The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-05-08
weeks DOINGs
IN CONGRESS
Business Transacted by the
House and Senate in the
National Capital.
PHILIPPINE DEBATE GOES ON

y Is "a tl Ii
I, publicans Change Their Tactics and
Come to the Defense of the Administra-
ton and the Operations in the Philip
pines.
Washington, April go Senate-A
resolution offered in the senate today
by Patterson, of Colorado, directing
the secretary of war to order by cable
Major Gardener, now in the Philip
pines to come Immediately to Wash
1ngton, to appear as witenss before
the Philippine committee, precipitat-
ed warm discussion. The debate
continued for about two hours, con-
siderable feeling being manifested on
both sides of the chamber. The charge
was made by the minority that the ma
jority OF the committee was endeay-
oring to suppress facts and informa-
ton. This was denied by the chair
man Of the committee, Lodge, who
said that any such action would be
inconceivably stupid. ALI parties, he
insisted, were anxious for the fullest
information, but he and others con-
tended that it would not be advisable
to cable to the Philippines for Major
Gardener, as he was about to come
home and would be here in time to
son and Carmack, of Tennessee, urged
that Gardeners testimony was partic-
ularly important, and that it ought to
pending bill The resolution finally
went over until tomorrow. The bill
for the purchase of the Rosebud res
ervation in South Dakota and the
sundry civil appropriation bill were
considered, but no action was taken on
them.
House.-The house today passed the
agricultural appropriation bill and be-
gan consideration of the District of
Columbia appropriation bill, the last.
but two of the regular supply meas
ures. BY the terms of special rule
adopted before the district bill was
taken up, it will be in order to attach
rider to it to make operative the ex-
listing personal tax law Of the district,
which has been dead letter for
twenty years. Chairman Cannon esti-
mated that there was $100,CO0,000 of
untaxed personal property in Wash
ington. The Goldfogle resolution,
calling on the secretary of state for
information as to whether American
citizens of Jewish faith we're excluded
from Russia, was adopted.
Washington, May 1.-Senate.-
Aguinaldo was the special subject of
discussion in the senate today. AS
soon as the Philippine government
bill was taken up, Carmack, of Ten
nessee, resumed his criticism of the
Philippine committee because of its
refusal to call Aguinaldo and other
Filipinos as witnesses. He maintained
that as reflections by. witnesses had
been cast on the character of Agui-
naldo he ought to be permitted, in all
decency," to defend himself. Car
mack's contention was sharply COM
.bated by Foraker Of Ohio, McComas,
of Maryland, and Burton, of Kansas.
Culberston, of Texas, in support of a
statement by Carmack that the war
department had suppressed informa-
ton and falsified the Philippine situa-
ton, presented a letter from the Sec
rotary of war which he thought was
proof of the Tennessee senator's as
sertlon. The secretary stated in the
letter that it was not practicable to
supply the information requested be-
cause no special account as kept of
Philippine war expenses, and it would
require the service of large force
OF clerks to work out the information
desired.
House.-The house gave most Of the
day to the District of Columbia ap-
preparation bill, which was not COM
pleted. Shattuc, of Ohio, spoke on in
dustrial conditions, and Gaines, OF
Tennessee, in criticism Of conditions
in the Philippines. The Burleson res
olutlon, calling upon the war depart.
ment for copies of all orders to the
commanding officers in the Philip
pines, bearing on the operations in
Samar under General Jacob H. Smith,
was adopted.
Washington, May 2.-Senate.-A
lively debate was precipitated in the
senate today by Pritchard, of North
Carolina, by some remarks he made on
political methods in North Carolina, in
the course of a discussion on the Phil
lpplne bill. He suggested that some
of the methods employed by the on.
ponents of the bill in this country
ought to be reformed, and told of what
is called the sand cure" in North
Carolina, the victim having his face
crushed into the sand to stitle his
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intimidate him politically. Simmons,
of North Carolina, declared that he
never heard of such a practice, and
the debate concerning North Carolina
politics was fully launched. Pritch-
ard charged that the ..red shirts" rode
over the state to terrorize republican
voters. Simmons denied that state
ment and insisted that the '.red shirts"
never had committed any unlawful
act. and as matter of fact intended
only to organize the voters Of the
state. The debate waxed warm,
Pritchard declaring that he has been
approached by an emissary Of the
democratic party with proposition
to drop the impeachment proceedings
against republican judges in North
Carolina IL he would nolle prosequi
the cases pending in the courts against
certain democrats for election frauds.
Hot and Dry In Nebraska.
Lincoln, May 5.-A new high tenn
perature record for the first half Of
Nav was octah1fchod Of TSroo1n Ca u