Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-06-01

am sorry" said Lodge that the
senator should be annoyed by anything
should say
Again reverting to the victory .of
Admiral Dewey, Lodge said that we
We're compelled to go back as far as
trafalgar to find a victory more com
piete and more sweeping in its results
than that Of Dewey. Now that Dewey
| had Manila under his guns and entire
! ~ at his mercy, it was all important,
| said Lodge, that we should support
| him.
! The American people would never for
give the administration if ii should fail
| 70 give him that support which was only
| ms lust due. They would feel did the
| people Of England when Gordon was left
to his fate ut Khartoum.
Lodge had lust announced his belief
| that Admiral Dewey was in greater need
| OF relief than most people imagined. when
| he was again Interrupted by Turpie with
| a demand that the Senate proceed to the
consideration of the subject under dis
| cussion in secret executive session. Under
| the rules the demand had to be acccded
to and at 2.o5 z. NJ. the doors were closed.
| At 4.45 p: M. the Senate resumed con-
sideration in open session OF the pending
Elkins. W. Va, objected to the tax on
| corporations, the tax bank deposits
and to the stamp tax. He maintained
| in principle. as it was Il tax on debts.
! Concerning the corporation tax. he held
| That the tax on gross assets was mani
| fcStlY unjust as it bore upon practically
what the corporation did not possess The
net earnings were a proper subject of tax
alton.
| He was strongly in favor of a just and
| equitable system of war taxation. He
| said he opposed the amendment of the
majority OF the committee last Saturday,
because it Disseminated against the citi
| zenS composing the corporations, and it
favored individuals doing the same kind
| of business.
1t was direct tax, not objectionable
among the states and was unconStitu
tonal. An income tax WAS preferable.
The amendment of German he said
bodies the same injustice in an aggravated
form tie vigorously arraigned the prop
| osition to issue legal tender notes as fun
of danger and mischief to our credit and
| finances
Elllins discussed territorial expansion.
The present war, only a month old, he
said. had sent the country further on in
the progress of the world than in 100 years
| before. 1t had wrought changes in the
public mind. brought on now conditions
and problems. and we must look more and
more to extending our markets for our
| own products. and to that end must ac-
quire more territory than may come
| through fortunes of war.
| I'VE must have merchant ships on the
high seas. control the shipping and com
merce ON the great oceans that wash our
shores, ana a navy greater and more pow
erful than any now aiioat This IS mani
lest destiny.
| tlkinS sflId that because of our tradi-
| tonal policy of isolation and opposition
| to acquiring territory in the past. we
| must rot put aside what comes to us by
| war. The Nicaraguan canal and the ila-
| WdiHih lSiaidS si'ld ne. rise above IN"
| horizon and come in sight more plainly
than ever, ana whatever opposition there
| may have been to building one and ac-
curing the Others heretofore, must disap
pear in the face of the flag going UP over
MORO Castle, what has transpired in the
! PHILIPPINES. and the great "trip Of the
| oregon.
C0ncluIlnS. ne Sald; Long ago. IN ISl9.
thomas Jefferson dreamed of ana favored
the annexation OF tuba and Canada to
| Inc lnlted states one now comes 10 Us
through a war we could not avoid, ana
our trade relations with the otueF are
IN Il falr way Of being placed on basis
satisfactory to both countries The COM
hnatloh ana consoildati0n that mas come
ABOUT under the demands TOR Wl1ef mar
kets ana trade relations is reaching to
consolidation OF states ana acquisition o.
territory in the interest of larger trade
ana commerce.
"fhc W@fiu. TO-DAY Is hnt Il VAST heiGn-
nofhood: I"St beln@ dlE'led up III groups
OF vast families 1t IS drawn more closely
together tnah We're countries ana states
- years ago II mas become more com
merclal than ever: one member OF TINS
family cannot resist IN Its own interest
doing what the other members DO con
Soild;ltloh ana mfrSlhG OF Snl'ii SlI