
at Manila, who appeared before the in
sula committee and who yesterday
made a pilgrimage to Mckinley's tomb
at Canton.
It see by the morning papers" Mr..
Jones continued, that yesterday this
man Buencamino visited Mrs. Mckinley
and shed tears; that he visited Mckin-
ley's tomb and again shed tears. This
is very remarkable, because in memo
rial congress last year this miserable
creature charged that the commence
ment of hostilities was due to the di-
rect orders Of President Mckinley.
will allow members to judge whether
the tears this man shed yesterday were
crocodile tears"
Mr.. Williams, of Mississippi, made the
closing speech ire behalf of the policy
favored by the minority. He went very
exhaustively into the entire subject re-
plying to the arguments advanced by
the other side in support OF the admin
istration's policy. The Filipino people,
he charged, were willing to learn and
were willing to die for thelr liberties
two tests which he believed entitled
them to self government. No American,
ne SaiC, was dSQdu1cQ Ol Whal hdo UCSu
done in Cuba No American but was
proud Of the Inauguration of the Cuban
republic. Why, he asked, would ii not
be wise to do for the Filipinos what we
had done for de Cubans-
Mr.. Williams declared that the under
lying and fundamental idea Of the peace
treaty was that a despot has q right to
sell the Independence and nationality
OF a people to a free republic ZAP
plause on the democratic side).