The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-31

! Indictment The corporations in Penn
! sylvania elected the congressman, he
said, and it was, therefore, not strange
! that there We're few Democratic or
| Populistic representatives from that
state.
In concluding he raised a laugh by
/ saying he was proud of being called a
| Democrat Hastily correcting HIM
self, he said he meant a "demagogue. y
The gentleman has admitted that ne
/ has been called a degnagogue by both
4 sides of the house. replied Mr.. Mahon.
He has also been branded a dema-
/ gogue by the people Of his own district,
who have voted to leave him at home"
I iReDublican applause)
Mr.. Cummings (DeTn., n. W said he
! hoped the treaty would be ratified, and
that then the president would notify
congress what he intended to do. He
gave notice that he would if given an
opportunity, offer an amendment that
none Of the troops authorized in this
bill should be used as a posse cemitatus,
or in putting down strikes or riots, ex-
| cept upon the application of a governor,
saying he could not preserve order with
the force at his command
Mr.. Mahon offered an amendment to
the section providing for anDointrnents
in the quartermaster generals depart
ment, so as to provide for mental and
moral, as we'll as physical" examina-
tons, which alone was required by the
bill.
Mr.. Lands (Rep., Ind.), speaking to
the general question, contended that
we should hold the Philippines in the
interest Of human liberty. The voice
of Aguinaldo, he declared, was no more
the voice of liberty than the voice of
Mr. johnson was the voice of the people
of Indiana.
M'KTNI ,EY TNCONTPF1rE,NTS
Mr.. Simpson, in support of Mr.. Ma
hons amendment, referred to the ''nu-
merous Incompetence given commits
sions during the late war, and, Incl
dentally, to the fact that Chairman
HulIs son had held a lieutenant col
onelcy. Under the bill, said he his son
could be appointed to d similar rank
in the regular army. Il object" he adj
ded, ito creating positions for a lot of
incompetents who strut about the army
and navy club and the receptions in the
west end arrayed in the latest McKin-
ley military millinery"
The Mahon amendment was adopted.
A series of amendments reducing the
number OF assistants in the staff de-
partmenI was adopted.
Mr.. Mahon protested against the
committee amendments increasing the
age at which persons could be appoint
ed TO staff positions from so TO 30 years.
At this point a warm personal con-
troversy occurred between Mr.. john
son (Rep., Ind) and Mr.. Lands rep,
Ind), growing out of Mr.. Lands re-
marks earlier in the session.
The committee amendment providing
for one hundred dentists with the rank
of first lieutenant was defeated. Mr.
Hay Dem, Na.) protested against the
committees proposed reductions in the
medical corps. But the reductions Were
agreed to. They reduced the number
of surgeons and assistants from 500 to
234, and the number of orivates in the
hospital service from 5000 to 1900. In
all the reduction in commissioned Of
ficers on the staff numbered 331.
After completing the twelfth section
of the bill, the committee rose and, at
5:55 p. m, the house adjourned until II
o'clock tomorrow.