The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-01
VAR MEASURES ARE URGENT
SENATOR LODGES PLEA IN BE
HALF OF DEWEY

| Never lie Forgiven by the Amer
lean People - Senator El!>fns
Talks on the War Revenue Meas
ure--The Bill Moves Slowly.
WASHINGTON, May 81 AT the
opening OF the senate session today the
chaplain's Invocation was a glowing
tribute to the life and character of
Gladstone, "the greatest of all COM
nloners, the noblest person Of our time,
great in his gifts, greater in the use
he made of them"
Mr.. Money CMiss) presented the ere
Gentials of William B. Sullivan, ap
pointed a senator from Mississippi by
Gov. A. j. McLaurin, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Senator Edward
| c. Walthall. The cath was administer
ed to the new senator by the vice prest-
dent. Mr.. Money escorting him to the
desk. Senator Sullivan was the recipient
of handsome floral pieces.
Considerations of the war revenue bill
was then resumed. Mr.. Mason Qll) Of
fered as an amendment to the pending
measure a bill favorably passed upon
! by the manufactures committee. 1t pro-
! vides that aduterated flour shall be
properly and correctly labeled when Of
! fered for sale and that all adulterated
! hours HUSl pay a TAX 10 the SOVeTH-
neHt In advocating his amendment.
Mr.. Mason said the tax would produce
100000 yearly. In support of the pro-
| posed amendment, Mr.. Mason had read
an extended statement prepared by the
| National Association Of American Mil
lers.
At the conclusion of Mr. Mason's
speech, Mr.. Lodge took the floor to
make his expected statement concern
ing his motives in Offering the Ha-
waiian annexation resolution as an
amendment to the war revenue meas
ure. In beginning Mr.. Lodge said that
as he had TO special desire to speak
behind closed doors he would not call
up the amendment which he had Offer
ed to the pending bill.
Il had" said he, 'inteded to use the
amendment as an illustration of my
argument, but 1 will dispense with the
Illustration and proceed directly to the
argument"
He said that it was generally recog-
nized in the country that the majority
ought to rule, and that any violation
of that principle was a travesty on
Justice He referred to the practical
and emphatic exposition Of the prin-
ciple in the Fifty-first congress, and
declared that since that time the ex-
position then made had been approved
by the courts and by the people. A
which it was being demonstrated that
the minority was still ruling, and in
| this case it was a minority originally
selected by the majority Mr.. Lodge
maintained that, if a measure was pro-
posed to congress which the admins
tration desired should be enacted into
the law and which commanded the sup
| port of majority Of both branches Of
congress, it ought, in all justice, to be
| passed. Such a measure had been pre-
scented, but in the circumstances there
| seemed nothing left for the helpless
minority to do but to enter its protest
| against the arrogant majority. On the
floor of the senate it was possible FOR
a humble member to call the facts to
the attention Of the country. He
thought no discrimination ought to be
| made.
DEWEY'S GREAT VICTORY.
Turning to the victory of Admiral
! Dewey, Mr.. Lodge said that we were
compelled to go back as far as Trafal-
gar to find a victory more complete
and more sweeping in it's result than
that of Dewey. Now that Dewey has
Manila under his guns and entirely at
MS mercy, 1t is all important, said Mr.
Lodge, that we should support him.
The Americans would never forgive the
administration if it should fail to give
due. They would feel as did the peo-
pie of England when Gordon was left
to his fate at Khartoum
Mr. Lodge had just announced mis-
belief that Admiral Dewey was in
greater need Of relief than most peo-
pie imagined, when he was interrupt
ed by Mr.. Turpie with a demand that
the senate proceed to the consideration
OF the subject under discussion in Sc
cret legislative session. Under the
rules the demand had to be acceded
to, and at 2:G5 p. m. the doors were
| closed.
WAR REVENUE TALK.
AT 445 p. m. the senate resumed con-
slderation in open session of the pend
Ing bill. Mr.. Elkins Rep., w. Va1
OBJECTED to the taxation Of corpora
lions on bank deposits and to the
stamp tax. Concerning the corporation
tax ne held that the tax on gross re-
ceiDts was manifestly unjust, as it
bore upon property which the corpora
tlons did not possess. The net earn
lngs were proper subject of taXation
He was strongly in favor of a lust
and equitable system of war taxation.
Mr.. Elkins discussed territorial expan-
SION. Inc present war, only a month
OLD, had sent the country further on
In the progress of the world than in a.
hundred years before. 1t had wrought
changes in the public mind, brought
on new conditions and problems. and
we must look more and more 70 ex-
tending our markets for our own prod
ucts, 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
ana more powerful than any nov
| aHoat. This is our manifest DESTINY"
Mr.. Elkins said that because of orr
| traditional policy of isolation and on
position to acquiring territory in the
past we must not put aside what
comes to us by war. The Nicarauguan
canal and the Hawaiian islands. said
he, rise above the horizon and come
IN sight more plainly than ever. and
whatever opposition there may have
been to building one and acquiring the
others heret2rfore, must disappear in
the face Of the flag going up over
MORO castle, with what transpired in
the Philippines. Concluding he said:
Long ago, in 1909, Thomas .Jeffer-
son dreamed of and favored the an
nexation of Cuba and Canada. to the
United States One now comes to us
through war We could not avoid and
our trade relations with the other are
IN fair way Of being placed on a
pasls satisfactory to both countries -