The Dolores star., 1902-03-07
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

The senate committee on foreign re-
lations authorized favorable report OH
the bill reforming the consular service
The bill requires a civil service exam
ination of applicants for consular
places.
Governor Taft continued his state
ment before the House insnlar COM
mittee Tuesday. dwelling on the good
and bad characteristics of the Eli
pino~. He denied reports that they
We're cowarily and related ar instance
in which few Filipino scouts along
with United States troops saved the
day. AS TO their treachery, he said
this was due largely 10 their being be-
tween two fires.
General Smith; in command of the
troops on the island of Samar, cables
that Lieutenant Strebler's scouts have
captured Lukban. the notorious leader
of the Samar rebels. and brought him
To Laguan. The officials of the War De-
partment regard the capture of LUX
ban as the most important military
event since Aguinaldo's capture. He
was run down on the island of Samar.
The place of his confinement is tiny
island In a bay on the north coast of
Samar. Lukban Is one of the most en-
ergetic and ferocious of rebels. He is
Il half breed. Il mixture of Chinese and
Filipino stock, and he has been an ir-
reconcilable foe from the first. He had
various Businesses in the mountains of
Samar from which he would descend
upon the coast towns, and his reign
of terror was so complete that the en-
tire population of the island paid trib-
IN ~ In tnA xNf
from attack
In the course of his examination
Tuesday before the Senate committee
on the Philippines, General Hughes.
who was provost marshal general in
Manila during the American military
rule there. explained the establishment
of a hospital in that city for lewd wo-
men. He said that he alone had been
responsible for this act. which had
been so freely criticised in the United
States, and that he did not regret his
act. III the evil had not been
checked" said he. fully two regi-
ments would have been disabled by
the time of the outbreak in the follow
ing February" General Hughes also
told of the condition of the civil pris-
oners turned over by the Spanish au.
thOrities when Manila was surren-
dcred. There We're 1900 of these, and
many of them We're cruelty irOned.
The irons were Immediately taken on
the prisoners. and there was n pile of
half a cord of iron.
The most important development
Tuesday to the Tillman- McLaurin epi-
sode was the act of Senator Frye pres.
ident pro ten. Of the Senate. in order.
ing the clerk of the Senate to restore
the names of the two South Carolina
senators to the roll. If this plan is
carried out, this act will be followed
by the adoption by the Senate of
resolution before a vote on any other
subject taken suspending the two SEN
atOrs for some definite time. The order
of Senator Frye for the restoration of
the names to the rolls was issued al
most Immediately after the Senate con-
vened to-day, and was the result of a
general conference among the Republi-
can leaders of the Senate. When
asked for an explanation of this order,
Senator Frye said: ''In my rulings
yesterday believe that l was strictly
within parliamentary laws; that sena-
tors in contempt are not entitled to rec
ognition either to speak or to vote,
and that logically their names should
not be called. l still adhere to that
opinion. but. desirous of shifting the
responsibility from the chair to the
Senate. l have directed the clerk to re-
store to the roll the names of the two
senators from South Carolina" At the
conference of the Republican leaders
Senator Frye's ruling was exhaustively
discussed, the construction being that
the action of the president pro TEN.
in striking the names of the South Car
olina senator's from the rolls and his
refusal of request 10 have their
names called was beyond precedent in
the Senate, and not entirely justified.
On this account it was decided that
this particular phase of the question
should be Immediately taken up by the
committee on privileges and elections.
The attitude of the Civil Service
Commission towards the political nc.
tivity of government employees has been
defined in letters Commissioner Foullie
has sent to Postmaster McMichael and
X. Francis Wood, both of Philadelphia.
In his letter to Mr.. Wood, the sub
stance of which also is stated in the let
ter to the postmaster, Mr.. Foulke says:
I'VE object to certain solicitations for
contributions, made by those in authori-
ty, because they are, in effect. coercing
the political action of employees; but
would it not also be coercing their po-
litical action to tell them that they
should not contribute and that they
must take no part whatever in cam
paign? For myself l have In years
past always given modest contribu.
tion for political purposes and I shall
not cease to do SO in the future because
l hold office; but l do not intend to
give any more or less on that account,
and l do not want my example to be
construed as an intimation to any EN-.
ploye of this Office that he is to give or
not to give or that he is not as free to
give, to the Democratic fund as he Is
to the Republican fund. or that he may
not as freely give to the faction oppos.
ed to me in my own party as to the fac.
tfon not opposed to me. If lie so de-
sires. As to the campaign cOntribu.
tions. 1t seems to me that the purpose
OF the law Is to see that they are real.
lNy ali fny ns,1