Rock Island Argus., 1899-02-15
M'ENERY RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
Declared to Mean Nothing by the Men Op-
posing Expansion.


Washington. Feb. 15.-The unanimous
consent agreement reached by the SEN
ate Saturday to vote yesterday after
noon on the resolution OF McEnery, de-
claring the policy of this government in
the Philippines, was not vacated yes
terday. In accordance with that agree
ment the vote was taken on the reso
luton at 2:S0 p. m. and il was adopted
go TO 20. 1t was noticea BILE that sew
eral Democrats who We're present and
not paired refrained from voting An
amendment offered by Bacon several
days ago was defeated. The vote on
the amendment was a tie-2S TO 29-and
Vice President Hobart cast the decid-
ing vote against the proposition. The
yea votes on the MCEnery resolution
were: Allison. Burrows, Chandler. De-
Doe, Fairbanks, Faulkner. Frye, Gear.
Gray, Hale, Hanna, Harris. Kyle,
Lodge, McEnery McLaurin. Mcmillan,
Mantle. Mason. Nelson, Perkins. Pettus,
Platt of New York, Quay, Sullivan.
Telier-26.
The yea vote on the Bacon resOlu-
ton was as follows: Bacon. Bate. Ber-
ry. Caffery. Chiffon, Clay, Cockrell,
Faulkner, German. Gray, Hale. Harris,
Heitfeld, Hoar, Jones of Arkansas,
Jones of Nevada. Lindsay. McLaurin,
Martin. Money, Murphy, Perkins. Pet
tigrew. PettuS. Quay, Rawlins, Smith.
Tillman. Turner-29.
The McEnery resolution repudiates
the present purpose to annex the Phil
ippineS and declares our intention of
preparing the Filipinos for local self
government, ''and in due time to make
such disposition of said islands as will
best promote the interests of the citi-
zens of the United States and the in
l., i ;s-To
amendment is much stronger repudia-
tion of purpose to annex the islands
Hoar opposed the McEnery resolu-
tion because, he maintained, it gave
no hope of freedom or liberty or self
government TO the inhabitants of the
Philippines. Hoar adverted to the refer
ences in speeches to AGuinaldo as an
''unprincipled adventurer" and then en-
tered upon a defense of the Filipino
leader. He spoke of AguinaldO's appeal
to the people of the United States as so
remarkable as capable of being drafted
by mot ten men on this planet" Hoar
said he was perfectly satisfied with his
course in the whole question of the
Philippines, believing conscientiously
that he w6s riE-ht Il am satisfied
SAID he, to stanG- with the fathers who
founded our liberty and framed our
constitutions
Hale said re- had not much hope that
the senate woGld take any course that
would stop the desolating programme
now being carried out in the Philip
pines. Hardly had the treaty been Tati-
fed before a foreign war was pre-
Cipitated. Congress will adjourn" said
he, "and the war viii go on. and there
is not a man who will not realize in
three months that il is a war of con-
quest and subjugation." He said that
a
had said that in three months not 5000
troops would be needed in the Philip
pines, yet we now had 10000 men there
and 1000 more and the battleship Ore
gon on the way.
And yet" declared Hale. 1--WE are
told that we are traitors and held UP
and blacklisted in the newspapers be-
cause we want to give those people u
chance at least to show that they are
friendly and can set up government
of their own Instead. we kill them. not
by scores, not by hundreds, but by
thousands. More Filipinos have been
killed by the guns of our army and
navy than were patriots killed in any
six battles of the revolutionary war.
1t has become gigantic event. The
slaughter of people in no way equal to
us, meeting US with bows and arrows
and crawling into jungies by hundreds,
can mind. No one has said that our
mission of commerce and of the gospel |
was to be preceded by the slaughter of
thousands of persons.
Mason delivered a speech in which he
the policy pursued in the Phil |
ippines. He said. however, that he was |
an optimist and believed the people of |
the United States would declare for hu- |
man liberty as well in the Philippines |
as in this country.
Stewart opposed the McEnery reso- |
luton, on different grounds. He eX-
pressed the opinion that whatever the |
United States might do it would not fol- |
low the policy indicated by the resOlu
ton. This country was under no obIi- |
CATION to go to the expense of estab- |
fishing a government for the islands. |
the United states were not in the bust |
ness of capturing countries. educating |
their people and then selling them. on |
the contrary he thought we should |
hold the Philippines and thus render |
the United States independent of for |
aign countries for our supply of tropical |
frrIi-s which costs us millions now