The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-02-14
WORK IN SENATE
THE PHILIPPINE TARIFF BILL UP
FOR DISCUSSION.
A DELUGE OF PENSION BILLS
The Measure Passed in the Upper
House-Restrictions Placed Upon
Pensions-Other Matters at Wash
ington.

WASHINGTON, FeD. S.-Ine Pnll~
ipppine tariff bill was taken up in the
senate yesterday. The session was
notably quiet. Mr.. Turner Of Wash
tngton delivered a carefully prepared
speech on the general Philippine ques-
ton and had not concluded when the
bill was laid aside for the day. He
discussed particularly the legal and
constitutional questions involved in
the government and control Of the
Philippine archipelago by the United
States.
After the adoption of only minor
notes the pension bill was passed early
in the session.
The senate disagreed to the amend
ments of the house on the urgent de-
ficiency bill, agreed to the conference
asked and appointed Senators Hale,
Allison and Teller as conferees on the
part Of the seate.
At the conclusion of routine business
MIR. Patterson of Colorado made a per-
sonal explanation of what he had said
concerning government affairs toward
the treason and sedition laws enacted
by the Philippine commission.
Governor Taft, he said, had made a
statement before the Philippines CON-
mission in which he said that Mr.. Pat
terson inadvertently, no doubt, had
conveyed a wrong impression to the
senate and to the country as to his
attitude toward those laws.
Mr.. Patterson's statement, Governor
Taft said, had put him in the attitude
of criticising his colleagues on the
committee. The particular statute was
enacted while he was i'll, but anything
he may have said he did not intend
to convey the impression that he was
opposed to laws enacted. The respon-
sibility for their enactment was as
much his as OF his colleagues.
Mr.. Patterson said he had stated in
his own way the impression govern
ment officials original statements had
made upon him. That impression, he
said, was wrong.
Taft does not agree with the law"
he added, but approves of it as pecul-
iarly necessary" Mr.. Patterson dis
claimed any intention or desire to mis-
represent Governor Taft.
Mr.. Gallinger of New Hampshire,
chairman of the pension committee,
called up the pension appropriation bill
and offered an amendment, which was
adopted, prohibiting the collection Of
any fee to aid in the passage by con-
gress CT any pension bill. He said
that the number of special pension
bills introduced in congress at this
session probably was larger than ever
before, nearly 5000 having been intro
duced in the house alone.
Mr.. Pritchard of North Carolina Of
fered an amendment, providing that a
man who had served in the corfeder-
ate army, but subsequently had served
in the union army, should have a pen
sionable status. A point of order
against the amendment by Mr.. Gal
linger was sustained.
Mr.. P%ritchard, evincing his disap-
pointment at the loss of his amend
ment, gave notice that he would see
that not many bills would go through
hereafter until something is done in
the direction of granting the relief de-
sired. The pension appropriation bill
was then passed.
A bill appropriating $780, coo for a
public building in Winston-Salem,
was passed.