Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-04-28
IN DEFENSE OF
GENERAL FUNSTON
Representative Curtis Of Kansas Says That
General Funston Captured the New
George Washington.
the OLEOMARGARIME BILL
Tho MlIers Of Kansas Ask the Senate 10 Make Recp-
rocal Concessions to Foreign Nations In Order TO
Give Then Relief from Threatened
|deness.
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Washington, April 2S.-In the hous
today the naval appropriation bill wa
reported, and the house then resumed
consideration of the agricultural ap
preparation bill.
Curtis, Kansas, made brief but fer
vent defense of General Funstoi
against the criticism to which he ha.
been subjected. 1.-THE people of Kan.
sas" he began, "are proud of the
brave and daring record of the gallant
Fred Funston applause on the Repub.
lican side). He has been criticised here
for an act which for daring of concep-
tion and execution ranks with the
greatest feats at arms-he captured
the new George Washington, Ag,,inal-
do"
If another had accomplished what
Funston did, he said, the Democrats
would have made him their candidate
for president.
Sibley, Pennsylvania, followed with
a bitter denunciation of General Jacob
Smith. Said he: II have heard of Tim
or, the Tartar, and the Saracen
scourge, but, thank God, it took 18 CEN
turtles after Calvary to produce Cen
eral Smith. He admits he issued orders
to make Samar bowling wilderness
and to kill all over 10 years of age
Such man should not be permitted to
stay in the army until the sun goes
down. He disgraced not only himself,
but every man who wears the uniform
of his country. I hope there is enough
courage, patriotism and Christianity at
the other end of the avenue to see
that he Is stripped of his uniform with
in 4S hours"
Sibley was vigorously applauded by
the Democrats and by some Of the Re-
publicans.
Williams, Mississippi, heartily in
dorsed Sibley's onslaught upon Smith,
whom he described as 'brute in uni
form"
But, / am little afraid" he con-
tinued, "he does not strike the evil in
the right quarter. 1t is the system
which should be struck at not the
man who unconsciously carries out the
spirit of the system. Wherever there
is war of conquest against weak
and inferior colored people, deeds Of
brutality naturally occur
SENATE.
Washington, April 2S.-When the
senate convened today, Harris, Kan
sas, presented the following telegram
received from the Kansas Millers' AS
ISOLATION:
"The Kansas millers, on account of
foreign discrimination, with the best
wheat in the world at their door. are
not producing over one-third their full
capacity. Unless your committee on
foreign relations can give us relief
through reciprocal concessions, plac-
ing our mills on an equal basis with
foreign mills, many of our mills will
shut down indefinitely, and some of
them be forced to the wall. In our dis
tress, we look to our senator for relief"
The telegram was referred to the COM
mittee on foreign relations.
The senate concurred in the house
amendments to the oleomargarine bill.
which passed the measure and sends
1t to the president.
Teller's amendment to the renovated
butter section Of the bill as passed by
the senate, defines butter trust, and
provides that a tax Of 10 per cent shall
be imposed upon the products, capital
and assets Of such trust. IT was de-
feated, 25 to %.
At 2 o'clock the senate took up the
Philippines government bill, and Fitz-
simmons, North Carolina, addressed
the senate in opposition to the meas
ure.
After some further debate on miscel-
laneous topics, the general debate was
closed and the bill read for amendment
under the five minute rule.
The senate agreed to the conference
report on the Chinese exclusion bill.
CONFEREES AGREE.
washington, April 2S-The conferees
on the Chinese exclusion bill have
reacneu COMPictc dsrocAcAt' ~
strikes out that portion Of the senate
bill limiting the extension Of all exist
ing laws to the life Of the present trea-
ty and rte-enacts them 80 far as not iffs
consistent with treaty obligations until
otherwise provided by law and extends
the laws to the island territory as far
as applicable. It allows the Chinese
to enter for exposition purposes and
retains the provision regarding certifi-
cation IN the philippine Islands.