Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-20
Senator Brands Philippine
Commission as Dictator.
SAYS UNKlND THINGS
Alleges That Acts of That Body Are
Outrageous and Cites His Reasons
for Making the Surprising State.
ment-The Day in Congress.

haV1ng closed yesterday the bill was
read in the house today for amend
ment under the five minute rule. The
bill carries sS,441 sos.
Senate.
At the conclusion of routine business
in the senate today. consideration of
the Philippine tariff bill was resumed.
Patterson of Colorado. a member of
the Philippine committee of the SEN
ate, discussed the treason and sedition
laws enacted and enforced as tyrannic-
al and oppressive.
Teach Indians on Reservations.
The house amendment was adopted
directing the commissioner of Indian
affairs to examine and report upon the
feasibility and expediency of educating
Indians in schools upon reservations
and in the communities where such
Indians reside, and submit the best
plan to the next congress.
Brand 1t Outrageous.
Patterson declared the Philippine
commission had outraged every Unit
ed States statute it had attempted to
follow and had made it's own enact
ments tyrannical because there had
been evidently a deliberate purpose to
make offenses where none had been
defined by the United States statutes
He denounced ''the devilish malignity"
the commission displayed when it at.
tempted to copy the United States sta
tutes and incorporated other and ev-
10 oft
analyzing the enactments, no greater
outrage could be inflicted upon the
people than the enforcement of the Sc
dition laws enacted by the commission
Acts more tyrannical. more unconstitI,-
tional and inimical tothe interests
OF the people, he asserted, never were
enacted and they ought to be repealed
Immediately by an act of congress.
His Reasons.
Patterson maintained that under the
enactments of the commission any
person found distributing the Congress
sional Record containing the speeches
of any member of the minority upon
The Philippine question would be liza
BILE to fine and Imprisonment He de-
nounced such condition as unwar-
ranted, extraordinary and without any
constitutional authority.
Taft declared the speaker said, that
no people in the islands are fit for
jury duty because the body of the peo-
pie is either corrupt or open to COR
ruption." Patterson charged that
Taft had motives for misrepresenta-
tion and that he had misrepresented
the situation in the Archipelago with
deliberate judgment
TITLE is, GOOD.
Washington, Feb. l9.-At the conclu-
sion OF routine business today Burrows
OF Michigan addressed the senate upon
the Philippine tariff bill. He said it
was not his purpose to discuss fully
the Philippine question. but to show
simply how the United States was in
the Philippines and why it should re-
main in the islands. I'VE hold" he
said the islands by title that can
not be- challenged by any court in
Christendopt We have become re-
sponsible fer them to the nations of
the world. The pending bill simply
provides revenues sufficient to meet
pines"
FlCuSe.
When the consideration OF the In
dian appropriation bill was resumed in
the house today, Little of Arkansas ad-
dressed himself to conditions in the
Indian territory anomalous to the sit
luation there, where 397 900 white men
had no voice in the government He
said he demanded action by congress
and he contended that territorial
| form of government should be set up
there.
Have Slight Tilt.
| Bromwell, of Ohio, followed Little.
He got the floor to comment upon the
recent speech of Wheeler, of Ken
lucky. In the course of his remarks
he paid high tribute to the Germans
and elected from Wheeler the remark
that he had no objection to Bromwell
making himself solid with his German
constituents
Corliss, of Michigan, then delivered
a second installment of his speech in
favor of building a government cable
to the Philippines.
Hamilton, of Michigan, in general
speech, discussed the question of
trusts. He argued that combinations
are inevitable and that they existed
everywhere in Europe.
He also said that only combinations
here could meet them. Commerce
had resolved itself into race OF
giants. Hamilton's speech. which con.
sumed about an hour in its delivery
was picturesque and attracted much
attention. When he concluded he re-
ceived an ovation.
Says 1t is Strange.
Vandiver, of Missouri, who follow.
ed Hamilton, remarked it is strange
that the author of the first speech on
the floor in defense of trusts and com
binations should be so heartily con
graduated by his colleagues. He then
proceeded to answer some of Hamil
tons statements.