Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-06-07
WORK OF CONGRESS.

An agreement was reached in the sem
ate on the 18th by which final vote on
the pending Philippine government bill
and all amendments will be taken UP on
June 3 at four o'clock p. m. Senator
Burrows (Mich.) explained the bill at
length and urged its enactment, main
tanning that II would advance the inter-
ests and promote the prosperity Of the
islands. In his judgment 1t would be a
mistake to accord to the Filipinos now
self-government and independence. Such
q proceeding could result, he said. only
in disaster to the Inhabitants and posi-
BILE anarchy in the islands. Senator Hoar
(Mass.) offered a substitute for the reso-
luton of Senator Wellington (Md.), dis
charging the senate committee on priv
ileges and elections from consideration
of the house joint resolution FOR the cleo
ton of senators by direct vote Of the
people. II asks the committee to report
all about the resolution and the wisdom
of passing it....The house debated the
bill to increase the subsidiary coinage
by coming the silver bullion In the treas
ury and to retain standard silver dol
lars as the public necessities may require.
The debate drifted into general dis
cussion of the silver question. Mr.. New
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ment to make subsidiary silver a legal
tender Mr.. Cochran (Mo.) supported
the Newlands amendment, at the same
time denouncing the bill.
Senator Lodge (Mass.), in charge of the
Philippine bill, offered in the senate on
the 10Th several amendments to the meas
ure the most important one extending to
the Philippines the provision of the bill
of rights of the constitution of the
United States. excepting only the right
to bear arms and the right to a trial by
jury. All of them were agreed to.
Senator Morgan (Ala) delivered an ex-
tended speech in which he supported in
the main the bill as presented by the
committee. He took sharply to task
those in and out of the senate who
had extolled Aguinaldo and asserted
that the Filipinos were not fighting for
liberty, but simply as the savage tools
of the Hong Kong junta. Senator Clay
(Ga.) opposed the pending measure. He
regarded the action of the United States
since the ratification of the treaty of
Paris as great mistake and urged that
this government ought to declare its
purposes in the Philippines. He MAIN
tanned that the bill ought not to be
passed, as 1t would confer greater power
on the Philippine commission than ever
had been possessed by king or potentate.
Late in the afternoon Senator Spooner
(Wis.) began a speech In support of the
bill. He declared that never in the an
nails of time had an army carried to
people so much of amelioration, so much
Of upbulding, so much Of kindness and
tenderness. as the American army had
carried to the Filipinos by direction Of
Mckinley. An adjournment was then
taken till the 3lst... The house passed
the bill to increase the subsidiary silver
coinage. The democrats directed their
fight chiefly against the provision to re-
coin the standard silver dollars into sub
sidiary coin as public necessities might
require. A half dozen roll calls were
forced. The conference reports on the
omnibus public building and fortifica-
tons appropriation bills were adopted
and the house adjourned until the I'd.
Little interest either on the floor or in
the galleries. was manifested In the sem
ate debate on the Philippine government
bill on the Cd under the 15-minute rule.
At two or three stages 1t almost died OF
hamilton. Senator Mason Qll.) differed
from the majority In the treatment pro-
posed for the Filipinos. He urged that
no reason existed for according to them
a treatment different from that accord
ed to the Cubans and strongly advised
that they be afforded the right to govern
themselves Early in the session some
amendments were made to the bill by
the Philippine committee, the most I'M
portant of which related to the DISPOSE
ton Of the public lands In the Islands,.
The house, by vote of 129 to 46. sus-
pended the rules and adopted the joint
resolution extending the thanks Of con-
90 80 fot hn Jot or
his address on the occasion Of the Nc
Kinley memorial exercises last February.
Mr.. Clark (Mo) made q Commute speech
in opposition to it's adoption on the
ground that Mr.. Hay had abused the oc-
casion by injecting republican stump
speech" into the address. Gen. Hooker
(Miss.), a one-armed confederate vet
eran, delivered an eloquent defense of
Mr. Hays address, denying that II con-
tanned anything that was Objectionable
from a political standpoint. Mr.. Gros-
venor (O.), who was in charge of the
resolution, argued that Mr.. Hay, In
eulogizing the martyred president, could
not divorce the man from his achieve
ments and his record as manly parti-
san. Only 46 democrats voted against
the resolution. The senate bill to retire
Surgeon General Sternberg and the house
bill to encourage salmon culture In
Alaska were defeated on motions to pass
them on suspension of the rules.
Shortly after five O'Clock on the after
noon of the Sd the senate passed the
Lodge Philippine government bill by
vote of IS to 30. Three republicans-SenA
ators Hoar (Mass), Mason Qll) and
wellington (Md)-voted against the
measure, and one democrat-Senator Nc
Laurin Is. C.)-voted for 1t. All amend
ments offered by the minority were re-
jected. After the passage OF the Philip
pine bill the Nicaragua canal bill was
made the unfinished business. Senator
Depew IN. ", from the committee on
judiciary. reported a substitute for Sem
ator Platt's bill to suppress train rob-
berry. The house began consideration OF
the anti-anarchY bill The house COM