Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-02-08
FORECAST OF THE WEEK AT THE
NATIONS CAPITOL.
pettigrew Compliments the American
Press--Quay's Case to be Called
this Week--Report of the
philippine Commission.
Puerto Rican Tariff
IepiSIatiOu

effect that the reason he was making a |
public nuisance of himself by con-
tinually trying to use the Congress
sional Record for the dissemination of
reasonable literature, was that the in
tluential papers of the country, regard
less Of politics., were too patriotic to
print stuff calculated to encourage the
Filipinos, to continue fighting Ameri-
can 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 publicly characterized as the
treason that they have been, and during
the past week he has been shown that
the Senate does not intend to cOun-
tenance the uttering OF reasonable
language on its floor, and the people
will endorse the Senate, as strongly as
they have already endorsed the Philip
pine policy of the administration
which is, under the circumstances, the
only patriotic American policy.
Senator Chandler, Chairman of the
Committee on Elections, called up the
Quay case Wednesday. How soon the
case will be voted upon will depend
entirely upon how many Senators de-
sire to speak on the question. 1t is ex-
pected that most of the speaking will
be done by members of the Committee
who have made study of the legal
aspects of the question at issue. 1t
seems more certain than ever that Mr..
Quay will be seated.
Ex-Gov. Lowry, of Mimi, who is
now in Washington, says there is no
question of the best element in that,
regardless of political lines, endorsing
the Philippine policy of President Nc
Kinley, and that if the Democrats make
anti-imperialism their war cry, as he
believes they will, the state will give
President Mckinley a phenominal
majority.
Gen. Warfeld, prominent Cali
fornian, now visiting Washington, says
that nine-tenths Of the people of that
state favor the permanent retention of
the Philippines, and that when peace
has been restored on the islands, and
we begin to realize the possibilities of
trade with the Orient, San Francisco
will rival New York as a seaport.
The first volume of the report of the
Philippine Commission, consisting of
book of 264 pages, is now in the hands
of Senators and Representatives. 1t is
one of the most comprehensive reports
ever sent to Congress, and when the
second volume is printed, which it will
be inside of two or three weeks, there
is scarcely a question concerning the
Philippines that could be asked that a
full and satisfactory answer cannot be
found to in the report. The form of
government recommended for the
islands is that of a territory, modified
to meet existing conditions, which will
give the islanders control of all their
home affairs. President Mckinley in
tends to send new civil commission
to the Philippines, with authority to
organize local civil governments, as he
can get the men he wants for commits
sioners.
The bill reported by the House Ways
and Means Committee, providing a
duty equivalent to twenty-five per
cent. of the duty paid by foreign pro-
ducts on Puerto 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 smaller reduction of ex-
listing duties, and as such, it will prob
ably be accepted and become law.
The Senate Puerto Rican Committee has
ordered similar bill reported to the
Senate. In agreeing upon the bill, the
majority of the Ways and Means Com
mittee reached the conclusion that
Puerto Rico is not, in the meaning of
the Constitution, part of the United
States, and can therefore be governed
tto 81 CO4ohy'
President Mckinley is watching the
Kentucky mix-up with interest, as
most other men in Washington are.
He believes in common with nearly
everybody else, that Taylor was elected
governor, and that he has no chance of
fair treatment before the state courts,
but he doesn't believe it to be the bust
ness of the Federal government to
interfere with such matters, except
upon the request of the regular state
authorities. With the legislature in
session, it alone possesses authority to
make that request, in the opinion of
President Mckinley and his advisers,
and unless it makes it there is no
probability of any Federal interference
in any shape in Kentucky. In the eyes
of the President, this isn't a case of