The San Francisco call., 1898-06-01
URGES
 ANNEXATION Attempts to Justify His
 Course. PLEA FOR MAJORITY RULE. WAR REVENUE BILL MAKING
 NO HEADWAY. Senator Elkins Declares This Coun- try Should Retain All Ter ritory Wrested From
 Spain.
WAR REVENUE BILL MAXIM,
 NO HEADWAY.
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 Washington, May 31.
 In the Senate to-day Lodge at some length urged the necessity for Con- gress remaining in session until every measure that the President desired, in cluding the Hawaiian annexation, was passed. He was proceeding to com ment on Dewey's position and the ne cessity of supporting him when White of California and Turpie of Indiana insisted such matters should be dis cussed in executive session, and the doors were closed.
 When the consideration of the war revenue bill was resumed Lodge made his statement concerning his motives in offering the Hawaiian annexation resolution as an amendment to the war revenue measure. In beginning, Lodge said that as he had no special desire to speak behind closed doors, he would not call up the amendment which he had offered to the pending bill. He said 1t was & generally recognized principle in this country that the ma jCrity ought to rule, and that any vio- lation of that principle was a travesty on justice.
 A situation had now arisen, how ever, in which it was being demonstra- ted that the minority was still ruling, and in this case it was a minority orig inally selected by the majority.
 Turning to the victory of Admiral Dewey MT. Lodge said we were com pelled to go back as far as Trafalgar to find victory more complete and more sweeping in its results than that of Admiral Dewey. Now that Dewey had Manila under his guns and entirely at his mercy, 1t was all important, said Lodge, that we should support him. The American people would never for give the administration if it should fall to give him that support which was only his just due. They would feel as did the people of England when Gordon was left to his fate at Khartoum.
 Lodge had just announced his belief that Admiral Dewey was in greater need of relief than most people i'm agined when he was interrupted by Turpie, who demanded the Senate pro- ceed to the consideration of the sub ject under discussion in executive ses- sion. Under the rules the demand had to be acceded to and at 2:05 p. m. the doors were closed.
 At 4:45 D. m. the Senate resumed con- sideration in open session of the pend ing bill. Elllins (R.) objected to the tax upon corporations, on bank deposits and to the stamp tax. He maintained especially that the tax on deposits was wrong in principle as it was a tax on debts. Concerning the corporation tax he held the tax on gross receipts was manifestly unjust, as 1t bore upon property which the corporations did not possess. The net earnings were a proper subject of taxation.
 MT. Elkins discussed territorial ex- pansion. The present war, only a month old, had sent the country fur ther on In the progress of the world than in a hundred years before. It had wrought changes in the public mind, brought on new conditions and problems and we must look more and more to extending our markets for our own products and to that end must acquire more territory, than may come through fortunes of war.
 We must have merchant marine ships on the seas, control the shipping and commerce on the great oceans that wash our shores and navy greater and more powerful than any now af1oat. This is manifest destiny" he said.
 Mr. Ell1ins said that because of our traditional policy of isolation, and op- position to acquiring territory in the past, we must not put aside what | comes to us by war The Nicaraguan said he, rise above the horizon and come into sight more plainly than ever, and whatever opposition there may have been to building one and ac- quiring the other heretofore must dis appear in the face of the flag going up over Morro Castle, what has transpired | In the Philippines and the great trip | of the Oregon.
 1 The Senate, at the conclusion of Mr. Ell1ins' speech, agreed to convene at 1 II o'clock tomorrow. On motion of 1 Mr. Allison the Senate at 5:50 went into executive session and soon afterward adjourned.