The Dolores star., 1902-06-13

Martinique.
The House committee on library has
ordered favorable report on bill
appropriating $4,000 for an eques-
trian statue of Baron Steubcn. 10 be
erected in Washington
Representative Lacey's bill for the
transfer of control of certain forest re-
serves from the Interior to the Agricul-
tural Department Is now assured OF
passage by the House. The fact that
the bill is strongly endorsed by the
President and that he has personally
requested many members TO give 1t
support is accountable for the large
vote 1t Will receive.
The President sent for a number OF
senators who have been known in op-
position 10 granting concessions 10 Gu
ha on the ground that il VIII interfere
with the interests of the beet sugar in
dustry of the country. He urged on
these senators united action or purpose
and expressed the hope that the Re
publiCans would act together. The
President again assured the Republic
cans that in urging action on reciproci-
ty, he would carry out the announce
menr of President Mckinley, uttered
in his last speech with such particular
approval throughout the country. The
President indicated that the adoption
of the Plat amendment made it oh
ligatory upon the United States TO
treat Cuba differently from other ma
tons.
Senator Clark of Wyoming has re-
ported from the public lands commit
tee n bill TO prevent discrimination in
the issuance of grazing permits in for
est reservations. The bill was designed
especially to relieve conditions exist
ing between Utah and Wyoming in re-
gard 10 the Uintah reservation. The
secretary of the interior refuses TO
grant grazing permits in Utah TO the
herders of Wyoming. The herds of
Utah 90 into Wyoming during the win
ter to Craze without molestation. The
bill abOlishcs the rule that no grazing
permits shall be granted TO stock
growers OF another state and also pro
vides that no wool growers union or
stock growers association shall desig
nate the persons to be given permits
as has been the practice in the past.
Senator Dietrich of Nebraska, who
stands with the beet sugar interests in
opposition to the reduction of duty on
Cuban sugars as proposed by the Re
publican members of the Senate com
mittee on Cuban relations, mas intro
duced bill on the subject which he
thinks Will be accepted as a compro-
mise measure. 1t provides that the
differential on refined sugar shall be
abolished, but that an equal amount
shall be added to the duty on raw SUI
gars, and then II gives Cuba twenty
five per cent. reduction from this in
creased duty. Senator Dietrich says
that he has consulted the President
with reference to the terms of the bill.
and that it is acceptable to him. He
also assured himself that it will be
satisfactory to the senatorial friends
of beet sugar.
In the Senate Mr.. Mitchell of Ore
gon in a vigorous speech handled
without gloves the proposition to build
the canal by the Panama route, and
incidentally the Spooner amendment.
by the adoption of this proposition"
he said, the United States would be
tacking on to one of the greatest frauds
and pieces of corruption known since
the world began" He could not be-
lieve. he said. that the Senate pro-
posed to consider seriously PROPOSE
ton which will involve the United
States in a legal controversy for a hun
dred years. | want the Senate to know
the facts and to determine whether we
really shall take up this rotten concern
across the sea-" He urged Congress
TO assume the responsibility of select
ing the route and not turn that respon-
sibility over to the President.
Discussing the Isthman canal in the
Senate. Mr.. Morgan of Alabama,
chairman of the committee on inter.
oceanic canals, said his study of the
situation had convinced him hat really
there was no greater danger from vol
canic and earthquake disturbances tC
| the Panama route than to the Nicar.
aqua route, but he was satisfied thai
| little danger to either was TO be anti
cipated. Mr.. Morgan reviewed al
length the political conditions in Co
lombia, finding in them grave menace
10 the United States in the construc
ton of Il canal by the Panama route
He presented also the present phases
of the diplomatic negotiations looking
to the building of a canal by both tn,
Nicaragua and Panama routes. He
closed with Il strong appeal for tn,
passage of the Nicaragua bill
On June md the House by vote o
123 TO 4G suspended the rules AM
adopted the joint resolution eXteDdin;
the thanks of Congress to Secretary o
State John Hay for his address on til,
occasion of the Mckinley memoria
exercises last February. Unanimou
consent for the consideration of thi
resolution was objected to by Mr.. ID
Almond of Missouri, some time age
and when it was finally taken up MI
Clark of Missouri made u twenty min
ute speech in opposition to its adop
tion on the ground that Mr.. Hay ha,
abused the occasion by injecting IA Ire
publican stump speech into the ad
dress. General Hooker of Mississippi
a one-armed Confederate veteran, dc
liyered an eloquent defense of Nj
Hays address. denying that it cor
tained anything Objectionable from
political standpoint.
Representative Richardson of Ter
nessee, the Democratic floor leader
has introduced the bill revving tn
trust bill, which passed the House i
the Fifty-siNth Congress and failed i
the Senate. 1t amends the Sherma
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