The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-04-24
Business Transacted by the
House and Senate in the
National Capital.
CUBAN RECIPROCITY in HOUSE
Grosvenor Says Morris Amendment Also
Does Away With the Countervailine
Duty of the Dingley Law--NIilitary Aca-
demy Bill Is Up in House.

A4ASG OSAOaS Al JIG SGudlC COOdY, and
In It's place was substituted a meas
ure offered by Platt, of Connecticut.
extending the provisions of the pres
ent exclusion law and also applying
that exclusion to all insular territory
under the jurisdiction of the United
States. The vote by which the sub.
stitute took the place Of the original
bill was, yeas 4S, nays 33. Once the
substitution had been made, all SEN
ators joined In Its support, with the
single exception Of Hoar, the sub
stitute being passed 76 to /. The
friends OF the substitute showed their
strength throughout the voting on
amendments that preceded final &C
ton and succeeded in preventing any
material change in It's features Some
minor changes were made, admitting
chinese persons connected with ma.
tional expositions and providing for
certificates of Identification of Chin.
.ese In our insular possession. Other
wise, however the substitute was
adopted substantially in the form that
Platt presented it. The senate, after
disposing of the Chinese exclusion
bill, made the Philippine civil govern.
ment bill the unfinished business. The
senate failed to substitute the enact
Ing clause of the house bill for the
senate measure, SO that the bill now
will go to the house as an original
measure and, from parliamentary
standpoint, will have to be acted on
and treated the same as though the
house had not passed a Chinese ex.
clusion bill already.
House-The friends of the Cuban
reciprocity bill won substantial vic.
tory In the house today by carrying
q motion to close general debate on
Friday at o'clock. The vote was 1853
to l2S. Thirty-three republicans voted
against the motion, but this detection
was Offset by thirty-two democrats.
who voted with the great body of the
republicans for it. The strength of
the republican opposition to the bill.
judged by this vote, has decreased
since the vote was taken on the mo-
ton to go into committee of the whole
to consider the bill, when the vote
stood l67 to 80. The debate today
was featureless. The speakers were
Roberts, of Massachusetts; Patterson.
OF Tennessee, and Cochran. of Mis-
souri,, for the bill, and Bartlett. of
Georgia; Corliss, of Michigan: Brous-
sard, OF Louisiana; Bell, of Colorado.
and H. G. Smith, Of Michigan.
against it.. -
Washington, April 17.-Senate.-
For more than four hours today Nor
gan, OF Alabama, chairman of the
lsthmian canal committee, addressed
the senate on the subject of the Mic.
araguan canal. He devoted the great
er part of his speech to a considera-
ton of the desirability and practica.
b1lity OF the two principal routes, Mic.
aragua and Panama. He strenuously
favored the former, maintaining that
IN every possible respect it had MANY
advantages over the Panama route,
"A parliamentary change in the situa.
ton of the Chinese exclusion bill was
made just before adjournment. the
measure passed by the senate yester.
day being substituted for the house
bill. This was done to expedite the
bill in the house. The resolutions
ofered by Culberson, of Texas, direct.
Ing the secretary of war to send to
the senate statement of moneys paid
to the United States owing to the
philippine commission, and a state.
ment of the amount of money expend.
ed for sending troops to the Philip.
pines and for their maintenance. were
agreed to.
House.-The opponents Of the Gu.
ban reciprocity bill occupied much
OF the time of the debate today, the
feature being vigorous speech by
Cushman (rep., Wash.,) against the
measure. Mr.. >Cushman arraigned
the committee on rules and the house
leaders In breezy and at times sen.
sational fashion. A portion of his
criticism was in semi-humorous
vein, but some of it was decidedly
eaustic. DeArmond, one of the lead.
fng democrats of the house, delivered
a forcible speech In favor of the tariff
reduction on trust articles. The other
speakers were Pierce of Tennessee.
Douglass Of New York, and Lacey of
Iowa, for the bill, and Jenkins of Wis.
'consin, Gamer of West Virginia, War.
ner of Illinois, Gardiner of Michigan.
Jones Of Washington and Loud Of
California, against 1t. Loud declared
that directly and Indirectly Cuba al.
ready had cost the United States one
thousand million dollars.
Washington, April 1S.-Senate.-At
today's session of the senate consid-
Grafton was begun of the bill TEN.
porarily to provide form Of govern
ment for the Philippine islands. The
measure was read and the commit
tee amendments We're agreed to tenta.
lively, but no action on the bill was
taken. Fffty-five private pension bills
and q few other measures were
passed.
Washington, April -Senate.-Lit.
tie business Of national Importance
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Opposition to British Tariff.
London. April PA dispatch to
news agency from Shanghai says the
foreign merchants there are increas.
ing their opposition to the tariff pro.
posals Of Sir James L. Macay, the
British taritr commissioner, wnicn In.
clude the abolition OF the iikin and the
increase of import duties. The Ameri.
can and British commissioners met
and fully discussed the question. Sub.
seQuently the American commissioner
announced that his decision was
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