Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1900-03-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.


WASHINGTON. D. c.. Feb. 70, 1900.
Some really able speeches were
made in the house this week, on
both sides of the constitutional
question involved in the Porto
Rico tariff bill. The speeches
referred to read more like argu-
ments made before the supreme
court on the proper construction
of the constitution than the usual
utterances heard on the floor of
the house when party lines are
drawn, and will repay careful
perusal by students of our constl-
tuition, which Mr.. Hopkins, of
1 Ill.,, claims to have all the elastl-
city of the tabled arab tent, and
which Mr.. Richardson, of Tenn,
holds to be as rigid as granite
/. mountain. No date has yet been
set to take vote on the bill, but
that question will probably be
one of those settled at a caucus
of the majority which has been
Ifeeasfllllea easf fer Saturday night. Two
n light sessions have been held
this week to accommodate members
who wished to speak.
| Secretary Hay, in reply to a
house resolution, says that Mr..
Macrum never reported while he
| was u. S. consul at Pretoria, or
since, that his official mail was
tampered with by a British mill
tary censor, also that this country
has no secret alliance or under
standing with Great Britain or
any other country.
The adpotion of the amend
ment to the Hawaiian bill offer
ed by Senator Warren, by the
senate, gives the Hawaiiansas
strong a guarantee of home rule
as was ever given the people OF
; any territory within the limits OF
| the u. S. The bill itself pre-
scribes the qualifications for vo-
ters of the islands, but the War
rem amendment provides that the
legislature of the Territory OF
Hawaiia may at any time after
January /, 1903 submit to the
lawfully qualified voters such
changes aud notifications in the
qualification for electors as they
! shall see fit. aud the same being
adopted by a majority vote, taker
in the mode prescribed by the
Legislature, shall be valid ane
q binding as law. An an1endmen'
! offered by Senator Vest was alse
adopted. 1t prohibits the ISSUE
LOT bonds or the contraction O
u Indebtedness by the new terrltor1
without the consent of the Presl
. dent of the u. S.
d Senator Clark has been th
d most damaging witness heard IL
Il the case against him. His &C
e acknowledgements of having con
J. tributed S14O, 900 durirg lhe cam
J. paign for the election of the leg
: islature which elected him to th
e senate and of having made pres
n ents of money to members OF tn
n legislature who worked and vote,
% for him, after his election to th
is senate, has made a bad impres
e sion; Notwithstanding his clair
d THAT his contributions were mad
n to break down the Daily ring j
n N1Ould duu uOt W SCSulC III
N election to the senate.
1T Representative Hepburn, {
as Iowa, made several attempts thi
a week to get unanimous ,conser
in of the house for setting day
III begin consideration of his Mic;
"a ragua Canal bill, which has bee
n favorably reported, but objectic
re was made each time by the chat
S, man of important COMMITTEES, WI
of claim, that their action was n,
r. becat,se of opposition to the can
es bill but because of the necessi
be of disposing of appropriation bil
ny and other pressing measure
Le, Mr.. Hepburn has offered resol
tinn satti1u aside March &. To h