Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
PRESIDENT WILL NOT SEND TREATY
TO SENATE BEFORE MARCH.
OPPOSITION TO RATIFICATION
ANTI-ENPANsIONISTs MAY ATTEMPT
To EMBARRASS M'kINLEY.
Senator Hale DenOunccs Acquisition
OF the Philippines-Says That an
Influx of Chinese Cannot
Be Preventcd-Mr. Hoar
Also SkepticaI.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 4.-The administra-
ton Is turning its attention from Paris 10
Capitol HILL There is no longer any ques-
ton about the negotiation of the treaty OF
peace The only question is as 10 whether
that treaty will be ratified in Washington
ana Madrid. The Spanish commissioners
are ready to sign the treaty by instruction
from Madrid. and that is evidence that the
Madrid government viii ratify the treaty.
With congress ready TO begin the short
session on Monday and the treaty certain
10 be signed before Christmas, the admin
istration Is considering whether to submit
II to the senate for ratification at once or
10 wait until after March t. and then call
an extra session Of the senate. which will
have a clear Republican majority of al
most two-thirds
The danger of defeating the treaty is not
SO great as is the danger of having a few
anti-expansionists monopolize the session
with long speeches in the executive sittings,
TO delay all other business before the sem
ate.
Senator Hoar. of Massachusetts,, has ex.
pressed his opposition to the treaty. which
he does not know contains anything which
he particularly objects to, and there is lit
tie fear of his voting the way he has been
talking. The senator has Il way Of talk
ing one way and then voting the other way
lie was year ago as much opposed to the
annexation of Hawaii as he is now to the
annexation of the Philippines. but he voted
for the bill to annex Hawaii and afterward
defended that vote in a very able speech.
His colleagues believe he will come around
and vote for the treaty without regard to
what he may have said in the last two
months.
Senator Hale's Opposition.
Senator Hale. of Maine, Is bitterly op-
posed to the treaty He was opposed to the
war. and was Spanish sympathizer all
through the Cuban trouble until the declar-
alton Of war. Mr.. Hale expresses himself
as opposed TO everything supposed to be
mentioned in the treaty. and he processes
to believe that 1t will not be ratified by the
senate. He predicts all sorts of evil grow
ing out of the Philippines.
Some OF Senator Hale's predictions are
follows: The people of the United
States will find out that the commerce of
the Philippines is very limited in extent
that they are Inhabited by people whose
habits and wants forbid an increase Of
trade and that under the scheme of annex
alton presented to us this trade is to ne
shared equally with Spain and all other
competing nations. What is called the
open door policy cuts down the interest
of the United States in the Philippine trade
commerce. The entire trade of the islands.
if We had it all-not the profit derived from
it. but the whole amount of trade-will
not. in any year. pay the expenses Of the
army and the navy that the United States
will be obliged to maintain there.
'The people will see at once sprung upon
congress proposition for a standing army
of 10000 men. costing yearly more than
l0O.OO0.0O0. and naval increase of from
s15,0dO.OoO to 9oOco.0IO year in addition,
all of which must come by levy of taxa
ton. Not only will no war tax be repealed,
but the present tax must be increased
"The people OF the Pacific coast will find
out that If we admit 100000 or 10 900 .OCO of
Malays, Tagals and Negritos to become a
part of our country. and to have some or
all the privileges of citizenship. We must
already in the country the same privileges.
The people Of the South will find out that
the admission of these alien races to the
United States will be another added in
tensiffcation of the race problem, which is
to-day standing menace in our own bor-
ders.
THE great Irish-American element of our
population will find out that. notwithstand-
ing Lord Salisbury's characteristic sneer in
his Guild hall speech. at the new policy of
the United States. the British foreign Office
Is the inspiration of our present diplomacy,
and. although thousands of these Irish
Americans have. of late years, been voting
the Republican ticket their protest oyer
present conditions cannot fail to be loud
and deep Below all this with the bust
ness men OF the country, and with all
thoughtful men. the peril Of this departure,
from the settled policy of the government
VIII ;. be seen more clearly from day to