Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-01-19
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Foraker's Oaustic Remarks in the Senate on
Turner's Pathetic WHITTIER Are We
Drifting" Speech Secretary Gage
on Hull Finance Bill.

Washington, Jan. 19.-The senate will
not take up the peace treaty today, but
it will consider the Nicaragua bill. Sem
ator Morgan thinks the vote can be
reached today.
Senator Mills, of Texas, presented a
joint resolution directing the secretary
of war to have made survey and esti-
mate of cost of channel between
Texas City and Galveston; adopted.
Senator Turner, Of Washington, ad-
dressed the senate on the anti-expan-
sion resolution of Senator Vest, of Mis-
souri,, He opposed our acquiring the
Philippines and said the noble ship Of
state, it's chart having been torn to tat
ters, was now drifting whittier she
would on wild and unknown sea. This
dangerous condition was being forced
upon the people by the pretense that
Providence had cast upon us new re-
sponsibilities, which we may not shirk. "
He could not agree, however, that this
dangerous responsibility was one for
the American people to assume. This
country was at liberty to retain such
foreign territory as it had conquered, if
it so desired, but he denied that our
only other recourse was to give back
conquered territory to the enemy. IF
we may keep it ourselves we may re-
quire it to be given to people who in
habit it for independence and liberty.
This he believed was the proper course
to pursue in the case of the Philippines.
The senate bill was passed authoriz-
ing the Arkansas & Choctaw Railroad
Company to construct railroad
through the Choctaw and Chickasaw
nations in Indian territory.
President James D. Angel, of Mich
igan university, was re-appointed re-
gent of the Smithsonian institute.
The Nicaraguan canal bill was taken
up and Senator Allison spoke in favor
of his amendment introduced yesterday.
Senator Foraker, of Ohio, in replying
to Senator Turner today, said: THE
senator from Washington made some
remarks about what said as to the
purpose of the administration. l desire
to say here and now that I did not i'm
agine it necessary to say was not
speaking for the administration, and
the chill that went up and down the
backs of our friends was due, perhaps,
to misapprehension as to which of the
cr,n0linort T.aJ1Qh
ter.) Senator Foraker said that when
he spoke of possible action of the pres
ident he spoke as one Judging from the
public utterances of the president, and
some knowledge of his feelings and de-
sires.
THE HOUSE.
The house went into committee of the
whole on the postofsice appropriation
bill
Secretary Gage appeared today be-
fore the house committee on coinage
weights and measures to explain his
views of the Hull bill defining and fix
ing the standard value and regulating
the coinage. This is the bill with which
the advocates Of currency reform pro
pose to supplement the currency bill
banking and currency commission. II
makes the gold dollar the standard OF
value. Mr.. Gage gave his general ap-
proval Of the measure, but took strong
exception to one section which would
assess quarter of per cent tax annu.
ally upon the capital, surplus and undi-
vided profits of national banks.