The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-07-04
JASPER INDIANA. FRIDAY. JULY A, 1902
The COurier's Washington Letter.


lican voting against the measure.
The bill is still in conference, and
the only obstacle to i'm
mediate adjournment. All the ap-I \
bills have been passed
and other important measures will
be permitted to await action until
the short session. In anticipation
OF the passage Of the Philippine bill
before July 4th, the President has
drawn up general proclamation Of
amnesty for al the political Offend
ers among the Filipinos, aud, if his
expectations are realized, the proc
lamation will be issued on Inde-
pendence day.
Proceedings in the Senate on Fri
day were marked by most able
presentation, made by Senator Tell
er, of the position Of the republican
party in regard TO Cuban reciproc
ity. The effort made by the ma
iority of the republicans to effect a
reciprocal treaty with Cuba, he
characterized as the most stipend
Gus effort to deceive the American
people that has occurred in all his
public experience. Mr.. Teller con
firmed the prediction, made in these
letters, that a treaty would be me-
gotiated and presented at the next
session of Congress, and declared
that the whole reciprocity agitation
had been an attempt to take advan-
tage of the well known disposition
of the American people to relieve a
people in distress, to the material
advantage of the American Sugar
Refining Co., otherwise known as
the Sugar Trust.
Apropos Of Mr.. Tellei's remark,
| have received from unimpeach-
able sources the information that it
is the intention of the President to
90 out to the states whose con-
gressional delegations opposed his
Cuban policy, before the next SEES
sion, and to advocate from the plat
form reciprocal arrangement with
Cuba in terms which he believes
will result in creating popular de-
mand for that end which will max g
it impossible for the senators and
Representatives from these states to
resist the confirmation Of the treaty
which he will send to Congress.
Such a course will be almost with
out precedent, it is true, but Mr..
Roosevelt considers that the ina
tional honor" which a republican
congressman suggests is another
term for personal PRIDE" is in
volved and that, therefore, the cir
cumstances warrant an unusual
course of procedure.
On Thursday the House OF Rep
resentatives added one more to the
measures calculated to cast serious
reflections on the republican party.
Under the guise Of merely tech
nical change in the internal revenue
law, bill was passed which deals
a killing blow to that portion OF the
brewing interest OF the country not
controlled by the trust, the United
Brewers Association. 1t appears
that So per cent. Of the beer pro-
duced in this country is made BY
the Trust, and of the remaining l.
per cent. large portion is put W
lin "eighth barrels. The bill
+, passed by the House prohibits these
3 small packages, and, if passed b,
the Senate also, will place the entir.
elindustry in the hands Of the Trust
That this would be in entire accorc
with republican principles canno
be denied, but that such proceed
sling will meet with the approval o
1.-THE people is doubtful.
\ On Friday evening the democrat
I lof the House held conference t
consider the action Of the repub
-|licans during the session Of Con
e!press practically completed. Reso
|lutions were adopted condemninl
1.-The republicans for sacrificing Cub
e|to the demands Of the trusts, AM
J. pointing out there would have beef
,-lno difficulty in passing, in the Sen
Mate, the Cuban bill as passed by tn
dl House, and that the only reason TO
to do so was the fact that tn
'elbiIl passed by the House curtaile
x-lthe profits Of the trust to the ma
ie terial benefit OF the Cubans, and {
te the American consumers. The rel
IyIolutions also re.aiiirm the we
H. l-known fact that the republican pa
IT, ty has been, throughout the session
n dominated by the trusts and monol
olies that il has persistently refus:
to listen to the counsel, even
members Of its own party, to 7
ol duce the tariff on articles produce
seIby the trusts; and that it has, ait