Evening star., 1902-04-25
CRITICISES FUNSTON
SENATOR McCUMBER AGAINST
ADULTERATIoN OF FOOD.
The House Clears the Private Pension
Calendar-Passing las Measures
Chinese Exclusion Bill.


p and the territories and for regulating in
terstate commerce therein"
The object of his address, he said, was to
convince the Senate of the very great i'm
portance of the subject to the American
people.
This bill was not so drastic as had been
proposed heretofore, and he believed that
no legitimate objection TO it could be raised.
II attempted to regulate the sale of only
such foods as entered into interstate COM
merce. and the Congress therefore had
ample authority TO deal with the subject.
He declared that the extent of the adul-
t"rdtiOn and miSbranding of food products
was appalling The laws he said, severely
punished the stamping Of lead as money.
That was cOunterfeiting. and the man who
should advocate the repeal of the law
against cOUnterfeiting of money would be
regarded as insane. Yet dust or mud was
stamped flour and glucose as honey.
The one wrong was no greater than the
other.
The amount of deIeteriOus food products
placed upon the market each year, Mr..
McCumber said, was valued at fully 81, no..
p@o,a while the total amount of adulterat-
ed food products each year was nearly
$1,000 900.
A bin for the protection of game in
Alaska was passed.
At o'clock the unfinished business-the
Philippine government bill-was laid before
the Senate Mr.. Carmack (Tenn.), mem
her OF the Philippine committee, addressed
the Senate in opposition to the measure.
Mr.. Carmack's Speech.
Mr.. Carmack said that this BILL like the
Philippine tariff bill, simply presented one
aspect of imperialism. 1t was not a ques-
ton Only OF framing just laws for the FIJI
pfnos, but question of right to make any
laws whatever for that people. THE claim
of the republicans" said he 'is that they
wa ncrb
country and killed enough people to make
good their right. The land is ours because
We have strewn II with the ashes of it's
homes and drenched it with the blood of
its people
Opponents of this policy denied that we
had derived any just powers Of government
from the subjugation of the governed and
that was the real issue of this debate In
former debate, he said. Mr.. Spooner had
charged that the minority had prostituted
the question to partisan purposes, and that
MIR. Bryan had seized upon 1t to force an
issue with the administration. Cnfor-
tunately for this argument the fact was
that Mr.. Bryan had declared his position
upon this question long before ANYBODY
knew what the policy of the administra-
tion would be. At that time the public ut
t-ranCes of Mckinley and Bryan were in
exact accord, and If the administration had
not reversed its policy there would have
been no difference between them. The
democrats in the Senate he insisted had
tried to remove the question from party
ppillicS IL was now Claimed that the civil
authority of the United States was supreme
throughout the Philippines, and it was
treason Tor a democrat to express an opin-
ion He cited the public utterances of
President Mckinley and Mr.. Roosevelt and
IN" speeches OF republican senators and
quoted from the republican campaign book
to show that a general policy of coloniaism
and conquest was advocated as republican
doctrine
The idea that you can transform the
Character of race by teaching them to
rad" said he. is the widest. craziest the
most fantastic dream that ever fitted
through lunatic's brain
He quoted utterances from Mr.. Roosevelt
charging that reasonable utterances had
incited the Filipfnos to insurrection and
said that we must not judge the President
In his moments OF oratsrical ferocity or
when the frenzy of battle was in his blood.
The President was not yindjctive but
simply strenuous" and resembled in his
habits OF speech a certain Tennesseean's
horse, of which II was said that running
away was his natural gait. Mr.. Roosevelt
had habitually spoken of the F'iIipinos
as saVages' and ''barbarians" and
Apaches. and these denunciations had
been scattered broadcast throughout the
United States. The effect of the Presi-
dents language had been to harden and in
rule.
Funston Criticised.
Some of our military heroes had been
n a
recent speech OF Gen. Funston, whom he
described as the tayhawker brigadier from
the wind-swept plains. The mightiest Sam
son that ever welded the jawbone of an
ass as a weapon of war" Mr. Carmack
SAID death had cheated Funston of some
lInStToGs victims, like ex-senator Sher-
man and ex-President Harrison. but there
were stiH enough TO keep him busy. Papers
had quoted Funston as saying that the
PRESIDENT entirely approved his gallows
speech and wanted him to accept an in
Nitttlon from the Junior senator from Mas
SdchuSettS to go to Boston and talk to the
people there about hanging the senior SEN
ator from Massachusetts. but the plain
truth was that Funston couldn't hang any,
hody- Funston should go back to the Phil
ippiues-to land where there twas plenty of
hemp and no Constitution.
II men are to be hanged without regard
U law for speaking words calculated to
ih'!te lnSurrection. said he the first
neck To feel the strangiing clutch of the
soaped rope should be the heroic gullet of
Funston Ever since he had been in the
fhilpplnes he had been pouring forth
TRADES Of indiscriminate insult against the
whoie people. and had outrageously insulted
the very men upon whom the commission
was relying for aid in pacifying the coun-
try.
he also had it from the very highest
authority that speech made bv the sena-
tor from Indiana (Mr Revertdae) had been
circulated broadcast throughout the coun-
try with an exceedingly pernicious effect
To Exploit the Islands.
The dominant idea of the bill now before
the Senate. said he, was to exploit the
philippines. II was proposed to make a
wholesale grant of franchises and conces-
sions and to dispose of the peoples lands to
Foreign synd!cates and corporations without
giving the people themselves any choice in
the business The whole bill was pitiful
evasion or a plain duty. We had a right
70 demand. and the Filipinos have right
20 demand that the administration shall at
iasI define Its policy in the Philippines
- pom what fact or experience" he asked
uId they base their belief in the purity of
SLPetDas government He spoke of The
horrors OF carpetbag government in the
south. ana said that "the republicans gave
no need 10 the cry of an oppressed and
ptuudered people. though they were their
own people, Of their own blood" He de-
Sldred mat from the very first outbreak
mere had been a conspiracy to suppress the
the Philippines ~
IN conclusion he said that he had NOT
oeen influenced in this matter by anv low