The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-25
PETTIGREW AND THE SULTAN.
SENATOR ATTACKS THE SLAVERY
PRACTICE OF SULU.


Information as to the Treaty-His
Criticism of the President for APP
proving the Treaty-Money PrOVid-
ed for Necessary Work on Cumber-
land SOund-Census Legislation
Put Through the Senate.
Washington. Jan. 24.-Routine business
occupied the attention of the Senate to-
day in a brief session.
The resolution offered yesterday by Mr..
Pettigrew of South Dakota, calling on the
President for information regarding the
treaty entered into with the Sultan of
Sulu, was passed after Mr.. Petugrew had
made an attack upon the administration
for entering into an agreement which, he
said, authorized slavery.
An extended debate was precipitated by
conference report on the census admin
istrative bill, but the Census Committee
gained its point, and the measure was
sent back TO conference.
Mr. Allen offered a resolution calling
upon the Secretary of War for all infor-
nation and correspondence relating to the
administration of customs affairs in Puer-
to Rico, Cuba and the Philippines since
the war with Spain. Objection being
made, it went over
Mr.. Petdgrew of South Dakota offered
a resolution declaring that the United
| States government would not recognize
the right of any nation to declare as CON
traband and seize food products as such,
and that any such seizure would be an
act unfriendly to the United States. The
resolution went over under the rules.
SuIu Treaty Resolution.
Mr. Pettigrew then called up his Sulu
treaty resolution and made a speech in
its support He said that slavery in its
worst form existed in the Sulu group of
| islands, and the treaty itself provided that
| every slave could purchase his freedom
at the regular market price. He said the
amount of the salaries paid to the Sultan
and his officials under the treaty was So
120, yet the Spanish government paid to
them only $780,
A translation of the treaty, he said. was
withheld from the people until after the
| Ohio elections. This was merely part of
| the policy of concealment and censoring
| adopted by the administration.
Mr. Spooner of Wisconsin asked Mr..
Pettigrew if he meant to hold the Presi-
! dent responsible for the slavery clause in
| the Sulu treaty.
II do, Mr.. PettlgreW repueQ
"Then," said Mr.. Spooner I read from
| the message of the President to Congress.
! The President says: L have confirmed
| said agreement subject to the action of
| Congress- and with the reservation which
! I have directed shall be communicated to
| the Sultan of Jolo, that this agreement
| is not to be deemed in any way to au-
| thorize or give the consent of the United
| States to the existence of slavery in the
Suu Archipelago
! Mr.. Pettigrew replied that there was no
| assurance that the Presidents statement
would ever reach the Sultan. He declared
it was simply a case-of double dealing and
| nothing else.
| At the conclusion of the address of Mr.
| Pettigrew, Mr. Lodge (AIass), said that
| while the resolution was covered by one
| previously adopted, there was no objec
| ton to its passage. 1t was then adopt
| ed.
I Money for Cumberland Sound.
A joint resolution diverting and setting
apart $4,000 out of the sums heretofore
| appropriated for jetty work at Cumber-
| land Sound in the states of Florida and
| Georgia, for sluicing and dredging at the
| entrance of the sound, was passed.
Mr.. Carter of Montana, chairman of the
| Census Committee, made partial report
of the conferees on the bill comforting ad
ditional authority on the director of the
| census. Inc partial iepOIl was lueh
| agreed to.
Mr.. Cockrell of Missouri moved that the
| Senate recede from its disagreement as to
the collection of statistics of the deaf,
| dumb and blind,
He insisted that the Senate should adj
| here to its original purpose of restricting
the limits of the census proper in order
not to let down the bars on all sorts of
class information.
! MIR. Cockrell spoke in favor of his mo-
| ton.
Mr.. Chandler warned the Senate that
| any extension of the work of the census
would result in so clogging it that it
would be years before any tangible results
would be obtained.
During the debate which followed the
motion, Mr. Chandler and Mr.. Tillman
were pitted against each other Mr..
Chandler declaring that 1t would be i'm
possible for even the South Carolnian 10
get the necessary information within the
period of thirty days.
Possibly" responded Mr.. Tillman, IT
am not so nervous or so much like a
grasshopper as the senator from New
Hampshire"
"A pitchfork never touches a grasshop-
per-" said MIR Chandler in reply to this
sally, and Mr. Tillman's reply was drown
ed in the burst of laughter which fol-
| lowed
Mr. Cockrells motion to recede was lost
ayes, 30: nays, 49,
Mr. Pettigrew moved that the House
amendment relating 10 the collection of