The Springfield herald., 1902-05-23
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

| tie nullOU, WHICH uIu Only niue IaNs'
| that, therefore, we can whip anything
| that comes along"
Former Senator Manderson of Ne
braska, who has been attorney for two
beet sugar companies, was before the
Senate committee on relations with
! Cuba. He related details of the cut in
I sugar at Missouri river points and said
| the action of the trust was for the pur-
pose of destroying beet sugar growing.
! He said that all previous legislation
| had been an invitation to grow beet
sugar but the proposed concession to
| Cuba had prevented several factories
from being started. He said that farm
ers We're going from the middle west
states to Manitoba but that the beet
sugar growing had arrested this emf
grafton for time. Mr.. Henderson con-
tended that every tariff bill and the
| governments experiments have invited
| them to embark in the beet sugar in
| dustry. "To injure It," he said, by
| direct or indirect methods. is to my
mind as Objectionable, if not to say as
criminal, blow as this country could
receive" The proposition for twen-
| ty-per-cent reduction. he said, had
caused many prospective beet sugar
| factories on arid land in the West to
| be abandoned temporarily. Answering
n question by Senator Platt, Mr.. Man
derson said that if we Americanize
Cuba, either by annexation or any
other means, there would be rise in
the price of labor there which would
raise the cost of sugar production.
During the discussion of the naval
appropriation bill in the House Mr..
Mudd of Maryland offered his
amendment to exclude from the ma
val academy and from ships and gov
| crnment libraries the history of Edgar
| Stanton Maclay. Mr.. Dayton made
point of order against the amendment,
and the chair sustained the point.
| Mr. Mudd then offered substitute
amendment providing that no part of
the money appropriated in the para
graph under consideration shall be eX-
pended in the purchase of any history
of the American-Spanish war written
! by Edgar Stanton NIaclay. for use Mt
| the naval academy, in ships Libraries
or in any part of the naval establish-
ment of the United States Mr.. Dayton
made the usual point of order against
| the substitute amendment, but the
| chair held that the amendment was
germane. Mr. Mudd, having succeeded
| in getting this matter before the House.
said that the President of the United
| States had stated to him that his work
| should never be used. In reply to
| question of Mr. Dayton, who asked
| why he wanted to put the amendment
| on the bill in view of the fact that the
| President would hold over the next
fiscal year Mr.. NIudd said that while
| Mr.. Roosevelt was n very lively force
at this time. and promised to live out
this term and be ready to take an
other. he wanted to guard against any
contingencies. The amendment was
| nd without ~ dissenting vote.
In his testimony before the Senate
Philippine committee. George G. Board
man, formerly of the Twentieth infan-
try, said that before the order of Gen.
Jacob II. Smith to kill and burn, the
soldiers of his company, being in such
| constant fear of massacre would sud-
| denly awake in their fright and eN-
claim. Get 'em. boys: get 'em." After
General Smith issued his order, he
said. the natives for the first time un-
derstood that the Americans meant
what they said. and the troops felt
safe The difficulty, he said, was be
cause certain order by General
Otis for the killing of outlaws never
was executed and this made the natives
bold in their resistance. They all de-
plored the death of Luna. but hailed
with delight Aguinaldo's capture. Wit
ness said that Filipino prisoners were
treated too good. so much so that they
preferred to remain prisoners to being
| sent back among their people. The
| general course of conduct of Amerl-
can officers and men toward peaceful
| Filpinos, he said. was humane. The
men, however We're discouraged on ac-
count of the food they got and officers
would not object when the men were
hungry to their going into Il house and
taking food. THE whole tendency of
the army" said the witness, was to
make the men anything but pleasant
toward the natives. They used the gun
to shoot rather than to preach the gos-
pei with" His orders We're to treat
the Filipinos kindly. but, he added.
war is hell, and the boys are going to
give the F'ilipinos hell while war pre-
vails.'
Following Is the text of the Presi-
dents special message to Congress in
relation to the Martinique disaster: '''ro
the Senate and House of Representa-
tives: one of the greatest calamaties
in history has fallen upon our neigh
boring island of Martinique. The con
sui of the United States Mt Guadaloupe
has telegraphed from Fort De France.
under date of yesterday that the dis
astcr is complete; that the city of st.
Pierre has ceased to exist, and that the
American consul and his family have
persisted. He is informed that 10000
people have lost their lives, and that
10000 are homeless and hungry; that
there is urgent need of all kind of pro-
visions and that the visit of vessels
for the work of supply and rescue is
imperativcly required. The government
of France while expressing their
thanks for the marks of sympathy
,,.hirh hnNn rnnchnl thnm from Amor