The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-30
THE NEWS FROM MANILA
Denied by Republicans C0rre- SpOndents are Hampered.
Debate in the Upper House of Con- gress Continues Spirited-Dubois and Beveridge Engage
 in a Tilt.

Washington, Jan. 29.-For an hour to- day the Senate had under discussion whether a censorship of press dispatches exists in Manila. While no such turbu- lent scenes as yesterday were enacted, the debate for time was very spirited. The Secretary of War was quoted as say ing that no press censorship now existed in the Philippines, and letter from General Greedy, the chief signal 'off1cer or the army, was presented by MT Bever- idge of Indiana, making the statement officially that there was no censorship or press dispatches. and that "the press IS entirely freer It was ccntended by the opposition that press censorship does exist and that copies of every news dis patch filed with the cable company was filed with the military authorities. That, it was maintained, constituted virtual censorship. @
 At the conclusion of routine business In the Senate today a bill providing for the use by the United States of devices in- vented by its naval officers. while en- gagged In it's service and covered py iet- ters patent was passed.
 MT. Cullom 0ll) then addressed the Senate on the constitutionality of that portion of the Dingley act which author ized the negotiations of reciprocity trea- ties He said that the wording or the provision was peculiar and mixed, put 1t seemed that all treaties negotiated must have been made and ratified within two years after the passage of the acf. Therefore if that act is to control, IL would be useless to ratify the treaties.
 Senator Cullom continued: "fn my opinion the fourth section of the Dingiey act, so far as it attempts to confer. limit or define the treaty making power IS not only an interference with the powers or the President and Senate. but Is uncon- stftutional. because it comes In connict with that clause of the constitution which states that the President shall have power by and with the advice and con- sent of the Senate to make treaties We E do not.Fthercfofe dnsive oi,rv treaty 5n1isks ing powers from a law of Congress, and no law of Congress can in any way modf- fy or limit those powers. The Dingley act cannot limit the time in which we shall be allowed to make a treaty.
 MT. Cullom, contended that the fourth section of the Dingley act should be taken as a mere expression of the view of the Congress and that the Pres ident did not need authority to make treaties He entered into long discus sion of the proceedings of the Constitu- tional Convention relative to the treaty. making power, and claimed that all pre- cedents showed such power was confer red solely upon the President and Sem ate
 MT. Cullom discussed the provision ot the constitution declaring that bills for raising revenues shall originate In the House, and said that 1t had not been definitely settled what was meant by bills for raising revenues.'
 He added: From the decisions and statements of Justices Storey. Miller and Harlan, I cannot see how this clause could make it necessary to submit a reciprocity treaty to the House before 1t Incomes effective. The language of the clause is that all bills for raising reve- nues shall originate in the House and not all bills affecting revenues. or in which revenue may incidentally arise. A reciprocity treaty is not a bill.
 "It is true that it reduces a duty which has been laid by law. but I maintain the treaty making power has authority to change a tariff law the same as it has authority to change any other act of Congress, and we have seen that it has been clearly held from the decisions of Chief Justice Marshall down to the pres ent that the President and Senate by treaty can change or modify law of Congress"
 At the conclusion of Mir Cullom's speech bill appropriating $50, ,00o for the purchase of additional grounds for the enlargement of the public buildings at Atlanta, Ga, was passed.
 Mir. Bacon desired to discuss the parti- cipation of the South in the Revolu- tionary War, but MT. Lodge who had the floor, declined to yield.
 MT. Lodge was about to proceed when he was interrupted by 'Mr. Hoar who ssid The most emphatic argument against this whole Philippines busi- ness
 .Is the healthy discussion of the patriotic impulses of our ancestors in- terjected MT. Tillman. taking the idea, perhaps, if not the words, out of the Massachusetts Senator's mouth.
 Mir. Gallinger read an extract from an Associated Press dispatch from Manila published today that General Wheaton s vigorous criticisms referred entirely to Professor Schurman's speech at Boston. He did not think the Senator from Idaho. Dubois, would contend that Gen. eraI Wheaton has not the right to criti- cize a private citizen.
 What I contend" replied Mir. Dubois, 'is that 1t is exceedingly bad taste for an army officer to criticize the utterances of Professor Schurman. a man who was sent by this government to the Philippines in a responsible official capacity to ascer- tain the facts of the situation over there"
 q am glad" continued Mir. Dubois, that the gentlemen on the other side of the chamber are forced now to admit the accuracy of the dispatch I introduc- ed here. That dispatch itself was censored. I will say there is a censor ship in Manila. in my judgment. No newspaper man can file a dispatch with the cable company in Manila without fl- ing an exact copy or duplicate of it with the military authorities
 MT. Lodge said the Secretary of War had assured him there was no censor ship of press dispatches in the Philip pines.
 Mir. Beveridge read an official state- ment from General Greedy. chief signal officer of the army as follows: Censor ship in the Philippine Islands has been removed entirely between these islands and Europe and America save in the ease of code messages of unauthorized drns having no standing. The press Is rfI,