The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-30
COMMERCE BILL
IN CONFERENCE
Reciprocity Bill Said to Be Held
in "Statu Quay"
STATEHOOD DEBATE GOES ON
ACTION OF MAJORITY DEFEND
ED BY FORAKER.

Washington, Jan. 2s.-In the senate
today Mr.. Hanna moved to disagree to
the amendments of the house to the
department of commerce bill and agree
to a conference The chair appointed
Messrs. Hanna, Nelson and Clay on the
part of the senate.
A senate bill was passed authorizing
the building Of dams and other i'm
provements on the Columbia river in
Washington.
Mr. Dietrich of Nebraska presented
a resolution discharging the commit
tee on relations. with Cuba from further
consideration of a house bill pertain
ing TO Cuban reciprocity. Reciprocity,
he said. is being held in "statu Quay
In the senate, and he asked that the
resolution lie on the table. as he desired
to submit some remarks upon il.
House bills were passed appropriate
ing $1,000 for the First Baptist church
of Carterville, Ga, destroyed during
the civil war by the United States
troops. granting to Nellie Eft Feen
certain lands in North Dakota. Mrs.
Feen is the wife of a Chinaman who
made the original filing, which was re-
Jected by the land Office. The bill has
heretofore met with opposition in the
senate
The Rawlins resolution calling for the
proceedings in certain courtmartial
cases was then laid before the senate.
Mr. McLaurin of Mississippi detailed
certain acts of cruelty on the part Of
the American soldiers toward Filipino
men and women, and said that the
senate should have the evidence in
such cases. He remarked that ii was
easy to say there was a syndicate of
SANDER and defamation in the senate
toward the army, but when the army
was slandered the American officers
were slandered by showing them to
have been guilty of outrages, and he
argued that they had been weeded out
OF the service.
The resolution went over until to-
morrow
MI Proctor reported the army ap-
preparation bill, which, he said, he
would call up at the earliest mo-
ment.
Mr.. Lodge resumed his remarks in
opposition to the omnibus statehood
bill.
A message from the president was
received in which he asked for the
necessary power to cooperate with
Mexico and China regarding the res
toration of the parity of silver and
gold. 1t was referred to the committee
on finance.
Mr.. Bard then addressed the senate
in opposition to the omnibus statehood
bill.
on the conclusion of Mr.. Bard's re-
marks, Mr.. Foraker. in the temporary
absence of Mr.. Quay, said that from
statements that had reached him the
action of Mr.. Quay in introducing the
statehood bill as a proposed amend
ment 70 the pOstoffice and sundry
civil appropriation bills was regarded
as an unheard of proceeding. 1t was
not unheard Of at all, he said. IT was
simply a question of whether a ma
jority of the senate could do a thing
il wanted TO. He referred to previous
legislation on appro oriation bills and
said that an appropriation bill had
contained the provision establishing a
civil government in the Philippines, and
that the army appropriation bill re-
ported today provided for legislation
creating a general staff. Continuing
Mr. Foraker said the majority in the
senate had it in their power always to
make such an amendment to bill
when. in their judgment, il is deemed
for the public good.
Mr.. Clay Of Georgia also took the
Same position and read from the record
showing that the Philippine legisla-
ton known as the SDooner amendment
was voted upon the army appropri-
alton bill.
After a brief executive session the
senate. at 1855 p. m, adjourned.