Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-17
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Allison renewed his motion to lay the
amendment of Allen on the table and it
prevailed, So to Il. The detailed vote was
as follows:
Yeas-Alison. Baker, Bard, Beveridge,
Carter, Davis, Deboe, Elkins, FAIRBANKS,
Mcbride, McComas, McComber. Mcmillan.
Penrose, Perkins, Pritchard, Quarles,
Ross SewalI: Shoupe, simon, Spooner,
Thurston, Warren, Wellington, Wet
more-35.
Nays-Allen. Bacon Bate. Berry, But
Ter, Chiffon, Clark, Mont, Clay. C3ckrell,
Culberson, Harris, kenney. McLaurin,
Jones, Ark, withdrew the amendment
he had offered, yesterday, saying in doing
50 that a great storm had ragged in Puerto
Rico ana likewise a great storm was
raging in this country. the cause of the
latter being the action of the House on
the Puerto Rican question. There was
now a strenuous effort on the part of the
Republicans to get out Of this storm and
the bill now proposed was the means they
were employing 10 land safely. He de-
clared that the course of the government
towards the people Of the island ana not
the hurricane had paralyzed the indus
tries of Puerto Rico
The course we have pursued toward
these people, said Jones, is wrong
and indefensible. What the Puerto
Ricans want is not charity but justice.
1t is perfectly evident that the prostra-
ton of affairs on the island is due to
the high taxes with which the people
there are afflicted"
In answer to a question by Allen,
Neb., Allison replied that under the
military government in Puerto Rico
all food products, farm implements
and many other useful and necessary
articles were admitted free of duty.
He said ii was proposed to pass a
Puerto Rican bill here in the Senate
that would be entirely just to Puerto
Rico and to the United States.
Allen-"Does that include the tariff
provisiOn?'
on-"Undoubtedly."
Allen asked what rates Of duty the
goods of Puerto Rico We're now pay
ing in the United States.
They are paying the rates fixed by
the Dingley act" replied Allison. The
bill we shall pass for Puerto Rico will
be liberal and just to all. | take it
there is no senator on either side of
this chamber who would propose to
continue the present commercial condi-
tions between the United States and
Puerto Rico for any considerable
time"
Jones said he did not propose to vote
for any measure of this kind without
definite information. AS the matter
stood he would, he said, prefer to vote
for the House bill than for the one
presented by the committee. He in
quired where the money came from
that was being expended in Puerto
Rico now and had been expended here
tofore.
Foraker replied that a large amount
had been expended from the war emer-
gency fund and that some had been ex-
pended from customs receipts. Re
marking that he would content him
self by offering the following amend
ment:
From and after the passage of this
act no duty shall be collected on arti-
cles coming into Puerto Rico from
other parts Of the United States or on
goods coming from Puerto Rico into
other parts Of the United States"
Pettus. Ala. declared his opposition
TO the bill. holding such appropriations
were dangerous as precedents.
Wolcott inquired if it were not true
that the appropriations made for the
re,ief of the Mississippi river sufferers
at various times We're not in terms
more liberal than the present meas
lres.
Pettus replied that it was not true.
we relieved many sufferers by APP
he said, but in every
instance a specific appropriations was
made for a specific purpose.
Tillman said there was evidently so
much discussion among the Republi-
ans that it appeared doubtful to him
whether they would be able to enact
inv Puerto Rican legislation at all
Il looked as if the Republican party
had reached the end of its rope and
hat its last hope now was to contend
hat Congress was without limitations
in the government of or in leSislatlng
Tor acquired territory
Referring to the difference between
he governments treatment of Hawaii
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