Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-13
55th CONGRESS.
House Does the Work-Sen-
ate Has an Easy Day.
Diplomatic and Consular Bill Passed
--Anti-Expansion Speeches.
Senate Passes is Private Bills and Thanks
the Red Cross Workers.

Washington. Jan, 12.-The House, to-
day. passed the diplomatic and consul
lar appropriation bill without amend
ment. During the general debate two
set speeches were made against imper-
iaiism by Messrs. Carmack and Gaines
of Tennessee. The diplomatic and con-
sular is the sixth of the regular appro-
priation bills 10 pass the House. Seven
budgets yet remain TO be acted upon.
The bill as passed carries s1.765,533.
The House. Thursday, immediately
after the reading of the journal. went
into committee of the whole. MOODY
of Massachusetts in the chair on the
diplomatic apd consular appropriation
bill. 1t was>arrangedlthat there should
be two hours and half on a side for
general debate.
Dinsmore. DEM. Ark, requested this
division in order to allow certain men,
bers on his side of the House oppor-
tunity to address the House on general
subjects. There would be, so far as
he was aware, he said, no opposition
on his side to any item in the bill
Hit, Rep, ILL.,, chairman of the for
eign affairs committee. made the pre-
liminary statement about the measure
which, he said. carried $1.705,5 33. being
$125.495 less than the estimates and
$46.675 less than the current law. All
diplomatic and consular officers in the
Hawaiian islands, Porto RICO and Cuba
We're abolished by the bill, effecting a
saving in salaries of $4,000.
There was some criticism by Handy,
nnl nf he nf hn h,,-
reau of American republics under the
former director, the late Joseph P
Smith, which drew out warm defence
of that officer from Hit.
Dinsmore then yieltled two hours to
Carmack. Dem, Tenn. who delivered
a carefully prepared argument in OPP
position to the policy of the admins
traticn relative to the Philippines. He
protested against Launching this gov
eminent on a careen of conquest and
criminal aggression.
The President, he declared, was now
wagins war upon his own responsible
ity for his own purposes. While the
war against Spain had been blessed
Of God. this war for conquest of the
Philippine islands was a crime against
liberty and the curse of God was upon
! it. 1t revolutioniZed every tradition of
the republic. 1t was being entered up
on thoughtlessly and recklessly. with
out regard to the cost.
1t was in utter contempt of the SOL
emn warnings of the greatest and wis
est of our statesmen. The flag was
Kept floating over the Philippines, but
not a single free man was to stand
beneath its folds. "A country that was
| not fit for freeman's home was not
| fit for a freeman's flag. democratic
applauSe.) He spoke of the tremen-
douS cost distant possessions would en-
tail upon us, drawing his illustrations
from the countries Of Europe. Eng
land, he said. expended third of
her revenue for the cost of past wars,
and one-third in preparing for future
wars Only one-third was expended
to meet the current necessities of the
government.
But more than the monetary cost.
said, he would be the loss of our sense
of security and peace of mind. War
would threaten us constantly, and to
meet it we would have to be armed to
the teeth on sea and land. Once a ma
ton tasted of colonial empire 1t be-
came passion. The appetite was
never satisfied. Yet one of the worlds
greatest men had declared that col
onial empire had never been a source
of power to any country. Macauley
affirmed it. Lord Beaconsfield declar-
ed that England's colonies were a mill
stone about her neck. He referred sar-
castically to Secretary Cages alleged
statement that Christian civilization
and ) per cent. profit could go hand in
hand. He wanted to know if we could
serve God and man at the same time.
Carmack was literally applauded
and congratulated by his colleagues
when he concluded.
Gaines. DEM, Tenn, followed with
an argument against power of the Uni
ted States to acquire territory except
for the purpose of making states of
such territory. At the conclusion Of
Gaines remarks, Hit announced that
his side did not desire to consume the
time allotted to it and the bill was re-
ported to the House and passed with
out division or amendment.
On motion of Lacey, the bill to eX-
tend the scope of the fish commission
to game birds was sent to conference
after a motion to postpone the bill in
definitely had been voted down, 1911.
A bill was passed authorizing the
Little River Railroad Company to con-
struct a railroad through the Choctaw
and Chickasaw Indian reservations.
Then at $40 p. NJ, the House ad-
journed.
IN THE SENATE.
Sixteen Private Bills Passed and Thanks Elk.