The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26
SENATE.


Washington, January 24.-RouCne
business occupied the attention OF the
senate today in a brief session. The
resolution offered yesterday by Senator
Pettigrew, Of South Dakota, calling
upon the president for information re-
garding the treaty entered into with
the Sultan of SuIu was passed, after
Senator Pettigrew had made an attack
upon the administration for entering
into an agreement which, he said, au-
thOrized slavery. An extended debate
was precipitated by Il conference re-
port on the census administrative bill,
but the census committee gained it's
point and the measure was sent back
to conference.
Senator Allen offered = resolution
calling upon the secretary of war for
all information and correspondent
relating to the administration of Gus
toms affairs in Porto Rico, Cuba, and
the Philippines since the war with
Spain. Objection being made il went
over
Senator Pettigrew, South Dakota.
offered a resolution declaring that the
United States government would not
recognize the right of any nation to
declare as cOntraband 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 rule.
Senator Pettigrew then called up his
Sulu treaty resolution and made a
speech in it's support. He said that
slavery in it's worst form existed in the
Sulu group of islands and the treaty
itself provided that every slave could
hrlCG aT rhn Hon
market price. He said the amount of
the salaries paid to the sultan and MS
officials under the treaty was $9120,
yet the Spanish government paid to
them only $4,000. A translation of the
treaty, he said, was withheld from the
people until after the Ohio elections.
This was merely a part OF the policy
of cOncealment and @ensoring adopted
by the administration.
Senator Spooner, Wisconsin, asked
Senator Pettigrew if he meant to hold
the president responsible for the slav-
cry clause in the Sulu treaty.
II do Senator Pettigrew replied.
Then" said Senator Spooner, Il
read from the message of the president
TO congress. The president says: II
confirmed said agreement, subject to
the action of congress, and with the
reservation which 1 have directed shall
be communicated to the Sultan of JolO,
that this agreement is not to be deem
ed in any way to authorize or give the
consent of the United States to the ex-
istence of slavery in the Sulu archi-
pelago.'"
Senator 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
of
Massachusetts, said that while the res
olutiOn was covered by one previously
adopted there was no objection to its
passage. 1t was then adopted
Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, moved
that the senate recede from its disa-
greement as to the collection of statis-
tics of the dear, dumb and blind-lost-
During the debate which followed
the motion, Senators Chandler and
TiIlman were pitted against each other,
Senator Chandler declaring that it
woud be impossible for even the South
Carolina to get the necessary infor-
nation within the period of thirty
days.
Possibly" responded Senator Till
man, IT am not so nervous or so much
like a grasshopper as the senator from
New Hampshire"
hopper" said Senator Chandler in re-
ply TO this sally and Senator Tillman's
reply was drowned in the burst OF
laughter which followed.
The senate then at 2:40 O'Clock p. m.
adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
The second days debate in the house
upon THE Roberts case was less dra-
matte than that of yesterday The gal
lerieS were almost as crowded, but the
ladies were less denOnStrative.
Mr. Roberts was not present during
the day. Had he been he would have
heard the most scathing eXcorlatlon or
the Mornons ever delivered upon the
floor of the house. Mr.. Lands, of In
diana, the young orator who dlstln-
guished himself during the last con-
gress in an oratorical duel with Mr..
johnson, of his state, won new laurelS
today. He charged that Utah had been
admitted to the union as a result OF a
Mormon conspiracy and reviewed the
history of the apostles of the chureiS
whom he charged with living in open
and fragrant violation of the statute
against polygamy to show that they
had basely broken their solemn pledge
to the government
The either speakers today Were
Messrs- Powers. republican OF Yer
mont, and Myers, democrat, OF India
ma, for the majority resolutions; Messrs
Snodgrass, democrat, of Tennessee.
and Wilson, silver republican, of Ida
ho, for the minority resolutions; Mr..
Lacy, republican, of Iowa, for his prop
ossition TO expell without swearing in,
and Mr.. Crumpacker, republican, of
Indiana, for exclusion by two-thirds
majority.
The speeches today greatly strength
ened the majority resolutions Which
seemed in danger of failing after MI;
Llttlefield's speech yesterday, ana
Chairman Tayler was confident tonight
that they would be adopted when the
house votes tomorrow afternoon
Mr.. Landis contended that Mr.. ROD