The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-02-06
CONGRESS-.

discussion the prOpOS1tlOn whether
censorship of press dispatches exists
in Manila. While no such turbulent
scenes as yesterdays were enacted
the debate for time was very spirit
ed. The secretary of war was quoted
as saying that no press censorship
now existed in tie Philippines and a
letter from General Greedy, chief sig
nal officer of the army, was presented
by Beveridge. of Indiana, making the
statement officially that there was
no censorship of press dispatches and
that "the press is entirely free" 1t
was contended by the opposition that
a press censorship did exis. in the
Philippines, and that copies of every
news dispatch filed with the cable
company were filed with the military
authorities. That, it was maintained
constituted virtual censorship. Gull
lom, chairman of the committee on
foreign relations, delivered an ex-
tended and carefully prepared speech
on the history of the reciprocity nego-
tlations. A bill providing for the use
by the United States of devices in
vented by it's naval officers while
engaged in it's service and covered by
letters patent was passed.
AASNAoS' AlCh1y, VI SOuucCIlCul, re.
ported the oleomargarine bill from the
committee on agriculture. With the
report We're submitted the views of
the minority of the committee and
the substitute offered by them. No
business of Importance was trans
acted.
Washington, Jan. O.-Senate.-To.
days session of the senate was en-
tirely void of the tumultuous scenes
which characterized the sessions of
the past three days. After the Phil.
ippine tariff measure was taken up,
Tillman delivered speech devoted
almost entirely to discussion of the
part his state took in the war for the
independence of the colonies. Incl.
dentally, he referred occasionally to
the pending bill, drawing morals, as
he said. for the Lenefit of the ma
jority that they might be applied to
the Philippines.
House.-The house today passed the
bill -or the creation of a permanent
census bureau. The friends of the
civil service law, who were opposed
to making the employees of the bureau
eligible for transfer or retention, in
the permanent organization. The bill
also provides for a manufacturing
census in 1905, and for the collection
of certain special statistics annually
early in the session a bill was passed
for the protection of the lives of min
ers in the territories.
Washington, Jan. 31.-Senate.-An
extended speech on the pending Philip
pine tariff bill was delivered in the
senate by Morgan of Alabama,
who devoted particular attention to
an amendment he offered to the bill
last week. He maintained that the
enactment of the bill as it stands
now would not be a constitutional
remedy for the situation the measure
is designed to relieve, but said with
thu adoption of his amendment the
bill would stand the closest scrutiny
of the courts. the Alabama senator
did not discuss the political phases
of the Philippine question, devoting
his entire speech to a consideration
of the regal and constitutional ques-
tons raised by the presentation of
the tariff measure. An hour and a
half was devoted to consideration of
bill to increase the salaries of
judges of United States courts, but
no action was taken.
House.-The house today prepared
to defend itself against what it con-
slders the threatened invasion by the
senate of it's prerogative in the mat
ter OF revenue legislation by directing
the ways and means committee to in
vestigaue the subject and report to
the house its conclusions. The action
of the house was the outgrowth Of
the agitation in the senate of the
claim that reciprocity treaties affect
Ing the customs revenues can be nego-
tiated without the concurrence of the
house. After short debate, Speaker
Henderson pointed out that Richard
sons resolution did not contain a sin
gle averment that there had been an
actual assault on the rights of the
house and ruled that the resolution
was not privileged In doing so he
called attention to the fact that under
the .4reat- of such invasion the house
today had taken action to investigate
the subject that 1T might be qualified
and equipped with argument il the
issue were presented later.
Washington, Feb. 3.-Senate.-An-
other spirited debate, with the Philip
pine tariff bill as the text, was pre-
cipitated in the senate today, as the
result of some statements made by
Carmack, democrat, of Tennessee, in
the course of an extended speech on
the general Philippine question. 1t
was the Tennessee senator's first
speech in the senate, and he was given
notably good attention on both sides
of the chamber. He spoke without
manuscript, with earnestness, force
and eloquence. At the conclusion of
his address, which had been listened
to by many of his former colleagues
in the house of representatives, Bev-
eridge of Indiana, challenged some of
his statements. The debate which en-
sued was very lively for a few min
utes, taking on political phase which
proved particularly interesting to the
auditors who crowded the floor as we'll
as the galleries. Beveridge and Till
man of South Carolina, became in
volved in a heated colloquy in which
the exchanges were as hot as both
senator's could make them. Prior to
the taking up of the Philippine bill,
the measure providing for an increase
in the salaries of the United States