Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-12-13
EXPANSION PROTESTS.
Senators HOar and Hale Present Reso-
lutions Against 1t.
VEST ADDRESSES SENATE.
quotes Dred Scott Decision to Sup
port His Contention That the
Government Has No Power
to Establish Colonies.

Washington, Dec. 13.-In the senate
Mr. Hoar and Mr.. Hale presented reso-
lutions Of citizens Of their states remon-
btrating against the extension of Amer
lean sovereignty over the Philippine is
lands and against the acquisition Of
foreign territory without the consent Of
the people of such territory. The reso-
lutions were referred to the committee
on foreign relations.
Mr.. Pettigrew introduced a bill au-
thorlzing A. A. Bartlett to raise the
battleship Maine and transport it to the
United States.
Mr.. Hoar introduce a resolution d.
recting the president of the senate and
speaker of the house 20 appoint COM
mittee Of five members of the senate
and house of representatives to prepare
and carry out plans for the preparation
of the centennial of the city of WASH
ington as the capital of the United
States Mr.. Hoar introduced also the
following resolution:
THAT the committee on military be
instructed to inquire and report as soon
as may be whether some policy may
not be established by law by which SOL
diers in the regular army who have
families or parents depending on them
for support, Or whose education or op-
portunities for business will be serious
ly interfered with by longer continu-
ance in the military service and who
enlisted for the war, or under assur-
ances that they would be held only
while the war lasted, may be promptly
discharged and their places, so far as
necessary, be filled by new recruits"
Vest on Expansion.
The resolution offered last week by
Mr.. Vest (Dem., MOI declaring that
there is no power under the constitu-
ton to acquire territory to be held and
governed permanently as colonies, was
then taken up and Mr.. Vest addressed
the senate.
He did not propose, he said, to say
anything that would necessitate an ex-
ecutive session, but it seemed to him
peculiarly appropriate at this time to
examine what was the power of con-
gress in regard to the acquisition and
government Of new territory, when the
attorney general-the great law officer
of the Observation-Disclosures publicly
that the constitution. made for the Is
half rescued colonies, had grown too
SIIldll lOT lIlc 6ICdlCoI udliOH oii tilC
face Of the earth. The war of the Revo-
luton had been fought-for it's first four
years-against taxation without repre-
sentation against the system so
graphically described by Thomas JET
ferson as the belief that nine-tenths Of
mankind were born bridled and sadd ed
and the other one-tenth booted and
spurred to ride them.
The Declaration Of Independence, Mr..
Vest said had been drawn up on the
basic idea that all governments derived
their just powers from the consent of
the governed. 1t was incredible that
the founders Of the republic could have
looked forward to the time when mil
lions Of human beings could be held
without their own consent, as mere
chattels, to be disposed of as the SOW
ereign power of the mother country
might choose.
MIR. Vest quoted the dictum of the
supreme court in the Dred Scott deci,
sion to the effect that no power had
been given to the government to estab-
lish or maintain colonies or to enlarge
the territory of the United States ex-
cept by the admission of new states.
and he asserted that no tribunal, fed
eraI or state, and no public man OF
eminence had ever contradicted that
portion of the Dred Scott decision unit
within the last six months, when the
craze for expansion seemed to have
taken possession of a very large por-
ton of the American people.
In the House.
The day in the house was, under the
rules. devoted to consideration of bust
ness relating to the District of Column
bia.
Frank A. McLain who was elected to
All the vacancy caused by the death OF
the late Representative Love of Missis-
,lpni. was presented and took oath.
MIR. Grout Rep., Vt) reported the
District of Columbia appropriation bill
and gave notice that he will call 1T up.
The house then proceeded with district
business.
Representative Mcclellan IN. W,
who is a member Of the military affairs
committee of the house and who has
eiven the question Of the reorganiza-
tion of the army much consideration
Introduced bill for the reorganization
of the army. 1t was drawn after con-
suJtation with many army officers and
ia supnosed to represent the ideas OF
the vol,nger element of the army.