Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-01-31
Volunteers to Be Brought Home
and New Recruits to Take
Th cir Places.
SOVEREIGNTY IN The PHILIPPINES.
House and Senate Committees Del.
uEed with Bills-The Shipping
Bill Now In Hand-What That
Measure Will Insure to the Amer.
lean Producer.
Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON. d c. Jan n


The army reorganization bill will be care
fully considered in conference, within few
days, and immediate action will probably be
taken by each branch of congress to con-
firm the action of the conferees. The ad-
ministration has been very greatly en-
barrassed by the delay in the perfection of
this measure and time is the most i'm portanc
of all the factors at this time The volun-
teers are to be brought home and newly re-
cruited regulars enlisted in ther places, and,
the transfer to occur before the middle of
the present year. This being so there is not
moment to lose, and it is gratifying that
matters are reaching point of fnality. A
was expected from the start, the plan of
the administration is upheld, and the pres
ldent's hands will be free to do as he deems
best to crush the instruction in the Philip.
pines and establish law and order
The senate has disposed of the treaty with
Spain, whereby the latter nation relinquishes
to the United States sovereignty over the
islands of Sibutu and Cagayan, which are
really part of the Philippine group, but
which, through an unfortunate geographical
designation in the first treaty describing the
urea Within which the Philippines were stu.
ated, left out these two islands from formal,
inclusion. This error costs the United States
800, 900, and with its payment by the United
States, practically assured by the ratifca.
ION of the treaty, this last incident in the
cquistion of sovereignty in the entire Phil.
jpine group is closed.
The house is rushing work through with
is accustomed CELEBRITY, and the senate COM
mittees are being deluged with their bills,
although but few appropriation measures
have as yet found Judgment in the senate end
If the capitol. With the disposal of the
legislative appropriation bill the senate, as
had been expected resumed consideration of
the shipping bill. As this is being written
certain amendments have been prepared
md submitted, it is said by Senator McN1l.
AN acting for three or four other republic
an senator's, demanding that the compensa-
lion for vessels of high speed shall be lin
tied to those of Is knots speed and over.
This is in Difference to the clamor for slow
cargo carrying steamships, and to the OBJ.
position to high speed steamships, which the
opposition to the shipping bill has very care.
fully fostered.
Nothing so clearly proves the influence
of the foreign shipping interests in the .hap-
ing of American shipping legislation, a. this
to the clamor it's agents have
raised. The opposition to the pending ship.
ping bill has been concentrated upon the
only line under the American flag in the
transatlantic trade, and this concentration
8 due to the fact that the opposition lines,
lnder foreign flags, are most anxious to
cripple if not ruin their only rival under the
flag in the carrying of American
IMPORTS and exports. There ID one thing
that the people of the country must never
orget, in this connection, and that il that
he assured protracted reduction in ocean
reight rates whenever the shipping bill BE-.
comes law, and because of the increase in
he number Of ships offering for cargoes,
will be of the greatest direct benefit to
hose who produce the things the surplus
(which is sent abroad.