The Irish standard., 1902-05-03
Would HEAR GARDENER.
Resolution in Senate Calls Upon
Root to Bring Officer from
Philippines.
TESTIMONY WANTED IN INVESTIGATION.
Senate Committees Refusal to Sum-
mon Gardener, AEuinnldO and 9th
ers. the Reason for the Revolution
-NeciprOcity Treaties FnvOrnbly
Acted Upon in Committee.

| ers. the Reason for the RcxOlut ion
-Neciprocity Treaties FnvOrnbly
Acted Upon in Committee.
Washington, May 1.-The commit
tee, late Wednesday afternoon, by a
strictly party vote, refused to subpoe-
ma Mai. Cornelius Gardner, Aguinaldo,
SiXto LopeX and Mabini.
Wants Senate to Act.
Washington, May /. - Soon after
the Philippine, bill was taken up in
the senate Senator Patterson (Col.)
offered Il resolution reciting that by Il
partisan vote the committee on Philip
| pines had refused to request the secre-
tary of war to cable for Maj. Gardner
to come at once to Washington. The
resolution called upon the secretary of
war to cable orders for Gardner's i'm,
mediate return.
Objection was made to the consider
alton of the resolution, but it was dis
cussed at some length.
Senator McComas objected to the re-
! Election on the committee in the word
"partsan."
Senator Allison iocularly suggested
that it WAS the minority that was act
ing in ''partisan manner, as the ma
jority could not get the minority to
agree to the course which was thought
to be most wise.
Senator Allison said that all men,
bcrs of the committee wanted Mai
Gardner to appear
Senator Patterson disclaimcd any
intention to reflect upon the commit
tee in the use of The word BIPARTISAN"
Senator Spooncr asked Senator Pat
tcrson it he thought the senate had
power to direct the secretary of war
tn issue orders to officers of the army.
Senator Patterson sharply declined to
enter into Il controversy with Scnat or
SIn"nrr, aud he latt said he was not
amazed at the position of the senator
from Colorado.
| Scnntc.
Washington, May |. - Soon after
the senate convened Wednesday Scn-
Htor Burton (Kan.), from the commits
tee on public lands. reported back the
hill granting to the Central Arizona
Railway company Il right "f way for
pathway purposes through the San
Francisco mountain forest reserve in
Arizona with recommendation that it
he passed notwithstanding the objc
tions of the president expressed in Il
veto message. Senator Burton asked
immediate consideration for the bill
but Senator Wellington (Md.) object
cd and the measure went on the cal
endar.
At the conclusion of routine business
consideration of the bill to ratify an
agreement with the Sioux tribe of In
dams of the Rosebud reservation, in
South Dakotn, was resumed.
Senator Gamble Is. d. made an ex.
PLANTATION of the measure, strongly
urging it's enactment.
House.
Washington, May Without pre-
liminary business the house Wcdncs-
day resumed consideration of the ag.
riculturnl appropriation bill.
Washington, May 1.-The house
has passed the agricultural appropri-
alton bill.
Reciprocity Trc"tic~ Favored.
Washington. May 1.-The senate
committee on foreign relations
"Wednesday agreed to report favornbly
all the reciprocity treaties before the
committee except the treaty with Ar
grnlinn and the treaty with Great
Britain pertaining to ,Iamaicn, which
the committee decided to report ad-
,crscly.
The treaties on which favorable re-
ports were recommended are those
between the United States and France,
Nicaragua. Ecuador and the Dumin-
lean republic and four with Great Brit
ain covering BcrmudH Barbados,
British Guiana, Turks and Coicos is
lands.
All the treaties upon which favor
able reports are to he made are to be
amended in accordance with n prcvi-
o,ls agreement by adding he following
provisions:
"Ths treaty shall not take effect
until the same shall have been ap-
proved by the congress" The effect
of this amendment is TO require the
house of representatives as well as
the senate to act upon the treaties be-
fore they can become effective. The de-
feat of the treaty with the Argentine
Republic was due largely to the fact
that large quantities of wool are pro-
tluccd in that country. while the OPP
position to the Jamaican treaty was
largely on account of citrus fruits and
sugar.
The treaties with Nicaragua and
Ecuador have expired, but the commit
tee proceeded on the theory that fa-
vnrablc action on them by the commit
tee has the effect of renewing them so
far as this country is concerned
Congressman Cummings WOrse.
Baltimore, Md, May 1.-The condi-
tion of Congressman Amos j. Cum
mings. of New York, was reported at
one o'clock Wednesday TO be mot
quite so favorable" by those in charge.
The wife of the patient and his cousin,
Charles II. Cummings. were at his bed
side at that hour.
Carnegie Sails.
New York, May 1.-Andrcw Carnc-
gle left Wednesday on the steamship
st. Louis for his estate in Scotland.
With him were Mrs. Carnegie, Miss
Carnegie and james Bcrtram, his pri-
vate secretary.
i Tragedy In Michigan.
\ St. Johns, Mich, April 30.--J. A. Kim
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