The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-29
SUBJECT OF A SPEECH FROM SEN
AT0R MORGAN.
OBSTRUCTION TO THE SCHEME
Is Made, the Senator Charges by
Friends of the Presfdent-He Also
Argues Against Clothing the FRESH
dent With the Powers Contemplated
In h spooner Philippine Bill, While
Advocating Pesention Of the Islands.
Private Pension BIZ. Day In House.
SENATE.

SENAlL.
Washington, May Ex-senator Nor
gan introduced a bill to punish crimes
against the United States not commit
ted within a state, with a view to the
present emergency.
The Philippine bill was then taken up
and Senator Morgan addressed himself
to it. He declared that no promise
had ever been made by our military
and naval commanders TO
the Tagalo government, which, he fur
Their said, did not exis. when Dewey
took Manila. He denounced Aguinaldo
as a political adventurer and traitor.
Senator Morgan eulogized the Paris
treaty. He attacked the Spooner bill
because, he maintained, it concentrated
all the power over the Philippines in
the president of the United States and
gave too much power to any president
n to a dishonest president this
power would be very dangerous. 1t was
legalizing absolutism and took away
from the senate the power to confirm
the appointments of the president.
Il do not know" said Senator Nor
gan, whether the president is de-
handing from congress this imperial
power. His onduc thus far of our
island possessions does not justify
the suspicion that he desires the vast
powers conferred upon him by tt.
bill merely for his own ACKNOWLEDGMENT
or for any imperial urposes This is
an unhallowed power ami ought not
to be conferred upon the president.
Fraud has already touched his admin
istration in Cuba, but no one is more
sorrowful nor indignant over it
than he"
In view of our occupation of the
Philippines Senator Morgan adverted
to the Nicaragua canal, arguing for
that project. He referred to what he
hotly called the assumption, AFRO
gance and brazen-faced audacity'' of
various Panama Canal Companies,
which were making representations to
this government. 1T is an outrage on
all public decency," he urged; IAN open
violation of the criminal laws of the
United States.
With earnestness and vigor, Senator
Morgan arraigned the new Panama
Canal Company for having been instru-
mental in preventing the passage of
the Nicaragua canal bill at the present
session. Never" he declared, has
the United States government and the
United States congress been badgered
and cuffed about as we have been by
this new Panama Canal Company; and
the quiet submission and ease with
which we tax it is only accountable
to the tendency Of a presidential
election and we-are afraid to tackle
any corporation that has or processes
to have some great power"
He could not believe the president
was in league with the politicians who
were antagonizing the canal bill. He
did not believe either, that the presi-
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that he had an idea in his mind of
abandoning the canal project. THE
president, who is a candidate for re-
election" said he, lis in the hands of
his friends and his friends are thu en-
emies of the Nicaragua canal
Senator Allison then called UP the
sundry civil appropriation bill. the bill
carried, as reported to the senate, $685.
S12, $50. SiXty-five of the ISL age
of the bill were disposed Of.
The bill was laid aside at 5 o'clock
and the senate ADJOURNED.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The house devoted two hours this
morning which belonged to the legis-
1ative day of Thursday to the continu-
alton of the consideration Of the Alas
ka civil government bill without COM
plotting it. The session from noon un-
til adjournment was devoted under the
rule to private pension bills.
Mr.. Talbert, of South Carolina, who
abandoned obstructive tactics a few
weeks ago, was again in evidence to-
day. He INDUCED in severe criticism
on what he termed the haSty manner
in which private bills were railroaded
through the house and cited h recent
case of a bill granting a pension Of
s72 per month to Arthur F. Dinsmore,
an 81, 800 clerk in the interior depart
ment, who also Is the private secretary
of S. w. Smith, of Michigan, a mem
Der of the invalid pensions committee.
The bill, after being sem to the presi-
dent has been recalled.
Later when Mr.. Smith came into the
house, he made a statement regarding
the case, describing Mr.. Dinsmore's
sufferings from wounds M his fire.
Quent necessary absent from Office
without pay and his employment Of
assistants to help him in his commit
tee work on account Of his d~eplorable
physical condition.
After others corroborated this state
ment, Mr.. Talbert proceeded to charge
the republican administration with
. responsibility for not doing Dinsmore
justice.
After 100 bills had been favorably
acted upon by the committee Of the
whole, Mr.. Talbert blocked their pas
sage in the house with the point of no
quorum.
Among the bills acted upon today
were the senate bills to pension the
widow of the late Captain Gridley who
commanded the Olympia in the battle
of Manila at $50 per month; the widow
of the late Commodore r. w. Meade
| at $40 per month and the widow of the
late General M. F. Force, of Ohio, at
$50 per month. The last case is a very
pathetic one. General Force was the
republican candidate for governor OF
Ohio in 1873. Subsequently he was
minister to France. Since his death
Mrs. Force has fallen into destitute
circumstances and is now engaged IN
truck farming near Cincinnati.
At 4:50 o'clock the III adjourned.
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