The Mankato free press., 1922-01-20


times during the evening we take a
view of the dome and never do we re-
tire without more look at this marvel
Of beauty. Before the conference the
dome was lighted only on special oc
casions and when night sessions were
continue until the conference closes
and it has been very properly sug
gested that this wonderful piece Of
architecture be lighted every night as
long as it ami time endure as every
aay brings new people into Washing
ION and the memory OF the sight Of
the dome will ever be refreshing
one.
Aside from the number of represen
tatlYeS in congress, ninety six in the
Senate and four hundred and thirty
nve in the House, there are two ter
Iitorial delegates in congress, one
from Alaska and one from Hawaii.
Then from the Philippine Islands and
Porto Rico come deleSaIeS known as
resident commissioners" two from
the Philippines and one from Porto
Rico. The territorial delegates rep
.eseDt a people that may, in case
their popula,ion is sufficient, become
state of the United States if Con-
gress approves of its admittance as
such. While the resident conlmiSS-
loner represents a population that
can not became state OF the United
otates, but are SIMPLY under the pro
lection OF the UniIed States. F.om
-,IaSka comes Dan Sutherland, a re-
.ubIican, as territorial delegate. From
hawaii comes }. kLhio kalanianAoie,
who was territorial delegate until his
death the past week. he was a Cou-
SIN of the late Queen Lii and his wife
a daughter of chief OF a neighborfng &
Island. he was educated in Honolulu,
United States and england, and was a
.epuDaIcan. The territorial elegates
ana resident commissioned have the
privilege OIL debate, but no right to the
sUte. Two resident commissioners
trom the Philippines jaime Z. Dewey
IA, nationalist, who was elected by
ne Z. l. legislature in 1917, and re-
elected in 1920. Their term is three
years. The other deiegates is Isanro
uabaidon; nationalist, both men are
.awyerS. Two weeks ago when
uuother and l were attending the
Congressional club a Philippine lady
arose and gave mother her chair. She
proved to be Nine. DeFeyra, wife Of
philippines. She was exceedingly
-ourteous and refined. She told us
that p. l. was sending from fifty to
one hundred and fifty of her youth to
the United States each year to be ed
ucated, and that they were scattered
through the States. She said that
Agmanaldo's daughter was here sew
eral years, first in school in the state
OF Illinois and later transferred to
Wellesley.
That she had not completed her
schooling here when she married and
returned to P. TO live. She stated
!ngton that Miss Agmanaldo met the
Philippine Press reporter whom she
later married. Later, one of the la
dies told me that Nine DeVeyra was
one OF the foremost women OF her
land in educational work for the ad-
yancement OF her people. Her four
children she told us were being edu-
Gated in the Catholic school here, and
while she liked Washington very
much, she sometimes onged for her
homeland. From Porto Rico the res
ldent commissioner is Felix Cordova
Davila OF the nationalist party. One
week ago we heard one of the prom
lnent Chinese representative to the
club on the conference.
He said they had been fighting
three weeks in the conference for
Shantung; that Shantung is as sacred
to them as Mt. Vernon is to us. eff
any foreigner should lay his hands on
nt. vernon you, everyone OF you
would fight as you would have a right
to do. We are not asking for the
whole Christmas tree. but for a few
things on that tree and foremost Is
Shantung' In speaking Of the friend
ly relations between United States.
In 1872 when we became a republic,
the United States was the first nation
In the world to recognize China as
such. Again when the treaty of Yer
sailles came up in 1918 the United
States again befriended China by not
accepting the League of Nations
and now the United States has done a
thing no other nation of the world
would have dared to do, that Is to in
Ylte poor, weak, struggling nation
like China to come to this great dis
armament conference to seek her
rights. Further we did not do as
Miles Standish did-delegate another
to ssk-we came an asked for our
selves. As you readers know there
Is much civil dissention in China and
two governments have set themselves
up the Picking government of the
north, charged with being under con.
troll of the japanese, and the Canton
government of South China, at the
head of which is the creator of the
original Chinese Republic, President
Sun Vat Sen. DR. Sun was inaugura-
ted president OF all China May S. He
sroke at length on the twenty one
demands made upon China by Japan
and stated that the JAPANESE have
one hundred and sixty postoffices in
China through which they send parcel