The National tribune., 1902-02-27
CONGRESS-.
The House Passes the indian
Appropriation Bill and the
Senate the Philippine Tariff
BiIl-Personal Encounter Be-
tween South Carolina Sena-
tors.

| The Senate on Tuesday, Feb. IS. had
under consideration the Philippine Tariff
| Bill. Two speeches were delivered, one
| by Senator Wellington, of Maryland, in
| opposition to the bill, and the other by
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, in support
of the measure. 1t was agreed that
| final vote should be taken upon the bill
Monday.
The Senate passed u bill extending the
provisions, limitations and benefits of the
act entitled IAN Act granting pension to
survivors OF the Indian wars of 1882 to
| 1912, inclusive, known as the Black Hawk
war, Greek war, Cherokee disturbances,
| and the Seminole war;" approved July
y, 1892, to the surviving officers and en-
| listed men, including marines, militia and
| volunteers of the military and naval serv-
ice of the United States who served 30
days or more, and were honorably dis
charged under the United States military,
State, Territorial and provisional author
| tiles in the Florida and Georgia Semi
mole Indian war of 1917 and 1918; the
| Feyre Indian war of Illinois of 1927; the
Sac and Fox Indian war of 1881; the Sa-
| bine Indian disturbances of 1886 and
| 1887; the Cayuse Indian war of 1S47 and
| 1S4S, on the Pacific Coast the Florida
wars with the Seminole Indians from 1912
| to 1888, inclusive; the Texas and New
Mexico Indian war of 1Si9 to 1856; the
| California Indian disturbances of 1851
and 1852; the Utah Indian disturbances
of 1880 to 1883, inclusive, and the Oregon
and Washington Territory Indian wars
| from 1851 to 1856, inclusive; and also to
| include the surviving widows of such Off
GERS and enlisted men.
A bill directing the Secretary of War
to mark the site of the Fort Phil Kearny
| IN that naa 81 1Sl.R hv
| erecting a monument of rough masonry
| and historic tablet, was passed.
The speech of Mr.. Wheeler, of Ken
| lucky, in the House the previous Friday,
when he bitterly assailed Secretary Hay
and Lord Pauncefote and criticised the
official preparations for the reception of
Prince Henry, had a sequel in the House
Tuesday, during the debate of the Indian
Appropriation bill Mr.. Gillett, of Massa-
chusetts, brought the subject forward and
declared that the intemperance of Mr..
Wheelers language carried its own con-
demnatiOn. Nevertheless, he grievously
deplOred such an affront to q foreign
country. He brought out that during
Madison's Administration a son of Dolly
Madison was member Of special en-
bassy, and that during the Buchanan Ad-
ministratiOn the Prince of Wales had
been entertained by the President. Mr..
Gillett warmly defended the rights of the
Presidents daughter TO attend the coro-
nation without criticism from the floor
of the House, and also the entertainment
of Prince Henry. Mr. Wheeler replied
to the Member from Massachusetts. de-
claring that he would stand by what he
had said in the previous speech. Two
Democrats-Robinson, of Indiana, and
Thayer, of Massachusetts-discla
sympathy with Mr.. Wheeler's utterances.
Mr. Talbert, of South Carolina, made a
speech in which he stated that he wished
to share the responsibility of every word
that Mr.. Wheeler had said.
Mr. Hill, of Connecticut, and Mr.. Shat
froth, of Colorado, discussed the formers
bill to redeem silver in gold, and Mr..
Burleson, of Texas, criticised the Presi-
dent for changing his position on trusts.
The House concurred in Senate amend
ments to House bills granting pension or
increase of pension to Chas. n. Lee, Oil
yer p Goodwin, James Smith, Jennie A.
Mckinley, Robert NJ. Scott, Catherine r.
a. Ogden, Ida Z. Siegfried, Virginia Ter
rll and Martha V. Keenan,.
On Wednesday the Senate continued
consideration of the Philippine tariff. The
principal speakers were Senator Burrows,
of Michigan, for the bill, and Senator
Money, of Mississippi, opposing it. Sev
eral other Senators took more or less part
in the general debate.
consideration of the Indian Appropriation
bill. A number of Members who had pre-
pared speeches that they had intended to
deliver when the War Revenue Bill was
brought up, and who lost that opportunity
10y the tactics of Mr.. Richardson, the mi
nority leader took this occasion to deliver
these speeches, which take up many pages
of the Congressional Record. There was
a depression to the speech made by Mr..
Wheeler on the previous Friday. Alto
gether very few of the speeches had any
thing to do with the Indian Appropria-
tion Bill. The exception was the speech
delivered by Mr.. Little, of Arkansas, the
ranking minority member of the Indian
Committee, who addressed himself to the
House on the conditions of affairs in the
Indian Territory.
The anomalous situation in the Indian
Territory. where 397 900 white men had
no voice in the Government, he said: de-
manded action by Congress. He contend
ed that a Territorial form of Government
should be set up there. He reviewed the
recent great development in various
branches of industry in the Territory.
With $50 towns and cities and wealth
amounting to $5O,000,00O, he said, there
were $4,000 white children of school age,
but no schools. Such a condition of af-
fairs, he declared, was ar outrage. lie
believed the Territory was ready for
Statehood, but that Congress should
grant, at least, some liberal form of Ter
TitOrial Government.
Congressman Stevens, of Texas, adyo-
Gated Statehood for Oklahoma, and ar
gued that Congress should provide schools
for the children of the Indian Territory.
The Senate devoted nearly the entire
day of Thursday to the consideration of
the Philippine question.
Senator Patterson, of Colorado, one Of
the minority members of the Philippine
Committee, delivered his first extended
speech in the Senate, and was given
a most attentive and careful hearing. He
discussed principally the. sedition laws
enacted by the Philippine Commission,
vigorously attacking the authority of the
Commission to enact and enforce such
laws. Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, pre-
sented a legal and constitutional argu-
ment in support of this Governments ac-
tion in the Philippine archipelago, and
sharply criticised Senator Patterson for
interfering into the controversy the ques
tion of sectarianism.
Senator McCumber of North Dakota,
urged that Congress should not bind the
futura now hv .ipplarotion of q definite