REMEY, Manila:

DECEMBER 31, 1900.

Direct governor, Guam, to receive revolutionary leaders. Offer passage by Solace.

The above dispatches have not been given to the press.

HACKETT.

Very respectfully,

F. W. HACKETT, Acting Secretary.

The SECRETARY OF WAR.

[Cablegram, received in cipher, January 17, 1901.]

MANILA.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Washington:

Rosecrans sailed January 16, Guam; 32 deported insurgents.

MACARTHUR.

[Cablegram, sent in cipher, January 25, 1901.]

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, January 25, 1901.

MACARTHUR, Manila:

Telegraph for information Senate whether Mabini been deported, Guam, as political prisoner, and offense.

[Cablegram, received in cipher, January 26, 1901.]

CORBIN.

MANILA.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Washington:

Mabini deported; a most active agitator; persistently and defiantly refusing amnesty, and maintaining correspondence with insurgents in the field while living in Manila, Luzon, under protection of the United States; also for offensive statement in regard to recent proclamation enforcing laws of war. His deportation absolutely essential.

MACARTHUR.

TROOPS IN CAMPAIGN.

[Regulations for the Army of the United States.]

WAR DEPARTMENT, January 16, 1892.

The President of the United States directs that the following regulations for troops in campaign be published for the Government of all concerned, and that they be strictly observed. Nothing contrary to the tenor of these regulations will be enjoined in any part of the forces of the United States by any commander whatsoever.

79. A prisoner of war is a person who, by capture or surrender, falls into the hands of the enemy.

80. The following persons or classes of persons are subject to capture and detention as prisoners of war: All soldiers of the enemy of

every grade, to whatever arm of the service they may belong; all individuals who take part in a rising en masse in hostile territory; all persons attached to an army who contribute to its efficiency and promote directly the object of the war; the sovereign or chief executive of a hostile state; members of his family; the chief officers of the government; its diplomatic agents and, in general, any civil officer whose services are of importance to the enemy or whose detention would be prejudicial to his military operations; citizens who are authorized to accompany an army for any purpose, as sutlers, traders, or correspondents of newspapers.

90. Prisoners of war are subject to such confinement or restraint as may be deemed necessary, but they are to be subjected to no other intentional suffering or indignity. The confinement of a prisoner may be varied during his captivity, according to the demands of safety.

2d Session.

No. 136.

MEMORIAL FROM THE NATIONAL LIVE STOCK
ASSOCIATION.

FEBRUARY 4, 1901.-Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and ordered to be printed.

Mr. WARREN presented the following

LETTER FROM JOHN W. SPRINGER, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION, DENVER, COLO., TRANSMITTING A MEMORIAL FROM THE NATIONAL LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION PROTESTING AGAINST THE ENACTMENT OF WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE GROUT BILL.

NATIONAL LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION, Denver, Colo., January 26, 1901. DEAR SIR: Your earnest and careful attention is directed to the inclosed memorial as expressing the unanimous views of the stockmen of the United States. All are opposed to the Grout bill, and denounce it as indefensible. I can assure you that while all oppose the Grout bill the entire live-stock industry favors the Wadsworth substitute, or a bill regulating the sale of oleomargarine, not annihilating the industry. I respectfully urge you to vote against the Grout bill, and give us a law which will do entire justice to both the stock and dairy interests. Justice is all the stockmen of the United States urge of the Senate in this matter.

I am, respectfully, your obedient servant,

Hon. F. E. WARREN,

Washington, D. C.

JNO. W. SPRINGER, President.

HEADQUARTERS NATIONAL LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION,

Denver, Colo., January 25, 1901.

The following memorial was adopted by the National Live Stock Association in fourth annual convention assembled at Salt Lake City, Utah, January 17, 1901:

The SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES:

Your orator, the National Live Stock Association, respectfully represents unto your honorable body that it is an association composed of

126 live-stock and kindred organizations, all directly interested in the production, marketing, and disposition of live stock, and whose holdings thereof represent an investment of over $600,000,000.

Your orator, in annual session assembled at Salt Lake City, Utah, desires to enter its emphatic protest against the enactment of what is commonly known as the Grout bill (H. R. 3717), and in behalf of its protest desires to record a few of the many reasons in support of its contentions.

This measure is a species of class legislation of the most iniquitous and dangerous kind, calculated to build up one industry at the expense of another equally as important. It seeks to impose an unjust, uncalled-for, and unwarranted burden upon one of the principal commercial industries of the country for the purpose of prohibiting its manufacture, thereby destroying competition, as the manufacturers can not assume the additional burdens sought to be imposed by this measure and sell their product in competition with butter.

The passage of this law would destroy the demand, except for export, of that product of the beef animal, oleo oil, of which 24,000,000 pounds was used during the year 1899 in the manufacture of oleomargarine, and would also seriously injure the hog industry by a similar destruction of the demand, except for export, of neutral lard, 31,000,000 pounds of which was used in the year 1899 in the manufacture of this food product, and, by thus eliminating the demand for these legitimate articles of commerce, force dealers to seek other channels for their disposition at greatly reduced prices, thereby entailing a loss to the producers of live stock of the United States of millions of dollars annually.

The measure seeks to throttle competition, and if enacted will render useless the immense establishments, erected at great expense, for the manufacture of oleomargarine, deprive thousands of employees of the opportunity to gain a livelihood, and deny the people, and especially the workingmen and their dependencies, of a wholesome article of diet.

In oleomargarine a very large proportion of the consumers of this country, especially the working classes, have a wholesome, nutritious, and satisfactory article of diet which before its advent they were obliged, owing to the high price of butter and their limited means, to go without.

Your orator contends that it is manifestly unjust, unreasonable, and unfair to deny manufacturers of the product of the beef animal and the hog the same privileges in regard to the use of coloring matter that are accorded the manufacturers of the product of the dairy, and that the rights and privileges of the producers of cattle and hogs should be as well respected as those of others, and, as they are the beneficiaries in the manufacture of this wholesome article of food, they should not be burdened with unnecessary and oppressive special taxes or needless restrictions in the manufacture of this product other than is absolutely necessary for the support of the Government and the proper governmental regulations surrounding the handling of same.

Your orator respectfully contends that these products should receive at the hands of Congress no greater exactions than those imposed upon competing food products and that the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine is already surrounded by numerous safeguards, which Congress in its wisdom has seen fit to provide, stipulating severe punishment for selling same under misrepresentation as to its composition,