The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-05
CONGRESS- EXPIRING GAsPS.
SEVERAL POLITICAL SPEECHES
MADE IN THE SENATE.

ed-Status of the House ANTITRUST
BilI-Pettigrew on the Philippines.
| Washington, June 4.-Congress is in the
last gasps of the long session and it's
expiration apparently is to be quite per-
| functory.
| Unless something extraordinary occurs
| no further general legislation of national
Importance will be enacted before final
| adjournment.
/ The Senate was in session more than
ten hours to-day, nearly four hours of
which were spent in executive cession.
To-night's session picturesque, many
| senators appearing in full dress, and the
galleries were thronged.
Mr.. Allen asked that an hour be set
aside to-day for the consideration of the
pension bill. Mr. Pettigrew objected. The
pension laws, he thought, were defective
and unjust. More pension bills had been
passed at this session than at any
session for years. Mr.. Gallinger. chair
man of the Committee on Pensions, chal-
| lenged the latter statement
| Mr. Aldrich of Rhode Island reported
| from the Committee on Finance a bill to
provide better facilities for the safekeep-
| ing of public money in the Philippines,
| and in Cuba and Porto Rico. The bill
| provides for the deposit of money by the
| government In such banks on the island
| as will deposit with the government as
| security United States bonds to the full
| amount of the deposits. The bin was
passed
Mr.. Teller of Colorado, spoke on the
| Philippine question. He referred to recent
| speeches on the same subject delivered by
| Mr.. Beveridge of Indiana, Mr.. Lodge of
n at.,, Of IL
| consin, as having a strong political bias
and containing sycophantic reference to
| the President of the United States.
He was one of those who believed that
American sovereignty attached to the
| Philippines, to the island of Luzon at
least.
81 believe a republic may have and may
| hold colonies" he said but those colo
nies must be founded on a participation in
! the government by the people of the coll
onies. see no way to surrender the Phil
| ippine Islands,"
Entering upon a sharp and extended crit
| icism of the government provided by Con-
| gress for the people of Porto Rico, Mr..
! Teller said il was part of the imperialis-
tic policy of the. Republican party
In conclusion, Mr.. Teller said he would
not support the Republican party in the
| approaching campaign.
II do not support its financial policy
and I do not support the Philippine policy
as foreshadowed in the pending measure
(the Spooner bilD. And 1 do not want to
| give up the islands, either They can
be made of immense value to this coun-
try"
Assessment for Lobbying.
Mr.. wolcott of Colorado, chairman Of
the Committee on Postoffices and Post
| Reads moved to recommit to the COM
| mittee bill FIR the classification of
, clerks in first ard second class postoffices
Mr. Wolcott said it had been stated
that the first and second class postoffice
! clerks of the country had contributed an
! immense fund to be devoted to lobbying
| this bill through Congress.
He thought the clerks ought to be ad-
vised that such contributions gained
them moth ng.
MIR. Butler of North Carolina interject-
ed the remark that the amount assessed
upon the clerks had reached the sum of
! $500 900.
Mr.. Wolcott said he had little doubt of
! that as every lobbyist with political pull
was on the payroll. The bill was then
| recommitted.
The following bills were passed;
Establishing terms Of the United States
| Circuit Court at New Berne and Elizabeth
4 City, n. c.; providing for the holding of
terms of the United States District Court
of the western district of North Carolina
on the second Mondays of July and Jan
uary at Winston. N. C.
House ANTITRUST Bill.
When the House bill for the regulation
| of trusts was received, Mr.. Pettigrew
moved that the bill be placed on the
calendar.
Mr.. Galnnger moved Its reference to the
! Committee on Judiciary.
The chair decided a motion previously
| entered by Mr.. Allison to go into execu-
tive session to be in order, and this ques-
tion prevailed without division.
The Senate remained in executive ses-
| sion until 5:45 p. m.
h The parliamentary status of the anti
! trust bill was then asked for by Mr. Hoar
| and the chair stated that 1t had been read
! once, but could not be read a second time
unless by unanimous consent and until 1t
was read second time no motion TO refer
| or to consider 1t was in order.
Mr.. Allen Of Nebraska asked unanimous
| consent for its second reading.
Mr.. Aldrich of Rhode Island objected.
| saying that the bill could not be passed
at this session. II then went over until
| tomorrow, Mr.. Pettlgrew giving notice
that he would move to consider it to-mor
| row morning.
The Senate then took a recess until s
O'Clock.
Pettigrew ON Philippines.
| At s O'Clock the Senate reconvened. Mr..
| Pettigrew taking the floor on the Philip
pine question. He sharply criticised the
| administration for not having given Con-
gress and the people full information con-
| cerning affairs in the Philippines and said
| that most of the information received had
| come through censored press" and prl-
| vate letters.
At great length Mr. Pettigrew argued
that the Filipinos were allies of the United
| States. He said he had no desire to i'm
peach the veracty Of Admiral Dewey. but
| since the Admiral had denounced as false
| his (Pettigrew's) statement that the Ad-
| miral had recognized the Filipinos as al
| lies and had saluted their flag, he (Petti-
grew felt It incumbent upon him to pre-
| sent the facts and let the American peo-
| ple Judge as TO the Admirars veracity.
He presented mass of matter In sup
| port of his contention, but nothing new ex-
| cept letter from The executive officer OF
| the olympia admiral Dewey's flagship),
| who wrote that while no naval salute was
| made to the Filipino flag, the Olympias
| flag was dipped 10 the Filipino colore.
| This Mr. PettigreW contended Wus a sa-