The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1905-12-29

Iuesday. According to It's terms all
products from the Philippines are to
be admitted into this country free,
except coffee and sugar, upon which
a duty of twenty five per cent of the
Dingley schedules is to be collected.
American products shipped to the Phi
lippines are subject to the tariff rates
imposed by the insular government
upon importations generally, except
as to coffee and sugar. which are to
be admitted free of duty. The bill
provides further that free trade relat-
ions shall be established between the
United States and the Philippines
April H.. 1909. The bill will pro-
badly be argued in detail soon after
the holidays. and promises to excite
some considerable interest.
The subject OF hazing at the Naval
Academy at Annapolis. and at the
Military Academy at West Point. has
been agitated with some feeling of
late. The leniency which was shown
offenders in this respect some time is
stated as one of the causes for it's
continuation and aggravation in rec
ent years. There seems to be deter
mination to stamp out this evil if it
Involves a general dismissal of cadets
who persist in violating the rules of
the departments. It has become an
unmitigated nuisance, a peril to stud
ents and national disgrace. This
unmanly, cowardly and inhuman
form of amusement is declared to be
evidence of rowdyism rather than of
courage and decency.
The 59th Congress is overwhelming
~ republican. There are fifty eight
republican senators and thirty-two
democratic senators. and two hundred
and fifty one republican representa-.
ives and one hundred and thirty five
democr attic representatives. There
will never the less be some close vot
ing margins during the session now
under way. Recent political develop
ments, and legislative tendencies.
have projected questions and issues
which are not strictly partisan in
character. at least they have not been
incorporated into party platforms
with any degree of unapmity. Upon
these questions party lines will he,
largely obliterated, and they will be
determined in so far as they may be
divorced from party influences by
sectional alliances and business inter
ests. The rate question promises to
arouse intraparty opposition, and
there is want Of entire harmony on
the statehood question, within either
Of the dominant parties. The insur-
ance question has been the target for
much rand ON oratory. Members
ranging in years and experience from
the embryonic Lands to the full. fed
ged Burke Cochran have turned their
verbal batteries upon the already de.
moralized army of business graft and
chicanery, intensifying the malodor-
GUS disrepute in which it is now en-
veloped. One of the most sensational,
if not the most illuminating. of these
speeches that of Burke Cochran, of
New York. With voice that is far
from musi cal he commands interest
by virtue of his extensive vocabulary
and vehemence Of style where others
fail. Consistency is not one of the
vices of this man. He roams about
at will disregarding alike party pre-
cepts and political expediency. He
is generally plausible, but seldom
right. He is more intent on verbal
pyrotechnics, and upon the making a
great and tragical spectacle Of himself
than he is upon the logical suficiency
Of his discourse, or it's consistency with
his own previous disquisitions.
OLGER HI. OLSON.