The Lamar register., 1902-06-11
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
AT CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

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! interview says the effect in the next
national election will bear hard against
whichever political party is Responsible,
If the platform pledges promising state
hood for the territories are not kept
and New Mexico and Arizona are re-
| fused admission to the Union at this
session of Congress. Advocates of
statehood are doubtful of securing
passage of the bill in the Senate ut
| this session.
Representative James NJ. Robinson
of Indiana. one of the leading Demo-
Gratis in the House, has announced his
opposition to the national irrigation
] bill now pending. Mr. Robinson says
the bill, from the point of economical
administration, is one OF the most dan
! gerOus measures that Congress has
been called to act on in years. He de-
clarcs the objections to it are so many
and so forceful that. they can scarcely
/ be named within the compass of II
/ readable article. He asserts that rail
roads subsidized by land grants, and
| otiiceholders who want continuance of
| Jobs and places for relatives and those
| who expect to share in the exploitation
and jobs that will pc necessarily Incl
dent. are promoting it: that agricul-
tural and mineral colleges in each state
will suffer and the taxpayers of the
larger states will suffer in contribut-
ing for an enterprise which in no way
affects them advantlgeously.
Senator Culbertson, who favors the
construction of the 81 900, 900 dam ut
El Paso, in order to compensate. Mex
leo for damages on account of alleged
usurpation Of the waters of the Rio
Grnnde, has given notice of an amend
ment he proposes to offer to the bill
authorizing statehood for New Mexico.
Arizona and Oklahoma, when 1t comes
up. This amendment will provide that
the government shall retain control of
the waters of the Rio Grande. 1t is
rumored that the Elephant Buttes
Dam Company, which is one of the
chief factors in opposing the construc-
ton of the international dam, will be
backed by the Santa Fe Railway Com
pany in the construction of its dam in
Mexico. 1t is proposed to make the
dam much larger than was at first in
tended and thus be able to grant to
the city of El Paso water at the equit-
able price for which 1t has been con-
tending and provide for n greater scale
of operations in the Rio Grande valley.
Truman G.. Palmer of Chicago was
witness before the Senate committee
on Cuban relations. For the past four
years Mr.. Palmer has been engaged in
the promotion of beet sugar interests
He gave list of seventeen American
corporations which. he said, have $751;
III acres in sugar producing lands in
Cuba. with an annual capacity of 255.-
42J tons. OF these seventeen com
ranies ten have on file war claims
against the government OF the United
States aggregating S0,665.0T4. The
largest of these claims, for ,S4.1IT .69S.
was filed by the Constancio Sugar
Company. with nm estate of $1,000
acres and an annual capacity of 21,0OO
| tons. Mr.. Palmer said he had secured
the facts upon which this statement is
bnscd from the official records of the
| Spanish claims commission. and from
statements made by witnesses before
the Senate committee and the House
committee on ways and means. The
witness said that an effort on his part
to place the bonds of beet sugar
company had failed last December be-
cause OF the agitation to secure n re-
ductiOn of the duty on Cuban sugar.
and that he later had sold his interest
in this company and since then had been
dcvoting his attention to the question
of the proposed tariff reduction. When
Senator Platt asked what had induced
witness to manifest so great an inter
est in the legislation proposed he re-
piled: because that i believe that If
this tariff reduction legislation fails
shall have no difficulty IN securing the
means of building at least one beet
sugar factory year"
Felipe Buencamino, former secretary
of state in Aguinaldo's Cabinet, was
heard through an Interpreter by the
| House committee on insular affairs.
Chairman Cooper asked Senor Buen-
camno why he had come to the United
| States. He said lie was here represent
ing the Federal party. and the nfiuen-
| tial element of the insurgents and the
Kaipunan society. He said his coun-
try. the Philippines. was like n sick
| man cOnvalescing from n dangerous ill
ness 1t was still bleeding from the
| wounds of war. Its aspirations were
those of Washington. liberty with jus
ticc. under American society. which
they loved. They looked to Congress
| to give them just and liberal govern
/ ment. He detailed the facts connected
with the early uprising of the Filipinos.
Aguinnldo was an idol, and the people
| believed him when he told them that
| Dewey had promised them indepen-
dcnce. He revived all that had been
done since the outbreak. and spoke of
| the gradual extension of American au-
| thority and practical paciiication of the
greater part of the Islands. There
were now 500 municipalities cstab-
4 lished. and they had proved satisfac-
tory Under the Taft system. he said.
the Filipinos have gteater liberty than
they would have enjoyed under the
Aguinaldo government had 1t been es-
| tablished. Governor Taft now was the
! idol of the people. He said the people
of the Philippines would have their
| political status fixed. whether they are