Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-12-18
|ALL FOR THE F|L|PINOS.
In Presenting the New Tariff Bill
Its Advocates Tell of Alleged
Imperative Necessity.
ISLANDS HAVE RETURNED A PROFIT.
Under the COmmission's Act Prepared Two
Years Ago There Has Been Surplus
of Revenues After All Expenses Were
Paid This Refers to Civil Affairs Only,
Not Including Military Expenditures.

Washington, Dec. 14.-Chairman
Payne, of the committee on ways and
means, Friday presented the majority
report on the Philippine tariff bill.
1t says:
This bill is designed to raise rev.
enue for the government and benefit
of the Philippine archipelago. 1t is
intended to restore the status which
| existed prior to the late decision of
| the supreme court. Prior to that de-
| cision the government had been col
lecting duties on goods coming into
| the United States from the Philippine
archipelago at the same rates as those
provided for in our tariff laws for like
| articles imported from foreign coun-
tries" The court holds that the Phil
ippine archipelago is not foreign
country, and therefore the general
tariff law does not apply. This bill
extends the rate now existing upon
imports from foreign countries to ar
| ticles brought in from the Philippine
islands.
'In the Philippine archipelago the
United States Philippine commission
prepared a tariff act after much care
and study. These different forms of
tariff in force there have produced a
surplus of revenue after paying the
expenses of the government. This
bill proposes in the first section to
make this Philippine tariff part of
the statutes of the United States The
| aecessity for a continuance of revenue
| txyhfnh Sho1l ho
tain is imperative. If we continue
the police and constabulary system
which has been inaugurated, and
which is doing much to restore and
conserve order in the islands, it will
call for a large increase in appro-
| priations. We have enrolled 100000
school children in the public schools.
| Of this number more than one-half
are without any schoolhouse accom-
modation. 1t is necessary that we
build suitable houses at once Ten
| thousand adults were at last accounts
| enrolled for night school, and. we are
told that this number has since in
creased to probably at least $4,000.
| These people, anxious to learn our
language and to better their mental
condition, must be amply provided
| for. Four thousand teachers have
been employed, nearly all of them re-
Gently, and their salaries must be
paid. This gSeat work of education
must not be crippled, even for a
short time, for lack of funds.
| "Our government has gone to work
Systematically through tie commits
sion for the Improvement of the har-
Dor at Manila. They have let the
contract to the lowest bidder. This
contract calls for the expenditure of
$3,000,000 in the near future. Roads
are being constructed and the build
ing Of roads in this tropical country
is expensive. These are hut a few of
the many items of expenditure which
are imperative. All these expendi-
lures are preparing the way for re-
duction of the army and in the end
will prove of direct benefit to the
taxpayers of the United States.
| "The fourth section provides that
all the duties and taxes collected un-
der the act shall not be covered into
| the general fund of the treasury of
the United States, but paid into the
treasury of the Philippine islands to
be used and expended for the use and
benefit of these islands,"