Bisbee daily review., 1903-02-05
UNFAIR TREATMENT BY NEWSPAPER

: We regard +4e Washington Star as an honorable journal and one that al- ways aims To be perfectly fair and strictly truthful, but in its issue of January 27th We find an article, con spicuously displayed on the first page, which contains assertions that are neither fair nor truthful and which the Star, out of regard for it's own good name, should promptly correct. That there may be DO mistake in re- gard to the article referred to, and that our readers may have a chance to judge of it's character for them selves, we copy it in full as follows:
 If it is necessary, in order to beat the statehood bill, to have a special session of the senate after March to ratify the Cuban reciprocity treaty, the Panama canal treaty and the Alaskan boundary treaty the. republi- can leaders in the senate will be pre- pared to stay here for such a session. The omnibus statehood bill has been all along doomed to defeat The re-
 
 than ever 10 prevent the passage of that bill
 Prominent republican senators to- day predict a special session Of the senate after March to act on those treaties
 They base that urediction on the assumption that Mr. Quay would carry his advocacy of the statehood bill to the point of preventing action upon the treaties. Down in their hearts they 10 not believe that Sena- tor Quay will have the support of a sufficient number of senators to force such a contingency. but. of course they cannot 20 back Of his expressed intention to hold up the public busi- ness until vote is reached on his bill, and they now are considering the alternative course they are to pursue if he persists in his declared policy. and can make go of it.
 A distinct policy of aggression in the statehood fight is to he pursued hereafter bv the opponents of the omnibus bill. Repub ican leaders. such as Senators Aldrich Hale. Lodge and Spooner will hereafter take ac- tive participation in parliamentary proceedings, as well as interests in the inside workings of the legislative game, and will give battle to Senator Quay upon every occasion.
 Senator Aldrich gave evidence of the determination which has been reached by his action this afternoon in endeayoring 10 prevent Senator Quay assuming control of the time of the senate before morning business s1r.-1
 o'clock arrived. He invoked the sen- ate rule to that effect and will tonor- TOW try to convince the chair that other business may proceed until l o'clock.
 This was but a small straw to point the direction of the legislative wind. but it indicates the direction in which 1t is blowing, and it will blow a gale before it is over
 If Senator Quay should carry his determination to obstruct business to the point of opposing an antitrust bill and could command a following strong enough to enable him to do it, the result would be the calling of an extra session of congress. but nobody seriously believes MT. Quay will. do that or can do it
 
 the ratification of treaties would be easily brought about, and as pressure would be brought to bear for speedy ratification and getting away. il is thought Senator Quay could not long continue his hold up of the senate
 The Albuquerque Journal Democrat crat has the following comment to make:
 The foregoing was not an editorial. but appeared as we have said. in the news columns, and was printed under a display head saying, Quay holds up business by the statehood pill" That was not the truth.
 All of the article except the three paragraphs at the close, might be call ed news matter, but by the coloriug that was given it by the writer, it has been made unfair and misleading, while the closing portion of the arti- ele is not news matter. but a discus sion of a public question, and is rei- ther fair nor honest because it at tempts 10 mislead public opinion by a perversion of facts.
 This it does by representing that Mir. Quay and g majority of the sen ate are holding up'' the public busi- ness, while the reverse of this is true The minority are holding up the