Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-12-30
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1898.
mo JuNKEr TO WEST INDIES"
The New York World of Dec. % I'M

The New York World of Dec. % un-
der the above head reports as follows:
Senator Proctor's plan to look over some
sugar plantations in Cuba Mt Uncle Sans eX-
pense has failed. Late last week the sena-
tor presented resolution providing for the
appointment of five senators to 1unket to
Cuba and Porto Rico and ostensibly investi-
gate the social political, financial, military
and other conditions of the islands. He
creased the machinery in the Contingent
Expense committee and it turned out the
resolution with favorable report. senator
Gallinger brought it into the senate and tried
to secure immediate consideration. senator
Hale, who does not believe in the govern
ment paying the freight, objected. The reso
luton went over, another attempt was made
TO get 1t up and Hale objected again
Today Senator Daniel, whom Proctor
promised place on the commission, took
mp the fight where Galinger left off, Hale
again interposed an objection. The roll was
called and eight senators voted to take the
resolution up, while thirty opposed It. Five
OF the eight expected to be on the commits
sion when Senators Proctor and Daniel
saw how the vote was going their faces were
fine studies in detection.
1t is quite evident from the above that
Senator Proctor's prestige as a manipu-
lator In national politics is at discount.
"A
ways favorably inclined towards an eX-
cursion, with bill of at least billion
of dollars to pay for most unnecessary
war, largely the result of Senator
Proctors last trip although we have not
thought and do not now that he intended
it to follow, were inclined to think that
his methods of redresslng wrongs and
grievances and relieving the oppressed
were too expensive TO be INDUCED more
than once year.
This is, we believe, Senator Proc
tors second attempt this season at intro
ducing, or having introduced, a resolution
into legislative body. The first was in
the Vermont legislature where resOlu
ton apparently endorsing and sustaining
the American ideas of universal liberty
was introduced and passed without dis
sent or discussion. 1t ought not to be
permitted in our legislature for any resO
luton to pass without being properly re
ferred to a committee and by them eX
amined and reported. Had this resolu
ton been amended at a single point, i
would undoubtedly have expressed the
sentiment of the Vermont legislature
and through the legislature, of its people
The point referred to (the use of the
word retdin) would not have been con
sdered at all by the average legislator.
The resolution which is understood t.
have been introduced at the request O
Senator Proctor was as follows
"WHEREAs, the war of the United State
against the Kingdom of Spain was waged il
the cause OF human liberty, and as the for
tunes OF war have placed in our possession
the Philippine Islands. with their millions o
oppressed and misgoverned people, thereb,
imposing upon the American nation the dut.
of protecting and comforting upon them tn
blessings OF Peace and Freedom; therefor
be II
Resolved by the senate and:house of repre-
sentatives that in settling terms OF peace witt
Spain the United States ought TO retain thes
islands and that the course of President Nc
Kinley in demanding their retention from
Spain in the Paris conference is heartily al
proved"