Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-02-01
WORK OF CONGRESS.

1
The senate was not in session on the
oath. The house passed the urgent de-
hciency bill. The republic ans forced a
record vote on the amendment to appro-
pirate $4,000 for the protection and
| shelter of American soldiers in the
/ Philippines, and Is democrats voted for it
| The remainder Of the session was de-
voted to the consideration of private
| pension bills. 70 being passed. An adj
Journment was then taken until the 9th.
An animated and prolonged discussion
was precipitated in the senate on the 9th
| over the right of army officers to crtti-
| else utterances made in the senate or
elsewhere on the conduct of AFFAIR." in
the Philippines. Senator Nelson (Mlnn.),
in charge of the department of commerce
/ bill, had read a long letter from John w.
Hayes, general secretary treasurer Of
the Knights of labor, in support of the
bill. Senator Jones (Ark) read a protest
| on the part of railroad engineers, fire
men and other employees against the
transfer of the department of labor to
the new department of commerce. SEN
ator Carmack CTenn.) submitted a mi
/ nority report from the committee on the
Philippines against the Philippine tariff
| bill. The pension committee reported IA
vorably the bill of Senator Mitchell
! (OreO granting pensions to survivors of
Indian wars that took place between 1917
| and 1856. The house adopted a resolu-
ton calling for documents relating to the
old training ship Vermont, which was
and also passed bill to provide for the
compulsory attendance of witnesses be-
fore registers and receivers of the gen
eral land office. A bill to appropriate
100000 for establishing homes for the
teaching of articulate speech to deaf
children was defeated. An adjournment
was taken until the 18th.
Not since the discussion of the resolu-
tons leading up to the Hispano-Ameri-
can war has any scenes occurred in the
oh 9HNear hi
of the 18th. Once. when Senator Teller
(COl.) tainted the republican leaders by
declaring that they knew the statements
made in recent dispatches from Manila,
in which Gen. Wheaton was represented
as criticising the oppoents of the govern
ments policy in the Philippines were
true, half dozen republicans were on
their feet in an instant. Senator Lodge
(Mass.), at whom the taunt seemed to
be aimed particularly, hufriedly crossed
from his seat in the center of the repub-
lican side to the main aisle of the SEN
ate, and, white to the lips, passionately
challenged the statement of the Colorado
senator and demanded that he withdraw
it. Senator Teller so modified the state
ment that further hOstilities at that time
were averted. In the course of a colo
guy Senator Spooner CWis) declared
that, if the same rule were to be applied
to the colored people in the Philippines
as Senator Tillman referred to in the
south, then God help the colored man
the Philippines now shouted the South
Carolina senator passionately. you
have already butchered in three years
three times as many as the Spaniards
did in three centuries" When the dis
cussion finally was ended the chair felt
called upon to admonish the senators
that the rules of the body had not been
observed. Prior to the outbreak the
Philippine ueStion the senate concluded
the consideration of the bill establishing
a department of commerce and labor and
passed 1.-THE house was not in ses-
sion.
The senuate on the 18th discussed the
question whether a censorship of the
press dispatches exists in Manila, and
the debate for time was very spirited.
The secretary of war was quoted as say
ing that censorship now existed in the
Philippines, but it was contended by the
opposition that press censorship did ex-
ist in the Philippines and that copies Of
every news dispatch filed with the cable
company was filed with the military au-
thorfties. That, it was maintained, con-
stituted a virtual censorship. Senator
Cullom Cll) delivered a speech on thc
history of the reciprocity negotiations.
1.-The house was only in session % min
utes. Mr.. Hopkins Qll.) reported the per-
manent census bill and gave notice that
he would call it up the next day. Mr..
Sherman IN. Y made a favorable report
from the house committee on commerce
of the bill to prevent the false marking
OIL 1oOo ana DAIRY pEooucIS Dy ProNluln5
heavy penalties. Mr.. Gibson (Tenn.) in
PRODUCED a bill furnishing frauds and
wrongs in the election of representatives
in congress. Mr.. Ray IN. " introduced
a modified form of his anti-anarchist bill,
providing that If death does not ensue
in an attack the president or other
person in line OF succession, the penalty
shall be life imprisonment instead OF
death. Mr.. Lacey Qa.) introduced a bill
for the protection of game and fish on
forest reserves, and for the transfer of
such reserves to the control of the agri-
cultural department Mr.. Curtis lKan.)
introduced a bill authorizing the Santa
Fe Pacific railroad to sell its road and
franchises to the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe.