, 1902-02-27
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

| EtStGNuIlUu OF u IThtI Ill AFlZOUH, Ill
Guiding the pertified forests.
The Senate has passed Senator War
ren's bill making appropriation to
build IL to mark site of Fort
Phil Kearney Indian massacre in
Wyoming.
The Senate committee on foreign re-
lations ordered a favorable report on
the treaty to acquire the Danish West
indies. No amendment was made 10
the treaty in committee.
Secretary Root n called the atten'
ton of Congress to the need of pro-
viding for the fifty companies Of Phil.
ippine scouts, comprising about 1000
men. A deficiency appropriation is re
quired of S515,OOO.
The senate committee on foreign re-
htions authorized a favorable report on
the bill reforming the consular service.
The bill requires n civil service exam
nation of applicants for consular
places.
The Senate in executive session Feb
ruary 18th ratified Il treaty between
the United States n Great Britain,
extending for twelve months from
July 2S, 1901, the time within which
British colonies or foreign possessions
may give their adhesion to the cOnven-
ton signed March 2, 1899, for the ten
ure and disposition of real and per-
sonal property.
Senator Bacon has given notice of
his intention to offer an amendment to
the Philippine tariff bill declaring it to
be the intention of the United States,
when order shall he restored in the
Philippine islands, to allow the forma-
ton of a government for and by the
Philippine people and to guarantee
to them the same degree of liberty
and Independence that this country has
pledged to the Cubans
The Senate has passed the bill estab-
fishing a permanent census office. The
discussion related principally to the
collection and publication by the direc-
tor of the census of statistics respect
ing the production of cotton. Mr.. ALI
son vigorously opposed the provision,
maintaining that the cotton statistics
gathered by the Department of Agri-
culture were complete and accurate,
and that no necessity existed for their
duplication. Despite his opposition the
provision was inserted in the bill.
The House committee report on Rep
r%esentative Corliss' bill to provide for
the government construction of n Pac-
III Ail HNA'IEAN VI 80 NH' '''' -
communications in the Pacific, " the
one dark spot upon the face of the
Garth II calls attention to the eN-
amples set by Great Britain, France
and Germany in the construction Of
cable lines, and declares hat the own
ership of the Pacific cable by the
United States is necessary for the
maintenance of peace and the advance
ment of prosperity of the islands.
Mr.. Nelson (AIinn.D followed with n
legal argument dealing with various
phases of the Philippines question. In
beginning he took Mr.. Patterson sharp
ly TO task for injecting sectnrianism
into the discussion, holding hat 1t was
unwarranted and inrXcusable. 1t had
remained for Mr.. Patterson. too, he
said, to declare that the sending of
American teachers to the Philippines
to teach the Filipino youth the English
language vas an act of tyranny and
despotism. The foreign born people of
the Northwest, he said, might as well
insist that 1t was tyranny and despot-
ism to be afforded the opportunity of
sending their children to the public
school.
Discussing the Philippine tariff bin
in the senate, Mr.. Money of Mississippi
uFEueu lHil our postum IL lluule W
bring on wal with other nations at
any time, when the 81, 50O,000O per
week expenditure of the present time
would be vastly increased. We should
get rid of the islands, in our W inter
est, Mr.. Money went On, and espe-
cially for the purpose of Graduating
from our country the practice on the
part of the congress of comforting au-
tOcratic powers on the executive. We
will find before we terminate this eN-
pertinent. he said. that the saddest day
Of our history is the day that we
signed the Spanish treaty. Mr.. Money
denounced the Taft commission as
''uselessly pernicious,"
Another lively discussion of the
philippe of MIR. Wheeler of Kentucky
took place n few days ago in the house.
Mr.. Bromwell, an Ohio Republican;
Mr.. Kern, an Illinois Democrat, and
Mr.. Fleming, n Georgia Democrat,
added their views to the literature on
the subject, but it was Mr.. Boutell, an
Illinois Republican. who entertained
the house most. He was well fortified
with material, and with exceeding good
temper, and n |trenchant display of
wit, he traced the history of what Mr..
Wheeler had called ''truculent syco,
IAi'NhN hS III saul il'ii lh' way llill
the first Democratic president pur-
chased n bogus coat of arms TO the en-
tertainment of Queen L~iliuokalanl. by
the last Democratic president. He
finally dismissed the whole subject b.
saying 1t should be accepted abroad as
II Of the erratic and sporadic phases
Of American humor.
Senator Warren has reported from
the Senat committee on claims an
omnibus claims bill carry an appro-
priation of approximately S3,000,O00 to
pay II large number of claims against
the government. some of them dating
back to the war of 1872. The Western
claims included We're as follows: Gil,
man Sawtelle, Priest river. Idaho, So
OIO for subsisting troops on his
ranch in 1877; Nathan Turner.
Sedgwick county. Colorado. stores
and supplies furnished troops dur,
ing Civil War. S12O; state of
Wyoming. $1,000 for care of
Yellowstone Park prior TO appropria.
ton for this purpose by national gov,
eminent. The bill refers to the Court
Of Claims for Judgment the claim of
the heirs of William Kiskadden,