Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-02-21
7HEW0RK OF CONGRESS-
Senator Burrows Addresses Senate on
the Philippine Question.
OUR TITLE TO THE ISLANDS.
Representative Little Urges the
Granting Of "A Liberal Terri
tOrial Government TO the
Indian Territory.

Washington, Feb. 20.-Soon after the
senate convened resolution offered by
Mr.. Tillman g. c. was adopted direct
ing the civil service commission to
transmit to the senate a statement
showing the apportionment of the en-
ployees in the various departments Of
the government from the several states
and the District of Columbia, together
with the percentages Of employees in
the departments.
At the conclusion of routine business
Mr.. Burrows Mich.) addressed the sen
ate upon the Philippine tariff bill. He
said that it was not his purpose to
discuss fully the Philippine question
but to show simply how the United
States was in the Philippines and why
1t should remain there. He said that
congress now was dealing with ques
tons as they were found today and
not as they had been in the past OF
might be in the future. He felt that
the nation was confronted by condi-
ton and not Il theory.
I'VE hold" said he. the Philippine
Islands by title that cannot be cha!-
lenged by any court in Christendom
We have become responsible for them
to the nations of the world. The pend
ing bill simply provides revenues sutfi-
cient to meet the needs Of the govern
ment of the Philippines"
After he had compared briefly the
pending bill and the substitute offered
by the minority he entered upon dis
cussion of the events which led up to
the war with Spain. The war, he said,
was in response to the popular demand
in the United States. and no people
were more clamor0uS for war than
those who now constituted the minor
ity.
The Day In the House.
When the consideration OF the Indian
appropriation bill was resumed in the
house today, Mr. Little (Ark,), the
ranking minority member of the In
dian committee, addressed himself to
the conditions in the Indian Territory.
The anomalous situation there, where
$4,000 white men had no voice in the
SONtI uIucllt, uc SitiN, dCInuiluCN oNtlOll
by congress. He contended that ter
ritorial form of government should be
set up there.
He reviewed the recent great deyel
opment in various branches of indus
try in the territory. With $50 towns
100000 he said, there were $4,000
white children Of school age. but no
schools. Such condition of affairs,
he declared, was an outrage. He be
lieved the territory was ready for state
hood but that congress should grant
at least some liberal form of terrific
rial government.
Mr.. Bromwell (O), who followed Mr.
Little, got the floor 10 comment upon
the recent speech of Mr. " heller NyD
In the course of his remarks he paid
high tribute to the Germans and ellie
tied from Mr.. Wheeler the remark that
he had no objection to Mr.. Bromwel
making himself solid with his German
constituents.
Mr.. Corliss NIich.) then spoke in ia
vor of the building of a government
cable to the Philippines. He argued
against any consideration of the Com.
mercial Cable company's offer to build
a cable from San Francisco to Manila
denouncing the corporation as an ally
of the Eastern Extension Gable com
pany, whose allied lines, he said, en-
brace system which aggregates near
Nv 10000 nautical miles of cable GOV.
ering the most extensive and powerful
cable and telegraph monopoly in the
world.