Arizona republican., 1903-12-17
A MEDLEY DEBATE
House Handles a Variety
 of Subjects
A Discussion of Central American Al. fairs = Livefnash Introduces Labor Question.

Washington, Dec. 16.-Central Ameri- can affairs were discussed in the house today and also pensions, industrial and agricultural conditions and labor. The session lasted more than four hours, the house being in committee of the whole almost the entire time of the discussion of the appropriation pension bill on which no conclusion was reached. MT. Lind democrat, of Minnesota) refer ring to an editorial published in a home paper which he said reflected on his relations with MT. Williams, the minor ity leader, staoed that he desired to say that his relations with Mr. Williams were of the most cordial character. Mir. Dinsmore (democrat of Arkansas) replying to remarks made by MT. Hit Republican, of Ilhnois) last week said he had not charged the administration with lawlessness, but has conscientious " described the act as he understood 1t to have been done. He. renewed his contention that it was the duty of the president to have turned to Nicaragua and he repeated that the Panama canal law had been violated. He insisted that the president had done wrong.
 MT. Dinsmore quoted from the speech made in New York last night by As sistant Secretary Loomis, saying that when Mir. Loomis said: Tt became evi- dent shortly after the opening of the Colombian congress in June that there was not the least intention of ratifying the Hay-Herran treaty" his Conten- ton was sustained He took issue with other statements made by MT. Loomis.
 MT. Hit Republican of Illinois, re- plying to MT. Dinsmore, said: After a treaty by which we generously gave ten millions at their demand, had been rejected with a palpable spirit of black mailing us out of fifteen millions mo! e. the gentleman from Arkansas says We should yield it. I will certify that all the republicans and democrats would give President Roosevelt with ering, hissing and scorn if he had sub- mitted to that blackmail.
 MT. Hit said the president had been accused of being too slow, then with being too fast. The president had on- ly done his duty in preserving peace on the isthmus as he was charged to dc under the treaty There was no other authority on the isthmus with which to negotiate a treaty than that recognized MT. Parker (cf New Jersey) reviewed the history of the isthmus of Panama and its relations to Colombia
 MT. Birdsell Republican of Iowa) who succeeded former Speaker HendeT son compared industrial and agricultural conditions under democratic and repub- lican administrations.
 He was followed by MT. Livernash (of California; who spoke on the labor question. He said that labor believed that some great wrong principle exist ed which needs a remedy. It had beer proposed that a congressional com mittec be appointed to make a careful inquiry, but he did not want such ar inquiry as would be made by the de Dartment of justice, which he asserted prosecuted some little concern instead of the Standard Oil or the Sugar trust the very air of which was polluting Nor he added, such reports as would be made by the department of com merce and labor. He spoke of them as kid glove reports because, he said he saw evidences of kid gloves and not an ax. "One of the greatest enemies of organized labor," he declared, lis Carol D. Wright with his distorted fig ures.
 At 4:15 D. m. the house adjourned un- til tomorrow.