The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-25

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they become operative. and place certain
restrictions upon chartered corporations.
such as the issuing OF stock OF bonds ex-
cept for cash, and inhibiting real estate
corporations except such as is necessary
10 carry out the purposes for which they
About twenty pages OF the postoffce APP
preparation bill were disposed Of, the only
substantial amendment adopted being one
to give extra compensation to letter car
riers who work in excess Of forty-eight
hours a week.
Foraker Resolution Taken Up.
Previous to the resumption OF the con-
bill Cooper. chairman of the COMMITTEES on
lnsular affairs. asked unanimous consent.
for the consideration. Of the Foraker
resol , 20 propas Tor ,ne ooni adns
tration in Puerto Rico. pending the APP
pointment OF the ciyil officers under the
civil government act The resolution Pluto !, car ~
the insular AFFAIRS committee--one TO pro-
vide that franchises should be approved
BY the president. and another placing GER
tain restrictions upon charters, corpora
tione, etc. 1t was arranged that the reso-
luton should be debated for one hour.
HfIl's Point OF Order.
Hill raised point OF order against the
Cooper and Williams of Illinois express
ed regret that "a point OF order should
have been raised, al the same time con-
tending that the point OF order was not
Speaker Henderson had read decision
of Speaker Reed in the Ffty-frst con-
gress, In which the speaker held In a
somewhat analogous case that an amend
fnent to a resolution to amend an act in
q certain particular was not germane,
and therefore not In order
richardson, the minority leader, argued
that the amendments were germaDe To
the original act, and therefore germane
to the text OF the resolution. Both sought
to amend the same section of the origi-
nal bill.
Hill was opposed to the proposed
amendments in form and substance. and
thought 1t needed no argument to snow
that they were not germane.
Williams said that information had
come to the insular affairs COMMITTEES
that all sorts Of companies were prepar-
Ing to invade Puerto Rico, and the com
mittee considered that the PROPOSED re-
strictions should be plas ed upon them 70
prevent a great scandal there. He sara
he could not understand why the point
Moody OF Massachusetts, prefacinS MS
remarks with the statement that ne re-
GREETED exceedingly that the point q or,
der had come from his ehe Republican,
side OF the house, raised the point OF or
der that Hills point Of order had come
Mcisae declared that IL he had not un-
derstood that the point of order would
not be raised TO the amendments he would
never have given consent Tor the consid-
GRAFTON Of the resolution. ne , dnSue ent y
was only right that the whole question
should be submitted.
The speaker. In lengthy ruling. held
that the amendments were clearly not
Point Raised Too Late.
Al this time he expressed profound
regret that the point had been raised.
Upon Moodys point that the point OF OF.
der came too late he said he was not
clear He called for the official report
er's notes upon this subject, ana wnen
they had been submitted TO MIN ne ruiea
and he therefore overruled Hilrs point OF
order.
Cooper Explains the Resoiution.
Thereupon Cooper took the floor IN sup
mort OF the amended resolution. he ex-
niained that the amendments were to cor
rect serious and patent defects In the civil
government. These defects, ne saio ha9
Attracted the attention of the country ana
the. press, Under the act the re-, sos nn,rol
over franchises. He read an editorial from
4 New York Republican, newspaper severe
~ condemning the failure OF congress- 70
safeguard franchises and eontendins that
the duty 10 correct the mistake was clear
The editorial indulged In some vigorous
remarks about the influence or corpora
looking the while at HIN. Cooper said the
proposition to give TO council OF eleven
appointed by the president, only hve OF
whom may be residents OF Puerto RICO,
the absolute disposition OF the property
rights OF the island, was against all pubic
policy The franchises TO he granted were
to be the most valuable property In the
island In the future.
Cooper dwelt upon the necessity of re-
straining corporations and OF regulating
them by prohibiting them from issuing
stock or bonds except for cash.
why Htli Opposed.
Hii said he was opposed to the two
Amendments; the trst on political. and the
second ON economic grounds. IL would be
far safer and better, he thought. to leave
this subject to the people ot Puerto Rico
and the able officers who would be sent
there by the president. inl declared that
he had no interest. past. pressnt or re-
mote In any enterprise In Puerto Rico.
lie had been there and had seen all he de-
sired TO see Hin thought the amendment
which would prohibit banks Of issue In the
new enjoyed this privilege. Perhaps Il
should be taken away, but Il should be
done By adjustment. not by law.
Inn denounced the "senseiess insinua-
lions against corporations desiring to do
business In Puerto Rico.
Other Speeches Made.
Jones CvaD. the ranking minority mem
Der of the insnlar affairs committee, ear
nestly favored the amendments
J. r. Williams uIil said he would have
preferred that congress instead OF the
president should approve the franchises.
but he had acquiesced In the provisions.
Cooper, In closing the debate. said that
one Of the Republican members of his
committee had Informed him that he had
been approached by a capitalist who had
stated that company was being former