The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-01
WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.

Washington, Jan. 80, 1900.
There is open revolt in the repubi-
can ranks against a part OF the Nc !
Kinley programme. Senator Platt,
of Conn, has given notice of his in
tention to offer amendments to the
administration bill providing govern.
ments tor Hawaii and Porto Rico.
He will amend both bills by moving
to strike out the clauses allowing each
Of the islands to send Delegate to
Congress, and in the case of Hawai-
his amendment will provide for strik.
ing out all that portion of the bill deal
ing with customs duties and a con-
tinuatlon OF the present customs rela-
tions. Instead of free trade with Porto
Rico, as the bill provides, Mr.. Patt's
amendment provides for the collec-
ton of duty on all articles from
Porto Rico brought into the U. S.
equivalent to SO per cent of the duty
collected on similar articles from for
eign countries, and for a duty in the
same proportion to be collected in
Porto Rico on all goods from the U.
5. How serious this revolt will be is
yet to be determined, and it will de-
pend largely upon the attitude of the
democratic and popullst Senators, but
1t has greatly alarmed the administra-
ton.
Roberts was thrown overheard
last week, according to programme,
and, according to the ethics of the
unco good, the House must be today
very much more moral and virtuous
body. Well, it may be that 1t is, but
there are serious objections to the
House, as at present constituted, set.
ting itself up as court to pass on
morals. This isn't meant as a defense
of Roberts, who deserved to be kick
ed out for cowardice as well as for
polygamy, but as an advance protest
against the House going into morality
censorship as regular business. That
business is already badly overcrowded.
Secretary Gage must be disgrunt-
led about something He said a day
or two ago that he believed the Beers
would lick the English and sincerely
hoped they would. Here is more
treason in the Mckinley camp,
and Gage isn't Irish, either.
Representative Champ Clark, of
Mo, sent the following cablegram to
Webster Davis, Assistant Secretary of
the Interior, when the news was re-
ceived that Davis was on his way to
Pretoria, in President Kruger's private
car: ''Webster Davis, Pretoria, care
of Kruger: Hearty congratulations
on good company in which you find
yourself. Have always admired your
splendid genius, and now that you are
out of the society of republicans and
jingoes, and fraternlzlng with men
fighting for liberty, hope, when you
return to your native shores, you will
join the democrats. We will give you
a most cordial welcome" Mr.. Nc
Kinley is so much afraid that the visit
of Davis to Kruger will be miscon,
structed that he has caused it to be
officially given out that Davis is travel
ling as an individual and not as
representative of this government.
Senator McEnery, of La, made
speech against the Prltchard resolu-
ton declaring the proposed suffrage
amendment to the N. c. constitution,
similar to the one now in force in La,
to be unconstitutional, in which he
declared that his state had been great
iy benefited by the restriction of suf.
fage; that while Congress had the
power, it had not the right, TO declare
any law or constitutional provision OF
state unconstitutional, that right be-
longing solely to the judicial branch
oil the government. He stated the
whole race question when he said:
"There can be no admixture of the
races. This is law of nature. They
must work out their destlnies on
parallel lines, which cannot come to
gether. The Anglo-Saxon blood and
brain will always be the superior and
cannot be subordinated to the negro.
Representative Henry, of Texas
has introduced bill providing gov
ernment for Porto Rico, which mos
democrats think good enough to bt
made party measure. 1t follows tn,
lines OF the laws establishing territor
les, which have stood the tests of