The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-05-02
WORK OF CONGRESS.


9th Senator Rawlins (Utah) concluded
his speech in opposition to the Philip
pine government bill AS previous
days, he devoted much of his time to
consideration of the testimony taken be-
fore the Philippine committee. He was
particularly severe in mis- denunciation
of Gen. Chaffee for the orders he had is
sued in carrying out the policy of the
government. He declared in conclusion
that the United States would reap
whirlwind of misfortunes and disaster as
a result of its policy in the Philippine is
lands. A large number of private pen
sion bills, a bill appropriating 100000
for a hall of records in Washington
and the bill authorizing an increase of
pension in case of total deafness were
passed. The house sent the oleomar-
garine bill to conference after agreeing
to the senate amendmets with some mod
ifications suggested by the agricultural
committee. The opponents of the meas
ure offered a number of amendments,
the principal one of which was designed
to place renovated butter on the same
footing with oleomargarine, but they
were overwhelmingly voted down. The
house then went into committee of the
whole and took up the agricultural bill.
Mr.. Wadsworth On. ". in charge of the
bill, made statement of the contents
of the measure, which he explained car
ried IS, l5S,570, an increase of $576, $50 over
the current law. The largest increases
were those for the weather bureau and
the bureau of plant industry, each about
100000 Mr. Fox (1iss), availing himself
of the latitude allowed in general debate,
discussed the question of restricted suf-
frage in the south, with especial refer
ence to the constitution of his own state,
which he defended.
Two speeches occupied the entire at
tention of the senate on the 18th. Sena-
tor McCumber IN. d. discussed his bill
TO prevent the misbranding and misrep-
resentation of food products which en-
ter into interstate commerce. Senator
Carmack (Tenn.), one of the minority
members of the Philippines committee
spoke in opposition to the Philippine gov
eminent bill, now pending. He sharply
criticised the president, not only for the
policy he is pursuing in the Philippines
but for utterances which, the senator
declared, tended to fan the flame of in
surrection.~ He also denounced Gen. Fun
Ston, whom he described as the Jay
hawker brigadier from the wind-swept
plains, the mightiest Samson that ever
welded the jawbone of an ass as
weapon of war. 80. The house passed 145
private pension bills, including bills to
pension the widow of the late Gen. Will
liam Ludlow at $50 a month and the
widow of the late "Parson'' Brownlow
of Tennessee, at $50 per month. The re-
mainder of the day was devoted to gen.
eral debate the agricultural approprf-
alton bill. Mr.. Cochran (Mo.) made a
speech on the universal spread of trusts
and combines in this country and the
necessity of curbing them. The trusts.
he said, contributed to both political par
ties and tied their hands He said it was
matter of public notoriety that in some
states senatorships were bought and sold
just as produce was bought and sold in
the public market. Mr.. Sims (Tenn.) in
troduced bill abolishing the duties on
imports Of beef, mutton, pork and veal
An extended preamble recites that the
present high price of these food products
is due to trusts and monopolies.
Senator Carmack (Tenn) in the sen.
ate on the 26th completed his speech on
the Philippine government bill. He con-
tinued his caustic criticism of the admin
trations policy and the ultimate end to
which 1t would lead. The earlier por-
ton of the session devoted to rou-
ing an hour to the passage of bills by
unanimous consent suspended public
business and for the remainder of the
day listened to eulogies on the late Rep
resentative Stokes Is. c. and the late
Representative Crump (Mich).
When the senate convened on the 18th
Senator Harris (Kan) presented the fol-
lowing telegram he had received from the
Kansas MillerS' association: kansas
millers. on account of foreign discrim-
nations, with the best wheat in the
world at their door are not producing
over one-third of their full capacity
Unless your committee on foreign rela-
tons can give relief through recip-
rocal concessions, placing millers on
an equal basis with foreign mills, many
of our mills will shut down indefinitely
and some of them will be forced to the
wall. In our distress we look to our
senators for relief" After a brief dis
cussion the house amendments to the
oleomargarine bill were agreed to. Sem
ator Simmons IN. c. addressed the SEN
ate in opposition to the Philippine gov
eminent bill. He urged that the Philip
pines ought to be turned over to the in
habitantS of the islands and denounced
the "cruelties and barbarities' alleged
to have been committed on the Filipinos
by the American army. The conference
report on the Chinese exclusion bill was
adopted. Mr.. Sibley (Pa.) created some
thing of a sensation in the house dur
ing the general debate on the agricul-
tural appropriation bill by severely de-
nouncing Gen. Jacob H Smith for the
orders he issued in the Samar campaign.
He declared that Gen. Smith was a dis
grace to the uniform he wore and ex-
pressed the hope that the president
would strip him of his uniform within
IS hours. Mr.. Curtis (kan0 made a
brief but fervent defense of Gen. Fun
ston against the criticism to which he
has been subjected. The conference re-
port of the Chinese exclusion bill was
adopted without debate. This sends it
to the president.