SUGAR BEET STATES. They Will Control Senate Action on Reciprocity Bill. Heannrr Will I'robably lie Smoth ered in Committee on Com merce, Humiliated by Al lium! and 11 or row*. ISpeclal Washington Letter ] I reply, deeming silence the most prudent for the time being," said Representative llepburn, of lowa, in reference to a remark made to him by the secretary of war. "lie said: 'lt seems a pity that any ©f our people have been encouraged to engage in a business which would cripple the Antillean islands.' 111 oth er words, his sympathies were with the Cubans, as against our own peo ple, who have invested their millions in beet sugar. That remark intensi fied xi-y opposition to the reciprocity till." The measure referred to is now be fore the senate, and no writer can positively predict what will be done ■with it, but there are good reasons for believing that the senate will de fer action for a long time. The bill is now in charge of the senate com mittee 011 commerce. Senators Alli son, of lowa, and Burrows, of Mich igan, are two of the leading and in fluential members of that committee; end they are from beet sugar produc ing states. Men who have had long years of practical experience in na tional affairs are predicting that the two senators named will kill the meas ure by smothering it in the commit tee. They can delay committee action for a couple of months; and then it will be time for adjournment. Representative Richardson,the lead er of the democrats in the house of representatives, says: "While 1 have as high personal regard for the pres ent chief executive as I have had for any of his predecessors, I felt that in dealing with the Cuban reciprocity bill we had an opportunity to coop erate with a number of republicans in defeat ing the main feature of that bill, in order to show to the president and to his successors that they must not go too far in undertaking to shape na tional legislation. The representa tives of the people have spoken in no uncertain manner." Quite a number of statesmen hav# expressed substantially the same sen timent to your correspondent. There was an intensely earnest spirit per vading the house of representatives while that reciprocity bill was under consideration; and, in fact, for sev eral weeks before it was reported from the committee on ways and means. But this earnest spirit was patriotic and not personally bitter. 'The speaker and those who believed with him that the bill reported was a good one were fair with all others. But the opponents of the bill who Stood for protection to the beet sugar industry, after exhausting all parlia mentary patience, cut themselves loose from party ties and voted accord ing to their convictions. Such an in dependent. non-partisan spirit has not been displayed in either the senate or the house of representatives for more than a quarter of a century. The final vote showed unmistakably that the representatives of the people will leg islate independently when it comes to questions directly affecting their con- ! fctituents. Representative Shafroth, of Colo- j rado, says:"l was also amazed when 1 heard what the secretary of war' had said to Col. Hepburn; and that evidence of the sympathy for Cuba, I which was greater than sympathy for ! our own people, impelled me to great- SENATOR J. C. BURROWS. (Leader in Finance Committee, In Charge of the Hill.) er efforts to defend the beet sugar in dustry. What we have done for Cuba ail the- world knows; and now I pro-, pose that \\.e shall look out for our I folks at home." Senator Teller, of Colorado, voicing a sentiment similar to that uttered by ! Mr. Shafroth, says: "You may be i sure that there will be no reciprocity j law enacted during this session of congress, so far as our relations with i Cuba are concerned. 'The members of the popular branch of Ihe congress have shown that a majority of itiern are in favor of the beet sugar indus try. The senate would be wasting time to p:v their legislative body well can tell what is most likely to be done. Senator Burrows, of Michigan, is an other statesman of many years of ex perience in national affairs. Like Senator Teller, lie is from a beet sugar producing state, and his opinion might be biased in opposition to the bill HON. J. D. RICHARDSON. (Democratic Leader in the House of Rep resentatives.) which has passed the house. But, al though either one or both of them might thus be biased, you will under stand the weight of their opinions when reminded of the fact that two or three senators can delay and ultimate ly prevent legislation under the rules of the senate. It was with reference to a full un derstanding of these legislative con jditions that Senator Burrows said: | "If Michigan were the only state in ! terested in protecting the beet sugar industry, 1 would oppose the reci procity bill, and so would Senator McMillan, my colleague. But, as I understand it, there are 14 senators from beet sugar producing states, and you know thai a body of 14 de- I termined men in the senate can be j so formidable as to be almost in | vincible Moreover, in addition to the 14 senators from states interest ed in beet sugar production, there j are many senators who believe with ( us that protection should lie given to j that industry and they will volun | tarily take our part. Therefore it would seem to me that you might safely predict that there will be no Cuban reciprocity legislation this year." Senator Burton, of Kansas, another statesman from the beet sugar coun try, says: "Although I have only j been a member of the senate a little j more than one year, I have in that j time made the acquaintance of the | older senators to whom leadership is | accredited. From them I glean in formation which impels me to believe I that the bill which has come from : the house of representatives will ! never be enacted into law. The sen- I ate might amend; but the house would accept no amendments. The j majority of the direct representa j tives of the people have spoken so emphatically that the senate could 1 not misunderstand if it would." Senator Morgan, of Alabama, one j of the most patriotic and forceful of statesmen, says: "We have done ' more than a fraternal duty for Cuba, i We have taxed ourselves $250,000,000 I in order to give liberty and sclf-gov- I eminent to Cuba. We gave upwards of 40,000 lives in her behalf, livery 1 life lost by disease and death in our | army in Cuba, Porto Rico and the | Philippines was given in order that | Cuba might be free. Besides expend ing $250,000,000 on our neighbors, we | relieved Cuba of a public debt of j $300,000,000 which Spain intended to i collect from the revenues of the is- | land. We have given Cuba enough j to have the everlasting gratitude of I her people and their posterity. They j have no right to ask more. They had no right to expect so much." And now for a little secret history; not all of it, but enough. More than ! a year ago Gen. Fit/.hugh bee an nounced at a banquet in Omaha that "our flag will never come down in ! Cuba." lie told the.truth, but inop portunely. We shall maintain naval stations and have other pretenses for keeping the flag afloat there. Short ly before Gen. I.ee was indiscreet, the secretary of war said to Gen. James H. Wilson: "It may take three or four years for voluntary annexa tion; but it will come. We will Se lect, the first president for Cube." The first president of Cuba will be Palma, of New ork, an American 1 citizen, who has not lived in Cuba for more than a quarter of a eenturv. He was elected, just as President Diaz is elected in Mexico; and not by free balloting, as we elect our pres idents. He will perform bis duty by hastening annexation. That A\JU LIE 1 the next chapter in the history of our I relations with Cuba. It was the pur- I pose of McKinley. It is the purpose ' of Roosevelt and his administration. I SMITH D. FRY. I Yuliinble Depoall of Conl. A valuable and workable deposit of j bituminous coal 1,000 miles long ruua along the eastern base of the main i range of the Kockies, extending from | the. Canadian boundary through Mon- | tana, Wyoming, Colorado and A'ew j Mexico. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1902. I ■ a POULTRY FEEDING BOX. The One Here Dfurrllied, Arroriliug to 1 1N IleNfKiK'r, IN MM Perfect an It Can lie Mmle. Please find within a drawing of my improved poultry feeding box, which lias many points of importance. A box of this kind is made very cheaply; | it is easy to keep clean, and at the same time keeps the birds from getting into and soiling the food. At the same time each hen cannot push away her neighbor in eating a meal, so that the different ones can have a fair share of the hot mush at the morning meal. To construct a feed box of this kind, all one needs is a board ten or twelve inches wide, one inch or more thick and four feet long; six or seven plastering laths and a handful of wire shingle nails, which are to be driven through Hie top ends of the laths and clinched. It is well not to have the upper sides of IMPROVED FEEDING BOX. the frame, where the feed is putin, j more than three or four inches, so that a hen cannot get in. The openings | at the sides I have about three inches i between the laths. I have used and have seen a large i variety of box feeders and I tind that 1 this plan is about as near perfect as ! anything in use. I must not omit to | say that in putting on the upright | laths it is well to let them into the side ! of the four foot board, as a box made j in this manner will last for years with ■ proper care. Tt, is not easily tipped I I over, and will hold grain or mush food 1 by letting the laths come up an inch | above tin? bottom board.—Charles E. j Russell, in X. Y. Tribune. EFFECTS OF CROSSING. Where Pmillry Itttl»rr« Practice It Lurgrly, tlio llcsnlt I* Nearly Al ivii j M n Kill In i t'. Crossing the breeds lias never given good results, although a great many . try it, and will continue to do so. In ; nearly all cases when the attempt is ; made to blend the best qualities of two ■ different breeds the offspring is not equal to either parent, hence in the j course of a few years there will he 110 ! uniformity, and the stock reverts to | the scrub. Too much mixing is no bet ! ter than keeping scrubs. It is right 1 nnd proper to grade up a. common flock i with pure breeds, but to cross 1 wo pure breeds is a mistake. Where crossing is practiced largely, as with poultry, tlie result is nearly always a failure, there | being no uniformity of color, size or laying qualities. Pure breeds are real ly the results of judicious crossings I nnd selections, and cannot he improved upon except after years of care and se lection of tlie best individuals. The best possible security, short of the actual test, that any bird or animal will produce its characteristics in its offspring is that these characteristics are known to have belonged to a long line of ancestors. Individual merit and adaptation to our needs should be ' the first and most important points of selection. '1 he character of the ances tors should be considered. It is not necessary to endeavor to determine the ?haraeter of any one of the ancestors, for when pure breeds are used one gets at once the results of selection for years bj' those who worked in the past. Crossing destroys the work that others have done before.—Farm and Fireside. SPRING POULTRY NOTES. The sitting hen should have a daily dust bath. Keep the hen-hatclied chicks dry and warm. Be sure that your poultry has com fortable quarters. Ducks and geese should never be kept with chickens. Early pullets are the profitable winter egg chickens. Young ducks should have an abun dance of coarse sand. The hen and IHM- chicks should be protected from the wind. If an old rooster is not fit for the table, kill him and bury him. liens will lay as-well without the attention of the male as with it. Filthy quarters produce sickness, and sick hens not produce eggs. It is a good plan to have a be*rd floor for the coop which holds Hie hen and chicks. It has been proven by experiment that it pays better to feed milk to chickens than to pigs.—Commercial Poultry. 110 Not Crovril (lie Chirk*. Crowding is bad in any stage of a fowl's existence. Perhaps it is worse in the case of young chicks, whose hold on life is very light at the start. The brood that is watched over l>y the old lien seldom is crowd ed enough to be injured. Xot so the brooder chicks. The amateur that lias a few incubators is very likely to try to save space in the brooder, or rather, to make one brooder do the work of several. When too many are brought together disease germs have a good chance to multiply in the rapidly accumulating filth. Bad air ulso helps matters along.—Farmer*' lievitvv. GENIAL CUSTOMS INSPECTOR- Fntrrtnlnn M I.ncly Trnvflf r nllh Ilia i'bnt W hflc lie I'n UH Over Her Wardrubv, "Yes, ma'am, very sorry, ma'am, but it's me duty. Kh, nothing dutiable there? Well, that's for me to sav, ma'am" relate* tue Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Your keys, please. J'op! and there we are! Very nice ly jjacked, I'm sure. That's something we can't learn to do here, ma'am. Nile gar ments, ma'am. And now we'll toss jt over here on the dock, ma'am. Silk waist, eh? It looks innocent. I'll drop it here, ma'am. You watch it to see that nobody step* on it. 1» this real laee, ma'am? Very nice effect, I'm sure. That would please my wife im j menselv. She doats on lace, ma'am. You certainly have come very nice things, lady. |ls this all handwork? That's real cunning ! with the narrow colored ribbons run through |it like that. Yes, I have to throw 'em around. There ain't no other place. But don't you worry, it's a good deal cleaner here to-day than usual. It's BO nice to have things in sets. Oh, ye®, I'm pretty near the bottom. There! that's all. There ain't nothin' dutiable that I can discover, ma'am. Don't mention it. Shall I chuck the stuff back again?" Ronton la I nlqnr. A Chicagoan had been taken around Bos ton all day to observe her bulwarks, but had failed to observe any of those symptoms of paralysis which are acceptable to the Bos tonian mind. "Now conless,' 'said the Bos tonian host, after the burden and heat of the day, "isn't Boston a unique town?" "Unique," mused the westerner, "I believe that word is derived from two Latin words, unus, one, and ecius, horse. 1 think Boston is a unique town. ' —Chicago Chronicle. Aak To-I)ay for Allen * rLaie. It cures swollen, aching, tired feet. At all Druggists and Shoo stores, y.">c. Sample sent FUEE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Cnug li t. Joakley—Budds, the florist, has a big in quisitive plant on exhibition. Coakley- What's an inquisitive plant? 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Sproekett—"Why does Cranklin call his wheel a Wagner cycle?" Handel Barrs— it makes such a racket when lie rides it."—Boston Transcript. "A Woman Is the Age She looks."-—Vis itor (kindly)—"lTuw old are you, dear?" Little Girl (with great dignity)—"l'm not old at all. Cranny's old.-biu mot I cr's young, and daddyV young, and I'm very young!"— Punch. "Don't you think my (laughter's voice has money in it, "Money, mad ante? es, yes. Oh, much money—much., Only leave her to me, madame, and I'll prove it." And he did prove it to his own' satisfaction at the rate ot ¥2 a lesson. —Phil- adelphia Bulletin. More Valuable Than Life. — A sentence was once pronouced by a Scotch judge with the following accompaniment: "Ye d/il not only kill and murder the man, and (iiercby take away his valuable life, but ye ■did push, tin ust or impel the lethal weapon through the bcllyhaud of his regimental trousers, which were the property of hi« nxjestv."—Cli.-govv Lvetiiug Tmie3. 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