The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-10
ARMY CANTEEN
IS ABOLISHED
Senate Adopts the Measure
Sanctioned by House.
VOTE ON THE BILL
STANDS 81 TO Is
Heitfeld and ShOup Both With
Minority.

teen is to be abolished. The senate to-
day. by a decisive vote, concurred in
the house provision relative to the ar
my canteen. Only fifteen votes could
be mustered in the senate in favor,
while thirty-four were cast against it.
Most of the time today was occupied
by. Senators Teller. Pettigrew and But
Ter. who all opposed the adoption OF the
senate committees amendment which
provided for the continuance of the
canteen. Beyond disposing finally of
the canteen question, the senate has
ac,omplished little. and it seems doubt
Iuf whether final vote upon the meas
uIe lilI be reported Before Friday or
Saturday.
The reapportionment bin was reCeiv-
ed from the house and referred to the
committee on census
Mr.. Lodge of Massachusetts offered
! a resolution calling on the president, If
not incompatible to the public interests,
to furnish copies of all papers and cor
! respOndenCe with the department Of
state subsequent To July /, 1897, relat-
ing to the action taken by that depart
ment to obtain an adjustment of the
claims of B. r. Henry and other Amer
/ lean citizens against Great Britain IN
regard to lands in the Fiji islands, also
whether any action had been taken in
mittee on foreign relations adopted by
| the senate June +. 1896
Teller Attacks Beer Drinking.
The senate then took up the army re-
| organization bill.
Mr.. Teller Of Colorado said that no
attack was being made upon the post
| exchange. but merely on lhe beer sell
| ing part of the exchange. He declared
his belief that the canteen system was
| vicious. and believed that the great ma
| jority of the American people held the
| same opinion. The Colorado senator
/ maintained that the excessive use of
| beer was one of the most degrading
| phases Of intempeTance- The statement
/ that the saloon interests were back Of
/ the fight upon the canteen, he said, was
/ absurd.
| 1T is true. nevertheless, INTERCEPTED
] Mr. HawIey Of Connecticut
1T is not true" retorted Mr. Teller,
| and the senator cannot prove that it
I is true
RevertIng to the situation in the Phil
/ ippines. Mr.. Teller declared that the
! United States was CurSing the people
of those islands with a curse as wi
I cioUs and vile as any the Spanish ever
/ placed upon them
| 1t was. he said, within the power Of
| the president and congress to destroy
I government encouragement OF drinking
among the soldiers OF. the American ar
my and the Filipinos. BE directed at
{ tentiOn TO a statement OF President
! Schurman Of the Old Philippine COM
mission to the effect that one of the
most demOTaliZing influences taken TO
/ the Philippines by the United States
/ was the American saloon He said that
| the few thousand Americans in Manila
| drank more per capita than the same
number Of Americans anywhere
/ Mr.. Lodge inquired if it was a fact
] that the government of the United
/ States had nothing To do with the sa-
! looms established in Manila, that the
| army canteen was an entirely different
/ matter.
Mr.. Teller replied that that was true.
/ but that il was within the power of the
| president to close every saloon in Ma
/ Mia as soon as caDlegram could
reach the city.
| Mr.. Lodge deprecated the establish
ment in Manila of tine American bar
| rooms which had followed in the wake
/ of the army He said
IF there be any way to close them,
/ 1 would favor it heartily
Easy to Stop Saloons.
Mr.. GaUinger said that ne had been
/ told by a prominent army officer that
| the 400 or 500 in Manila were licensed
by the American government, and he
believed they could be completely abol-
/ ished-
I do not know the reason for the
condition in Manila" said Mr. Lodge,
| but ] do know that under the com
mand of General Ludlow the establish
! ment of saloons was absolutely stopped
/ in Havana
Mr.. Lodge gave notice of an amend
nent prohibiting the Importation OF dlS--
titled liquors into the Philippines, eX-
cept for medicinal purposes.
/ Mr.. Pettigrew made a herce aJtack
upon the pending bill devOting some
time to criticism of the caucus Tor
| not bringing into the senate more
/ elaborate report in support OF iie
measure. He urged that the report
! submitted dealt almost exclusively TN
| the canteen provision. while the Tar
| greater question of the proposed IN
crease of the army to 100000 men was
issued by only a brief paragraph
The house bill for the payment or
| electoral messengers. carrying Slz-'Uo'
was passed.
HeitfeId and Shoup for Canteen.
The .canteen amendment of the com
mittee was then laid on the table, 81
Yeas-AIIen. Allison, Bard, Bate,
Berry Beveridge- Burrows. Butler,
Chiffon. Clay. Daniel DebOe, Dolliver.
/ Fairbanks, Foster Frye. Galllnger'
Hate. Hansbrough, Hoar. Jones tAfk-B'
! Lodge. MCComas, MCCumber. Nelson,
/ Perkins. Pettigrew. Plat Comb Platt
~. ". Simon, Teller, Tov~ne, Quarley,
WelIingtOn-3L
I Nays-Caffery. Clark, COckreIi, I'll
kfns. Hawfey, Heitfeld, McLaurin, Mai
Iorv. Morgan. Pettus Pritchard, Sew
, ! ell. Shoup SpoOner, Stewart-l5-
/ The effect of the vote is to restore to
the bill the house provision abolishinE
| the army cauteen. so FAR as the safe OF
any kind of intoXicanUs are concerned
As the section now stands in the bill,
/ il reads as follows
THE sale or dealing i'm beer, wine or
any intoxicating liquors by any person
. | in any most. exchange or canteen OF on
, any transport. or upon any premises
used as military purposes BIZ the United
States. is hereby prohibited The secre-
tary of war is hereby directed 70 carry
the provision of this section into full
: force and effect
Mr.. Proctor. on behalf of the military
affairs committee. offered an amend
E ment providing that volunteers III the
Spanish and Philippine-wars may De
appointed to the grades Of lieutenant IN
the regular army. 1t provoked consid-