The San Francisco call., 1898-12-22
WILL RAT|FY THE TREATY OF PEACE This Action by Congress
 Assured. BRYAN ADVISES DEMOCRATS URGES THAT THEY SUPPORT
 
BRYAN ADVISES DEMOCRATS
URGES THAT THEY SUPPORT
 THE MEASURE.
Question of Our Disposition of the the Philippines and Cuba Will Be Settled
 Afterward.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-Clark Howell, member of the Democratic National Committee. from Georgia and editor of the Atlanta Constitution, after consult ing the leaders of both political parties at Washington, telegraphed as follows to his paper tonight:
 With the adjournment of Congress for the holidays the final decision of the peace treaty is as clear as 1t will be after a vote has been taken in the Senate. TWO weeks ago the matter was in doubt; to- day It Is as certain that the treaty will be ratified as 1t will be that it has been after the vote has been taken.
 Bryan has been in Washington for sev- eral days and has conferred frequently in both the Senate and the House. He has advised ratification of the treaty, and he is outspoken in the opinion that aside from the question of national obligation it is matter of party policy for the Dem ocratic party to throw no obstacles in the way.
 less than week ago were in doubt about ratifying the treaty; more than that, some of them were outspoken in the opin- ion that. it was, perhaps, better to reject it. To-day many of these Democratic leaders take the open position that the treaty should be ratified, and that it will be no one who has studied the situation from the inside can have any reasonable doubt.
 It must not be understood that the rati- fication of the treaty will carry with 1t the assumption that all those who vote affirmatively are in favor or nauona! eX- pansion across the Pacific. Of the Sena- tors 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 tranS-oceanfc expansion of our national domain. They take, however, and very properly, the view that the question of 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 Philippine problem, it will be time enough dealing with the Philippines, and just here will come the real contest of the question of expansion.
 MT. Howell then says that after the treaty shall have been finally disposed of a resolution will be introduced mak- ing a declaration of the proposed policy of this 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 it was declared that the policy of this Government would be to give the people of Cuba free and independ- ent government of their own. Mr. Howell further says:
 The vote on this proposed resolution will not be confined by any means to part lines, and the outcome is in doubt A large majority of the Democrats will vote in favor of it, and large majority of the Republicans will vote against it. but the size of each minority Is sufficiently involved in doubt as to render exceedingly questionable the final action that will be taken on the resolution.