The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-02-11
PROCEEDINGS Of CONGRESS
DISCUSS NATIONAL AFFAIRS
News From the Senate and House of
entatives-Condensed From the
Latest Press Experimentation and
Neutrality-suspicious.

would address the senate tomorrow on the
subject of expansion.
Senator Hale presented the conference
report on the diplomatic and consular APP
preparation bill, and it was agreed to.
he president pro tempore presented
memorial from the chamber OF commerce
OF New York urging ratification OF the
peace treaty.
Hale, chairman of the naval affairs COM
mittee, favorably reported the following
JOINT resolution, and it was adopted:
The secretary of the navy is hereby
authorized to have erected in Colon GENE
terry at Havana, Cuba, suitable granite
monument to the memory of the sailors
and marines who lost their lives by the
explosion of the Maine and whose remains
are buried in that cemetery, and to suit
ably inscribe and enclose such monument,
and the sum of $4,000 is appropriated
for that purpose"
At the beginning of the session of the
senate Saturday Senator Allen offered the
follow ing resolution:
THAT the senate of the United States
in ratifying and confirming the treaty
of peace does not commit itself or the
government to the doctrine that the ISL
ands acquired by virtue of the war with
Spain are to be annexed or to become
part of the United States, and that the
difference in the language of said treaty
as respecting the island of Cuba and its
inhabitants and the islands of Puerto Rico
and the Philippine islands and their in
habitants, shall not be construed or to be
held to be different in effect, but that
1t is the intention and purpose of the
senate, in ratifying said treaty, to place
the inhabitants of the Philippine islands
and Puerto Rico in exactly the same posi-
ton as respects their relations to the
United States as are the inhabitants of
Cuba"
Senator Chiffon then addressed the SEN
ate on the various anti-expansion resolu-
tions.
Senator Chiffon finished at l:55 D. IN.
and Senator Wolcott followed. He said
he stood by his government and would
have supported any treaty presented Dy
the commissioners. Wolcott denounced
the wrangling over the treaty.
Wolcott said the Philippines would be
better for our government and said in
evitable destiny had placed the archipel-
ago in our hands. There was demonstra-
ton in the gallery when Wolcott closed.
The senate then went into executive ses-
sion.
Before the senate convened Monday the
leaders of both sides of the peace treaty
manifested great anxiety, and all seemed
to be very much in doubt as to the final
results of ratification or rejection, SEEM
ing to depend upon several doubtful votes.
1t was known Saturday that the treaty
could muster but So votes.
In the open senate Senator McEnery of
fered resolution declaring that by rat-
tication OF the treaty it is not intended to.
make citizens of the inhabitants of the
Philippines, nor to annex the islands per-
manently, but to hold them until the is
lands are prepared for self government
After the senate went into executive
session it was reported that McIaurin and
McEnery had come over for the treaty,
giving the necessary two-thirds There
Is an agreement to vote for the McEne1y
resolution afterwards
AT 3;O5 the bells rung for a vote on the
amendment to the treaty. The amend
ment was to make Philippine article in
the treaty like that relating to Cuba. The
amendment was defeated and a vote was
then taken on the treaty.
The peace treaty was ratified by three
majority.
I'm the House.
AT the opening of the house Friday Mr..
Burton (rep.) of Ohio, chairman of the
river and harbor committee, rose to a
question of personal privilege in connec-
ton with some remarks of Mr. Hawley
(rep.) of Texas printed in the Record this
morning, but which, Mr.. Burton claims,
had not been delivered on the floor.
The committee ON interstate and for
eign commerce today directed a favorable
report on the Hepburn Nicaragua canal
bill with amendments, as a substitute for
the Morgan bill passed by the senate.
The committee on Judiciary has decided
that those members of the house who &C
cepted commissions in the army vacated
their seats. They are Wheeler of Ala
bama, Campbell OF Illinois, Colson OF
Kentucky and Robbins of Pennsylvania.
Members serving ON civil commissions
are held not to have forfeited their seats.
The house agreed to the conference re-
port on the diplomatic appropriation bill,
and at o'clock adjourned.
The house Saturday passed the military
academy appropriation bill carrying about
100000. 1t served as a text for speech
by Senator Griggs of Georgia ON the presi-
dents suggestion that the government care