Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-03-24
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.

Washington, March 13-The senate
resumed consideration of the ship
subsidy bill Mr. Berry (dem., Ark } !,
member of the commerce committee
which reported the bill, charged that
it would foster trusts and monopolies
in the shipping industry and that al
ready j. Pierpont Morgan and his as
sociates were forming a syndicate
for the control of shipping on the At
lantic In this connection he became
involved in a colloquy with Mr..
Hanna rep, o., who maintained
that the ships acquired by Mr.. Morgan
ticipate in the subsidies provided by
the pending measure Mr. Perkins
(rep., COLI, another member of the
commerce committee, delivered a
speech in support of the bill. During
the debate on the postoffice appropria-
ton bill Mr.. Jenkins (rep., Wis., took
occasion to explain his position re-
garding Cuba, which is that the is
land is now domestic territory of the
United States. He quoted many de-
casions of the supreme court in sup
port of his contention that foreign
territory must be territory beyond
the jurisdiction of the United States,
whereas he maintained that Spain had
relinquished sovereignty over Cuba to
the United States and that such terri
tory could only be relinquished or
alienated by congressional enactment.
Holding this view of our relations to
Cuba, he argued that congress would
waste it's time talking reciprocity
with an island under the sovereignty
of the United States. Mr.. Jenkins
went even farther than this and raised
the question as to whether duties col
lected on goods since the ratification
of the treaty of Paris should not have
to be refunded His views have at
tracted wide attention.
Mr.. Randall (dem., Tex, intro
duced a joint resolution extending
sympathy to the people and govern
ments of the south African republics
and the Orange Free state, appealing
to the British government to cease
hostilities and requesting the presi-
dent to tender the good offices of
this government
Mr. SulZer (rep., n. ", introduced
a bill amending the sugar schedule so
that the president can grant Cuba
during such time as the island re-
mains free, exemption from the Dutch
standard color provision of the law
He said the color restriction was
merely an obsolete method of deter
mining approximately the quality of
sugar. 1t was merely a means, he
said, of assuring to the trust an abso-
lutte monopoly in the sugar business
Washington, March 14.-In the SEN
duced as an amendment to the pend
ing resolutions providing for the cleo
ton of United States senators by
direct vote of the people, a PROPOSE
ton to increase the number of sena-
tors in proportion to population and
providing for other important changes
in senatorial representation Of the
states According to the last census
the measure proposed by Mr.. Penrose
would give Wisconsin four senator's
as the state has population of 2,067-
042. The ship subsidy bill was dis
cussed by Messrs. Foraker (rep., o. !,
McLaurin (dem., Miss.) and Harris
(pop., KAN, Mr.. Foraker supported
the bill, although he admitted that he
would have preferred to build up an
American merchant marine by levying
discriminating duties. Both Mr. Nc
Laurin and Mr.. Harris opposed it.
The house passed the postofice ap-
preparation bill. Quite a number of
other bills were passed, including
three for marine hospitals at Buffalo,
Savannah and Pittsburg. Mr. Kahn
(rep., CALI submitted the report of
the judiciary committee on the bill to
suppress train robberies. The bill
provides the death penalty for train
robbers when death results to any
one on the train; otherwise imprison-
ment from five to ten years.
Washington, March 15.-Differences
Of opinion on the republican side ap-
peared in the senate debate on the
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