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Show MR. TRIPP'S REPORT. His Comment On Affairs In' Samoa Sent to Senate. Washington. Dec. 20. In accordance with a request from the senate, the president pres-ident today transmitted to that body the ! personal report of the Hon. Bartlett : Tripp, the United States member of the Samoan commission to the secretary of state. Mr. Tripp's report is quite apart , from the joint report of the commission, ' and goes more into details on the excit- Ing events in Samoa which the commls-i commls-i sion dealth with. He recounts the disarming of the na-J na-J tives and the upholding hv the commis- sion of the validity of Chief Justice Cham-, Cham-, bers": decision favorably to Malietoa. in . this connection Mr. Tripp says that judgment judg-ment is necessarily conclusive, though ' the reasons of the court by which it reaches such conclusions be ever so : fallacious. Elsewhere Mr. Tripp refers to Judge Chambers as a "good lawyer and an honest hon-est man." He says both the Germans Marquardt and Huffnagel who were under un-der arrest, were,, immediately discharged by the commission, there being no competent com-petent evidence against them. It might have been in bad taste, he points out, for '.white men to have espoused es-poused the rausevof either candidate for native king, but no rule of law or ethics made it wrong. As to the course of Admiral Ad-miral Kautz. it is maintained that the general instructions of the naval commanders com-manders sufficed, to authorize the putting down of an armed rebellion against the lawful government, and Mr. Tripp is of the opinion that the instructions were not violated by obeying the orders of a majority of the three consuls. The chief importance of the Samoan islands. Mr. Tripp points out, lies in their location in the great future pathway of commerce. In particular he details the strength and general availability of Pago-Pago Pago-Pago harbor, and says he should not look , with favor on a foreign effort to share these advantages. in in i m |