North Park union., 1902-02-07
TE WASHINGTON NEWS AMI
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

Inc friends of the measure for rio.
ia restrictions on oleomargarine and
kindred products carried their point
before the House committee on avri.
culture to-day and by vote Of twelve
10 nVe ordered the report of a bill
which Is even more restrictive than
the original Grout bill re-introduced by
Representative McCleary of Minneso-
ta. The subject has been under con.
siueration for the past ten DAYS. all
OF the various interests having been
granted hearings.
The Cuban reciprocity hearings be-
Tore the ways and means committee
Thursday were devoted chiefly to the
sugar interests Of Louisiana, who are
opposed TO the proposed concessions
TO Cuba on the ground that 1t will
cripple the sugar production OF that
state. A number of the large plant
ers ana manufacturers OF the state
were present and the allied interests
OF Deet sugar and tobacco. which are
similarly opposed to concessions to
Cuba, also were numerously repre-
sented.
A naval retiring board has decided
to recommend the retirement OF Cap
tain Richmond p. Hobson. He has
complained of his eyes, which suffered
from heat and glare while he was
working on the Spanish vessels sunk
at Santiago and afterward in the dry
dock at Hong Kong, where two vessels
of the Spanish fleet sunk by Dewey
We're repaired. Captain Hobson HIM
self applied to be retired, but the
board of physicians which examined
hi fnt hat Al
manenly injured, and refused to rec
ommend his retirement. He has been
ordered TO return to duty at the
Charleston exposition.
The Civil Service Commission has
Cancelled the examination for special
statistical compiler for the Depart
ment of Agriculture, held June 18th
and 10Th last. and has made public
its report on Its investigation of the
integrity of that examination. The re-
port says that employees of the division
Of statistics We're improperly and un-
fairly assisted in their preparat ton for
the examination by disclosures made
by Mrs. Bertha Burch, an employe, in
pursuance of instructions from John
Hyde. stntistician of the Department
OF Agriculture. directing her to give
all the help in this examination which
she 'legi;imately" could.
Rising to n question OF privilege ear
ly in the session, Mr.. Dubois OF Idaho
had read an Associated Press dispatch
from Manila in which General Whca-
ton was quoted rs critlcisiug some ut
terances of Professor Schurmann In a
speech delivered In Boston, Mr.. Du-
bois thought the President. In the cir
cumStances, would be warranted in
rcprimanding General Wheaton for his
utterances. He declared that such
comment upon the action of the SEN
ate was Outrageous and indecent"
and that the minority had had quite
enough Of threats and blackmail. The
debate thus precipita,ed took wide
range. covering the entire Philippine
problem.
The general board of army officers.
which has been examining army posts
in the United States with a view to
future action concerning them by the
War Department, has made n report
which has not been made public. 1t
is known that the report recommends
that Forts Russell Wyoming: Logan.
permanent military establishments and
that each of these posts will be en-
larged considerably. Forts Russell and
Douglas will be enlarged to accommo-
date full regiment of infantry and n
company of artillery. which is an in
crease over their present size of about
fifty per cent. Fort Logan will also
be increased in about the same proper
A 1,af. nf n h.,
West have been designated as tempo
rary" and some OF these are recon-
mended for abandonment, though not
Immediately.
The bill creating Department of
Commerce. which passed the Senate
Tuesday, was amended in various par
ticulars The most important amend
ment was on changing the title to read
department of Commerce and La
bor." 1t provides for secretary, who
Is to be n member of the Cabinet: an
assistant secretary and other officials
and clerks necessary. The proposed
department is especially charged with
the collection and distribution Of sta
tistical information and with the de-
velopment and fostering of foreign
and domestic commerce In the de
partment there is to be n new bureau
of manufactures. and many bureaus
now included in other departments are
transferred 10 1t. including the life
saving. light house. marine hospital
and steamboat inspection service, the
bureaus of navigation. shipping and
immigration. as well rs control of the
fisheries and the Chinese exclusion
questions, all now within the jurisdlc-
ton of the Treasury Department; the
Fish Commission and the census bu-
rcau. The department is also given
Jurisdiction over the consular service
so far as it pertains to commerce.
1t has been years since there has
been such n hurricane of bitter vitup-
Grafton. of personal tnunt, of ugly
charges and of unmoditicd criticism as
was witnessed Tuesday in the Senate.
Not since the discussion of the resolu-
tons leading up to the Spanish -Ameri-
can war has any scene occurred III the
Senate chamber comparable WIN
Tuesdays. Even that debate lacked
the personal bitterness manifested at
times to-day. Irritation was aroused
on both sides of the chamber and once
or twice personal encounters between
senator's seemed imminent. Once,
when Senator Teller taunted the Re-
publican senators by declaring that
they knew the statements made IN
recent dispatch from Manila, in which
Gepcrtal Wheaton was represented us
critjcising the opponents OF the govern
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