The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-01-30
Taunted by Teller.

Once when Senator Teller tainted
the republican senators by declaring
they knew the statements made in a
recent dispatch from Manila in which
Gen. Wheaton was represented as
criticising the opponents Of the gov
ernment's policy in the Philippines
were true, a dozen republicans were
on their feet in an instant. Senator
Lodge, at whom the taunt seemed to
be aimed particularly, hurriedly
crossed from his seat in the center of
the republican side to the main aisle
of the senate and, white to the lips,
passionately challenged the state
ment of the Colorado senator and de-
manded that he withdraw it. Senator
Teller so modified the statement that
further hostilities at that time were
averted.
SpoOner and TilIman Clash.
One of the sharpest c~oIloquies of
the session vas between Senators
Spooner, of Wisconsin, and Tillman,
of South Carolina. The race problem,
involving the lynching of negroes was
interiected into the controversy, and
much feeling was manifested by both
senator's. In the course of the col
loquy, Senator Spooner declared that
if the same rule were to be applied
to the colored people in the Philip
pines as Senator TilIman referred to
in the south, then God help the coll
ored man in the Philippines"
tlp1 1a1n H., - At. nLs----
now" shouted the South Carolina sem
ator, passionately. "You have already
butchered in three years three times
as many as the Spaniards did in three
centuries"
at is one thing" retorted Mr..
Spooner, "to kill men with arms in
their hands against the government
and against the flag. 1t is another to
burn them"
Hard to Keep Order.
Senators in their excitement seemed
for the moment to have forgotten the
subject of debate. The chair (Senator
Frye) was able with difficulty to main
tain order. When the discussion final
ly was ended for the day, the chair
felt called on seriously to admonish
senators that the rules of the body
had not been observed, and after read
ing the rule which had been violated
he expressed the hope that in the flu
ture senators would have a care to OBJ
serve it. Such an admonition has not
been made by the presiding officer of
the senate in many years.
Prior to the outbreak of the Philip
pine question, the senate concluded
the consideration of the bill establish
ing a department of commerce and
passed it. The nam of the new de-
partment was changed to that of the
department of commerce and labor.
A New Department..
Washington, Jan. Ex-senator Nell
sons bill creating a department of
commerce, which passed the senate
Tuesday, was amended in various par
ticulars. Probably the most inn
portant of the amendments was one
changing the title to read: "The de-
partment of and labor"
1t provides for a secretary, who is
to be a member of the cabinet, an as
sistant secretary and also other Of
hcials and clerks necessary. The pro-
posed department is especially
charged with the collection and dis
tribution Of statistical information
and with the development and foster
ing of foreign and domestic COM
merce. In the department there is to
be a new bureau of manufactures,
and many bureaus now included in
other departments are transferred
t. this new department, including the
life-saving service, the lighthouse
service, the hospital service, the
steamboat inspection service and the
bureaus of navigation, of shipping
and of immigration, as well as the
control of the fisheries and the Chi
nese exclusion questions, all now
within the Jurisdiction of the treas
ury department.; the fish commission
and the census bureau. The depart
ment also is given jurisdiction over
the consular service so far as it per-
tains to commerce.
Ia Military BIN.
washington, Jan. - military
appropriation bill has been practically
completed by the house committee on
military affairs and Chairman Hull will
report it as soon as he returns from a
trip to Iowa, which he is about to
take. The bill carries approximately
SOL, $1,000, which is about $10,0oo,00o
below the estimates and about 10000
900 below the appropriations of last
year. 1t is understood that the trans
portation item is considerably reduced,
but the usual allowances are made TO
continue the government transport
service.
To Increase Salaries.
Washington, Jan. Ex-senator Hoar,
from the committee on the Judiciary,
reported favorably TO the senate his
bill Increasing the salaries of federal
judges, but with the provision increas-
ing salaries Of senator's and repre-
sentatiyes. The bill fixes the salary Of
the chief justice Of the United States
supreme court at $4,000 and Of the as
sociate justices Of that court az S12,-