River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-01-30
Philippine Bill Taken Up.

Philippine Bill Taken Up.
When the Philippine tariff bill was
| taken up Senator Rawlins questioned
Senator Lodge about acts of the Phil
| ippine commission, which were de-
| signed to prevent the discussion of
Philippine independence in the islands.
Senator Lodge said such acts were
passed, but they were for the purpose
of suppressing the Instruction; that
| it was desirable that peace should be
established before independence of
the islands and other questions be dis
cussed.
Senator Raw1ins said the acts of the
commission were a suppression of
free speech in the Philippines.
Senator Lodge said that the act re-
lated wholly to armed insurrection in
the islands.
Senator Dubois, reverting to the
Wheaton incident, said he objected to
army officers criticising the senate or
the minority of the Philippine COM
mittee and saying that their action
was encouraging the Filipinos. He
said that the army officers naturally
wanted the war to continue. They
were the people who thrived upon it.
Washington, Jan. 28-The house
chaplain in his invocation Monday re-
ferred feelingly to the death of the
wife of Representative Davis, Of Flori-
da, which occurred Sunday night.
The District of Columbia was soon
disposed of and the house then took
up the consideration of the bills on
the calendar under call of commit
tees.
Mr.. Foss (IlL), chairman of the
committee on naval affairs, reported
back favorably the resolution of Mr..
Fitzgerald On. ", calling upon the
secretary of the navy for all reports,
papers and documents relative to the
discontinuance of the use of the re-
ceiving ship Vermont and it was
adopted. This being District of Column
bia day, the house then proceeded to
the consideration of district business.
Switches Off to Tariff Hearing.
Washington, Jan. 28.-The ways and
means committee Monday temporarily
Laid aside the subject of Cuban reel
procity and entered upon the question
of reducing the war revenue taxes.
During the morning the tea interests
were heard on the proposition to take
off the tax of ten cents a pound on
tea, imposed by the Spanish war rev.
enue act. The afternoon was set aside
for the beer interests.
The tea interests were numerously
represented. Some of those present
opposed the proposed change, and
Chairman Payne divided the time SO
that both sides might be heard. AL
bert P. Sloan, of New York, president
of the National Tea Duty Repeal as
ISOLATION, made the opening state
ment.
Reply to Hon. John w. Foster.
Washington, Jan. 2S.-The Senate
committee on immigration Monday
continued its hearings Of the subject
of the Chinese exclusion. The time
was taken up by repre- sentatives of the
Federation of Labor and of the state
of California, who submitted argu-
ments in the nature of reply to Hon.
John w. Foster, who spoke last week
before the committee III OppOSltIOu 10
the pending measures.
E. j. Livermash, of California, de-
clared that the Chinese population of
the Philippines is in excess of that
of the state of California, and that
protection such as the policy of Chi
nese exclusion expresses is necessary
for the preservation of the welfare
of our laboring class and the promo
ton of occidental rather than oriental
civilization. He was not unmindful,
he said, of the difficulties attending
the restriction of Chinese from going
into the Philippines, Hawaii or Porto
Rico and from there to the United
States, but they arise because of our
attempt to treat the Philippine is
lands as domestic for some purposes
and as foreign for others.