The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-06-08
THE SUBJECT OLA LONG SPEECH FROM
SENATOR TELLER.
SALUTE TO PHILIPPINE FLAG
The Senator Contended This Was Done
When the Olympia Dipped Her
Colors to Those of the FiIippfnos.
The Resolution to Abro2ate the Clay
ton-BuIwer Treaty-Au Appropria-
tiOn Bills settled Except Four-These
still Pending in Conference.
SENATE.


on inter-oceanic canal, resolution del
claring the Clayton-Bulwer treaty abb
rogated. He gave notice that hel
would call up the resolution tomorrow
Senator Allen asked that an hour be-
set aside today for the consideration
of pension bills, but Senator Pettigrew
objected.
Senator Aldrich reported from the
committee on finance a bill to providel
better facilities for the safe keeping
OF public money in the Philippines.
Cuba and Porto Rico. The bill pro-
vid=s for the deposit of money by the
government in such banks on the ISL
ands as will deposit with the govern
ment as security United States bonds
to the full amount of the deposits. The
bill was passed.
Senator Teller, of Colorado, spoke on
the Philippine question. He referred
to recent speeches on the same subject,
delivered by Senators Beveridge of
Indiana; Lodge, of Massachusetts, and
SpOOner, of Wisconsin, as having a.
strong political bias and containing
SycOphantic references to the president
of the United States.
would not support the republican party
in the approaching campaign. He said:
Il do not support it's financial policy
and do not support the Philippine pol
icy as fOreShadOwed in the pending
measure (the Spooner bilD, and do
not want to give up the islands, either.
They can be made of immense value
to this country"
Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, chair
man of the committee on postoffices
and pOStrOadS moved to recommit to-
that committee a bill for the classifi-
cation of clerks in first and second
class pOstOffices. He said it had BEEN
stated that the first and second class
pOstoffice clerks of the country had
contributed an immense fund to be de-
voted to lobbying this bill through con-
gress.
Senator Butler, of North Carolina
interjected the remark that the amount
assessed upon the clerks had reached
the sum of $500, 900.
The bill was then recommitted.
The following bills were passed: Es-
tablishing terms of the United States
court at New Bern and Elizabeth
City, \. c.: providing for the holding
of terms of the United States district
court of the Western district of NorthI
Carolina on the second Mondays of
July and January at Winston, n. c.
Senator Allen asked unanimous con-
sent for the second reading Of the
house antitrust bill
Senator AIdrich objected, saying the
bill could not be passed at this ses-
sion. 1t then went over until tOmor-l
row.
The senate then took a recess untilI
8 O'Clock.
At o'clock the senate reconvened,
Senator PettigreW. pOpulist, of SOuthI
Tsal- tax thp floor ~ the PhiliD-
pine question. At great length ne ar
gued that the FilipinOs were allies of
the United States. Re said he had no
desire to impeGc!l- the veracity Of Ad-I
miral Dewey, but since the admiral mad
denounced as false his (Pettigrews)
statement that the admiral had rec
ognized the F'ilipinos as allies and had
saluted their flag, he (Pettigrew) felt
it incumbent upon him to present the
facts and let the American people
judge as to the admirars veracity-
He presented a mass of matter I'M
support of his contention, but nothing
new except a letter from the executive
Dewey's flagship) who wrote that while
no salute was made to the Filipino flag.
the Olympia'S flag was dipped to the
Filipino colors. This, Senator Petit
grew contended, was a salute to the
Filipino flag.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
The house today agreed to the senate
amendment to the sundry civil bill ap-
propriating So, 900 for the Louis
lana purchase exposition at st. Louis.
There was not a word of debate on
concurrence on the amendment. Its OPP
ponents contented themselves with de-
manding a roll-call, which resulted
127 ayes to IS noes in favor of the ap-
preparation. The house also agreed toI
the senate item for the Mississippi
river with an amendment reducingI
the appropriation to $2,250, 900 and ad-
ding a provision for the preparation OF
a comprehensive report on the leVee
system by the Mississippi river COM
mission. With these exceptions, the
items of the sundry civil bill still In
dispute after the adoption of the par
tiaI conference report were sent back
to conference.
The disputed items of the District or
Columbia appropriation bill were
agreed to and the bill went to the pres
ident, leaving only four appropria ton
bills still in dispute between the two
houses.
Mr. Miers, of Indiana, as a matter of
privilege moved the adoption of a.
resolution of inquiry calling upon the
secretary of the interior for all reports
relating to the dropping from the PEN
sion rolls of certain widows, especially
Special Examiners w. III. GoOdlove, w.
s. Harris, A w. Room, and General J.
H. Stibbs.
He understood, he said, that more
than thirty widows had been dropped
from the rolls upon the report of Mr..
GoodIove who, he was informed, had
asked the widows questions which
could not be repeated in the house. He
also was informed, although he Old
not believe it, that the commissioner
of pensions had authorized this IN
famous line of questions.
Mr.. Ray, ot New York, criticised the
resolution as being indefinite and un-
Ineligible. He said it was covert as
sault on the secretary Of the interior
and the commissioner of pensions.
The chair held that the pending
question was to discharge the commit
tee from the consideration of the reso
luton and not on the adoption Of the
resolution and that the pending ques-
ton was not debatable
This decision cut off debate and the
question was put. The motion was lost