Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-06-05

So1cltaCon or promise, provides for
a fine of steamship companies which
receive at port of departure aliens
c1icted with loathsome or CONTAGIOUS
diseases instead OF providing as now
for deportation On arrival here. ex.
tends the time within which an alien
who becomes a public charge may be
deported from one to two years and
provides that immigrants over -
years old shall be able to read liz
some language.
Washington, May 2S.-An agree
ment was reached in the senate bv
which the final vote on the Philippine
government bill, and all amendments
will be taken next Tuesday. Mr..
Burrows of Michigan explained the
bill at length and urged it's enact
ment, maintaining it would advance
the interest and promote the pros
perity of the islands. In his juds-
ment it would be a mistake to accorl
to the Filipinos lf-government and
independence now.
the bill to increase the subsidiary
coinage by coming the silver bullion
in the treasury, and to recon stand
ard silver dollars as public necessities
may require. The limit of subsidiary
coinage is now 100000. The bill n
creases this to an indefinite amcun.
in the discretion of the secretary of
the treasury. The bill aroused The
opposition of the democrats, VINO
claimed it was only step in the oil
rection of the complete striking dovl
of the silver dollar The debate
Crifted into general discussion on
Tie silver question. Very little IN
terest was shown. Mr.. Newlands Ct
Nevada finally offered an amendment
to make subsidiary silver legal ten Ter.
The amendment was pending when
! the house adjourned.
Washington, May 90. Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts, in charge of
the Philippine bill, offered on behalf
OF the committee several amend
ments, the most important being the
one extending to the Philippines the
provision in the bill Of rights of the
constitution OF the United States, ex-
cepting only the right to bear arms
and to trial by jury All amendments
were agreed to. Senator Morgan of
Alabama delivered an extended
speech in which he supported, in the
main, the bill as presented by the
committee. He said it looked to-
ward peace and toward a just and
peaceful government in the islands
Some changes were necessary, in his
opinion, but these he thought would
be made. He declared there never
had been pretense of an organized
Filipino government in the islands,
and he said that, had Dewey recog-
nized Aguinaldo's' claims, he would
have given aid and comfort to the de-
clared enemies of the United States
He took sharply to task those in and
out of the senate who had extolled
Aguinaldo and asserted the Filipinos
were not fighting for liberty but sim,
ply as savage tools OF the Hongkong
junta. Senator Clay of Georgia re-
garded the action. of the United
States since the ratification of the
treaty of Paris as a great mistake and
urged that this government ought to
declare it's purpose in the Philippines.
Such action would put an end to the
trouble in the islands. He main
tanned the bill ought not to be passed,
as it would confer greater power ON
the Philippine commission than ever
had been possessed by king or poten-
tate. Senator Spooner of Wisconsin
began a speech in support of the bill
which is to conclude the general de-
bate on the measure by the republi-
can side. He reyiewd the situation
in the islands and said the RESPONSE
bility of it rested not on any one
party but on al alike 1t appeared
strange to him that a measure intend
ed to eXalt the government and subor-
dinate the military power should
create such adverse criticism; and
he declared that on the democratic
side nothing was heard but pessi-
mism; the gospel of despair, sus-
picion, distrust, and imputation of the
motives of republican senator's He
declared that never in the annals of
time had an army carried to a people
so much of amelioration, so much
kindness and tenderness as the Amer
lean army had carried to the Filipinos
by direction of President Mckinley.
The house passed the bill to in
crease the subsidiary silver coinage
The democrats directed the fight
chiefly against the provision to recon
the standard silver dollars into subsi-
diary coin as public necessities might
require. Some New York democrats
voted for the previous question. but
voted with their colleagues on a !
motion to recommit, with instruc-
lions to strike out the provisions rela-
tive to the recoinage of silver dollars.
Conference reports on the omnibus,
public building and Notifications ap-
bills were adopted and the
house adjourned until Monday. The
text of the subsidiary coinage bill fol-
lows: The secretary of the treasury
be authorized to coin the silver bull
lion IN the treasury purchased under
the act of July IA, 1890, into such de-
nominations Of subsidiary coin as he
may deem necessary to meet public
and thereafter as pub
lie necessities may demand to recon
silver dollars into subsidiary coin;
and 81 mich of any act as fiYes a