The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-10
THE SENATE AND HOUSE
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4. Washington, January e.--The galleries
Of the senate were well filled at the OPEN
ing today Many persons were attracted
I By the announcement that Mr.. Hoar
ssIass) would discuss Mr.. Vests anti
| expansion resolution.
MIR. Mitchell twis.) reported from the
military committee bill providing that
all honorabiy discharged soldiers and sail
( ors who served In the war OF the rebellion
/ and the volunteer soldiers and sailors OF
the war of 1872 and Of the Mexican war
and OF the war with Spain who may be
disabled in any way shall be admitted into
4 tho home for disabled volunteer soldiers.
7 II was passed.
/ Mr.. Hoar then called up the resolution
offered by Mr.. Vest and addressed the
senate Mr.. Hear entered upon discus
sion OF the constitutional phases of the
question involved in the resolution under
consideration. prefacins his argument With
a statement OF his personal position on the
subject.
1T Is not my purpose. of course, to dis
ctiss the general considerations which af-
feet any acquisition OF sovereignty by the
American people over the Philippine Is
lands, which has been or may be pro-
posed. am speaking today only OF the
theory OF constitutional Interpretation
propounded by the senator from Connecti-
cut tMr. Plattl. II at any time hereafter
the senator shall seek to put his theories
into practice by reducing to subsection a
distant people dwelling In the tropics,
aliens in blood, most of them Moslem in
faith. not capable to speak or comprehend
our language. or to read or 30 write
any language to whom the traditions and
the doctrines OF civil liberty are unknown.
it viii be time to point out what terrible
results and penalties this departure from
our constitutional principles will briux
upon u.s.
MIR. fioar said that our fathers VINO
framed the constitution were the ~isest
builders of States the world has yet seen.
They had studied ancient history and mad
learned that while there is little else tina;
a democracy can not accomplish, IL can
rot rule over vast States or subjec, pea
death into Its own constitution. Our faith
ers, he said, learned two lessons from
the story OF Greece-thc danger OF dis
union and domestic strife and an indul-
gence OF the greed and lust OF empire. and
he hoped we might avert the latter danger
as We had ayerted the former.
SIR. Hoar believed, he said, this coun-
try 10 be a nation-a sovereign nation.
He believed congress possessed all the
powers necessary TO accomplish the great
objects the trainers OF the constitution
intended should be accomplished. But he
denied that 1t possessed the astonishing
and extravagant powers under the con-
stttutlon which the senator from connec-
tlcut attributed to II.
1 When the senator from Connecticut
| undertakes to declare" said Nr. Hoar,
that we may do such things not for the
perfect union. the common defense, tn.
general welfare OF the people OF the
United States or the securing OF liberty
to ourselves and our children. but for any
faEcisd or real obligation to take care OF
distant peoples beyond our boundaries not
people OF the United States. then deny
his proposition md tell him he can Ind
nothing, either In the text of the constftu-
tion or the expression Of the fathers or the
judgments of courts from that day to this
TO warrant or support his doctrine"
Mr.. Hoar maintained that the Philippines
propositions advanced by Mr.. Piatt were
not sustained by single one Of his author
tiles.
Our commissioners CONS back from
Paris bringing with them the east Of cloth
Ing of the pinchbeck Napoleon and ask
us. who have seen his fate. to discard
for them the spotless robes In which our
fathers arrayed the beautiful genius of
America.
"a year ago last December the president
of the United Stairs sent a message to con-
ere TN hal M an "a In sntA A.. =. : L.
not Of forcihle annexation because that Is
not to be thought OF. and under our code
OF morality that would be criminal aggrss-
sion,'
The time of conquest is past said
Lcuis Napoleon. All, Mr.. President. Prssi-
dent Mckinley but repeated Louis Napo
leon, though in louder and clear snire.
President Mckinley when he spoke,
was not thinking even OF honor or Of
power. inspiring and allurirg rs are honor
and power. He placed himself and placed
the American people on the storm enduring
forcible annexation Is not to be- thought of
under our code Of morality, that would be
criminal aggression.
s'who shall haul him DOWN. Who shsil
haul down the code9 Who shall haul down
the president"
In conclusion, Mr.. Hoar said he could
not agree that the lesson OF our nrst hum
bred years Ia that the declaration OF inde-
pendencc and the constitution are failure
and that America Is to begin the Tween
tieth century where Spain begun the Six
teenth.
..The Monroe doctrine Is gone. Every
European nation. every European alliance
has the right to acquire dominion In this
hemisphere when we acquire Il In the
other"
II may be. be thought. that In tsrp-
est OF popular delusion cloud might for
the moment cover the great truths OF our
declaration. He had encountered such
storms In his experience. but the clouds
had vanished and the sunshine came again.
When Mr.. Hoar had concluded Mr.. piatt
addressed tho senate. He said: II can not
ask the indulgence OF the senate at this
time to reply cxtsmporaneously TO the
carefully prepared argument Of the senator
from MASSACHUSETTS,. can only cay that
havs listened to Il with great attention
and interest, The senator Is . Muster OF
language and an adept at the use OF sar-
casm. He has spent q large portion OF his
argument In erecting man OF straw and
the remainder Of his argument IN demol-
ishing that man Of straw. He has not an
swersd the argument which had the
honor % make. bu. bas misrepressnted
Mr.. Plat maintained that Nj Hoar had
admitted bis contention that this country
hod the hight TO acQutre and govern dis
tant territory. but that he unfairly pre-