Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-15

Washington, Jan. 8.-During the
discussion in the senate of the resOlu-
ton inquiry offered by Pettigrew
(pop., S. d. some sensational state
ments were made regarding the atti-
tude of the United States towards the
Filipino insurgents. Senator Petit
grew declared his government had at
tackled it's allies and thereby been
guilty of the grossest treachery. This
statement was resented warmly by
Senator Lodge (rep., Mass.) who de-
clared the government had done moth
ing of the kind, that not even remotely
had it recognized the sO-called govern
ment of the Filipinos. Senator Nor
gan (dem., Ala.) spoke against the
Pritchard resolution which condemns
racial restrictions on suffrage and at
lacks the new constitution OF North
Carolina. He discussed the negro
question in general maintaining there
was a natural deficiency in the blacks,
morally, sociallyand intellectually. He
declared that in many places in the
south thousands of negro voters in
doubtful counties were bought for 81
each. eff southern white men," said
he, "have falsifed election returns,
they have a stronger, if not better
reason that they are acting upon the
same law Of self-defense that insulted
outraged human nature resorts to for
0F oY1S 70 lii
from a race that sets at defiance all
moral restraints upon their brutal de-
sires." This evil, he thought, would
end only when the United States had
provided a home for the negro race
suited to their traits. The bill amend
ing the dependent act of June 27, 1890,
! was passed providing that in case a
widow shall have resources" instead
Of an 'income" from which $3.50 a
year is derived or derivab1e she shall
not be pensionable further. The bill
does not apply to widows who have
married former soldiers, since June
| 27, 1890. The bill was also passed pro-
viding that a widows pension shall
commence with the application and
not at the date Of the soldiers death.
The senate took up the Samoan treaty
| in executive session. Senator Davis,
chairman of the committee on foreign
relations, made a brief explanatory
statement. He referred to the HOSTILE
ties of last summer, saying these were
merely forerunner of what might
have occurred on a far larger scale if
the tripartite arrangement between
the United States, Great Britain and
Germany had been permitted to con-
tinue in force He contended that
Germany had simply made a quit
claim deed to the United States and
that in turn the United States had
quitc1aimed to Germany. Senator Ba-
con stated his opposition to the treaty.
Washington, Jan. 8.-The house or
dered two investigations as result of
resolutions introduced by representa-
an investigation by the committee on
postoff1ces and postroads into the
charge that two federal appOintees of
the president, Postmaster John G.
Graham of Provo City, Utah, and
Postmaster Orson Smith of Logan,
Utah, are under indictment as po1yga-
mists The other l. the general in
vestigation of me military committee
into the conduct of Gen. Merriam and
United States army officers during the
Wardner, Idaho riots and subsequent
thereto
Washington, D. c., Jan Ex-senator
Beveridge spoke for two hours in the
senate this afternoon on the Philippine