Show tl1 THE BOGUS BUTTER BILL f 0 i Secretary1 g Doas Not I Agree With Wilson 1 0 i1 DOESNT LIKE GROUT BILL 0 0 yc 0 S ycif 11tt 1 I Thinks the Wadsworth Substitute Is an Infinitely Better Measure The Senate Will Probably Radically I CO Amend the Grout Bill Senator Shoup Will Be Grievously Missed ik I The Present Situation in South Ii Africa as a Vindication of Grants I l Policy on Gen Lees Surrender I I j I CorrcHpontcnco Tribune Washington D CJan 17There is a decided difCcrenccof opinion between I iI l IIJ the Secretary of Agriculture and the I I I Secretary of the Treasury as to the 4 Ii I need of legislation to further regulate I I the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine I oleomar-garine and other butter substitutes The former In his testimony on agrl I I I culture asserted that the Grout bill I V which proposes totax colored butter 1 substitutes Is dssential to the welfare III wel-fare of the dairy interests of the country I coun-try Secretary Wilson is i a practical l I I farmer and he spoke for the Interests of the farmers gencraU He admitted ejI I however that the Grout bill puts no I t more safeguard against the fraudulent I U I sale of Imitation butter than now exist ex-ist Secretary Gage emphatically de Ittf iiouncuil the proposed legislation as fraudulent upon Its face because It Is offered as a bill to raise revenue He I pointed out that as such It Is a misnomer n 1 mis-nomer and that Instead of raising the I f revenue It will simply act to curtail IIi the receipts from the tax on oleo The only say In which the manufacture iI manufac-ture and sale of any food product can I I t be regulated by Congress is under the 11 ll provision of the Constitution WhICh I I gives Congress the power to ralse revenue I I reve-nue for the support of the Government a Under that clause the original oloo I margarIne law was enacted and subse quenllS the filled clause and mixed I ri flour statutes were added Secretary Gage declared that the Wadsworth I Mibstilute for the Grout bill would afford I Lit af-ford greater protection to the revenue S and further that the Wadsworth proposition L propo-sition is In every way an Infinitely better L bet-ter measure The hearings before the t Senate committee lasted for several I weeks The Senate must now act and Lt the general belief ife I that the Grout I bill will not pass without radical amendments but Its friends will make I vigorous efforts to secure Its adoption U as a rider to one of the appropriation U bills I 0 0 II I J The election of Fred Dubois as a Senator fiom Idaho brings to an end for the present at least the Senatorial I career of one of the most unique and lovable characters in the upper house I of Congress Dubois will succeed I Gcorpe L Shout whose term ends on i the Uhof March Born In Pennsylvania I Co Pennsyl-vania of old Pennsylvania Dutch stork George L Shoup early went i I I West to grow up with the country and to Fcek his fortune Ills history for nearly forty years has been the history a of the SUte > which he haRI represented vver cincc Its l Udm lsOiv He oeuupIoJ the unique position of being the only I member of the Senate who ever held a r seat In the body after having been pre 1 bushy I censuied by the Senate I During the Civil war Shoup > was a I poldler and an Indian fighter While I in command of n regiment of cavalry uiJer the direct command of Col Chlv ington he had occasion to avenge the hi utah murder of a number of men and women who had gone fomard to a point near Ft Lyon in what is now Colorado These people blacksmiths and farmers with their families were massacred and horribly mutilated by the redskins Col Shoup finally located tid surrounded the marauders He reported re-ported his i success to Col t hivlngton who directed him to proceed to battle in command of his regiment The American loss In this engagement was ortyfour killed and wounded There were found on the field 452 dead Indians In-dians How many got away will never I be known But the usual protests I agalst tho pocallcd massacre were I raised in tji1 East with the result that I Col Shoup was censured by the Senate Sen-ate 0 S 0 Subsequently In 1865 he was ordered to proceed to Washington to appear before Il board of Inquiry He was told that he was entitled to counsel I I but declined the services of a lawyer I Give me an hour and a half said I < ol Shoup to the court and I think in Unit time I can explain to the court the conditions na they exist better than any lnyor whoJuiowM nothing about them possibly could llis request was granted lie pictured In plain but eloquent elo-quent language the affairs in the far West IJo told of Ch9 brutal and wanton wan-ton murders committed by the sax ugea against whom he had fought He described the hellish tortures and mutilations mu-tilations which the fiends committed upon defenseless women and children and then hu told In a stralghtforxvard way of the light which had resulted In avenging fully and completely l those frightful outrage At the end of tile talk the old Central I Cen-tral himself an Indian fighter who presided over the court grasped Col fihoup by Urn llal dAn said l It It was a magnificent battle Colonel and a glfjrlou victory And every member of the court Joined in the congralula I I tlon That way theendoC Ue proceed pro-ceed 1lnhs I > 0 For upward of thirty years Col I Shoup has been a resident of Idaho i HH exp ren < c would fill a volume and I would rival in interest any tale of Fell nimorc Cooper Ills wle bears a bullet sear as a result of an Indian attack and his children know the meaning oC tho perils of frontier life He has prospered pros-pered and today conducts the largest general J store In the State He has flPed positions of trust from minor ofilcin to Governor and Senator He upheld the banner of Idaho In St Louis in 1VG wh < jri DubolH and his fellow deb gates tealfifty walked out of the convention con-vention S Ho has never hesitated to contribute his time or means for the advancement advance-ment of Idahos intercuts When the t otton States exposition was hold In ACI Orleans Home years ago George L Shoup was the commissioner of the Territory He spent upward of JOOOO of his own money to present the pro ducts of Idaho properly to the atten ion of the visitors to the exposition He has done more than any score of men to advance Iduhon material welfare wel-fare To him more than any other man Idaho owes the fact of her admission ad-mission us a State He has ahuiyg been a consistentRepublican Hud he been a trimmer he might have been reelected to the Senate for another term As It Is lie leaves the scat which he has HO honorably filled conscious that he has the profound respect o Cry every Senator and that his departure Is sincerely regretted 0 of The prosent situation of affairs in South ACrica vindicates thoroughly and completely the policy of Gen Grant In dealing with Gen Lee and his army saId a veteran of the Civil war lodav Grant demonMtrated then that Itl < fould see furl hoi into the future than any other contemporary eoldhi or statesman He told Lcey soldiers to take their h horses use them toward I rebuilding the South His terms were honorable and llberalt Yet had the Republican Re-publican national convention been I called to ratify those terms they probably I prob-ably would have secured a dozen votes Stanton the Secretary of War would I have repudiated them had ho dared to I do so just as Jic repudiated the terms 1 offered by Sherman and Johnson Instead of offering something like I honorable terms to tho defeated Boers In South Africa Roberts and Kitchner I have started In on a policy of destruction destruc-tion The result is these raids and uprisings up-risings with an occasional skirmish will probably go on for years Even after four years of devastating war I 1 the South was better armed better equipped and better prepared to forage for-age than are the Afrikanders today Had It not been for Grants long head at Appomalox Lees men would have formed raiding bunds which would have made a standing army necessary I for years after the war There would have been unrest throughout l the country coun-try and Washington would have continued con-tinued a fortified camp Grants wisdom was not appreciated then but his policy of moderation to vard his conquered foe Is being indorsed in-dorsed every day by the news from I South Africa x S The report from Boston that Superintendent Super-intendent Fryc of the Cuban schools resigned because of disagreement with Military Gov Woodss office Is in line with the supposition which was prevalent preva-lent throughout the army when the announcement an-nouncement of Mr Fryes resignation was first made It Is a strange fact t that Wood has succeeded In antagonizing antagoniz-ing everyone with whom he has gome In contact Army officers do not hesitate r hesi-tate to declare that his whole policy In Cuba Is an erroneous one and that he has done more to discredit the Amer I Scans there than even such men as Ncelcy and Rathbone Gen Wood was elevated too quickly from an army Sergeantto Colonel of the rough riders then to Governor of Santiago and now to military Governor of Cuba seems to have been too much of a rise for him I Army officers who outrank him In experience ex-perience and service are humiliated constantly He has surrounded himself him-self according to reports from Havana by the worst of the Cuban patriots Fryes work in the schools of Cuba would have entitled him to consideration considera-tion anywhere but Mr Woods arbitrary arbi-trary methods seems to have driven him away much to the detriment of the educational Interests of the island 0 The Louisiana today is represented I by seventeen States and parts of sev i I oral Territories These States stretch from Iowa Missouri and Minnesota on I the east to Oregon on the west The centennial celebration of this Jlrt great step toward expansion is to be celebrated two years hence by an international Inter-national exposition In St Louis Congress Con-gress committed Itself last year to advance ad-vance 5000000 to carry out the enterprise enter-prise after the people of St Louis shall have pledged a similar amount The Governmental appropriation vlll be forthcoming before the end of the present pres-ent session and to one man Representative Repre-sentative Charles F Toy of St Louis UrIII be due more credit for the success suc-cess of the movement to secure Congressional Con-gressional aid than to any other Rep lesentathe of the seventeen States dl rectlv interested S From the initiation of the project 1 Mr Joy has devoted his time and his means to the end that Congress might be induced in-duced to come forward with the de ulred funds Mr Joys popularity at home 13 demonstrated by the fact that he has been the times elected In a Democratic district His popularity is shown by the fact thai he has succeeded suc-ceeded Inwhat appeared to l bea hopeless hope-less task No man In the House has more friends than Mr Joy He can get votes for a project in which his constituents are Interested almost by asking for them Mr Joy seldom speaks to the House but when he does his utterances ut-terances carry weight He never an tagonise the other side simply because be-cause lilo political views do not harmonize har-monize with his Democratic colleagues and associates This winter Mr Joy has been giving a series of weekly dinners at his home in the suburbs and while the Sl Louis exposition is a taboocd subject at these gatherings his friends are Invariably I found to be lined up with the friends of the Louisiana purchase celebration and when the appropriation for that event Is finally passed It will be a comparatively com-paratively easy matter to pick out the personal friends of Charles F Joy for those who vote for it may all be put ddwn as those anxious to oblige the gentleman from St LouisE Louis-E A HAMILTON I I |