The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-02-06
Volunteers to Be Brought Home
and New Recruits to Take
Til cir Places.
SOVEREIGNTY IN THE PHILIPPINES.
House and senate Committees Del
uged with Bills-The Shipping
Bill Now in Hand-What That
Measure Will Insure to the Amer
ican Producer.
Especial Correspondence

| Washington, u. u, Jan. 81.
The army reorganization bill will be care
| fully considered in conference, within a few
days, and immediate action will probably be
taken by each branch of congress to con-
firm the action of the conferees. The adj.
lministration has been very greatly en-
barrassed by the delay in the perfection of
this measure. and time is the most important
of all the factors at this time. The volun-
teers are to be brought home and newly re-
cruited regulars enlisted in their places, and
| the transfer to occur before the middle of
the present year. This being SO there is not
a moment to lose, and it is gratifying that
| matters are reaching point of fnality. As
was expected from the start, the plan of
the administration is upheld, and the pres
ident's hands will be free to do as he deems
| best to crush the instruction in the Philip
| pines and establish aw.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 a part of the Philippine group, but
| which, through an unfortunate geograp hical
| designation in the first treaty describing the
area within which the Philippines were stu
ated left out these two islands from formal
| inclusion. This error costs the United States
! 100000, and with its payment by the United
States, practically assured by the ratifca-
ton of the treaty, this last incident in the
acquisition of sovereignty in the entire Phil
ippine group is closed.
The eouse is rushing work through with
its 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
of the capitol With the disposal Of the
| legislative appropriation bill the senate, as
had been expected, resumed consideration of
the shipping bill a S this is being written
certain amendments have been prepared
and submitted, it is said by Senator McMil-
! Ian acting for three or four other republic
an senators, demanding that the compensa-
ton for vessels of high speed shall be linn
tied to those of Is knots speed and over.
This is in Difference to the clamor for slow
cargo-carrying steamships, and to the op-
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 shap-
ing of American shipping legislation, as this
concession to the clamor its 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
is due to the fact that the opposition lines,
under foreign flags, are most anxious to
cripple if not ruin their only rival under the
American flag in the carrying Of American
imports and exports. There is one thing
that the people of the country must never
/ forget, In this connection, and that is that
the assured protracted reduction in ocean
freight rates whenever the shipping bill be-
comes law, and because Of the increase in
the number of ships offering for cargoes,
will be of the greatest direct benefit to
those who produce the things the surplus
Of which is sent abroad.
1 Senator Vest last week brushed up his
adjectives and having carefully examined
his yoca bu,ary Of invectives, proceeded to
inveigh against the shipping bill, offering as
an alternative his amendment to make
|
! Ginning shipping in the foreign trade. There
has never yet been free ship advocate who
could point out any American citizen who
would put foreign built ships under Ameri-
can register if he were privileged to do so,
unless the government would give him sub
| sidy for running them in competition with
| foreign ships sufficient to make good the ex-
ira cost of operating ships under the Amer
lean as compared with other flags.
The president has been most careful dur
| ing his somewhat prolonged weakness result
| ing from his attack of the grip. He has
avoided seeing delegations, and has limited
i his consideration Of public matters entirely
! to those of the most pressing and important
character. He has entirely tabooed social
functions for the present, and it begins to
look as though the white house would not
see many receptions or other social pleasant
tries, SO dear to those on pleasure bent, dur
ing the present session. The president can
not be too circumspect in outstanding his
strength, and avoiding ali taxes upon it that
are either fatiguiDg or.unnecessary.
DAll talk that the president is disinter-
ested regarding the shipping bill is untrue.
Each annual message he has sent to con-
gress has urged the passage of just such a
measure as that now pending.
when the army reorganization bill has
been finally disposed of the president will be
fortified, as never before, to concentrate the
military forces upon the subjugation Of the
insurgents in the Philippines
1.-THE people are far more concerned in
the president preserving his strength than
in his yielding to the opportunities of the
essmart set who desire the resnm option of
social functions at the white houes.
One of the most important questions to
Washingtonians, toward the close of each
short session of congress, is whether there
is to be an extra session or not. It means
difference Of many thousands of dollars daily
to the merchants of this city whether con
gress is in session or recess.
The chances for the passage of the ship
ping bill grow brighter daily. The enemies
of the bill are exhausting their resources of
Misrepresentation and utilization, inspired
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