The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-10
END 0F IHE GAN|EEN
SENATE ADOPTS HOUSE PROVISION
AaOLISHING BEER AT
ARMY POSTS.
VOTE TAKEN WAS DECISIVE
DEBATE ON THE ARMY BILL is
LIKELY TO LAST THE
WEEK OUT
PETTIGREW ACTIVE AS USUAL
Senator From South Dakota Seized
the Opportunity to Criticise the
Increase in Our Mil
itary Force.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The army can
teen is to be abolished, as the senate to-
day by a very decisive vote concurred
in the house provision relative to the ar
my canteen Only fifteen votes could be
mustered in the senate In favor of the
canteen, while thirty-four were cast
against it.
Most of the time today was occupied
by Senators Teller, of Colorado Petit
grew, South Dakota, and Butler, North
Carolina, who all opposed the adoption
Of the senate committees amendment
which provided for the continuance of the
canteen.
Beyond disposing of the canteen pues-
ton, the senate accomplished little and 1t
seems doubtful whether the final vote
upon the measure will be reached Getore
Friday or Saturday.
When the senate convened vacant seats
were numerous. Many senator's are away
from the city and several are confined
to their homes by attacks of the grip,
which is almost epidemic in the city. Inc
reapportionment bill was received from
the house of representatives and =eter-
red to the committee.
Mr. Lodge (Mass.) offered a resolution
calling upon the president, if not in
compatible with public interest, to fur
nish the senate copies of all papers and
correspondence in the department of state
subsequent to July l. 1897, relating to the
action taken by that department 10 oo-
tain an adjustment of the claims OF Is.
r. Henry and other american citizens
against Great Britain in regard to lands
in the Fiji islands; also whether any ac-
ton has been taken in pursuance OF
resolution of the committee on focelgn
relations adopted by the senate June 4,
1896 The resolution was adopted
At the conclusion of the routine busl-
ness, consideration of the army reorganl-
zation bill was resumed, the pending
question being upon the committee
amendment striking out the house provis-
ion abolishing the canteen or post ex'
change in the army.
! CANTEEN OPPOSED.
Mr.. McCumber IN. Do, in carefully
prepared argument, attacked the amend
ment and urged the adoption of the house
provision abolishing the canteen. he oe-
clared that a majority of the deaths m
the army were due either directly or IN
directly to the use of intoXlcantS.
Mr. Teller (Col) said that no attack
was being made upon the post exchange,
hit merely upon the beer selling part OF
the exchange -,
Adverting to the situation in the Phil
ippines he declared that the yonleh
States was cursing the people OF those
islands with a curse as VICIOUS ana vie
as anv the Spanish ever placed upon
them. - He directed attention to a state
ment of President Schurman, of the old
Philippine commission, to the effect that
one of the most demoraliZing influences
taken to the Philippines by the Unlteo
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.
PETTIGREW'S HAMMER.
Mr. Pettigrew made an attack upon the
pending bill, deVoting some time to
criticism of the senate committee for not
bringing into the senate a more elaborate
report in support of the measure. Lie
urged that the report submitted dealt al
most exclusively with the canteen priyl-
lege, while the far greater question OF
the proposed increase of the army to 100,-
900 men was passed by with only brief
paragraph. He was not opposed, he said,
to the post exchange, but he was opposed
to the sale of liquor in the post exchange
In the course of his remarks Mr.. Petit
grew said that the president had refused
to obey the act of congress prohibiting
the sale of liquors on any reservation
and had directed" his attorney general
to write an opinion in support of his re-
fusal.
"Oh, now, the senator does not mean
that the president dictated to the attor-
ney general the nature of opinion he
should write" protested Mr.. Spooner
CWis.).
''Wel, don't know whether he did
or not" responded Mr.. Pettigrew.
81 would not say that he did then"
suggested Mr.. Spooner.
Mr.. Pettigrew read and commented
upon the opinion of the attorney general
on the law relating to the canteen pass
ed by congress last year.
1.-THE president certainly cannot be in
need of the advice of an attorney gen
eral capable of placing such construc-
ton upon the law unless he is desrous
of an excuse for violating an act OF
congress-, he said.
The canteen amendment of the COM
mittee was then laid on the table, "a to
Is, as follows:
Yeas-Allen, Allison. Bard, Bate; Ber-
banks. Foster. Frye, Gallinger, Hale,
Hansbrough: Hoar. Jones (Ark), Lodge,
Pettigrew, Plat Comm. Platt IN. W.
Simon, Teller. Towne. Turley, yelling
Nays-Caffery. Clark Cockrel. Elkins,
sboup. spooner. .stuart-15.
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.
IN THE HOUSE.
The house today considered the river
and harbor appropriation bill Little
progress was made. In a bill carrying
such a vast sum for local improvements
many localities are bound to be disap-
pointed, and there is generally soreness
among members who fail to get what
they want. This soreness outcropped in
several places today, the disappointed
members refusing to allow any limit to
be placed on the general debate. 1t ex-
tended throughout the day, being SEEM
ingly no nearer a conclusion at adjourn
ment than when it started. Mr.. Burton
chairman of the committee on rivers
and harbors, who is in charge of the BILL
made an elaborate explanation of its
provisions. Several Western members
assailed it fer not containing provisions
for irrigation reservoirs, and Mr.. Cor
liss, of Michigan, attacked it for not CIV
ing proper recognition to the great lakes
deep waterway project. Before the river
and harbor bill was called up some rou-
tine business was transacted. The joint
resolution for the appointment of ex-
Senator George Gray, of Delaware, as
member of the board of regents of the
Smithsonian institution to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of the late w. l.
Wilson. was adoOted.