The Philippines are rich and fertile, but their agriculture is of the crudest possible kind. If it were our intention to hold and develop them, they could be made extremely valuable possessions; but, as expressed by Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft, it is our policy to help them up to a point where they are fitted for selfgovernment. It would be a cowardly shirking of our duty, a disgrace to the American people, and an injury to the Filipinos to give them selfgovernment before they are fitted for it. О M. E. OLMSTED. E. D. CRUMPACKER. BRIDGE ACROSS MISSOURI RIVER, N. DAK. APRIL 26, 1912.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Mr. STEVENS of Minnesota, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany S. 6160.] The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (S. 6160) to authorize the Great Northern Railway Co. to construct a bridge across the Missouri River in the State of North Dakota, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it pass. The following is the report of the Senate Committee on Commerce: [Senate Report No 627, Sixty-second Congress, second session.] The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (S. 6160) to authorize the Great Northern Railway Co. to construct a bridge across the Missouri River in the State of North Dakota, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it pass without amendment. The bill has the approval of the War Department, as will appear by the following communication from that department favoring passage of this bill: [Second indorsement.] WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, Respectfully returned to the Secretary of War. So far as those interests are concerned, I know of no objection to its favorable consideration by Congress. W. H. BIXBY, Chief of Engineers, United States Army. [Third indorsement.] WAR DEPARTMENT, April 15, 1912. Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, inviting attention to the foregoing report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army. ROBERT SHAW OLIVER, No. BRIDGE ACROSS YELLOWSTONE RIVER, DAWSON COUNTY, MONT. APRIL 26, 1912.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Mr. STEVENS of Minnesota, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany S. 6161.] The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (S. 6161) to authorize the Great Northern Railway Co. to construct a bridge across the Yellowstone River, in the county of Dawson, State of Montana, having considered the same, report thereon with amendment and as so amended recommend that it pass. Amend the bill as follows: On page 1, lines 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, strike out the words "in the county of Dawson and State of Montana, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation and not farther south than the south line of township twenty-one north of the Montana principal meridian," and insert in lieu thereof the words "at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, to be selected by the said company and approved by the Secretary of War, either in Mackenzie County, North Dakota, or Dawson County, Montana." The following is the report of the Senate Committee on Commerce: [Senate Report No. 625, Sixty-second Congress, second session.] The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (S. 6161) to authorize the Great Northern Railway Co. to construct a bridge across the Yellowstone River, in the county of Dawson, State of Montana, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it pass without amendment. The bill has the approval of the War Department, as will appear by the following communication from that department favoring passage of this bill: [Second indorsement.] WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, Respectfully returned to the Secretary of War. The accompanying bill (S. 6161, 62d Cong., 2d sess.), to authorize the Great Northern Railway Co. to construct a bridge across the Yellowstone River, in the county of Dawson, State of Montana, is in the usual form and makes ample provision for the protection of navigation interests. So far as those interests are concerned, I know of no objection to its favorable consideration by Congress. W. H. BIXBY, Chief of Engineers, United States Army. (Third indorsement. WAR DEPARTMENT, April 15, 1912. Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, inviting attention to the foregoing report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army. O ROBERT SHAW OLIVER, |