The Elbert County tribune., 1902-05-22
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

uOus received Dy tne dttOrney Beuefai
from all over the country volunteering
evidence of the Illegal practices OF the
alleged beef trust, and because of the
limited force of the department here
and In Chicago, the district attorneys
throughout the country have been d.
rected to examine into the testimony
offered and forward the same TO the
department.
1t is reported that friends OF the
pending irrigation bill who have been
making a canvass Of the House find
that from twenty to twenty-five per
cent. of its members have heretofore
taken no interest In the measure what
ever, and have not yet decided whether
TO support or oppose II. 1t is with
these members that the irrigationlsts
are working. in an endeavor 10 secure
their vote when the bill is considered.
The canvass that has so far progressed
among the disinterested members has
been encouraging and there is strong
belief that Il good majority of them will
support the bill at the proper time. 1t
has been difficult to arouse any inter
est among these members, who are
mostly from the South and the extreme
East, but the supporters of the bill in
tend to perservere throughout the time
Intervening before the bill Is called
up. The general canvass has not yet
progressed sufficiently to warrant an
announcement of the result in figures.
although the canvassers feel confident
of securing safe majority for the bill.
Friends of the bill hope to get 1t up for
consideration May Both.
Former Senator Manderson of Ne
braska, who has been attorney for two
beet sugar companies, was before the
t.s1a xtTffl
Cuba. He related details of the cut in
sugar at Missouri river points and said
the action of the trust was for the pur-
pose of destroying beet sugar growing.
He said that all previous legislation
had been an invitation to grow beet
sugar but the proposed concession to
Cuba had prevented several factories
from being started. He said that farm
ers We're going from the middle west
states to Manitoba but that the beet
sugar growing had arrested this emil
grafton for n time. Mr. Manderson con
tended that every tariff bill and the
governments experiments have invited
them to embark in the beet sugar in
dustry. ''To injure it, he said. by
direct or Indirect methods, Is to my
mind as Objectionable. If not to say as
criminal. u blow as this country could
receive" The proposition for n TWEEN
ty-per-cent. reduction. he said, had
caused many prospective beet sugar
factories on arid land in the West to
be abandoned temporarily. Answering
a question by Senator Plat. Mr.. Man
derson said that IL we Americanize
Cuba. either by annexation or any
other means. there would be rise in
the price of labor there which would
raise the cost of sugar production.
Following is the text of the Prcsi-
dents special message to Congress in
relation TO the Martinique disaster: 30
the Senate and House of Representa-
tives: One of the greatest calamatles
in history has fallen upon our neigh
boring island of Martinique. The con
sui of the United States at Guadaloupe
has telegraphed from Fort De. France,
under date of yesterday. that the dis
aster is complete; that the city of st.
Pierre has ceased to exist, and that the
American consul and his family have
perished. He is Informed that 10000
people have lost their lives. and that
10000 are homeless and hungry; that
there Is urgent need of all kind of pro-
visions and that the visit of vessels
for the work of supply and rescue Is
lmperatively required. The government
of France while expressing their
thanks for the marks of sympathy
which have reached them from Amer
lea, inform us that Fort DE France and
the entire island of Martinique are still
threatened. They therefore request
that, for the purpose of resculng the
people who are in such deadly peril
and threatened with starvation. the
government of the United States may
send MS soon as possible the means of
transportating them from the stricken
island The island of st. Vincent, and,
perhaps. others in that region, are also
seriously menaced by the calamity
which has taken so appalling form
in Martinique. | have directed the de
partments of the treasury, of war and
of the navy to take such measures for
the relief of these stricken people as
lies within the executive discretion.
and | earnestly commend this case of
mexnmpled disaster TO the generous
consideration of the Congress. For this
purpose l recommend that an appro-
priation of $4,000 be made, to be i'm.
medlately available"
During the discussion of the naval
appropriation bill in the House MIR.
Mudd of Maryland offered his
amendment to exclude from the ma
val academy and from ships and gov
ernment libraries the history OF Edgar
Stanton Maclay. Mr.. Dayton made n
point of order against the amendment,
and the chair sustained the point.
Mr.. Mudd then offered substitute
amendment providing that no part of
the money appropriated in the para
graph under consideration shall be ex-