The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-01-13

tages we would secure 10y the anneNa-
ton Of the Philippines, would not be-
gin To balance the expense of keeping
them stated his belief that the main
support of the mperialistic policy came
from those who are working To bring
about an offensive aud defensive
alliance between the L. ;. and Great
Britain. Senator Cafirey's speech was
"A reply to that made before the holiday
recess by Senator Plat, of Conn. lie
said: Here the bold proposition Is
advanced that the right To govern l.
broad and imperial aud without limi-
tatiOn by our Constitution. II the
argument advanced by the Senator
from Connecticut be true and sound,
/ then the individual rights of man are
to he held 10y the t. = under "A con-
gressiona despotism. our Constltu-
| ton knows no despOtism. ii sedulously
provides against despotism; but right
here is despotism OF the most Migrant
character possible
No one doubts that the treaty of
Peace, which went To the Senate last
week, will in due time receive the
necessary number Of votes To ratify it,
with number to spare, nut it does not
necessarily follow that the Senate will,
i'm the meantime, consent To he muz-
zled. This was fully demonstrated
when the Senate adopted, over the
vigorous protest Of Senator Davis
Chairman Of the Committee on Foreign
Relations, and late Peace Commits
sOner, Sena or HOar's resolution calling
upon the President, If not incOmpat
able with public interests, to send t.
the Senate copies of all instructions
given to the Peace Commissioners, and
of all correspondence with the Com
missioners during their stay in Paris.
The Senate took the ground that it
ought to have this information before
voting on the treaty.
The boys VINO tried 10 eat the "em-
balmcd" beef issued to them IN Cuba
and Porto Rico will have to read the
testimony Of Alger-cOntrOlled army
officers in order to find out what
elegant beef that was, and how mis-
taken they were in finding fault with
it. A man who was in both places
and who knew what he was talking
about remarked. "rhe testimony of
some Of these officers * quite a.
nauseating to ne a. that embalmed
beef was"
There are reasons for the belief that
his dickering with Agulnaldo cost +.
Spencer Pratt, the position of |. ;.
Consul at Singapore, to which Robt.
A. Moslev, Jr, Of Alabama, has been
nominated Pratt was largely respon-
sible for Aguinaldo's being taken To
Manila by Admiral Dewey, fact Of
which he boosted in recently published
official correspondence. 1t j. stated
that Pratt resigned his position, but he
was probably officially invited to do 50.
As rule, Democrats in Congress
decline to discuss, for publication, the
statement against silver and in favor
Of expansion, made by Mr.. Richard
Croker, head Of the Tammany organ-
zation, further than To say that they
accept Mr.. Cookers assertion that the
statement was made a. his individual
opinion; and that az such it is worth
no more than the opinion Of any other
individual Democrat Of equal prOmi-
nence. Privately, number Of them
have expressed the opinion, that 80 far
as anything he can accomplish 10y 20
ing to the Democratic National Con-
ventiOn, is concerned, Mr.. Croker
might just as well stay at home.