Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-28

for a vote on his resolution uecidTinS
it to be the policy of the United States
to attempt TO govern the people OF any
other nation, next Friday, at l O'Clock.
| Carter. Mont, objected.
A like request was made by Hoar,
with respect to his resolution declaring
that the Filpinos ought to be free and
| independent. Carter again entered at
objection, expres...c,s at the same time
| his regret at what he regarded as his
duty in entering the objection. Carter
| understood, he said that the resolu-
tons pending in the Senate on the eX-
pansion question had been presented
! as texts upon which senators would
| base remarks. He thought it proper
| that the several resolutions lie on the
| table until late in the session in order
| that all who 50 desired might submit
| remarks upon them.
Showing evidence of annoyance. H1ar
rose and said: Il desire to give notice
that ii we are not to have vote on the
question presented by this resolution,
| will keep my resolution or that of the
senator from Iilirois (MasoD befora
the Senate during every morning hour
until we obtain vote upon them
Gallinger. n. H., minated that Hoar
would encounter some difficulty in car
rying out his plan to keep the resolu-
ton before the Senate.
Carter viewed with regret the 'irri-
tation'' of Hoar.
The following resolution was offered
by Mr. sullivan. Miss. who asked that
it lie on the table:
That the ratification of the pending
treaty with Spain shall in no wise de-
termine the policy to be pursued by the
United States in regard to the Philip
pines, nor shall it commit this govern
ment to colonial policy: nor is 1t in
tended to embarrass the establishments
of stable and Independent govern
ment by the people of those islands
whenever conditions make such pro-
ceeding hopeful of successful and de-
sirable results
After the preliminary sparring. Ma
son obtained the floor and spoke briefly
in advocacy of a vote on his expansion
resolution. IF / cannot get vote Oh
my resolution" he said. Il shall con-
slider myself most unfairly treated"
| Platt n. Y. was recognized for his
announced speech bearing upon this
several expansion resolutions which
had been introduced. He said. in part:
Il suppose l may be permitted to en-
Joy the same latitude of discussion
and same liberty of expression which
have distinguished the remarks of
other senators during this debate. 1t
is scarcely possible to talk on the reso-
luton of the senator from Missouri
without saying something concerning
the treaty, which is being considered
in executive session. Indeed the resolu
ton may almost be looked upon as an
amendment to the treaty. If the reso-
luton were to pass and the treaty We're
then to be ratified. the resolution would
be nothing less than a definition OF
what the treaty must be understood to
mean. And in voting against the reso-
luton which will be my course. when
the occasion arrives. | desire to be un-
derstood as voting against any imita
ton upon the terms of the treaty
There has never heen absent from tho
floor of the Senate that class of intellect
which has found in the constitution its
warrant for opposing new things. 1t ha :
always been II superior class of intellect,
; without doubt earnest and sincere but
not always to be appreciated by ordinary
minds that believe in finding 4 practical
solution for practical questions. as they
arise, one after another in the course OF
national experience and that starts OUT
in its consideration of all public question
with the assumption that the founders of
our government did not intend it TO nr
anything less than a competent govern
ment. Nor is it new things only which
are so reSolutely opposed in the name OF
the fathers 1t is the Old things with
4 new faces, as well. Here we have been
for a whole century 4nneXing territory.
anneXing with d club or with Il caress
just as the necessities demanded, and ye5
senators are discovering to one another
the most acute distress over what they
boldly describe as departure from TIME
honored traditions.
Mr.. President, it was not the main
purpose of the makers of the constitution
: to point out a way in accordance with
which the problems of government Were
to be solved. Their main purpose was II
devise plan OF government and not to
ordain policies: and where they departed
> from the main work of establishing th>
bodies which together should form the
government. they We're doing precisely
= what Olner executive assemblies he fOri