Arizona republican., 1903-03-04

Washington, March 3.-The final de- feat of the AIdrich financial bill was witnessed in the senate today, when it was displaced by the Philippine tariff bill MT. Aidrich explained in detail his measure. and said q small number of men ill the senate had deliberately. with malice aforethougi:t, murdered it.
 One of the features of the session was the fact that for the first time in two years Delaware was represented in the senate, J. Frank Alice and L. Holster Ball, elected for the long and shcrt terms respectively. appeared i'll the senate room and were sworn in
 In the course of the debate Mir. Elk ins declared that the republican party had been false to it's solemn pledges cf three successive platforms with respect to statehood for Arizona, Oklahoma and New Mexico. and he said it was the first tine that the party had been guilty of GlihusteiinC. He declared that upon the republican majority rest cd the responsibility for the defect of several important measures in the Sen- ate. The senate at o'clock tcJk q 1ccaSs until o'clock.
 When the senate convened at o'clock Mir. Patterson made point Cf 10 qu1rum After a wait of ten min Utes quorum appeared. A bill provid- ing for the appointment of three com missioners from Porto Rico was taken up and amended So as to require the commission to report to congress in stead of the president. and aS amcndci the bill was passed. The bill provide for the report upon the lands claimei rob, fgls. s1 The chair appointed q committee to represent the senate dedicatcry cEer- cises Of the St. Louis exposition on April 90 and May l.
 Mir. Fairbanks then presented con- ference report on the omnibus public building bill. Mallory of FloriIa made a formal objection to the report in which he criticized the methods adopted in securing an agreement on the bill. Mir. Warren of Wyoming said the conferees on the part of the senate had been put in q humiliatirS position. He referred to the use of the word .'bunco' by Tillman and he said that hereafter when anybody shall speak of bad faith or bunco. his mind would inv1luntarily tarn to the actions of those from an other place" alluding to the house con- ferees, surrounding this very measure that we have in such humiil2tiI1S way surrendered todayr
 He said the senators on the commit- tee had refused to allow provisions for sites ir the bill because they agreed with the other committee not to do so being assured that the bill could not pass the house if new sites were pro vided. Yet the bill came back with many new sites and the senate confer ees were told they must accept them or there would be no bill.
 He referred to the cf1ice of the White House as that diminutive little wig wam which cost $65, GOO. That wigwam CT tepee, whose front yard is d coal hcIe and whose back yard IS q site for decent building to which this wig wam or tepee will serve as porch or piazza He said if he could not make better building for $65, GOO he would owe an apology to those who saw it. He spoke of large amounts that were being expended for public buildings. Immense sums, he said. had been asked for q temple of justice & .OO0. .0O0 for a department of commerce with L. 5G0 employees, mail bag shop and hall of records.
 Continuing Mr. Warren said: .-I say