Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-01-20
than ninety days for each animal killed

hOuSc Dill INO. DO, Dy Mr. f1erDr6nQ
son. Provides for the meetings of the
board of trustees of the state blinc
asylum at Bathgate and that until thu
North Dakota institution is erected the
governor shall have power to contract
Dakota for the keeping of the blind o.
the state.
House Bill No. SO, by MI. Laughlin
Provides amendment to the law relating
to the powers of corporations organized
for banking purposes.
A message from the senate stated the
passage of the house resolution asking
congress to provide a lazarette for lep.
ers.
SPECIAL ORDER FoR TODAY.
MI. Stevens moved that bill No. 80 re.
lating to old soldiers be indeinitel,
postponed and that the question of post.
ponement he made a special order for to.
day. The motion prevailed.
FAvoRING THE PEACE TREATY.
Mi. Stevens introduced the following
concurrent resolution:
Be it resolved by the house of represen-
tatives of the state of North Dakota
the senate concurring therein,
That the war between the United
States and the kingdom of Spain having
terminated.
And commissioners representing each
of the governments having concluded a
treaty of peace, renouncing the sover-
eighty of the kingdom of Spain over the
Island of Cuba and ceding to the gov
eminent of the United States the islands
of Porto Rico and the group of islands
known as the Philippines,
And it being necessary before said
treaty a take effect that it be ratified
by the United States senate,
/. And the legislative assembly of this
state being in favor of the ratification of
the treaty of peace aforesaid, and of the
government of the United States assum-
ing control and exercising sovereignty
over the territory coded by the treaty of
peace,
Therefore to that end be it resolved
that the Honorable Henry G. Hans
baough and William N. Roach, United
States senators from North Dakota be
and they are hereby respectfully petit
toned and requested to vote in favor of
the ratification of the teaty of peace nov
pending in the United States senate.
Resolved that an engrossed O p of
this resolution be forwarded to each of
the senators above named.
Upon the reading and adoption of the
resolution Mr.. Stevens spoke substan-
TALLY as follows:
MIR. Speaker shall not attempt at
this time to go into the causes which led
up to the war between our government
and the kingdom of Spain. Suffice it to
say that it was a war forced upon the
government of the United States in de-
Tense of the rights of a poor and OPP
pressed people struggling for liberty, of
the establishment of freedom in an
neighboring island, in defense of our
right to lend aid to a people struggling
to shake off the letters of monarchy. !
= That war has terminated and
by virtue of an agreement between our
government and the Spanish kingdom,
commissioners have met in Paris and
agreed upon the terms of the treaty of
peace. * * * j Before the treaty of
peace signed at Paris can become opera
tive it is required that two-thirds Of the
United States senators shall vote in ia
vor of ratification; that treaty of peace
is now before the senate and being con-
sidered for action. Some of the senators
are opposed to it. You see in the public
prints the cry of imperialism; you read
that some say 1--WE do not need, nor
should we accept sovereignty over the
Philippines. One of the senators has
said that when the flag of our country is
raised over the Philippines the flag on
Independence hall comes down." That
senator forgets that when the pilgrim
fathers from whom he is defendant
landed upon Plymouth rock in the state
ne now represents, they found here peo-
rI0 in n Cfof0 F~E lo>.-l--o ill.,.
found here a people with more liberty
wild, nomadic and tribal as it
Philippine islands have been
permitted to enjoy, vet that sena-
tor has himself aided in all ways he
could by legislation and his forefathers
by force, in driving back the redmen
from the Atlantic untilhe has been driv-
en- to the shores of the Pacific, until his
form of government has been destroyed,
until he has become a ward of the gov
eminent, confined to a reservation and
fed and clothed at government expense.
The establishment of our present gov
eminent w the broad territory then
controlled only by a race the superior at
that time in the art of government to
the PHILIPPINES of today has been at great
expense Of blood and treasure; every
path leading from the east to the west
has been dampened by the blood and
had bleaching upon it the bones of pion-
GERS who have made this country what
it is by the advancement of the princi-
pies of right, justice and liberty and in
the name of enlightenment. These same
Indians can today thank our love of lib
erty that they have not met with ex-
termination. The senator. has forgotten
that when our government was estab-
lished it contained but a little strip of
territory along the Atlantic seaboard
which has grown by expansion and by
our ever pressing onward the principles
of freedom and liberty until it has become
the grandest nation on which the sun
shines; that prosperity has attended our
every effort at extending our domain;
that new states have grown up in the
territory acquired by expansion which
equal if not exceed in every respect the
great state the senator has the honor to
represent. We of North Dakota are
a part Of the purchase made from the
French and known as the Louisiana
purchase, and we of that territory by the
organization Of states, the upbuilding Of