Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-05-01
Senate Session.

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and it now goes to the president for
his final action.
r." Senate Session.
Washington, April 29.-When tho
senate convened Monday, Senator
Harris( Kan.) presented the follow
ing telegram he had received from
the Kansas Millers' association:
kansas mllers, on account Of foreign
determinations, with the best wheat in the
world at their door, are not producing over
one-third of their full capacity. Unless
your committee on foreign relations can
give us relief, through reciprocal conces-
sions, placing our millers on an equal basis
with foreign mills many Of our mills will
shut down indefinitely and some of them
will be forced to the wall. In our distress,
we look to our senators for relief.
The telegram was referred to the
committee on foreign relations. u..
At his own request, Senator Car
mack (Tenn.) was excused from serv-
and labor.
The oleomargarine bill, as it came
from the house, was taken up and
Senator Culberson (Tex.) moved that
it be referred to the committee on
agriculture. The motion was defeat
ed, 26 to 35.
Senator Teller then offered an
amendment to the renovated butter
section of the bill as passed by the
senate defining a butter trust, and
providing that tax of ten per cent.
shall be imposed upon the products
of such a trust and upon the capital
and assets of such trust.
Amendment Defeated.
The amendment was defeated rs
to 20, the detailed vote being as fol-
lows: -"
Yeas-Bacon, Bate, Blackburn, Clark
(Mont.), Clay, Cockrell, Culberson, Daniel,
Dubois, Foraker, Foster Na;)' He1t1ela'
McEnery, McLaurin (Miss.), McLaurin Is.
CT, Mallory, Martin, Mitchell, Patterson,
Rawlins, Stewart, Teller, Tillman, Turner,
.Vest-25.
Nays-Allison, Burnham, Burton, Cullom,
Deboe, Depew, Dillingham;, Dolliver, Fair
banks, Foster (Wash.), Frye, Gamble,
Hansbrough, Harris, Hawley, Kean, Kilt
redge, Lodge, McCumber, Mcmillan, Mel
son. Perkins, Plat Comm, Platt On. W,
Proctor, Quarles, Simon, Wetmore-2S.
Senator Proctor, in charge of the
measure, moved that the senate non
concur in the house amendments, and
that conference be requested.
Senator Cockrell (Mo.) interposed
with motion to agree to the house
amendments, and the motion was
agreed to without division, thus pass
ing the bill.
At two o'clock the senate took up
the Philippine government bill, and
Senator Simmons IN. c. addressed
the senate in opposition to the meas
ure.
In Defense of Funston.
Washington, April 29.-Monday was
District of Columbia day in the house
under the rules, but the regular or
der was postponed until Monday next
in order that the house might pro-
coed with the consideration of the
agricultural bill. The naval appro-
priation bill was reported, and the
house then resumed the considera-
ton of the agricultural appropriation
bill
Mr.. Curtis (Kan.) made brief but
fervent defense of Gen. Funston
against the criticism to which he had
been subjected. The people of Kan
sas,'' he began, ''are proud of the
brave and daring record of gallant
Fred Funston. applause on the re-
publican side.) He has been crit
ing of conception and execution
ranks with the greatest feats of arms
he captured the new George Wash
Acknowledgements
If another had accomplished what
Gen. Funston did, he said, the demo-
Gratis would have made him their can
didate for president. He called at
tention to the fact that his promo
ton had been recommended by Gen.
Wheaton and Gen. Macarthur, both
soldiers of the civil war, soldiers who
knew more of war and the rules of
war than all the politicians in this
country combined. And his commits
sion, he added, was signed by the
greatest president we have ever had
the soldier, statesman and martyr,
William Mckinley. (Applause.)
Mr.. Feeley Qll.) submitted some re-
marks in support Of the contention
that the laws of neutrality were be-
ing violated by this government in al
lowing the shipment of mules and
horses to South Africa for use by the
British in the war against the Boer
republics
He said that public sentiment in
the United States favored the cause
of the Beers and insisted tnat neith-
er secretly nor openly should our
government extend aid to the Brit
ish. Mr.. Feeley and Mr.. Gillett
(Mass.) clashed upon the interpreta-
ton of that portion of the treaty of
Washington which bound the United
States and England as to what con-
stitutes war materials.
Peter Power Not a Myth.
New York, April 29.-Peter Power,
plaintiff in one Of the Northern Secur-