The Elbert County tribune., 1902-06-19


time allowed for the exchange of rati-
fications OF the Danish West Indian
treaty. This allows the adjournment
of the Danish Rlgsdag over the sum
fner months without hnal action on
the treaty OF cession.
Another OF the supply bills of the
government was disposed of by the
Senate June 10th. the naval bin. car
rylng more thnn S1S.Oo0.Ooo. being
passed. 1t includes provisions for two
frst-class armored cruisers and two
gunboats, but strikes out the House
provision that one OF each shall be
built ut government yards.
Representative shafroth Is highly
elated over the passage of the irriga-
tion bill. '''riIls measure" said he, in
my Judgment, does more for the West
than all other appropriations we have
obtained since the acquisition of that
territory. II starts with a fund of
S6,OOO.Oco cash 10 our credit and the
fund will increase at, the rate OF 81
100000 to Si.oO0,00o eacl year. In re-
payment for water rights it is likely
to constitute fund finally of several
hundred million dollars. 1t is practic
ally turning over to us the receipts
from fully 5JO0O0,OO0 acres of land. In
about one year | believe the secretary
of the interior will begin the construc-
ton of reservoirs and irrigation works
He will probably start with three or
four projects simultaneously. Definite
surveys viii first have to be made
as the surveys now on record are not
sufficiently accurate to draw final
plans. | am anxious that practical
projects shall be selected, even IL some
delay ensueS. for II would he II bitter
disappointment 10 those who have Sc
cured the passage Of this bill to see its
first fruits turn out failures"
The Presidents Cuban reciprocity
message was variousy regarded by
members of Congress. The straight
reciprocity men urged that the effect
would be to cause at least some OF the
beet sugar Republicans to abandon
their opposition. They contcDded that
some of them had misunderstood the
attitude of the President. and there
was no longer any excuse for opposing
reciprocity measures. The measure
they said. would clear the atmosphere,
rendering the Presidents attitude un-
mistakable. and therefore bring oppon-
nents within the party face to face
with the fact that In continuing their
! opposition they are antagonizing the
official head of the party. I'VE have
known all the time where the Presi-
dent stood ON this subject. and have
told the Republican opponents of re-
ciprocity just what the facts are" said
leading reciprocity senator. .'Jhey re-
fused TO accept our assurances, and
professed TO have expressions from the
President to the country The message
confirms all that we have snid TO them.
II clears the atmosphere. and neces-
sarfly the result must he beneficial for
"A reciprocity BILL" The beet sugar
leaders declared at the close of the day
that the message had caused no loss
whatever to them; that all those sena-
tors who had stood with them before
are still with them. They also assert
ed that the Presidents interposition in
the matter had had the effect of caus-
ing to hesitate some senators who here
tofore had not taken a positive stand
against reduction because of the feel
ing that the President should leave
Congress to deal with the subject in
Its present stage.
During the discussion of the CorIIss
Pacific cable bill in the House MIR. Cor
liss said; This measure provides for
! government cable uniting our islands
IN the Pacific with the American CON
tinent. BY ita terms the cable shall
be American-made. laid by American
ship, and managed by the American
government" He argued that no one
had the right to lay a cable without
permission of Congress. He placed
the cost of construction at not exceed
ing S1O.OO0.oOO and the cost of opera
ton at 100000 per annum. A govern
ment survey of the route already had
been made, he said, at an expense of
100000. He estimated that the reve-
nue. from commercial business alone
would be far in excess Of the cost of
operation. Mr.. Corliss presented TO
the House statements and figures in
tended TO show the existence of a ca
Bile monopoly and its purposes. He
presented the grants obtained by the
Eastern Extension Gable Company
obtained from China, Japan and the
Sapnish islands In the Pacific, Includ-
ing Guam. the Philippines and Mar
shall Islands. to show that this cable
company had control of cable commu-
nlcatlons with the Far East, and con
trolls over 10000 miles of submarine
cables. II had an exclusive monopoly
In China. he said, until 1890. and its
Spanish grant in the Philippines ran
until 1910. He contended that the
Commercial Pacific Gable Company,
which proposed to lay n cable to Ha-
wall and thence to Manila, was mere
ly the American branch or ally of the
Extension cable monopoly Mr.. Cor
liss dwelt ON the effect upon our mill
tary control In the Pacific should a
foreign corporation be permitted to
NUN this hla and ha arCuad that tt.a