The Lamar register., 1902-06-04
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

postal cards VIII be in the hands of all
postofiices throughout the country
about July LIST. The postofiice depart
ment has received the die proofs of the
new cards. The new plates show u
profile view.
Kissing in the Senate is so unusual
that when 1t occurred in the course OF
the Philippine debate it created Il SEN
sation. Mr.. Spooner of Wisconsin was
speaking, and referred, incidentally, to
the story that thousand Filipinos had
been put to death by American troops
In trenches which they We're compelled
to dig. Mr.. Lodge said the story had
been denied by the father of the SOL
dler who had started it, and that the
War Department had cabled to Cen
eral Chaffee to ascertain the facts. Mr..
Carmack of Tennessee interrupted 10
say that no doubt the soldiers would
deny the story, as all soldiers in the
Philippines had been required to do.
His remark was greeted with Kisses
from the galleries, the demonstration
Af dlsapprobatiop calling out n sharp
rapping of the gavel from the chair.
Representative Shafroth says he has
not lost hope of securing passage in
the House at this session of his bill
appropriating $25O.OOO for Il branch
National Soldiers Home at Denver.
Mr.. Shafroth is collecting data from
various soldiers homes showing the
number of old soldiers annually turned
away and unable to obtain admission
on account Of the overcrowded cOndi-
! ton of these. During the past five
years 1,5OO applicants have been re-
| fused admission to the. Leavenworth
home because of lack of room. Mr..
Shafroth's bill is ON the House calen-
dar and he has assured Speaker Hen
| derson of his Willingness to take 1t up
on suspension day." when II majority
of twO-thirds of the House is necessary
10 pass IL bill. He is satisfied he can
get practically unanimous vote for
the measure If he receives recognition.
Messrs. Shafroth and Bell of Colo
RADIO We're the principal speakers
against the Hill subsidiary coinage bill
/ in the House. In strong speech Mr..
Shafroth set forth the damage such
legislation would do to the currency
of the country. 1t proposed, he said
not only to melt up all the silver dol
lars of the country into subsidiary
coinage, but to take all the bullion now
in the treasury and coin it into subsid
larry coin. Mr.. Bell declared that every
great panic from which the country
had suffered had been precipitated by
the currency tinkers" like Hill. The
ultimate act of Mr.. Hill and his
friends, he said, was to create an all
powerful banking trust which would
control the issue of paper currency. If
this program was carried out, he said
all the currency would disappear eX-
cept gold and bank paper. The pend
| ing bill, he said, was one of three and
the only one the Republicans dare pass
in the face of the congressional elec-
tions.
| Felipe Buencamio, one of the found
ers of the Federal party in the Philip
pines, has arrived In Washington from
San Francisco, and had short con-
| ference with Secretary Root. He was
accompanied by Lieut.. Arthur l.. Con-
| ger, Nineteenth infantry. Senior Buen-
camino will be presented to President
Roosevelt and it is expected that later
he will appear before the Senate Phil
| ippine committee. Buencamino was
one of the principal figures of the So
called Aguinaldo government, holding
| the office of secretary of state when he
| was captured. in company with Aguin-
| aldo's mother, Immediately after the
battle of Tnrlac. The primary object
of his visit is to get better acquainted
| with our people and institutions and to
visit his sons, students at Berkeley.
California. He also Is charged by the
| Federal party of the Philippines to
make pilgrimage to the grave of
| Washington and to deliver messages
| of sympathy and respect to Mrs. Me-
Kinley and Mrs. Logan.
In an able speech in the Senate dur
ing the discussion of the Philippine
| bill, Senator Morgan of Alabama ex-
pressed himself strongly in favor of
the main features of the bill, taking n
decided stand in opposition to his
| Democratic colleagues. "rhe lauda-
tions of Aguinaldo's patriotism and he
roism," said Mr.. Morgan, that have
been poured out in his honor here and
elsewhere in the United StatesNa Nare as
much out of place as if they had been
uttered in honor of the fox in Aesop's
| fables" Aguinaldo, he said, was only
convenient instrument in the hands
of cunning conspirators. Had he died
another would have been found. for
the Hong Kong junta had not commit
ted their fortunes perpetually to him.
1.-THE Filipinos are not fighting for lib
erty," Mr. Morgan continued, but
simply as the savage tools of the junta
at Hong Kong. We have dedicated
these islands," he said, ''to the freedom
of religion; we have unshackled them
| from the dominion of an established
church, and no power will ever exist
that can undo our work through mil
| itary civil or other agencies"
In addressing the Senate on the
Philippine bill, Mr.. Patterson of Colo
RADIO read extracts from report of
| ministers meeting held recently in
| Boston in the course of which in the
addresses the ministers stated that the
American flag had been disgraced in
| the Philippines by the commission of
| tragedies and horrors in the islands.
although no special attack was made