The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-02-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From the HERALD's Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 19C


WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 1900.
Without intending to do so, Senator
Pettigrew paid a high compliment to
the American press, when he said in
effect that the reason he was making
a public nuisance of himself by contin-
ually trying to use the Congressional
Record, for the dissemination of treason
APPLE literature was that the influential
papers of the country, regardless OF
politics, were too patriotic to print
stuff calculated to encourage the Fill
pinos, to continue fighting American
soldiers. The Senate has been very
patient with Pettigrew-much more
patient than the people have been-but
the limit of patience has been reached
and his talk and actions have been pub
licly characterized as the treason that
they have been, and during the past
week he has been shown that the Sen
ate does not intend to countenance the
uttering of reasonable language on
its floor, and the people will endorse
the senate, as strongly as they have
endorsed the Philippine policy OF
the administration-whi is, under the
circums tances, the only patriotic Amer
lean policy.
Since Senator Lodge read that plain
ly worded letter from Admiral Dewey,
branding as lies all the numerous stOr-
les told about the Admiral's having
promised Aguinaldo independence, re-
cognized fine Filipino republic and sa-
luted it's flag, Aguinaldo's senatorial
assistants have been too dazed to start
a new batch of stories.
Senator Chandler, chairman of the
committee on elections, has given
notice that he will call on the Quay
case on Wednesday, of this week. How
soon the case will be voted upon will
depend entirely upon how many sena-
tors desire to speak on the question.
1t is expected that most of the speaking
will be done by members of the com
mittee, who have made a study of
the legal aspects of the question at is
sue. 1t seems more certain than ever
that Mr.. Quay will be seated. =
Tom Lowry of Minnesota, who is now
in Washington, says there is no ques.
ton of the best element in that state,
regardless of political lines, endorsing
the Philippine policy of President Nc
Kinley, and if the democrats viii make
anti-imperialism their war cry. as he
believes they will, the state will give
President Mckinley phenomenal ma
jority. ~-- 81
Gen. Warfeld, prominent Californ
ian, now visiting Washington, say:
that nine-tenths of the people of thai
state favor permanent retention of the
Philippines, and that peace has been re
stored on the islands, and we begin tt
realize the possibilities of trade with
the Orient, San Francisco will riva
| New York as a seaport. Z
The bill reported by the house ways
and means committee, providing &
duty equivalent to twenty five per cen
of the duty paid by foreign products
on Porto Rican products, is the result
of compromise between those who
favored giving the island the same
trade privileges as those enjoyed by
the citizens of our states, and those
who favored a smaller reduction O.
existing duties, and as such, it will
probably be accepted and become
law. The Senate Porto Rican com
mittee has ordered a similar bill re
ported to the senate. In agreeing up
on the bill, the majority of the
ways and means committee reached
the conclusion that Porto Rico is not
in the meaning of the constitution q
part of the United States, and ca1
Therefore be governed as a colony