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THE DALLES, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 4, 1900.
NO 200
TARIFF BILL
DISCUSSED
Now Stand Where Ttey
Always Stool.
BILL JUSTIFIED
BY HISTORY
.Senator Dcjuw Affirms That The Right
of Congrcssto Legislate for Our New
Possession is Only Limited by
Constitutional Prohibitions.
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EVERYBODY
Knows the merits of the
BICYCLES
COLUMBIA
HARTFORD
PATEE CREST
$50. $35. $25.
Many new features for 1900 which you cannot afford to overlook.
0
In the senate Monday Senator Depew,
speak i Hi,- on the Puerto Rican tariff hill '
aaid :
fitnllh lpr.tt nrll Blatii tinnii
the action of Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson
J'olk, J'lerce una beward, that congress
has thu power to govern these acquis!
none, subject only to the prohibition o
the constitution. 1 recall for the con
iideration and admonition of our Demo
cratic friends, that story of General
Jackson s governorship of Florida, to
which he was appointed by President
Monroe, under the act of congress of
March 3, 1S21, providing 'that all mill
tary, civil and judicial powers shall be
vested in such person and persons, and
shall be exercised in such manner as the
President of the United States Bhall di
rect.' lie claimed andexercisnd the ex
ecutive, legislative and judicial functions
of government under this commission,
and was sustained in them all. As the
legislative, he enacted laws which
brought him, as governor, in conflict
with the ex Governor under Spain. As
governor, lie promptly arrested and im
prisoned that ex-official, and, as Judge,
he proceeded to punish for contempt the
federal district judge, who had issued a
writ o( huheas corpus for the Spaniard's
release. It was after all this that he be
came und has since continued to be
claimed us leader, counsellor and inspira
tion for the Democratic party.
"Under this power we can and
will provide both for the development of
our new possessions and the protection
of industries and employment within
the United States. Aa time and experi
ence demonstrate the necessity for new
laweuud changes of existing laws, they
will he enacted, but always with intent
to maintain the high standard of Ameri
can citizenship and the scaleof American
wages. Preferential tariffs will promote
trade between the United States and all
these islands. Puerto Rico, Hawaii,
Guam, Tutuila and the Philippines are
to he held and governed by the United
Slates with an imperative duty on our
part to their inhabitants for this civili
zation, for the encouragement of enter
prises which will utilize their resources,
and for their constantly increasing
participation in their local and general
governments, and also for their and our
commercial progress and growth. I do
not believe that mo will incorporate the
alien races and civilized, acmiclvilized,
barbarous and savage people of these
islnnds into our body politic as states of
onr Union.
"Order, law, justice and liberty will
"tlmulato and develop our new pro
fessions. Their inhabitants will grow
with the responsibility of governing
themselves, constantly increasing with
their intelligence into conditions of
prosperity and happiness beyond their
wildest dreams as the results of that
self-government they now so vaguely
understand, while the United States, In
the increasing demand for the surplus of
our farms and factories in Puerto Rico,
Jluuiui and the Philippines, and in the
tremendous advantages of position from
Manila for reaching the limitless markets
of ihe Orient, can view without appre
hennlon and with hopeful pride the in
vltable expansion of our population
and productions."
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Not lea.
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Wash., fioo per month business. Will
at u bargain.
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in
Complete Line of "1900" Sundries.
THE DELEGATION AT WORK.
Oregon flan a Delegation of Worker
aud Men That Do Thing,
Special to The Chko.niclk.
It is so near the presidential election
that Democracy is looking for campaign
material and willing to pick up anything
to how! about, which accounts for the
iiowl about the Puerto Rico bill. They
have only lately discovered where the
constitution was violated by the tariff,
and two years ago permitted Hawaii
to be annexed, to pay the full tariff on
all businese with the United States, and
now go frantic when it is proposed to
charge Puerto Rico fifteen per cent of
the amount; that, too, when all collec
tions go back to Puerto Rico to pay the
expense of running the island, and the
arrangement is only temporary. "Con
sistency is a jewel" that Democracy
does not take much stock in.
Representative Moody, although a
new member, is working and getting
results like a veteran. As a member of
the committee on public lands, ho has
obtained favorable reports on two bills
since the first of the month.
On March 5th lie reported Tongue's
bill, H. R. 2970, to create the Crater
lake park, embracing 249 square miles,
and submitted an excellent report, which
has been printed. He also secured a
favorable report on Senator McBride's
Double-Minimum Land bill, for the re
payment of $1.25 per acre to settlers on
lorfeited railroad land grants, who were
required to pay $2.50 per acre for their
lands. Mr. Moody had introduced an
identical bill in the house, hut Senator
McBride's bill having passed the senate
was substituted for it. A large propor
tion of the settlers of Oregon to be bene
fited by this hill reside in Mr. Moody's
district, and it is estimated that the
amount to be paid to Oregon settlers
under the bill, if it passes, will exceed
1250,000.
Mr. Moody has also secured a favora
ble report irom the committee on Ways
and Means, on McBride's bill making
Astoria a port for immediate transpor
lation ot dutiable goods, which means
that such goods may be shipped in bond
to and from Astoria, as they are from
the principal ports of the United States
In addition to legislative work, Mr
Moody has been busy about the depart'
ments in the interest of his constituents.
At his request the second assistant post
inaBter general will hereafter insert in
all star route contracts let or renewed,
in Moody's district, a proviso making it
the duty of the mail carriers on star
routes to deliver mail into boxes erected
along the lines of those routes, to per
sons or people living along the line of
Btar routes, where settlement is so sparse
that the free delivery system cannot
lawfully be established. This arrange
ment will be a great convenience to
many settlers, who will give due credit
to their energetic representative for
placing such additional mail facilities
at their service.
Senator McBride has been working
with his usual diligence, and since the
dato of my last letter, March 16th, has
obtained the passage of three of his bills
through the senate. Senate bill 373, for
the relief of Avery Babcock and wife,
whose donation land claim was used as
a military post, called Fort Yamhill,
and as part ot the Grande Ronde Indian
reservation for ten or twelve years.
Senate bill 1400, granting a pension of
$12 a month to William Lyman Chitten
den, who served as a member of Captain
L. J. Powell's company in 1850. Senate
bill 3107, granting a pension to Dr.
Arthur I Nicklin, late surgeon of Benja
min Hayden's company,- Captain B. F.
Burch's company, and Captain Marion
Goff's company Oregon Volunteers, in
the Indian war of LS'56, and also surgeen
for the U. S. army in the Modoc war.
The passage of these three bills makes a
total of nine of Mr. McBride's bills that
have passed the senate during the month
$i.oo per month.
Strictly first class local and long
distance telephone service within
your home.
Lines do not cross-talk. Your con
versation will be kept a Becret.
No cost for installing.
You get the standard Hunulng
Long Distant Instrument.
Continuous day and night ervlce.
We will accept your contract for
ten years and allow you to cancel
same on giving us thirty days writ
ten notice,
PACIFIC STATES TELEPHONE COS.
of March, and a total of sixteen of his
bills that have passed the senate during
the session. Although this exceeds the
average for an entito session of congress,
it is evident that Mr. McBride does not
intend to stop here, for ho has in the
last two weeks obtained favorable re
ports on the two bills following: Sen
ate bill 374, for the relief of Wm. A.
Starkweather, on account of money paid
out by him for clerk lure during the
years 1861 and 1865'. It seems that ad
ditional clerical aid was made necessary
during that period, mainly on account
of applications for patents under the
Donation Land law, and thegovernment
has never repaid Mr. Starkweather.
Senate bill 420, for the relief of the legal
representatives of Chauncey M. Lock
wood. Mr. McBride got this bill thro'
the eenate in the last congress, ob a part
of the Omnibus Claim bill, but it was
thrown out in conference, owing to the
opposition of the house conference.
Senator McBiide has taken a great
deal of interest in Pettigrew's senate bill
2746, to aid certain states to support
schools of mines. The bill provides
that each state shall receive one half of
all money paid the United States for
mineral lands, in such states, provided
the amount so paid in any year shall not
exceed the amount annually expended
by the state for the support of a school
of mines. The senator says this will
aid the University of Oregon, which now
lias a School of Mines, and which will
he entitled to the money coming to the
state under the bill. He supported the
bill in the committee on public lands,
and thinks it will pass the house.
Within two weeks Representative
Tongue has secured a favorable report
from Public Lands committee, of which
lie is a member, in favor of his resolu
tion to reserve 249 square milee of the
Cascade range as the "Crater Lake Res
ervation," where game and fish will be
preserved and timber protected, and
Oregon will have, or the United States
will have, one of the moBt delightful
mountain parks in all the world.
The committee on Public Lands has
also reported in favor of issuing patents
to lands owned by deceased Indians on
the Siletz reservation, as per bill Mr.
Tongue introduced. Its passage will
open considerable good land to settle
ment, as many IndianB have died whose
lands lie idle nnd unoccupied. As pat
ents do not iseue for twenty years, they
will remain so unoccupied for many
years to come, unless they can be put on
sale, and make homes for newcomers.
In war time long ago Henry Judge, of
Ashland, fnruished saddles to Oregon
Volunteers at the request of Col. Maury,
but was never paid. It was claimed
that Maury had no authority to make
the request. At the solicitation of Mr.
Tongue, the house committee ou claims
will recommend that it be submitted to
the U. S. court of claims to investigate
and decide what is right and proper, bo
the claim will probably be paid in due
time.
In a former letter I mentioned Sena
tor Simon's introduction of a bill to per
mit persons engaged In mining in Ore
gon, Washington and Uaiiiornia to leu
and use timber on the public lands for
mining purposes, as has been author
ized by law in otlier mining states since
that time. Senator Simon has obtained
a favorable report on his bill from the
committee on Mines and Mining, of
which he is a member, and has alto se
cured the passage of the bill through
the senate. As this bill simply secures to
miners in those three Btates like privi
leges to those granted in other states, it
is hoped it will not bo objected to in the
house of representatives.
As au Oregoman I am proud of the
fact that Oregon has now, as it had In
the past, an industrious and influential
delegation in congress; men who accom
plish things, S. A. Ci.akkk.
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The vests of some are of same
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Another case of Boys' Suits
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