The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-02-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
DEMOCRATS FIGHTING THE
HULL ARrIY BILL.
Scme hot Speeches in the Senate
and in the House.


ed their opposition to the Hull
army bill, even little bit, on
account Of Mr.. Mckinley s
threats to call an extra session OF
the next congress, if the bill is
not passed by the senate. They
are perfectly willing that the
present regular army of $4,000
men shall be continued for one
year from next July, in order
that we may have whatever
troops that may be needed while
we temporarily control the Phil
ippines and Cuba, but they will
go no further in helping Me-
Kinley push along his imperial
istic programme. Senator Jones
of Arkansas, said very emphati-
cally: 1--WE do not intend to al
low large standing army to be
permanently fastened upon this
country, and Senator Cockrell
said; eff the president will
make the failure of the Hull bill
to pass the senate, an excuse
for an extra session session, he
might just as well prepare his
proclamation now. We do not
fear an extra session. It would
compel the republicans to show
their hand and outline their poll
icy, which is now concealed.
Nearly all of the democratic sem
ators talk the same way, which
makes it reasonably certain that
the army Sill win rot get through
the senate.
Senator Mason 5yEo talked
against the treaty, and then vot-
ed for it, may have been some-
what pricked by his conscience.
AT any rate, he pricked some of
his colleagues quite heavily, in a
speech he made concerning their
violation of an implied if not an
actual agreement, that the vari-
GUS resolutions as to the Philip
pine policy of this government,
should be voted upon after the
treaty was disposed of, He then
took the bit in his teeth and said
that he intended to keep the floor
until the senate agreed toIfvote
upon the McEnery resolution,
which declares that this govern
ment intends to follow the same
policy in the Philippines as in
Cuba. His threat bro1ght the
senate to time, and it was unan-
imously agreed to vote on the
McEnery resolution Tuesday,
although Senator Hawley after
wards tried to change that action.
Representative DeArmond, of
Missouri, made a strong anti-ex-
pansion speech, in which he said
OF the item appropriating $50,
600, 600 to pay Spain for Philip
pines, which is in the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill: ssIf
this $50, 600. coo is to be appro-
priated now, why ought not this
house to fix the bounds and linz
its? Do you propose to take in
these Philippine islands as part
and parcel of this government,
part and parcel of the territory
OF the United States, to endure
and to continue as long as we
can hold them as part and parcel
of itg If you do so, say 50. If
you do not, say not. If you do
not know, then why the hot
haste for such legislation? Why
the extraordinary demand for a
very large army? Why the inn
perious spirit here and in the
other end Of the capitol, which
rejects all suggestions of amend
ment, while at the same time it
proclaims that you know not
whether your police is to be tenn
porary or permanent, that you
know not whether you are to ac-
quire this territory as a perma-
nent acquisition or for short
time, yet wants the army per-
manently, wants an army of
100, 600 men, wants the huge
expenditures that are made d.
rectly and the huger expendi-
lures that will follow in their
wake, through the extravaganza
and general demoraliza t o n
which certainly must attend this
kind of loose legislation. You
want these things permanently,
but what you win do with them,
how long you will use them, oh,
excuse you from saying anything
about thatI"
Representative Lentz, Of Ohio,
in short speech denounced Mr..
Mckinley for committing the
sentence Of Gen. Ea9an to sus-
pension for nix years, under full