The times., 1899-01-26

by applause, MT. Johnson beSgeu lnat ne
be not Interrupted,
oh. that's Democratic applause, cried
Mr.. Henderson of Iowa; you can stand
that"
Il can stand II, and | can stand the CEN
sure of the Republicans, too b azed back
Mr.. Johnson. One is as welcome to me
as the other, when l think ! am in the
right. And neither the sneers of the gen.
tleman from Iowa nor Of the others in my
party who assail my Republicanism will
deter me from raising my voice when ]
think a crime is about to BE- committed.
You can propose cheers for Mckinley
and shout about the Stars and Stripes till
you are whiteheaded but 1t does not
change the fact that TO seize the Thi ip-
pines from the people there who fought
TO be free is a crime as monstrous as any
perpetrated in history
Would Never Free Cuba.
MIR. Johnson derided the idea that the
United States would ever set Cuba free.
1T will not be five years" he said until
that island is annexed. We have always
coveted it and we shall take it
He also maintained that sooner or late
the Philippines, Cuba, and Porto Rico
would be annexed and their products would
be admitted free. What We're these prod
utls. sugar lODdSCo. Htllp- plbuuCeu ~
cheap Malay labor in competition with
American farmers in the South, the centre
and the West of the country.
Approaching the subject from the stand
point of dollars and cents. Mr.. Johnson de-
clared that the Secretary of the Treasury
said that the deficit for the present year
would be Sl12, 100000 and for next year
$50, ,000. 0G0. The Secretary, he said, had
certainly not underestimated these figures.
THa Tps+ l,a,y
10 increase its revenues or reduce its ex-
penditures.
The Secretary had estimated that the eX-
penses of the army for the next fiscal year
would be sl45. 600 000-and this in profound
peace. nearly year after the war was over
more than that of the army of either
Germany or France. This did not include
the pensions for those who would succumb
to disease and death that the army would
incur in tropical climates.
Mr.. johnson took his seat amid continued
Democratic applause.
Those who disagree with the Indianian
said he had made a most argumentative
speech upon the subject.
Mr.. DoIIiver Replies.
Mr.. Dolliver arose TO reply. He deplored
the divisions in the ranks of patriotic men
that had broken out since the war was
over-as varied in their details as the ISL
ands that the United States had acquired
He referred to Mr.. Bailey as one who led
that part of the Democratic party that
followed his lead a characterization thai
nightly amused the House and brought
Mr.. Bailey out of the cloak room in a hur-
~. Mr.. Dolliver reminded Mr.. johnson
that almost alone. that gentleman had
stood by the President in his request foI
macy. Now he had joined the gentleman
from Texas, who boasted that he had
dragged the Republican party into the wal
by the scruff of its neck.
He defended the President against the
insults of Mr. johnson and the earlier
ones of Mr. Lentz of Ohio, and said that
history would record that William McKin-
ley was patriotically opposed to the war
Referring TO Mr.. Bailey, he said that his
young friend from Texas had last spring
been willing TO raise all the money re-
quired. provided he could secure the coin
age of 100000, 900 of the .'moonshine,' in
his mind, by which he referred to the sill
yer seigniorage in the Treasury.
Transferring his attention to Representa-
tive Berry of Kentucky, he spoke Of
speeches without sense and without end
on the Sampson-Schley difficulty.
General Blanco. in that heartless serie!
of papers that he put out, said Mr.. Dolli.
yer, had laid down the platform for tbs
anti-expansion league, made up of states
men without constituency. when hi
charged that the United States had at.
tackled Spain in bad faith and merely from
desire for conquest.
Come Down Anywhere.
General Blanco should have known.
continued Mr. Dolliver. why We went tC
Cuba and elsewhere. He should have
known, when he blew us up last February
that we were likely to come down mos
anywhere. GApplause.I
1T would have been as rational" h
continued. for the Spanish Cortes TO hay,
| discussed the abandonment of her colonie
| before the war as for the United State
now to discuss the question of expansion.
| lApplause.l
Mr.. johnson demanded 10 know whethe
| the President wished to annex the Fill
| ipinos against their wishes. Mr.. Dollive
| declining to answer for the President, Mr.
johnson asked whether he himself was il
favor Of forcible annexation.
IF force is necessary returned Nj
| Dollver lit is necessary because of tn
| almost reasonable utterances Of the anti
| eXpansionists in this country. Some tim
! ago some women in SaragOssa had stone
a statue of Columbus because, by discoy
! ering America, he had brought such woe
on Spain. There was some excuse" sal
| Mr.. Dolliver, for these women, but wha
excuse was there for those Americans VIII
chiIdishly howled and hung back on tn
skirts of expansion?
The gentleman from Indiana had sal
| that the United States had entered the wa
with the help of England and the consen
| of the other nations. but he was wrong
! The other nations of the world stood bac
| and watched our buZZsaw AT Manila an
| Santiago and they had a good deal NOR
| respect for US now than they had before
He loved the American Republic and h
| believed in the Constitution, but he pre-
ferred TO have il interpreted by the lip
| Of John Marshall than by those Of tn
judge who wrote the bred Scott decision.
| Two Great Men Weep.
Not long ago he said, TWO men sat dow
together in New York TO weep over the de
struction OF the free institutions OF Amer
lea. The tears of one came more freel
than those of the other, because it wa
the second time he had deplored this de
struction. He was colonel who had es
capped from the army. The other was a
ironmonger who had recently tried t
unite England and America in one grea
iron trust.
Colonel Bryan had hesought Moses, VIII
died on an expedition to destroy the nativ
tribes OF Canaan. to come back and joi
him in obstructing the march OF freedom
This reference was followed by grea
laughter and applause.
No American, big or little, had ever ad
yocated returning the Philippines 10 Spail
said Mr.. Dolliver but thought that eve
this would be better than to leave thel
to the mercles of the petty tribal chieftaiI
who had climbed to power there. Wh;
code Of morality, he asked, justified a M
ton in DESTROYING the colonial goYerI