Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-03


seating of Mr.. Quay on the ground.
mainly, that it was the intention Of
the trainers of the constitution that the
Senate should at all times have its full
quota of members.
Perkins Cal, when the Senate con
vened, presented a petition for the cal
ifornia delegation III Congress, of % as
sociatiOns and $1,000 people Of Califor-
MIA against the ratification of The
French and Jamaican treaties.
Hoar said the point against the pc
tition was that it ought to be presented
in executive session and that even
there he would question the right of Il
state congressional delegation to make
such a petition.
Perkins said the right Of petition was
sacred at all times. but the Chair held
that the whole matter would have to
go over to an executive session.
Pettigrew, :. D., secured the adop
ton of the following resolution:
THAT the President be requested, If
not Incompatible with the public inter
est to send to the Senate a statement
of the number of saloons that have
been established in Manila, l.. L., since
the occupation of that city by the
United States forces: who conducts
those saloons; who are their patrons
and what kind of liquors are sold, and
the quantity of such liquor. The Pres
ident is also requested to inform the
Senate of the number, if any, of saloons
run on the American or English plan
in Manila before he occupied the place
The President is also requested to in
form the Senate whether or not it is
within his power as commander-in-
chief of our military forces. to suppress
all saloons in Manila and prohibit and
prevent the sale of liquor to our sol
diers
The Chair then laid before the Senate
the message of the President concern
ing the revenue collected on Puerto
Rican products. The message was re
ferred to the committee on appropria-
lions.
A resolution offered by Turner,
Wash, directing the secretary of war
to inform the Senate of the amount Of
money expended in the payment of
travel pay and communication of susie
nance of those officers and men return
ing from the Philippines and what
bounty or reward was paid for the re-
enlistment Of soldiers. was adopted.
Penrose called up the Quay case and
Hoar addressed the Senate in support
of Quay's right 10 n seat in the body.
Hoar discussed at length the history Of
the framing Of that part of the constitu-
ton relating to the election Of senators.
his particular idea being to show that the
country at large was vastly interested in
having every state fully represented in
the Senate. This idea he said. was con
stantly before the trainers If the consti-
tuition.
Hoar dwelt particularly upon the i'm
pOrtance of a single vote, especially in the
Senate He declared that one vote had
changed the policy Of the country to i'm
perialism. Twice in his own state had Il
single vote elected the chief magistrate Of
the commonwealth.
Was it presumable. he inquired. that
the trainers of the constitution had in
tended that in such circumstances as the
present. the great state Of PENNSYLVANIA
should have in the Senate only half of its
representation or that the people Of the
country should lose the advantage Of hay
ing in the Senate the representative Of
3. 5u0 600 persons.
In response to an inquiry by Turley,
Hoar said that in the case Of the chief
executive of a state the responsibility for
action or inacton was definitely fixed
upon one man. If the governor dd not
feel that he was correct in his position
before his constituents he would MAKE, no
appointment. The trainers of the conSti
tuition, he said. regarded the governor as
a fit depository Of power, ana, in the APP
uDintmeQt - a "A
sentative in such action of the people.
HOlr asserted that senators knew that
the three seats claimed by Mantle Allen
and Beckwith were decided against these
gentlemen because they We're Silver men
and the Senate was about to enter upon
the consideration of the repeal of the
Sherman law.
Turley cited the hypothetical case of
the governor of Kentucky calling troops
to the state capital ANA dispensing the
Legislature before the election of the
United States senator has had recently
happened after the election of the sena-
tor. He held that If the governor subse-
quently should appoint a senator the
Senate would certainly refuse him a seat.
Elkins, W. Va, then addressed the Sen
ate. The question presented to the Sen
ate" he said, lis one purely Of lava
proper construction Of the constitution,
and no other element or factor should en-
ter into its determination. Quays merits
or dement's, or his personality, have moth
ing to do with the case or in reaching a
conclusion.
I'm the case now pending no reason
presents itself why the Senate should not
go forward in its duty and obey the plain
language Of the constitution by seating
Mr.. Quay To my mind the language Of
the constitution is plain ana should coca
sion no doubt.
The Quay case was then laid aside and
consideration was begun of the Puerto
Rican tariff ana government bill, yester-
day. made the unfinished business.
Teller, Col. declared that it seemed
TO him that the committee had en-
ployed a good deal of industry and care
to make Puerto Rico a part of the
United States. He said:
The people are citizens of the
United States. the committee has es-
tabllShed United States courts. the
ports are United States ports and in
every way the committee has deter
mined that the island shall be part
or the United States. And then the
committee inserts the remarkable pro