Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-21
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS
SOME OF ITS 1MpoRTANTNEw MEASURES

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Bill-Another Against the Attitude Of the
Administration Toward the Beers the
dwelling of the Rochambeau Statue May
24-Chinese Exclusion Measures -POstoffice
Bill Passed Hague Agreement Ratified
Sec. Hay Asked to Explain in Case of DR..
and Mrs. Thomas of Illinois Ship Subsidy
Bill Passed by the Senate.
Senator Berry of Arkansas made a
strong argument against the ship sub
sidy bill in the Senate Thursday,
charging that it would foster trusts
and monopolies in the shipping indus
tries and that already j. p Morgan
and his assistants were forming syn
dictate for the control of the shipping
on the Atlantic. He said that after
the first year it would cost many mil
lions more than the measure of last
year would, had it been passed, and
there is no limitation to the time or
expense of its operations 1t does not
compel the beneficiaries to build sin
gle ship in the United States and
gives particular preference to the fast
steamship lines Other speakers main
tanned that the ships acquired by Mr..
Morgan from foreign countries could
not participate in the subsidies pro-
vided by the pending measure and re-
sented the imputation that senators
favoring the measure were fostering a
power to build up monopoly or favor
any syndicate. The House closed its
debate on the postoftice appropriation
bill, making no amendments. Mr..
Jenkins of Wisconsin advanced his
theory that Cuba is now under the
sovereignty of the United States which
sovereignty cannot be alienated with
out an act of Congress. Mr.. Cochran
of Missouri made fervcnt speech de-
nouncing the course of the administra-
ton relative to the British war against
the South African republics. "We
have ignored the rights of those re-
publics," said he, land we have
trampled upon the law of nations IN
doing it. We have an Anglo-maniac
in the state department who could see
nothing in the cause of the Beers and
everything sacred in the unlawful pre-
tensions of Great Britain. And now
it has come to pass when the walls of
the suffering wives and children of
the heroic Beers are borne to our ears
by every gale. provoking a responsive
chord in the hearts of sympathetic
people through the world and they are
willing to relieve the sutferings of
these unfortunates, that our secretary
of state discovers some rule of inter
national law that shuts the mouth of
mercy and palsies the hand of charity.
Shame upon this farce, shame upon
this hippodrome by which the Ameri-
can republic is yoked in the champion
ship of this Infamous power and made
to seem to be a conservator of the
brutal hand of this conquering army.
Shame upon the cowardice of the
people in permitting it, and
every day say, How long, Oh, Lord, |
how long -
A resolution was adopted to author .
lze the President to invite the fami- |
lies of Marshal Rochambeau and Mar !
Iuis de Lafayette and the people of /
France to be present at the unwilling /
Of the statue of Marshal Rochambeau /
in Washington, May "a, 1902, and APP
$50, 900 to carry out the
purpose of the resolution.
The House committee refused to con-
slider the Sherman bill continuing the
Existing Chinese exclusion laws and
viii report the Mitchell Kahn measure
With amendments clearly restricting it
o Chinese laborers. Chairman Nor
ran of the committee favorably report
ID the Hepburn Nicaragua canal bill,
The Senate Friday ratified the con
'ention formulated at The Hague
Peace conference relating to the con-
iuct of war General Funston s cap
ure of Aguinaldo was discussed and 4,
t was decided that he had kept with
n the rules of civilized warfare and
hat his action was justified. Senator
lcLaurin created a commotion by de
laring, during further discussion of ,
he ship subsidy bill, that no senator .
r representative who is, directly or ;
Indirectly, interested in shipping en- ,,
should vote for the ship sub
ldy bill since he could not conscien-
lously vote bounty to himself. i,
The House passed the postoltice APP
ropriation bill with only one impor-
mt amendment, to incorporate in the |
i'll the provisions of the bill to elias !
fly the rural free delivery service, /
assed a few days before. \ resolution !
as adopted asking Secretary Hay to Il
Splain the case of Rev. Hiram Thomas t
no applied to the state department t
II passport from the British author h
les to enter the Boer line in South I
friCa for the purpose of distributing b
lief funds collected in Illinois for t
ar sufferers Secretary Hay in let Q
r to Congressman Hit explains that Il
= was willing they should 90 to At Il
ca but thought it impracticable for t,
lis government to ask the British gov
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homas to 90 at will through the g
ritish military lines and camps. The =
,vernment, he said. was ready to =;
insult with the state as to the best u
cans of getting these relief funds ~
to proper hands for distribution. -
After prolonged debate Monday the =.
mate passed the ship subsidy bill by .,
vote Of ~ to 81. Six Republican sen "
ors Unexpectedly voted against it -
llson and Deliver, of Iowa, Spooner -,
d Quarles, of Wisconsin: Proctor ~
d Dillingham; of Vermont. With the g. g.
ception of McLaurin of South Car ~, ~
ma, the Democratic senators voted W,
idly against the bill such amendments II
were adopted were agreeable to those
charge of the measure. The House hi
nsidered the river and harbor bill vi
tn Monday and Tuesday. Frank B. ca
on of Cuba, \. Y, was elected door tn
eper to succeed the late j. ]. Glenn. re
The Republican House caucuses. So m
81, adopted proposition for reel fe
betty with Cuba on the basis of a 20 dc
r cent. reduction of duties, reduced m
es not to be effective after Decem- ne
:, 1903. This reduction, even if pl
ssed by the Senate, will not save the ce
ban planter, according to Gen. Wood Loo
/ President Palma who say that a 80 co