Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1900, Page 12

9 pa 1 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1990-24 PAGES. LUZON’S ONE RAILWAY mtinued from Fi done be retaken late of insurgent trenches, and here the ruins of buildings ed in the fighting. The signs of such e more painfully conspi y were last April in line of the Havana- like others a name which 1 will be recogni f fon careful readers of the war di over the native train, had weakened in some way, halt we went on ahead of it. passengers in the native train were the coquettish Filipino wife of American minor officer, who was himself traveling in the military train: and also the members of a band from Calasiao, instrume of bamboo were in- niide and skillfully handled are at Malolos, Aguinaldo’s capi tal during his dictators his period of ud of sounding proclamations. thi vendors water, addition statt re, in end th banan, native ng Hine of Fil ors to the main of har Deer and was a xton Did Not Swim. ilumpit, the scene know ver at ne of the The historic Washing- approx: : the ari m of the swim- mer the erect figure ¢ American offi- cer, wrapped perhaps in the stars and The Native Train. stripes. with one hand on his heart and the other pointing unfliinchir te th: op- posite shore, while the fire of a high and determined ose gleams his eagle eye. is Jonally interesting to n the r> Lieut. Commiesi charge of the } aia not scouts. f stop vagh here, the up or down trip. to enable me p Lieut. Ross, and he was not at either occasion, but some with whom I talked ence of the good record the high regard frequent intervals are in most case f the Rio Grende de flows southward into the Aquo, which nto Lingayen gulf. They e of ol ructions to the the ran soldiers in he bottom- wit -bound trains d to etther of ule. The ion were excited ay r the murderous action of ipinos, whose refu in M which loomed up app: ok ress the plain, Durir trip this as Mt Shas- E tray ing n Filipinos col- Feet 1 attacked Soldiers’ Quarters at Murcia. an American expedition, and, before ng away, had taken out and slaugh- five American prisoners, captured rs picked up by them individually run! tered ntry traversed by the railroad is fertile, capable of producing and of sustaining a vast popu- Tati At fir the rice flelds; then and of cocoanut lded stretches home of the Luzon ill farther north than the of the railroad ts the tobs growing section, and in the southern end «© hemp tricts It ts wever, that any other re more attrac from of view than the rovinces where rice and The lead-c heavy-horned carabao fs the characteristic animal of the country He is seen everywhere, dra y bur- dens, gging the plow, ens - role ef coach bh or riding horse, or in his Moments of leisure wallowing luxurious water. yambang one of the station ped- Was mounted on a carabao. Behind him end his competitors in trade stretched the main street of the village, ned with FILIPINO TRENCHES. For the came b background of the picture, first nana trees; then in the rear, rising higher and higher in successive stages un- Ul the green barrier seemed to shut out the sky, appeared magnificent palms. A Life-Saving Accident. Our engine had been growing feebler and : in its northward journey, los dily until we were far behind the and rk w at hand, when at Murcia it gave out completely, an accident which caused vigorous and universal grumbling at the time, but which undoubt- edly saved many lives. The near*st engine Was at Bautista, not very far from the north terminus of the road. In response to a telegram this engine came southward toward Murcia. About five miles from Bautista it ran into two logs of wood that were laid ac the track. Near Tarlac, the station north of Murcia, it encountered ailable for our use a bunch of wire, evidently placed ther with the .dea of entangling the wheel Finally while backing slowly down be- tween Tarlac and Murcia it suddenly left the rails and turned over on {ts side. The crew jumped from the engine and raced for their lives down the track to Mure three miles distant, where they alarm. The train wreckers hidden in the bushes, where signs of their presence were afterwards found, did not interfere with the engine's crew. They had 1, Just south of a brid! very high banks, and had so the track as inevitably to throw a north- bound train into the bed of the stream or into a deep ditch running parallel with the track. They were not expecting an ar- rival from the north, and in their surprise and perhaps In their fear of a possible trap, they remained where they were until the soldiers responding to the alarm ap- proached from Murcia, when they disap- peared in the jungle Nearly all of the company at Murcia went eut In pursuit of the train-wrecking in- surgents, and the suggestion spread among those who were left behind that the bandits who had recently stolen thirty rifles and much ammunition from the army post at Tarlac might take advantage of the ab- sence of the soldiers to attack the train and Murcia station. But the train robbers were running not fighting, that night, and our slumbers {n the cold air on the floor of the third-clas« officers’ car were peaceful and undisturbed, at least so far as annoyances from {nsurrectos were concerned. In the morning I jomed a small party who resolved not to wait at Murcia for the arrival of the wrecking train from Manila and the clearing of the track, but to push ahead in a nandcar until overtaken by the train. Our motive power was derived from Filipinos and Chinese, some running on the ties and pushing from behind, and some standing on the car and poling ‘expertly with long bamboo rods. In our party were Capt. Booth and Dr. Brewer of Col. Bell's regiment. whose company and hospital, re- spectively, are at Calasiao, near Dagupan, and who in their courtesy di feve their civilian assoc from the di comforts of a semi-military experience. Dr. Brewer Is a Washingtonian, and is an intel- ligent and observant student of Philippine conditions. Through Tarlac W Our ha we quickly w rie examination of the work of the robbers brought the conviction that a north-bound train leaving the track here would surely have been piled in wreck in the bed of the stream. The native train which in ordinary course would precede the military, and had a comparatively small ard, carried on this occasion several nd dollars in ellver, as well as many bundles and boxes of goods. and the motive of the Wreckers seems to have been sole much to re- ds on a Handear. dear started at a rapid pace, and covered the three miles to the Care in that of the train robber to make this rich haul, without any regard whatsoever as to the nationality of the Individuals to be murdered or robbed. Beyond the wreck our car was driven be- tween the dense and gloomy woods and Jungle which hemmed tn both sides of the track for three miles to T: The jungle of Tarlac woods is the lurking place of the local banditt!, and as there was a possibili- ty that some of the gentry might be tempt- ed to attack our small party, we urged our somewhat winded pushers and polers to ex- tra efforts by means of all the polyglot in- ek, around which the handcar was car- |. Junctions to speed with which our ex- Perlences with ‘rickshaw men and carro- Matta drivers had rendered us familiar. Tarlac is the latest of Aguinaldo's cap- Itals. Since he was chased from that Village at a comparatively recent date he has never stopped publicly at any point long enough for it to receive full recognt- tion us a new capital. At the present time the American authorities would very much Uke to know the location of his seat of government, whether in north Luzon, south Luzon, Hong Kong, Singapore or Paris. In Tarlac there is opportunity to inspect the buildings u: y the Insurgent govern- ment and the houses occupied by the va- rious American generals (including Gen. Wheeler) who have been stationed here. An Interesting market wa in full blast during our visit, and I invested In a pack- age containing the leaf, the lime and the nut which constitute the ingredients of betel chewing. The most curious of Tar- lac’s sights was that of a group of native fishermen, men and boys, in the Tarlac river, with spears, bows and arrows and a clumsy hand-trap, all of which they used ssfully as substitutes for the angler’s rod and fly and for the net. At an army post several miles beyond Tarlac, across the great washout of the river, we abandsned our handear and Waited for and fina!ly took the native train, and by It proceeded to the end of our rail- way trip northward in Luzon. A Talk With Gen. MacArthur. Before I returned to Manila I called upon Gen. MacArthur, who is !n command tn this “district, with headquarters at Bautista. The son of our Judge MacArthur, for so many years of the District Supreme Court, is necessarily a Washingtonfan In local in- terest, no matter what state he may hall from, and the capital will take a natural suec palms, A pleturesque rivulet Hel with this street, and at to it and on the other side of the stream extended another read, on which two carabaw teams were outlined in prome, each carabao mounted by a small bey and each drawing an open framework wagon, containing apparently vegetabies and fruit. pride in {ts quasl-representation by this thorough soldier and clear-headed adminis- trator, whose recent promotion 1s every- where applauded as well deserved. Gen. MacArthur thinks well of the capabilities of the Filfpinos, but warns against going ahead too fast in the attempt to impose the American system and methods upon an Asiatle people, at this time sensitive and distrustful. The local civil governments which are being established will, he thinks, Prove excellent schools of instruction in American methods. Gen. MacArthur pointed out that many of the rich mestizoes—half-castes with Chi- nese blood—who next to the Spaniard have been in control in Luzon are to b reckoned as an obstructive factor in our solution of the Philippine problem. They have no desire for American methods with honest administration for the beneflt of the whole people. They have bought special privileges and exemptions from the execu- tive and judicial representatives under the Spanish rule when the accasion required, and the proposition that they shall be Our Hand-Car Party. treated like every one else under a system of even-handed justice which aims to bene- fit the people and not a few individuals comes as a shock and a disappointment to such persons. Concerning the land problem, Gen. Mac- Arthur thinks that there should be a prop- erly constituted court—like the Court of aims—which upon formal application will look into questions of title in respect to the tracts claimed by the monastic orders. He fs of the opinion that the Chinese must not be allowed to come in to any greater ex- tent than in the United States. Labor open- ings and opportunities must be guarded and preserved for the Filipinos and they must be judiciously pushed into work. We are not to conduct Philippine affairs with im- mediate personal gain to ourselves in view, but are to so regulate conditions that the material prosperity of the Filipmos may be enhanced. The English firms which control Philippine trade naturally wish Chinese cheap and reliable labor in unlimited quan- titles, but for the good of the Filipinos, which is the motive for our intervention, the Chinese must not be permitted to come in without restriction and to drive the Fil- iptnos entirely out of the labor field, What the Filipinos Thi At Calasiao I had a talk with the local presidente or mayor, under the civil govern- ment instituted by the Americans. He is an intelligent Spanish-speaking Filipino, of ucation, and of wide, practical bus- iness experience. He had lived In Manila and Dagupan and had conducted business ations in the intervening region. He ralt In rice, sugar and tobacco, and at < ion had an interest three di bino, the native drink. The insurrectos took possession, of the distilleries and used the metal of the machinery for cartridges and other military purposes. The presidente represented the principal need znd desire of the Filipinos to in Station Scene at Malolos. be education, the establishment of schools, especially industrial schools, in which En- glish shall be taught as the most useful commercial language. The detestation of the Filipinos, said the presidente, is the friars (frailes), who kept the natives blind in education (vividly indicated by the pres- idente’s gesture which covered the eyes with the hand), and who robbed, seduced and murdered. The Spanish governor 99 66 Dr. Humphreys’ Famous Specific ‘Seventy-seven’ breaks up Colds that hang on, Grip, Influenza, Cold in the Head (a perfect Specific), Catarrh, Coughs, Sore Throat, Pains in the Back and Chest, General Prostration and Fever, restores the checked circulation (indicated by a chill or shiver), starts the blood coursing through the veins and 6o breaks up the Cold. consists of a emall vial of pleasant pellets, Just fits the vest pocket. ov receipt of price. 25¢. Dr. Humphreys’ Book of Diseases sent free. Be sure to get HUMPHREYS’ u At drug stores or mailed, agreed with Aguinaldo that the friars should go. They must go, he continued, or there will be constant, jf petty, warfare, or @ succession of outbre§ks, no matter who exercises sovereignty inte land. The country needs, so, he added, rail- roads, wagon roads, @mmercial develop- ment, protection of life and property. If these benefits, including the expulsion of the friars, are enjoyed the great majority of the Filipinos will be pacified. There will be little danger of serjous uprisings. The people will consider their condition prac- tically as good as that of the Americans themselves. A special item, he indicated, under the head of protection of life and property woutd be the assurance of continued secur- ity to those who are willing to co-operate with the Americans, who are threatened with death row and who will be killed to a certafhity if the Americans withdraw. In response to a question the presidente replied that the Filipinos had not taken into account the probability of the absorp- tion of the Philippines by Germany, through purchase, from Spain, if the United States had not retained the islands. He added that the Filipinos had expected to accom- Plish by obstinate insurrection the expul- sion of the friars and other promised re- forms even under Spanish rule. Hopeful, but Not Certain, of American Beneficence. ‘The presidente was not at all hypocritical in effusive admiration of and confidence in the benefits and blessings of American con- trol. His strongest expression concerning the relations of America to the Filipinos was one of hopefulness, based upon Ameri- can history and principles. He was inclined to think that America would be more liberal and considerate toward the Filipinos than Germany or any other foreign power. In response to my request he pointed out defects in the printed plan of local civil government, of which he ts an administr tive officer. Certain criminal provisions are ineffective through uncertainty. Civil pro- cedure is in substance merely arbitration, sults being dependent upon the willingness of defendants to be sued. In some respects the attitude of this pres- {dente is typical of that of those Filfpinos Whp are disposed to co-operate with the United States with whom I have conversed or concerning whose opintons I have secured reliable information in other ways. Not all lay the same stress upon educa- tion. Indeed, Gen. Hughes, who is in com- mand in the Visayan or central Philippine Islands, whom I met at Iloilo, does not be- lieve that there is much spontaneous desire among the Filipinos for schools, and thinks that our system of public education in the Philippines must be compulsory. While in charge at Manila Gen. Hughes started the Public school system there, and he has had other opportunities for instructive observa- tion. But whether the Filipinos are thirst- ing for free schools and liberal education, or whether the s of them care little for such instruction and merely send their chil- dren for a time while the schools are a nov- elty in order to please their American rulers and in obedience to the will of the native presidentes, the fact remains, to which all assent, that these schools must be every- where established and maintained. Unanimity of Sentiment Against the Friars. Concerning the friars there is a substan- tial unanimity of sentiment, which must make an impression upon every one. I have been disappointed in my expectation that I would find the Filipinos, outside of the hostile fraction in arms, full of con- fidence in the Americans and heartily wel- coming their control. Their attitude is ap- Parently one of anxious expectancy, tinged with more or less of hopefulness, accord- ing to the individual disposition. I belleve that this doubt concerning the benefit of American control is based more upon un- certainty concerning our policy in respect to the friars than in réspect to any other issue whatsoever, even that of full self- government. I do not think that there will be genuine peace, happiness and prosperity in the Philippines, if we attempt, and as long as we continue, to enact Spain's role as the ally and backer of the friars, The monastic orders and Spain have been identical In the Philippines. ‘The arch- bishop here has always been more powerful than the governor general. In any confilet the individual opposed to the friars inevi- tably went to the wall. The vast tracts of Valuable land to which the orders Jay claim were in part obtained through the govern- ment and by virtue of this ecclesiastical control of the government, and to this ex- tent the ecclesiastical land is still virtually government propert nd would naturally ass to the United States by the cession Spain. The treaty of Paris is so worded, however, as to render difficult a solution of the problem, which recognizes the truth that the Spanish government and the monastic orders in the Phillppines are one and inseparable. Article 8, in which Spain cedes all publle property tn the Philippines, says: “Although quite unneces- sary to do so, it is hereby declared that the cession stipulated shall in no way af- fect the property and rights accorded by custom or law to the peaceful holders of goods of any sort in the provinces, cities, public or private establishments, civil or ec- clestastical corporations, or any other col- lectivity which has any legal right to ac- quire goods or rights in the ceded or aban- @oned territories, and the same applies to the rights and properties of individuals of every nationality whatsoever.” Would Jand which was in equity public property, but title to which had been placed in the mon- astic orders which in effect represented Spain in governing the Philippines, pass to the United States by this cession? Assuming what is probably the truth that the United States will not attempt to in- terfere in any manner which would savor of confiscation with property to which the Monastic orders can establish valid, rec- ord title, the friars claim that they must go to the various parts of the Philippines to administer this property, and must be protected there by the United States gov- ernment as, peaceful, law-abiding citizens, claiming and exercising only their conceded rights. ‘Will Uncle Sam Force Friars on the Filipinost But the United States is now in military occupation of the Philippines and is en- gaged not only in overcoming hostile forces, but in removing causes of continu- ing hostilities. The monastic orders have been by their acts the primary cause of the revolt of the peoplé who have fought Spain because she identified herself with the friars, and who will, I believe, continue to rise against us if we make common cause with those who are hateful in their sight. The friars have been driven from the provinces, and practically alfiwho have not left the islands are collected in Manila, under American protéctio: They have been in effect expelled by the Filipinos; it they go back it will ba because the United States on the plea of preserving their civil rights forces them with the afd of our soldiers’ rifles upon the Filipinos. The military authorities engaged in a labor of pacification cannot permit individuals, whether ecclesiastical or lay, to go back to the villages, who are hated by the people for alleged. crimes, and whose presence will tend to keep alive hostilities and to lead to homicides or other breaches of the Peace. As a military precaution, incidental to the army occupation of. the islands, the protection of the United States should be refused to the friars. If the monastic orders have committed a fraction of the offenses of which the Filipinos believe them to be guilty, they are lightly punished by exile from the Philippines. The Filipino hatred of the friars is not Glrected against them as Roman Catholics, The mass of the Filipinos are nominal | cathotics, and there is no religious revolt whatsoever. The in its own to mass at the church in Calasiao. Roman Catholic Church will representatives men who are feared and detested. Of course, generalizations about the friars as a body will fail to fit the cases of some individual priests, who as good men may be Personally acceptable to thelr parishes. But on the broad question of making the cause of the friars its own ly awaited, both by the Filipino people and by the Protestant denominations of the world, which are ready to take advantage of any blunder in policy which may be committed. Anti- There is no reason why American Catho- lies should side with the friars. ‘These men are Spaniards, with more than the natural national grudge against us. They are the essence of Spanish misgovernment in the Philippines, which we have overthrown: they hate us and spit upon our flag. In Most cases if returned to the villages they will become centers of anti-American senti- Ment and influence. aided, so far as the influence of the Roman driven out by the people. on this subject at Moilo, Gen. Hughes said glish-speaking priest, to dispel gradually the prejudice against the Spanish friars and priest: in many cases ignorant and corrupt. Every one who undergoes the experiences of the railroad trip to Dagupan becomes unfailingly the enthusiastic advocate of the polity of discriminating as soon as possible between the scattered Filipino bands still in arms and the insurgent army. Treat the war against the latter organization as over, declare amnesty, maintain no grudge or animosity against former hostiles submit- tng in good faith, and by prompt fulfill- ment In specific shape of general promises of good government and redress of old Spanish grievances. make such submission easy and permanent. On the other hand the wandering bands who kill and rob Fili- pinos as well as Americans, who attempt to wreck and pillage even native trains, and who brutally murder their American pris- oners when closely pursued, should be treat- ed when captured not as prisoners of war, but as bandits, to be pursued and ex- terminated like train wreckers and similar murderous robbers in our western states. This policy !s in the interest and for the protecticn of the Filipinos as well as of the Americans. The Conditions of Genuine Peace. While declaring that the Filipino war is over, let us remember that it is not over permanently or in truth unless we take ad- vantage of the opportunity to remove as far as possible the causes of war. By dis- persing the insurgent army we havg gained the chance, hitherto lacking, to demon- strate to the people of the Philippines the good faith of our assurances and the benefi- cence of our contro!. Certain Filipino lead- ers have endeavored to ize arbitrary power in the {stands for themselves, rais- ing the delusive cry of independence. War has determined that their ambitions are not to be gratified. But there is nothing in the results of the war which alters the at- utude of the United States toward the Fill- pino people. The republic is still bound to correct as far as possible the evils of Span- ish misrule and to satisfy the reasonable aspirations of the Filipinos for better and freer govenment. As the first step which counts, let us settle the question of excluding the friars as far as possible in accordance with the wishes of the people. The agreement of Biac-na-Bato represented the minimum of redress of grievances which would concili- ate the Filipinos. What Spain promised let us fulfill. To accomplish this result with a minimum of infringement upon the abstract rights of the friars 1s a problem for our statesmanship. It ought to be effected through the Roman Catholic Church Itself; but in one way or another it should be ac- complished without fail. The evil of the holding by monastic or- ders of title to boundless tracts, including whole provinces, of the most valuable lands in Luzon endangers the future of the isl- and. The soil cannot remain indefinitely the property of alien landlords, whether eccle- siasttcal or lay. Luzon {s not to become an- other Ireland, with the evil conditions of that unhappy island magnified a hundred- fold. The people who inhabit the land, who cultivate it and develop it, must have an interest in it. It is said that the orders have not valid record title to much of the confiscated land of which they have taken possession by virtue of their relations with the Spanish government. As has been sug- gested, some sort of a tribunal should ex- amine into the whole question of these ti- tles. If no other effective method ts dis- covered these extensive alfen land holdings may be broken up by the imposition of a very heavy ground tax. Land is almost neglected as a source of revenue under the Spanish tax system which we are enforcing. Our Philippines experiment would seem to be threatened in advance with complete failure 1f we undertake to keep the peace and to bring prosperity and happiness to an island in which the hated friars own the land and the discontented insurrectos live upon it. Under this arrangement Spain would retain through the monastic orders the ownership of the Philippines, and would have ceded to us merely the duty of pro- tecting her in that ownership, and of gov- erning and subduing with our army in her interest the landless, desperate, and con- stantly revolting Filipinos, whom she was unable by her own efforts to overcome. A Choice of Policies, ‘Two paths of policy open before us. We can accept the Phillppines as a trust im- posed by Providence to be administered for the benefit of the millions of people who in- habit the fslands. In this case we shall side with the Mllpino against the Spaniard, with the Filipino against the friar, with the Tilipino against the Chinaman, and in each of these controversies we shall make the cause and interest of the Fillpino people our ewn. On the other hand we may accept these islands as the spoils of war, unaccom- panied by any obligations whatsoever to the people who happen to live upon them. In which case we may enter upon the broad and apparently smooth way of the policy which merely substitutes our mastery for that of the Spaniards, indorses and adopts the Spanish system of government, taxation and general treatment of the natives, recog- nizes the friars as the owners of the land and the masters of the people, and util- izes the reliable Chinaman as the universa; workingman of the islands. Under this pol- icy we should reserve despotic government of the Philippines to ourselves, turn over the land to the friars, and the labor to the Chinese, and consign the Filipinos to the tender mercies of a large American stand- ing army, expensively transported for many thousand miles to the scene of a distasteful and un-American task. ‘The Philippines labor problem is many- sided and is not to be disposed of hastily. Tho only necessary decision of the present is the preliminary one that opportunities in the labor field shall be secured for the Filipinos. Some men whose opinions are entitled to respect say that the Filipinos will not work, that they will not utilize the chances to do so, when afforded them. The churches are well at- tended. For example, I observed hundreds flocking at an early hour in the morning interest do well to consider how far it {s wise to allenate a Catholic population by attempting to force upon the: people as its the decision of the Roman Church Is eager- American Influence of the Friars If Luzon is to be gradually Americanized this task will be Church extends, only through English- speaking priesta, In Panay, as in Luzon, the monastle orders claim ownership of the most valu- able lands in the island, and have been Speaking to me that in his opinion the Catholic Church should put in every parish a sensible En- to counteract the influence of the native who are almost all insurrectos, and DON'T NEGLECT YOUR KIDNEYS. Weak Kidneys Caused by Over-work, By Lifting hi! 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Rem < This sweeping condemnation has yet to be demonstrated to be well founded. The Filipinos might be expected to work with suitable encouragement as well as the Javanese, with whom they have racial affinitt If, however, having had full op- portunity they fail to seize it, and the de- velopment of the islands in any direction suffers from lack of Jabor, there will still be time to supplement the thousands of Chinese and mestizoes already here, and for Uncle Sam to enter into a partnership of capital and labor with John Chinaman, such as John Bull has formed with him in Singapore. This is not a case, however, where, as in the formative vs of the Straits Settlements, from paucity of a fixed Malay population phe best workers from the outside can be selected deliberately, un- troubled by interfering equities. Luzon is so thickly populated that in order to avoid the possible famines of the future and the outbreaks which spring from the desperation of the half starved every effort should be made to bring the natives into productive contact with the soil or into other self-supporting forms of labor, even to the extent of the judicious pushing suggested by Gen. MacArthur. Meanwhile the numerous Chinese already in Luzon, en- titled to be classed among the Filipinos if they desire it, can during the experimen- tal period and even afterward perform any kinds of labor in which it may appear that the Malay Filipinos absolutely will not engage. There are many minor needs of the Filipinos—as for the gradual development of self-government, beginning with con- trol of the municipalities, in the matter of schools, railroads and improved high- ways; in relief from old Spanish laws and taxes; and in greater consideration and courtesy on the part of our soldiers and of Americans generally. But until a set- tlement is reached of the vital questions—as whether they are to be subjected again to the domination of the friars, whether they can readily acquire an individual interest in the soil on which they live, and whether the means of existence represented by the labor of the islands shall be tentatively re- served for them—discussion of the other matters seems premature and futile. THEODORE W. NOYES. —_>——_ GOVERNMENT FOR HAWAII. Bill Passed by the House by a Vote of 120 to 28. In the House yesterday afternoon an amendment was adopted to the Hawaiian bill to postpone for one year the time when the coastwise laws of the United States should be extended to Hawail. An amendgent was added to the end of the bill providing that no Chinese who ob- tains a certificate in Hawall under the terms of the bill shall be allowed to enter any state-er territory of the United States. Mr. DeArmond (Mo.) offered @n amend- ment compelling all Asiatics who have en- tered the islands under contract since the date of annexation to leave within one year. The amendment was lost. A committee amendment was adopted to close up and liquidate the affairs of the Hawailan Savings Bank. : Mr. Hill 4Conn.) offered an amendment providing that nothing in the act should be construed as a pledge of statehood in the immediate or distant future. Mr. Knox characterized the amendment in the words of former Representative ‘Walker of Massachusetts, as “almighty d—n nonsense.” The amendment was lost. Ancther committee amendment was adopted to make section 52, relating to ap- propriations, go into effect after the ap- proval of the act. The last amendment adopted waa one of- ber the name, Swamp-Root, and the address, Bing hamton, N.Y. = = ————— | fered by Mr. Newlands (Nev.), to creaval the office of commi wail. The committee then arose and report bill and amendmente to the Ho: On ace count of the peculiar parliamentary status, of the bill, it being a Senate bill wit an amended House substitute, 2 separaid any of the’ ioner of labor in Ha= od the! vote could not be demanded on amendments. Mr. Bartholdt (Mo.) therefore moved to? recommit the bill with instructions to strike! out the amendment prohibiting the intoxicating lquors D sale ofj in saloons in Hawwit back forthwith us and report the bill amended. The motion was lost, 50 to 83. ? The bill was then passed, 120 to 28. Bills were passed to authorize the Shreve. port and Red River Valley Railroad to build! a bridge across the Red river at Alex: aoe La.. and to create the northweste At3 ra et of the northern district of Georgias’ ‘50 p.m. the House adjourned. ——-2+___ } Personal Mention. Mr. Emil P. Wetzel, who recently ree, signed his position in the government printé’ ing office, left last evening for Seattly! 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