The Dolores star., 1902-06-06
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS


postal cards will he in the hands of al
postotiices throughout the country
about July LIST. The postoiiicc depart
ment has received the die proofs of the
new cards. The new plates show d
profile view.
Kissing in the Senate Is so unusual
that when II occurred in the course OF
the Philippine debate IL created sen
sation Mr.. Spoouer of Wisconsin was
speaking. and referred, incidentally, to
the story that Il thousand Filipnos had
been put to death 10y American troops
in trenches which they were compelled
to dig Mr. Lodge said the story had
been denied by the father of the sol
dier who had started IL, and that the
/ War Department had cabled To Gen
! eral Chaffcc To ascertain the facts. Mr..
| Carmack of Tennessee interrupted 10
| say that no doubt the soldiers would
6sny the story. as all soldiers in the
Philippines had been required 10 do.
| His remark WAS greeted with hisses
! from the galleries, the demonstration
of disapprobation calling out II sharp
! rapping of the gavel from the chair.
| Representative Shafroth says he has
! not lost hope of securing passage in
I the House at this session of his bill
| appropriating S2Jo,opO for Il 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 ovcrcrowded condi-
tiOn Of these. During the past live
years LOO applicants have been re-
fused admission to the Lcaycnworth
| home because of lack of room. Mr..
Shafroth's bill is on the House calen-
dar and he has assured Speaker Hen
dcrSon 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 a practically unanimous vote for
the measure if he receives recognition.
Messrs. Shafroth and Bell of Colo
RADIO were the principal speakers
against the llill subsidiary coinage bill
i'll the House. In Il strong speech Mr..
ShIfroth 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
powerful banking trust, which would
control the ISSUE of paper currency IL
this program was carried out he said
all the currency would disappear ex-
,rnlI nd rh.,
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 Buencamio, one of the found
ers of the Federal party in the Philip
pines, has arrived in Washington from
San Francisco. and had a short con-
ference with Secretary Root He was
accompanied by Lieut.. Arthur l.. Con-
ger, Nineteenth infantry. Senor Buen-
camino will be presented to President
Roosevelt and it 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 lie
was captured. in company with Aguin-
| aldo's 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
| Federal party of the Philippines to
| make a pilgrimage to the grave of
Washington and to deliver messages
| of sympathy and respect to Mrs. Nc
kinley and Mrs. Logan.
In an able speech in the Senate dur.
] ing the discussion of the Philippine
bill, Senator Morgan of Alabama ex-
| pressed himself strongly in favor of
the main features of the bill, taking a
decided stand in opposition to his
Democratic colleagues. The lauda-
tons of Aguinaldo's patriotism and he
roism," said Mr.. Morgan, that have
been poured out in his honor here and
elsewhere in the United States are as
much out of place as if they had been
uttered in honor of the fox in AesOps
fables" Aguinaldo, he said, was only
a convenient instrument in the hands
of cunning conspirators. Had he died
another would have been found, for
the Hong Kong junta had not commit
ted their fortunes perpetlially to him
"The Filipinos are not fighting for lib
| eIly, MI. Morgan continued, but
simply as the savage tools of the junta
at Hong Kong. We have dedicated
these islands," he said, ito the freedom
of religion; we have unshackled them
from the dominion of an established
church, and no power will ever exist
that can undo our work through mil
itary, civil or other agencies
In addressing the Senate on the
Philippine bill, Mr.. Patterson of Colo
rado read extracts FROM a report of q
ministers meeting held recently in
Boston in the course of which in the
addresses the ministers stated that the
American flag had been disgraced In
the Philippines by the commission OF
tragedies and horrors in the islands
although no special attack was made
upon the President or secretary of war
MIR. Patterson referred to the editorials
from the Denver News which Mr. For
aker had read in the course of his
speech. These editorials strongly urged
the retention of the Philippine islands
| and n1vnna tn1 fhxa 20 I;o,