The Holly chieftain., 1902-02-14
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

viding for the fifty compa MES Of Phil
ippine scouts, comprising about 5000
men. A deficiency appropriation is re-
Quired of $4,000.
The sub committee of the Senate
committee on foreign relations. which
had been giving especial attention to
the legal aspect of the reciprocity
treaties has reported its findings to
the full committee, and Senator
Spooner was authorized to prepare a
written report on the subject. The
committee concludes that the power
to make commercial treaties rests with
the President and the Senate. and that
the fact that they involve questions of
tariff does not render 1t necessary that
the House of Representatives should
have equal opportunity to consider
them.
An extended speech on the pending
Philippine tariff bill was delivered In
the Senate Friday by Mr.. Morgan Of
Alabama. Speaking of the claims
which had been made that there was
no lawful government in the Philip
pines, Mr.. Morgan, with earnestness.
said there is government there, and
he was glad to say, very good gov
ernment, suitable to the character of
these people and the circumstances In
which we found them. 1t would ad-
vance the esteem of the Filipinos for
the United States ifsthey could have a
delegate in Congress, as in the case of
Hawaii, said Mr.. Morgan. This, he
thought, would be no violation Of the
constitution. Referring to the work of
the Philippine Commission, their per-
sonality and their ability, he paid a
tribute to the late President Mckinley,
who, he said, was the happiest man in
the world in making selections of men
for responsible position, who always
could be relied upon to do the right
thing at the right time and in the right
way.
Representative Lacey of Iowa was
given hearing before the House CON-
mittee on irrigation In support of his
bill making an appropriation for an ex-
perimental irrigation system to be con-
structed at a place designated by the
secretary of the interior. Mr.. Lacey
argued that irrigation under the pro-
posed dual government system of state
and federal control Is an experiment.
He thinks the government should Sc
lect the most favorable project and give
1t fair chance, developing it slowly.
He advocated the building up Of nation
al irrigation from the bottom rather
than going up on a grand scale, as Ia
proposed by the committee bill. He in
sists that mistakes will necessarily be
made, and that 1t would be better to
make them in one project than In many
as 1t will afford opportunity to make
corrections at small cost. An expert
mental system, such as his bill pro-
poses. he says, can have the approval
of the East and can probably pass.
while the general bill. in his judgment,
cannot get through the House.
Representatives Of schools Of mines,
state universities and state agricultu-
raj colleges have agreed upon form
of amendment to the Grosvenor bill
providing for transfer of portion of
the proceeds of sales Of public land to
support Of schools of mines, and sub
mitted the same to the House commit
tee on mines and mining. 1t will prob
ably be adopted at the next meeting.
The amendment provides that In
states and territories where school of
mines has been established separate
from the control of colleges or state
universities, and has been in actual op-
Grafton not less than two years, or in
any state where there Is state uni
versity maintained In whole or In part
from the income from land grants, and
WHICH udb lOI uOt leso ludu tWo ychiD
maintained distinct school or depart
ment of mines and mining, one-half of
the sums appropriated by the bills
shall be paid to such school of mines
or state university, and the other half
to colleges maintained for the benefit
of agriculture and the mechanic arts.
Throughout nearly the entire session
of the Senate Monday the Philippine
tariff bill was under consideration. Mr.
Turner concluded his speech begun
Friday on the legal and constitutional
phase of the Philippine question. He
held In the main that as the Filipinos
had established an independent govern
ment In the islands prior to the falling
of Manila, the United States, under
the principles Of international law, had
no right in the islands. Mr.. Turner re-
ferred to the Philippines sedition act as
not only unconstitutional, but as "A
relic of barbarism too black even for
the most despotic and tyrannical gov
ernment that now exists on the face Of
the earth" Mr.. Patterson presented an
amendment providing for the repeal Of
the sedition laws applied to the Philip
pines. Mr.. Teller gave notice Of an
amendment declaring that 1t Is not In
tended by the government of the Unit
ed States to permanently annex the
Philippine islands as an integral part Of
the United States, but that 1t Is intend
ed to establish, with the consent and
assistance of the Inhabitants thereof, a
Government mr. 0nvornmontu anita hlc IN