The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-03

Porto Rican goods since the Spanish
evacuation of the island to be used
for the relief of the Porto Ricans had
been read to the house today, the house
had passed and sent to the senate a
bill to carry out the recommendation
The message came like a bolt out Of
a clear sky to the minority. They
were at first inclined to hail it with
delight, as a reprOof of the majority
of the passage of the Porto Rican tar
if bill on Wednesday. The Repub-
lican leaders, however, had a bill ready
TO carry the presidents recommended
tions into effect.
Mr.. Cannon asked immediate con-
sideratlOn for it and this was given.
1t was only when the debate opened
il had been agreed that twenty min
utes should he allowed on a side-that
under the lead of Mr.. Bailey of Texas
the Democrats began lining up against
the bill but it placed no limitations
upon the presidents discretion in the
use of the money. The bill was passed
by a vote of 162 to 107, thirteen Dem
ocrats. two POpulists and two silver
Republicans voting with the Repub-
licans.
Subsequently the Aldrich- Robbins
contested election case from the Fourth
Alabama district, which the house
twice refused to consider YESTERDAY,
was taken up-136 TO 129-and was de-
bated for the remainder of the day.
Prayer For Congressman.
In his invocation today the blind
chaplain of the house prayed for Mr..
Eppes Of Virginia, who was operated
upon for appendicitis at the Garfield
hospital in this city this morning.
! A special message from the president
! vas received recommending that all
the revenue collected on impOrtations
! from Porto Rico since the evacuation
4 Of the island by Spain amounting to
| over So 600. COO could be placed at the
/ disposal Of the president for the re-
/ lief Of the island. The Republicans
greeted the reading Of the message with
! demonstrations of enthusiasm.
| I hope the recommendation will
meet with favor on that side of the
| house" said Mr.. Richardson, the
minority leader
IN see if it meets with favor on that
side of the house" retorted Mr.. Can
non sharply I'll now ask for unani-
nous consent for the immediate con-
siderauOn of d bill to carry the recon-
mendauion Of that message into force"
/ The suddenness of the request
| spread CONSERVATION on the Demo-
/ cratic side. There was no time for
/ consultation. Mr. Richardson stood
| hesitating a moment
/ Better do it at once" said Mr.. Can
| non, Before you change Your mind"
Time For Debate.
| This shaft raised a laugh. Mr.. Rich
arCasOn said he would not object, bat
/ wanted 10 know how much time would
/ be allowed for debate.
/ Mr.. Cannon replied that he hoped
/ there would be no debate. The bill
| contained an exceedingly plain PROPOSE
/ ton and needed no explanation. He
/ finally suggested twenty minutes on a
side. To this, Mr.. Richardson as
/ santed, observing:
Il do not suppose gentlemen on the
! other side can be Of one mind longer
/ than forty minutes. Laughter) We
agree if it will help you out of the
! hole
/ Mr.. Cannon said there was no reason
/ to make an extended argument in sup
port of the bill The brief message of
the president, ne said. covered all the
points necessary to justify the passage
/ of the bill. 1t appropriated all the
money in the treasury collected up to
Jan I. and such money as shall be
/ hereafter collected on imports from
/ Porto Rico for the benefit of the peo-
pie of the island.
/ Mr.. Cannon explained that the sugar
and tobacco piled up in Porto Rico.
| controlled by the sugar and tobacco
trusts which was awaiting shipment to
/ this country would be shipped to the
/ United States if this bill passed and
I that every dollar of duty paid by these
/ trusts would be devoted to the storm
/ swept ard starving people. Republican
| dpDlauSc.)
Shed Crocodile Tears.
you have been shedding crocodile
/ tears over there" he concluded. Nov.
/ come up and vote for this bill, every
/ man of you" (Reuewcd appi1uSe.)
Mr. Bailey CTeX). replying 10 Mr.
/ Cannon evoked round Of Democratic
applause by his first sentence. If he
/ had known when the request for unan-
/ imous consent was submitted that the
Z bin placed at the absolute disposal of
/ the president s.. 600. 900 now in the treas
! ury and an indefinite sum hereafter TO
[ be collected. he said he would himself
( have taken the responsibility of object
/ ing. He would never consent. he said
i To turn over to the discretion of one
man money in the treasury Of the
United States.
! Undoubtedly the people Of Porto Rico
{ have been subjected 10 unjust taxation
and there should be an allotment But
/ the money should be returned by the
| direction of congress. not at the discre-
/ ton OF the president.
I Mr. Berry (Ky.l said that TO one
sympathiZed with the starving people
[ Of Porto Rico more than he did. but he
/ believed there should be g direct ap-
preparation from the treasury No
money should be given To them. the
/ title 20 which was in doubt. and he was
/ Of the opinion that every dollar collect
! Cd since the ratification of the Paris
( treaty had been Unlawfully collected.
Money Unjustly Taken.
Mr.. McRae (Ark.) declared that the
/ bill was an admission that money had
! been unjustly taken from them.
I Mr. Bell tCOlO) said that such a
\ chapter OF Inconsistencies as had taken
/ place on the Republican side in the
. lass few weeks never before had been
/ Witnessed in the American congress.
/ MIR. GrcsvenOr 90 said the Demo
: Gratis had been vastly more acftated
4 about politics than the starving people
I Of Porto Rico.
/ Mr.. Bailey requested that the bill be
/ modified so as 60 limit the aDDr0Dria-
! ton 10 the money in tie treasury and
] TO specify the purposes for which il
was TO be employed. If those nodifica-
! tons were made. said he. the whole
| Democratic side would support the bill.
| We cannot place ourselves in oppo-
sition TO the administration, retOrted