The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-02-08
In Congress.


is open revolt in the republican
ranks against part of the McKin-
ley programme. Senator Platt, OF
Conn, has given notice of his intent
ion to offer amendments to Porto
Rico. He will amend both bills by
moving to strike cut the clauses al
lowing each of the islands to send a
Delegate to Congress, and In the
case of Hawaii his amendment will
provide for striking out all that por-
tion of the bill dealing with customs
duties and a continuation of the
present customs relations. Instead
Of free trade with Porto Rico, as the
bill provides, Mr.. Platt's amend
ment provides for the collection Of a
duty on all articles from Porto Rico
brought into the u. S. equivalent to
so per cent of the dutv collected on
similar articles from foreign coun-
tries, and for duty in the same pro-
portion to be collected in Porto Rico
Oh all goods from the U. S. How
serious this revolt will be is yet to be
determined, and it will depend large
ly upon the attitude of the democrat
ic and populist Senators, but ii has
greatly alarmed the administration.
Roberts was thrown overheard
yesterday, according to programme,
and, according to the ethics of the
unco good, the House must be today
a very much more moral and virtu-
Gus body. Well, it may be that it is,
but there are serious objections to
the House, as at present constituted,
setting itself up as a court to pass on
morals. This isn't meant as de-
Tense of Roberts, who deserved to be
kicked out for cowardice as well as
for polygamy, but as an advance
protest against the House going into
morality censorship as a regular
business. That business is already
badly overcrowded.
Secretary Gage must be disgrunt-
led about something. He said day
or two ago that he believed the Beers
would lick the English and sinserely
hoped they would. Here is more
treason in the Mckinley camp, and
Gage isn't Irish, either.
Representative Champ Clark, of
Mo-, sent the following cablegram to
Webster Davis, Assistant Secretary
of the Interior, when the news was
received that Davis was on his way
to Pretoria, IN President Kruger's
private car: "Webster Davis, Pre-
toria, care of Kruger: Hearty con-
gratulations On good company in
which you find yourself. Have
always admired your splendid gen.
ius, and now that you are out Of the
society of republicans and jingoes,
and fraternlzing with men fighting
for liberty, / hope, when you return
to your native shores, you will join
the democrats. We will give you a
most cordial welcome Mr.. McKin-
ley is so much afraid that the visit
of Davis to Kruger will be miscon-
structed that he has caused it to be
officially given out that Davis is
travelling as an Individual and not
as representative of this govern
ment.
Senator McEnery, of La, made q
speech against the Pritchard resolu-
tion declaring the proposed suffrage
amendment TO the n. 9. constitution
similar to the one now in force in
La, to be unconstitutional, III which
he declared that his state had been
greatly benefited by the restriction
of suffrage; that while Congress had
the power, it had not the right, to de-
clare any law or constitutional pro-
vision of a state unconstitutional,
that right belonging solely to the
judicial branch of the government.
He stated the whole race question
when he said: "There can be no ad
mixture of the races. This is law
of nature. They must work out
| LiClt bCopihlCb Oil pdl
which cannot come together. The
Anglo-Saxon subordinated to the
negro"
Representative Henry, Of Texas,
has introduced bill providing a
government for Porto Rico, which
most democrats think good enough
to be made party measure. 1t fol-
lows the lines of the laws establish
ing territories, which have stood the
tests of century, and places the
government as much in the hands
of its people as these of the territor-
les of Arizona, New Mexico, and
Oklahoma are in the hands of their
people.
Senator Turner, of Washington.
made speech, this week, arraign-
ing the administration both for it's
Philippine policy and for its attitude
toward the Beers, the people of a
republic struggling for liberty
against a powerful monarchy. AT
ter asserting that they had the SYM
pathy of the American people, he
said; SIN other days our sympathy
would have been expressed through
governmental channels. But now,
the ghost of liberty murdered IN the
Philippines stands in the way. We
cannot even preserve decent neu-
trallty between this heroic people
and their assailants. 1t is yet per-
mitted to us, however, as individuals