Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-21
ACUINALDO ASKS LAND BANK
Wishes Congress to Advance Hundred Nil :
lien to Aid FilipinOS
WOULD LEND CASH TO AeRlcULTURAllsTs
Expects Loan 20 Pay itself Back In
side Of Twenty Years and Have
Fifty million to Com
tinuc work.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 20.-Secretary Root
has transmitted 10 the senate and the house
copies Of a petition received by him
through Governor Taft from Aguinaldo, the
late insurgent leader in the Philippines.
Aguinaldo says in part:
propose to the honorable civil commits
SIGN to obtain from congress a Unlteu
States treasury loan OF tzO,Co0'o0 gold "
which will guarantee the issue OF paper to
serve as money in the islands. This sum
provement OF Filipino agriculture. and be
paid within twenty years, the payments
being made In three installments at the enc
Of ten, fifteen and twenty years respec-
when the loan and credit were approved
a bank would be opened which could pe
called the United States of America Agri-
cultural Philippine bank, and which should
be under the inspection and supervision OF
the lnsular government. This bank would
loan agrlculturists such sums as they
should ask for, In compliance with the
necessary formalities, at an annual maxi
mum rate of 4 per cent, payable seml-an-
From the 800. 600, 900 S2,OOO,OOO would be
used to build branch banks throughout the
archipelago and for other necessary pre-
liminary expenses.
Subtracting from the annual income of
81, 10000 the annual expenses, which may
be reckoned at about 800, OOO, there would
remain a net annual income OF Sl,ZZ0,OO,
which added to the capital at compound In,
terest would free both the actual capital
and the supplementary credit in sixteen
years. That Is, the bank would have nqui-
dated its debt to the United States treas
ury and would have a balance OF at least
$4,000, 900 for the continuance OF It's work
nat Confer with the President.
Senator Cullom, chairman Of the commit
tee on foreign relations. had a conference
with the president today concerning the
- - G-IV.-. N,,lIv H.
lieves the treaty will be ratified, but it is
realized by the senate leaders that there is
some disposition to oppose it with the ON
nibus statehood bill. Advocates Of the
statehood measure are willing to support
the treaty. but want votes on their measure
and are inclined to effect an arrangement
involving a vote at an early date on both
propositions.
Subsequently Senators Beveridge and
Kean, both members of the territories com
mittee, conferred with the president re-
Earding the statehood bill. Senator Bev-
eridge is positive that the omnibus bill viii
rot be passed.
Friends Of the measure are pressing for
a vote and are disposed to resort to dras-
tic tactics in order to secure one. They be-
lieve that IL a vote be reached the result
would be satisfactory.
Senate Work Arranged.
The prospect OF a congestion of business
In the senate is such that the republican
committee on order Of business met today
to adjust the claims Of conflicting meas
ures. There was unanimous agreement to
give precedence to appropriation bills and
conference reports. Beyond this 1T was de-
cided that the statehood bill should con-
tinue as the unfinished business and the
Cuban treaty be given second place.
All the senators present, ten in number
agreed as to the Importance OF ratifying
the treaty, but agreed that as between
Il and the appropriation bills the latter
were more important, because the treaty
could be considered by an extra session OF
the senate alone, while the failure OF ap-
uropriation bills would involve an extra
session Of the entire congress.
There was brief reference to the neces-
sity Of getting through an antitrust bill.
but the committee did not seem inclined to
give formal attention to the subject, In
view of the fact that no trust bill is before
the senate.
POstOmce Asks Cash.
The postoflce appropriation bill. as COM
pleted today by the house committee car
ries 1853, 430, O49, against $13S 1858 under
the current law. The estimate was $751;
O1O, 500.
The principal items in the bill are as fol-
lows: Railway mail service, $SS, 242, 900,
about 81, 0OO, 900 in excess of the current APP
preparation; rural delivery $12, 619. 800, which
is IS, 09O, 100 more than the current appro-
p~riation. The sum OF 100000 is appro-
priated for pneumatic tube service. The
same subsidies as provided last year are
continued by the new bill
Trust Bill Nearly Ready.
Representatives Littlefeld (Me.), Over
street 0nd.) and PowI's (Mass.), the re-
publican members OF the subcommittee OF
the judiciary committee have practically
completed the antitrust bill. A meeting
Of the full subcommittee will be held to-
morrow. II a report is agreed on then It
is probable the judiciary committee will be
convened on Thursday TO receive the report.
senate Confirms Appointments.
Combinations by the senate: Timothy e.
Burke, attorney for the district Of Wyom-
ing; Fred A. Hadsall. marshal for the dis
trict Of Wyoming. Postmasters: Kansas.
Caddie Smith, Lebanon; s. w. Gould.