The age-herald., 1900-03-17
SENATE PASSES
 PORTO RICO BILL The Question of Tariff Was
 Not Included in Measure. CAUSED 4 SPIRITED DEBATE TiIIman Says the Republicans
 Are in a Dilemma. eAL!lNGER DISCUSSES QUAY CASE He Says it is Not His Intention, Nor
 That of the Rest of the Oppo- sition, to Delay Final Action
eAL!lyGER DISCUSSES QUAY CASE


 times spirited, extending over parts of two days, the senate today passed the Porto Rican relief appropriation bill. As passed the measure carried $2 2O95,o0O, the president being authorized to use that sum flor pub lie education, pubEc works, and other gov ernmental and public purposes" in Porto Rico
 Mir Allen, Nebraska offered an amend ment to the bill declaring that the constitu- tion extends over Porto Rico by its own force, but 1t was lost by the decisive vote of 36 to IT. MT. Jones, Arkansas withdraw a free trade amendment offered by him, and that proposition, therefore, did not reach a vote. Other efforts to amend the bill were fruttless An order was made by the sen- ate as to consideration of the case of former Senator Quay, 1t being unanimously agreed that it should be taken up two weeks from next Tuesday and discussed until disposed of.
 MT Gallinger, republican, New Hamp- shire, who yesterday had some hot words with MT Penrose, Pennsylvania, said he | had been astounded at the charge that l those who were opposed to the seating of | MT. Quay were using parliamentary tactics | to obstruct a vote on the case. | senator opposed ito the seating Of MT Quay laid any obstacle in the way of vote on that case I wiIi say now that the senate need not delay that vote for single mo- ment on my account. I shall not object I will vote my conviction by voting against A 7 seating of Mir. Quay"
 Tallau. rhe Aguinaldo Letter
 MT Hoar ui;....- the following resolution, which was adopted:r.
 "That the secretary of war be directed to communicate to the senate letter of Emilio Aguinaldo, dated at Bacoor, July 15, 1898, addressed to the American commander and forwarded to General Merritt July 27, 1S9S.'
 Mir. Gallinger, New Hampshire, offered a resolution, which was agreed to, that the members of the cabinet be directed to com- municate to the senate the number Of clerks in their departments who, In whole or In pars, are permanently incapacitated. Consideration of the bill appropiatfng s2,- O95 ,OOO of collected customs revenues to the people of Porto Rico was resumed. The chair having ruled that the committee amendments to the bill had been adopted, other amendments offered were in order.
 The first amendmenr was that of MT. AL NOAA~NANNe-S+A United States extended over the island. MT. Chiffon, Texas. said that Porto Rico was the pivot around which turns one of the gravest questions brought into American politics in forty years.
 "The proposition to levy customs duties | against Porto Rico,' he said, marks | step in American. history which every pa l triot should seek to turn back, notwith- l stanuing the expedients which had been | thrown around the bill to gloss 1t over ' Dangerous Principle This bill, he declared, is just as much the assertion of wrong and dangerous prin- cple as the tax on tea, which fired the re- sistance of our forefathers and eliminated in the establishment of this republic. The progress of the American union has been glorious with annexations. The democratic party has been from its infancy the party of territorial acquisition but in all our hs tory there has never been a proposition made to tax productions ot Bur new ter ritories when transported ir <the boun- dares of the old. Any law Nhat kind Is nothing more than the spoila & weak by the strong. I want to expre " my belief that our constitution dc to Porto Rico. It goes wherever our kss. It-seems like a travesty upon jusIs- &td right that the people of a part United States should be deprived of rights or privileges and immunities of legislation.
 Mr Allison moved to lay the amendment of MT. Allen on the table. The motion pre- vailed, 36 to IT.
 MT Jones, Arkansas, withdrew the amendment he had offered yesterday say- ing in doing that a great storm had ragged in Porto Rico, and that likewise a great storm was raging in this country the cause of the latter being the action of the house on the Porto Rican question: There was now a strenuous effort on the part of the republicans to get out of this storm and the bill proposed was the means they were employing to land safely.
 Has Paralyzed Industries
 He declared that the course of the govern- ment toward the people of this island and not the hurricane had paralyzed the indus tries of Porto Rico, and said the remedy was to permit the Porto Ricans to bring their products here free of duty and to buy and sell wherever they might please.
 "The course we have pursued toward these people, said MT. Jones, lis wrong and indefensible. What the Porto Ricans want is not charity, but justice. It is per- fectly evident that the prostration of af- fairs on the island is due to the high taxes with which the people there are afflicted"
 Remarking that he could not ascertain
 (ContnIied on Third Papel