The age-herald., 1900-01-25

Rico, Cuba and the Philippines since the war wlll Spain. Objection being made 1t | went over.
 l Mir. Pettigrew of South Dakota offered
 a resolution declaring that the United
 States government could not recognize ene 1 r.tht of any nation ito declare as contra
 band aud seize food produces as such, and
 t.-2f any such seizure would be an act un-
 friendly to the United States.
 Tue resolution went over under the rule. Pettigrew's Resolution The resolution offered yesterday by MT.
 Peatagrew calling upcm the president for
 the report of General John C. Bates con | ,cernsS dae treaty made Wfh the sultan iof Sulu was cinsidered. The resolution
 recbted the salaries paid to the sultan and
 his officials ard inquired what fund they ] were paid from and what services the 1 officials rendered.
 1 MT. Pettigrew reported the resolution in
 a speech.
 | Mr. Pettigrew said that slavery in its
 worst form existed in the Sulu group of
 islands, and the treaty itself provided that every slave could purchase his freedom at | the regular market price. He said the amount of warrants paid the sultan and
 his officials under the treaty was $912O, yet | the Spanish. government paid to them only
 SC, 300.
 translation of the treaty, he sa:d was
 withheld from the people until after the Ohio election. This was merely a part of
 the policy of concealment and censoring adopted by the administration. MT. Spooner, of Wisconsin, asked Mr.
 Pettigrew if he meant to hold the president responsible for the slavery clause in the Sulu treaty.
 'I do," Mir Pettigrew replied
 Then said MT. Spooner, "I will read from the message of the
 president to congress. The president says: have confirmed said agree
 ment subject to the action of congress, and with the reservation which I have di-
 rected shall be communicated to the sultan of Sulu that this agreement is not to be deemed in any way to authorize or give the consent of the United States to the exist
 ence of slavery in the Sulu archipelago.' '"
 Mir Fet;igrew replied that there was no
 assurance that the presidents statement
 would ever reach the sultan. He declared
 it was simply case of double dealing and
 nothing else.
 At the conclusion of the address of Mir Pottigrew, MT. Lodge, of Massachusetts
 said that while the resolution was covered by one previously adopted, there was no ob-
 iection to its passage It was then adopted A joint resolution diverting and setting
 apart $50,000 out of the sums heretofore ap-
 proprialted fer jeay work at Cumberland
 Sound, in the states of Florida and Georgia, for sluicing and dredging at the entrance of 'she sound, was passed
 PHrs.al cn u Report
 MT. Carter, of Montana, chairman of the
 census commfhtee, made partial report of
 the conferees on the bill comforting addi- tional authority on the director of the cen sus.
 The partial report was agreed to. MT. Cock-ell of Missouri, moved that the seroae recede from its disagreement to the
 collection of statistics of the deaf dumb i and blind.
 MT Hale spoke strongly against the let
 ting down of the bars of the census as the
 passage of the motion would do. If
 special inquiry regarding the deaf, dumb
 and blind were made, special inquiries would be asked for al sorts of class infor-
 nation. He insisted that the senate should
 adhere to it's original purpose of restricting the limits of the census proper MT. Cockrel spoke in favor if his notion
 MT Chandler warned the senate that any extension of the work of the census would result in so clogging It that 1t would be years before any tangible results would be obtained.
 During the debate winch followed the mo- tion, MT. Chandler and MT. TiHman were pstted against each other. MT. Chandler declared that it would be impossible for ' even the So.th CaroMan to get the ueces- sary infcrma tion within the period of thirty | days.
 Possibly, responded MT. Tllman, q am not nervous or so much like grass 1 hopper as the senator from New Hamp- shire.''
 "A pitchfork never touches a grass hoBper,' said MT. Chandler, in reply to this | cally, and MT. Tlllman's Ieply was | RdTowned in the burst of laughter which | followed
 !. aMr. Cockrells motion to recede was lost I yeas 30, nays g. | MT. Pettigrew moved that the house i amendment relating to the collection of sta ! t.stics of mines ard mining be agreed to by the senate. The motion was defeated, l a to 16.
 | The senate further insisted upon its disa- | greement, and Senators Carter Hall and | McEnery were named as conferees. The senate then, at 240 D. m., adjourned. | MlmZ-A<xNx.,n