The Springfield herald., 1902-12-26


to Japan.
The Senate. in executive session.
ratified the treaty of friendship and
general relations between the United
States and Spain without debate or
division.
General Breckenridge. inspector gen.
eral of the army, made an argument
against the bill creating general
staff corps in the army before the
House committee on military affairs.
Senator Patterson of Colorado has
introduced a bill providing that all ma
tional banking associations and other
national corporations shall, for the
purpose of all suits in law, be deemed
citizens of the states in which they
may be located, that the United States
courts shall not have jurisdiction in
such cases other than they would
have over individuals.
A favorable report was ordered by
the committee on appropriations on
the bill appropriating $50O,oOO for the
use of the Department of Agriculture
in stamping out the foot and mouth
disease in the New England states. The
item is included in Il deficiency appro-
priation bill and the bill carries $780,
900 also for pay of rural free de-
livery carriers and various smaller
sums for miscellaneous expenses OF the
Postoffice Department.
Senator Depew has introduced bill
authorizing the issuance of emergency
currency by the Treasury Department.
1t provides that such currency shall be
supplied to any national bank with a
capital of not less than $4,000 to the
extent of fifty per cent. of the banks
capital. The extra capital is. however.
to be supplied only in case of string
ency in the money market sufficiently
serious to jeopardize values and I'M
peril the commercial and business in
terests of the country.
In the Senate on the 10th inst. Mr..
Dillingham; concluded his remarks in
opposition to the omnibus statehood
bill and by unanimous consent 1t was
agreed that there should be no further
discussion of the measure until the
Senate reconvened on January 9th.
Mr.. Teller wanted to submit some re-
marks in reply. he said, to the SIAN
ders on the committee on territories
and of Mr. Dillingham;, but other SEN
ators insisted that the agreement not
to further discuss the bill should be
adhered to.
A Joint resolution has been intro
duced in the House by Representative
De Almond proposing an amendment
to the Constitution of the United States
providing that the term of the Presi-
dent shall continue until April 80, 1908,
at noon. and thereafter, April 80, at
noon. shall be substituted for March 4,
as the beginning and ending of the
terms of President and vice president,
Ia i,,th
shall end and the Sixtieth begin Janu
ary s.. 1907. at noon, and thereafter
each Congress shall begin and end jan
uary Sth at noon.
The testimony taken by the sub-com-
mttee of the Senate committee on ter
ritories, of which Senator BeveridSe is
chairman, on the omnibus statehood
bill. has been just printed as Sen
ate document and tonight was made
public 1t makes book of 394 pages,
with maps. and includes the questions
and answers OF a great many people
examined by the subcommittee with
reference to size. population. resources.
schools and churches. business, moral
and other characteristics of the people
of the proposed states, and miscellane-
Gus information.
Mr. Morgan of Alabama, in the SEN
ate. asked that his bill fixing the sal
aries of the isthmian canal commits
sion at So. 600 year be referred to the
committee on inter-oceanic canals. He
said he had been informed that the
present commissioners were paid
81 coo a month each and that their
service had extended over twenty-nine
and half months. Continuing, Mr..
Morgan said ii was necessary lin ad-
vance of striking one lick on that ca
nal to make such provision as will
prevent the United States from run
ming into the horrible iniquities of the
old Panama Canal Company as well
as the new one" The bill was re-
ferred as requested.
The House passed the bill to reduce
the duties on products of the Philip
pine islands coming into the United
States from seventy-five per cent. of
the Dingley rates (the present duties)
to twenty-five per cent. of those rates.
The discussion of the bill was accom-
panied by considerable maneuvering
on the Democratic side to secure test
votes on various amendments designed
to lower the tariff still further. and a
record vote was forced on a motion to
recommit with instructions to report
a bill providing for absolute free trade
with the islands. The division on this
proposition was on party lines, with
the exception of Mr.. Call Republican
of Massachusetts, who voted with the
Democrats.
Representative Fowler. chairman of
the House committee on banking and
currency, introduced n bill which was
drawn by him in accordance with the
views of the Republican members ex-
pressed at recent conferences, and
which will be urged instead of the cur
rency bill reported to the House at the
last session. The bill provides: THAT