ir. Chairman. the gentleman from California [ r. McKEmA] has vindicated himself and his loyalty to his friend. One word in reply to his criticism upon the State Department. Barrundia was a politician of Guatemala who had once risen to the rank of secretary of war. but whose party had gone out of power. His opponents were in possession of the government. He was a political refugee in Mexico. He boarded the Acapulco. an American steam vessel running from San Francisco to Panama. The captain in his voyage touched regularly at two ports of Guatemala. Champerico and San Jos&. This man bought a ticket to Panama and thus set out on his way to New York.