Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-03-07
DEMOCRATS KNOCK
ORIENTAL POLICY
ADVERSELY CRITICISE MIXING
IN EASTERN MATTERS.
CLEVELAND'S CORRECTION
Former President Did Not Entertain
Negro at Dinner in the White
House-District of Columbia Costs
More Than the State of Minneso-
ia.

Washington. March 4.-For almost
four hours yesterday the senate,
while technically engaged on the nav
al appropriation bill, discussed a wide
range of subjects, including the pol
icy of the United States i'm the Philip
pines and the Russo-Japanese war.
The principal participants were Sen
ators Hale, Bacon. Lodge, Depew.
Patterson, Perkins and Monev. Sen
ator Hale. in charge of the naval hill
criticised the plans of TIE naval
board as tending to an establishment
beyond the needs of the country.
Senators Lodge. Depew and Perk-
ins defended the naval officers. The
former declared a large navy essen
tial to the maintenance of peace.
Senator Money said he did not consid-
er the total appropriation of $4,000
900 carried by the bill excessive I'M
der our present policy in the orient.
He, however, criticised that policy as
did other democratic speakers.
Cleveland Makes Correction.
The house resumed the consideIa-
ton of the District of Columbia APP
preparation bill During the discus
sion much time was consumed on the
presidents entertaining Booker It.
Washington at dinner at the white
house and the allegation that former
President Cleveland had entertained
a colored man in the same manner
when president.
Mr. Webb of North Carolina pre-
scented a note he had received from
Mr.. Cleveland declaring that the
story was a deliberate fabrication
out of whole CLOTH M. Scott. who
made the statement concerning Mr.
Cleveland. accepted the former presi-
dents denial as true and apOlogized
for making the allegation. The talk
then drifted into the matter of social
of men regardless OF color.
race. traits and tendencies. but it
was cut short by Mr.. McCleary's point
of order against further remarks not
germane TO the bill.
Mr.. Lind of Minnesota complained
of the extravaganza in district af
fairs, asserting that il cost more To
run the District of Columbia than the
entire state of Minnesota and other
speakers likewise complained that
there were too many institutions and
too many salaried officials.
The house passed the District or
Columbia appropriation bin and then
began the consideration OF the Indian
appropriation bill. This measure was
still under consideration when the
house adjourned.
A Church of Lawbreakers.
The attorneys for the protestants in
the Smoot investigation said they in
tended TO prove that the defendant is
associated with the hierarchy which
practices of polygamy and connives at
violations of the law and that his vote
as senator is subject to the wish and
command of the Mormon church.
President Joseph F. Smith confessed
that he himself had continued to co
habit with his plural family since the
manifesto of 1890 and that he realized
fully he was violating the state laws
President Smith also testified thac
Reed Smoot had to get the consent of
his associate apostles in the church
before he could become a candidate
for senator.
Smiths confession was the sensation
of the proceedings. He said the mani
festo of 1890 had left him and others
with plural families in the unfortunate
situation of being compelled to defy
the law or desert their families. For
himself he had preferred to take
chances with the law rather than dis.
grace himself and degrade his family
by abandoning his wives and childreE.
He admitted that he had had children
by all of his five wives since the mani.
festo and said he had acknowledged
them openly without interference or
disturbance from the people Of Utah.
whom he characterized as liberal and
broad minded.