The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-11
SENATE AGREES TO HOUSE PROVISION
FOR ITS ABOLITION
THE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS
h Clause To the Army Re.
Organization Bill Tabled Afrar .
Lengthy Discussion The House
Takes Up the River and Harbor APP
priatton BiIl-Bitterness Crops Out.
Charges or Favoritism by Membe rs
OF Committed for Their Own States.
SENATE.

SENATE.
Washington, January 9.-Considera-
ton Of the army bill was then resumed.
the pending question being the eanteen
amendment.
Senator Teller said he believed with
the great majority of the American
people that the canteen system was
vicious.
Adverting to the situation in the
philippines Senator Teller declared that
1.-THE United States was cursing the peo-
Iple of those islands with a curse as
vicious and vile as any the Spanish
ever placed upon them" 1t was, he
said, within the power of the president
and within the power of congress TO
destroy government encouragement Of
drinking among the soldiers of the
american army, and the Filipinos.
The president could close every sa-
loon in Manila and as soon as a cable
gram could reach the city.
Senator Gallinger said hat he had
been told by a prominent officer Of the
army that the 500 American saloons in
manila were licensed by the American
government there and he believed they
could be completely abolished.
Il do not know the reason for the
condition in Manila" said Senator
Lodge, but 1 do know that, under the
command of General Ludlow the estab-
lishment Of saloons absolutely was
stopped in Havana"
Senator Lodge gave notice of an
amendment prohibiting the importation
of distilled liquors into the Philippines
Except for medicinal purposes.
senator Pettigrew said that the pres
Iident had refused to obey the act of
congress prohibiting the sale of liquor
on army reservations n had direct
ed" his attorney general to write an
Iopinion in support of his refusal.
In response to questions by Senator
no doubt the attorney general could
find mot reasons, but words for over-
riding the provision proposed by the
house." as he had found them for over
riding the present law"
Senator Butler, of North Carolina,
then addressed the senate in support of
the house provision of the bill relating
ito the canteen,
Senator Gallinger moved that the
amendment of the committee be laid
on the table. The motion was carried
I34 to Is.
The effect of the vote is to restore to
the bill the house provision abolishing
the army canteen so far as the sale of
any kind of intoxicants is concerned.
At 5:35 o'clock p. m. the senate ad-
journed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The house today considered the river
and harbor appropriation bill. Little
progress was made. In a bill carrying
lS1ch a va St sim for local nnnrnyannonf
many localities are bound to be disap-
pointed, n soreness outcropped in
several places today, the disappointed
members refusing to allow any limit to
be placed on the general debate.
Mr.. Burton, chairman Of the commit
tee on rivers and harbors, who is in
charge of the bill, made an elaborate
Explanation of it's provisions. He said
THE sundry civil bill would carry about
5 1000, 900 on contracts previously au-
lthoriZed. The total of direct appro-
lpriations for rivers and harbors for the
next fiscal yea would, therefore, aggre-
gate about $4,000 900. Mr.. Burton pro-
posed figures to show that the enormous
tonnage carried up and down the lakes
warranted the extensive appropriations
they had received. He explained that
the Missouri i've commission had been
abolished by the bill because while over
ISL, OOO, 900 a been expended on that
iriver it had less commerce today than
thirty years ago.
Mr.. Corliss, Of Michigan, attacked the
bill for not giving proper recognition to
the great lakes deep-water way project.
He commended that, with a few excep-
ltions, it was not framed in the interest
lof the general commerce Of the coun-
try.
Mr.. Bishop, of Michigan, denied that
THE committee had shown favoritism
to particular localities and defied Mr..
ICorliss to particularize. 1t was only
natural, he said, that the states repre-
scented by the members of the commit
tee had received the great bulk of the
appropriations in the ball.
At sos o'clock p. m. the house adj
Ijourned.