The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-22
WILL NOT Be REJECTED
Democrats Will Vote for the
Ratification of the Treaty.
MATTER OF PARTY POLICY
Afterwards a Resolution Guaranteeing
a Free Government to b Philip
pines VIII Be Introduced-The
Outcome Is in Doubt

New York, Dec. 21.-Clark Howell.
member of the democratic national
committee from Georgia, and editor OF
the Atlanta Constitution, after consult
ing with the leaders of both political
parties in Washington. t~elegraphed as
follows to his p tonight:
with the adjournment of congress
for the holidays the final decision of h
peace treaty is as clear as IL will be af-
ter a vote has been taken in the senate.
Two weeks ago the matter was in doubt
to-day IL Is certain that the treaty
will be ratified.
MIR. Bryan has been in Washington
for several days and has conferred fire.
quently with democratic leaders in both
the senate and the house. He has ad-
vised ratification of the treaty and he is
outspoken in the opinion that aside
from the question of national obligation
it is a matter of party policy to the
democrats to throw no obstacle in the
way of ratification. There are leading
democrats of both the senate n the
house who less than a week ago were in
doubt as to whether or not democrats
should assist in ratifying the treaty;
more than that. some OF them were ut
spoken in the opinion that IL was per-
haps better to reject IL. To-day many
of these democratic leaders take open
position that the treaty should be rati-
fled and that it will be, no one who has
studied the situation from the inside
can have any reasonable doubt.
1T must not be understood that the
ratification of the treaty will carry
with IL the assumption that all hose
who vote aftirmatively are in of
| natiannl pxnanginn across the Pacific
OF the senator's who will vote in favor
of the treaty there will be republicans
as well as democrats who are opposed
in principle as well as in theory to the
transoceanic expansion of u national
domain. They take. however. and very
properly, the view that the question cf
expansion per Sc is not involved in the
consideration of the peace treaty and
that after the treaty has been ratified
with Spain and has been eliminated as
a factor in the Philippines problem it
will be time enough to consider the pol
icy to be pursued in dealing with the
Philippines. and just here will come the
real contest of the question of expan-
SION"
Mr.. Howell then says that after the
treaty has been finally disposed OF a
resolution will be introduced, making
declaration of the proposed policy of
his government in dealing with the
PHILIPPINES and that this resolution
will be framed very much on the basis
Of the Cuban resolution adopted coin
cident with the declaration of war. in
which IL was declared that the policy
of this government would be to give
the people Of Cuba a free and indie
pendent government Of their own. Mr..
Howell further says:
The vote on this proposed resolu-
ton will not he confined by any means
to party lines N the outcome Is in
doubt. A large majority of the demo-
Gratis will vote in favor of IL and a
large majority of the republicans will
vote against IT, but the size of either
minority is sufficiently involved In
doubt as to render exceedingly ques-
tionable the final action that Will he
taken on the resolution"