The Saint Paul globe., 1899-02-02
MR.RAWLINS' PROBLEM
WANTS TO KNOW WHAT USE CAN
BE MADE OF THE PHILIP
PINES If RETAINED -
WAR ON THE FlLIPlN0S
Utah senator Asks If That Is the
Aim of the Senator's Who Are
Favoring EXpansiOn-Sugges
Some of the EmbarrasinG Cues
fions That Woiuld Grow Out of
Retention of the Philippines.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-For few
minutes in the senate this afternoon
1t seemed likely that a vote might be
taken on one or more of the resolu-
ticns relating to expansion that are
pending before that body. An un-
usually large attendance of Republic
an senators was in attendance, all OF
them having been notified to be pres
ent in the event of a critical vote on
the pending question. Mr.. Bacon (Ga)
had called up his resolutions, and Mr..
Chandler On. H) had Withdrawn his
motion to refer them to the committee
on foreign relations. Mr.. Sullivan
CMiss.) had entered a motion to sub
stitute his resolution for those of Mr..
Bacon While Mr.. Davis, chairman of
the foreign relations committee, had
announced that he was willing that
vote should be taken immediately. AS
it was evident, however, that a vote
on resolutions and amendments could
not be taken before o'clock-the hour
fixed by unanimous consent for the
senate to go into executive session
Mr.. Bacon asked for unanimous con-
sent that a vote be taken at 1880 to-
morrow. To this request Mr.. Carter
(Mont) objected, and the whole ques-
ton was suspended
Mr. Rawlins (Utah) addressed the
senate upon the Vest anti-eXpansion
resolution, devoting the greater part
of his time to a defense of his position
that the constitution applies as well
to people of our territories as those of
the states.
Referring to the contention of Sena-
tor Lodge and other senators that the
labor product of the Philippines would
rot be permitted to come in competi-
ton with American labor and it's prod
uct, Mr.. Rawlins pointed out that if
congress possessed this authority it
could impose duties which would pre-
vent the wheat grown in Oklahoma
from competing with that grown in
Kansas or other states of the Union;
or the minerals produced in New Mex
ico and Arizona from competing with
the like products of Colorado and
Utah He maintained that if the in
habitants of the Philippine archipelago
may be denied the liberty of locomotion,
not as a punishment for any crime Of
which they may have been duly con-
victed; if they may be lawfully for
hidden to come to America. then we
may deny them the right of passing
from one island to another, or from
visiting their neighbor's house, and If
we may do this, We may throw them
into Spanish dungeons there to await
the incoming tide to end their troubles
and place them beyond the reach of
American tyranny.
SPANIARD TO FILIPINO.
Allusion was made to the contention
that until the treaty is ratified the
truce between the United States and
Spain must continue and then Mr. Raw
Inns said:
rs it possible that the end of the war with
Spain, accomplished by the ratification of
the treaty, is to be the Inception of new war
with the inhabitants of those islands: that
DFn tfT~f a
upon them, although guilty of no crime
cept the desire and aspiration to be free?
We can retain Subic bay and sufficient terri
tory around it, or some other suitable place
as military and naval base, and recognize
the independence of the people of the rest OF
the archipelago, let them go in peace and
give them the assurance Of our protection.
What do we want the Philippine islands
for? Do we want them to furnish homes for
our people?. No. Do we want them to fur
nish an outlet for our surplus labor? Do we
want them to add a wholesome element TO our
population; that our sons may find wives and
our daughters husbands? The blighting curse
of the Almighty would rest upon such mis-.
cegenation. Do we want them in order to
practice upon their inhabitants the same
aboriginal inhabitants OF this continent. and
led to their determination? Humanity says
no. Do we want them in order to send
gers to riot among them like Shiny worms
eating out their substance? All, there's the
rub. But for this perplexing problem doubt
Noulu IOudy De seriously confronting the
American people. No. there Is no conceivable
good which they can bring to U.s. Their reten-
tion bcdes nothing but evil. We cannot afford
to go even half way down to the Asiatic level
IN order to proportionately uplift their civil
izaton. We have enacted laws which stand
like Cherubim with his flaming sword at the
gateways of the republic to drive back the
hordes of the dark and degenerate races of
the East, lest they might enter in to infect
and degrade US.
THE senator from Connecticut GIr. PIatt)
twitted the senator from Massachusetts, (Mr