Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-01-31
COUNTING THE
ELECTORAL VOTE
A Resolution Passed by the House
Providing for the Method OF
Procedure.
GAGE SPEAKS ON CURRENCY
The Senate Is Considering the Conference
Report Upon the Army Reorganization
Bill-A Characteristic Remark by
Senator Pettigrew.
SENATE.

SENATE.
Washington, January 31.-The senate
to-day resumed consideration of the
conference report upon the army reor-
gauization bill Mr.. Pettigrew address,
ed the senate. He said he voted against
the BILL and would have been pleased if
it could have been defeated.
tMr. Pettigrew referred again to the
T fact that the senate refused to pass his
resolutions making inquiry for facts
concerning the situation in the Philip
pines. He asserted t.N belief that the
official records would show that the
battle of February was ordered from
Washington and charged that only
such facts are given to the public as
suit the purposes of the party in power.
He also charged that Notwithstanding
that instructions to the Paris commits
sion had been sent to the senate in Sc
cret, the president quoted copiously
from them in his letter of acceptance,
omitting such portions as did not suit
his purpose "And YETI he said, "the
senate refuses to make the document
public" He also charged that General
MacArthur's report has been suppress
ed for partisan purposes, and the re-
ports of the Taft commission colored
upon orders from Washington to fit the
emergency. He asserted that the Fill
pinos are not the enemies of the United
States, and hoped that they would be
successful in their contest orliberty. II
1o I'll ai to
'when I shall cease to sympathize with
people struggling for liberty, no mat
ter where they are Mr.. Pettigrew
took special exception to the provision
of the bill authorizing the enlistment of
Filipinos.
Mr.. Pettigrew introduced and had
read long letter from Tomas Mascar-
do, military governor of one of the
Philippine provinces, in which it was
charged that severer torments upon
Filipinos by American troops had been
inflicted than the Spaniards had ever
been guilty of. Robbery, pillage, vio-
lation and murder" the letter said,
'fare the first proofs of protection we re-
ceive when American soldiers enter a
Filipino community" The letter writer
characterized General Otis as "the
blind instrument of ambitious McKin-
ley" Mr.. Pettigrew said he would not
cite this letter if the charges in it were
not confirmed by letters from American
soldiers themselves. He believed these
barbarities were practiced by the Mac
abebes, of whom it is now intended to
enlist 10000.
The senate agreed to the conference
report on the army reorganization bill
to the president.
AT o'clock Mr.. Frye moved that the
senate continue the consideration of the
army bill conference report. He said he
thought the army bill the most mpor-
tant matter before congress. This dis
placed. the shipping bill.
GAGE ON THE LOWERING BILL.
Washington, January 31.-Secretary
Gage was heard by the banking and
currency committee to-day upon the
Lowering bill for an elastic currency.
He thought it step in the right direc-
tion, though it did not, he thought, go
far enough. Mr.. Gage also advocated
the retirement of greenbacks.
HOUSE.
Washington, January 31.-In the
house to-day Mr.. Dalzell of Pennsylva-
mia, from the committee on rules, re-
ported a substitute for the senate reso-
luton for the counting of the electoral
vote on February 49, Mr.. Dalzel ex-
planned that in 1888 bill passed pre-
scribing the method in which the vote
should be counted, and declared. that
prior to that time the count had been
made under resolution providing that
the president of the senate should de-
clare the result. But since the passage
of the law 1t had not been followed, and
the senate adopted the old abrogated
resolution under which the count was
made prior to 1887. The house substi-
tute was. he said, in the language of
the law. There would be no declaration
of the result by the presiding officer,
but he will simply state the vote, which
the law declared will be sufficient. It
change should be made while no parti-
san controversy existed over the result.
Both Mr.. Richardson Of Tennessee and
Mr.. Bailey of Texas said they consid-
cred the change proposed advisable.
The resolution was adopted.
The house has passed the fortiflca-
tions appropriation bill, and has taken
up the postoffice appropriation bill.
Representative Lanham of Texas de.
livered an extended speech on the ques-
tion OF the reorganization OF the Demo-
cratic party. IT was unbridled audac-
fty, he said, on the part of the gold
Democrats to. demand on their return
to the party that they should head the
procession. Talk, therefore. Of party
reorganization was puerile. The effort
to shelve Bryan, he urged, was prema-
ture. He had fallen with his back to
the field and his feet to the foe. He was
a splendid American citizen and a.