Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-05
AIM AT ANARCHISM
Three Bills That Are Now on the
Files in the Upper House
of Congress.
PHILIPPINE TARIFF is IN FRONT
Secretary Root COnfers With Lead
ers in View of Supreme
Court Ruling.

Washington. Dec. 5.-Pra cticaliy the
entire time Of the senate yesterday
was devoted to the Introduction of bills
mud resolutions. Two of these meas
ureS. relating to the suppression of an
archy and the dealing with anarchists,
were allowed to lie on the table so that
their authors-AIcComas of Maryland
and Vest of Missouri-may bring them
to the early attention of the senate.
The isthmian canal report was trans
mitted to the senate by the president,
and several bills providing for the con-
struction of the waterway. one of them
by Morgan. who has led the movement
for the canal in the past, were present
ed. They all provide for United States
control absolutely of the strip of ter
ritoI-y across Central America in which
the canal is constructed. The house
was not in session.
Burrows After the Aliens.
Burrows bill for the suppression of
anarchy provides entirely for alien an
archiSts and has nothing to say of the
native-born and raised kind. of which
CZolgoSz was one. Vests proposal Is
very all-embracing and provides for
an inquiry into the eXpediency of laws
for the suppression OF anarchism and
the amendment of the constitution
with that object in view. Lodge intro
duced a bill providing for the remov-
nj of the ten years limitation on the
Chinese exclusion act, thus leaving the
provisions of the GeaTy act in force.
That act which was approved May >,
1892. excluded the Chinese indefinitely,
but the Scott act of Nov. 3. 1898 limit
ed the exclusion to ten years. In case
there is no legislation in the meantime
the ten years limit would expire next
May.
Tariff and the Philippines.
Lodge introduced Il bill to provide
revenues for the Philippine islands,
1t provides that the tariff passed by
the Philippine commission Sent. IL.
1901, and approved by the secretary OF
war. shall remain in full force and eff
feet. This covers goods going into the
islands. The bin provides for levying
the same duty and tariff on goods COM
ing into the United States from the
Philippine islands that are now col
leCtcd from foreign countries. The
bill also provides that until otherwise
ordered statutory laws of the United
States shall not be in force in the Phil
ippines except as ordered by the Phil
ippine commission. All duties collect
ed in the Philippines go into the in
sular treasury.
Root COunseIs with Leaders.
Secretary Root is taking counsel
with some of the Republican party
leaders I'm the preparation of n pro-
gramme to meet the decisions of the
supreme court last Monday in the in
sular cases. 1t is said that the pres
ent purpose is TO ask congress TO legis-
late Immediately to define with precis
ion the status OF the Philippines from
revenue point of view. The tinan
cial officers of the department who
have looked into the trade figures for
the past three years find that the sum
OF 81 100000 represents about the total
OF the duties collected from Spaniards
on goods arrived at Manila which
might have to be refunded in the event
that il should ultimately be held that
the collection of duties on United
States goods there was illegal The
SpaniardS would secure a like liquida-
tion under the terms of the peace
treaty guaranteeing them equal rights
with American merchants in the Phil
iuniupS