The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-12-21
SENATOR HOAR'S

Resolutions in the Senate on How
Our Island Possessions Should be
Governed.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 2O-In the final
session of the senate to-day before the
holiday recess, Mr.. Pettlgrew Is. d.,
In characterIstlcally incIsIve speech,
demanded to know whether 1t was to
be the policy OF the Representatives Of
the administration to suppress proper
facts and news when called for by a
senator. He said he believed an effort
was being made to prevent the testi-
mony taken by the war investigating
commission from being sent to the sem
ate, and declared his purpose Of not
submitting to the suppression Of infor-
nation to which the people, in his opln-
ion, were entitled.
Taking Major General Brooke's fare
well proclamation to the people OF Cuba
as u text, Mr.. Hale, (AIaine), briefly
congratulated the general upon the
work he had accomplished In Cuba, and
sntd he could now SEQ the dawn of the
time when the Cuban people would be
Independent l-.
'7air. Motgdh, (AIabama), oRered an
amendment TO Mr., Bacon's resolution
guaranteeing to the people of Porto,
Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines. a
republican government, and Mr.. Hoar.
(AIass.). introduced a resolution declar-
ing how the people OF the island pos
sessions of the unl'ed States should be
governed. Mr.. Hoar's resolutions vera
as follows:
Whereas. the American peopls and
the severa; states In the Union have in
times past. at important periods in
their history, especially when declaring
their independence, establishing their
constitutions or undertaking new and
great responsibilities. seen At to declare
the purposes for which the nation or
state was founded, and the important
objects the people intend to pursue In
their political action; and,
Whereas, the close OF great war, the
liberation by the United States of the
people of Cuba and Porto Rico, in the
western hemisphere. and of the Philip
pine Islands. In the far east and the re-
ductIon of those peoples to a condition
Of practical dependence upon the United
states constitute an occasion which
makes such a declaration proper; there
fore, be 1t
Resolved, That this republic adheres
to the doctrines which were in the past
set forth In the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence and in It's national and state
constitutions, that the purpose OF its
existence and the objects to which its
political action ought to be directed are
the ennoblIpg of humanity, the raising
from the dust of Its humblest and
coarsest members and the enabling Of
persons coming lawfully under Its
power or influence to live in freedom
and in honor, under governments whose
forms they are to have share In de-
terminIng and in whose administration
they have an equal share. Its most im-
portant and pressing obligations are:
Ito solve the difficult problem pre-
serlted by the presence Of different races
on our own soil with equal eonstitu-
tlonal rights, To make the negro safe
in his home, secure in his vote. equal
In his opportunity for education and
employment, and to bring the Indian to
a civilization and culture in accordance
with his need and capacity
2-To enable great cities to govern
themselves in freedom, in honor and in
purity.
3--To make the ballot box as pure as
a secramental vessel and the election
return as perfectly in accord with the
law and the truth as the judgment of
the supreme court.
4-To Danish illIteracy and ignorance
from the land.
ITO secure for every workman and
for every working woman, wages
enough to support life of comfort and
an old age of leisure and quiet, as be-
fts those who have nm equal share in
a seIr-governlng state.
G-To grow and expand, over the con-
tlnent and ever the islands Of the sea,
Just so fast, and no factcr, as we can
bring into equality and self govern
ment, under our constitution, peoples
and races who will share these Ideals
and help to make them realities.
ITO set peaceful eXumplc Of free
dom which mankind will be glad to
follow, but never force even freedom
upon unwilling nations at the point OF
the bGyonet or at the cannon's mouth,
S--To abstain from interfering with
the freedom and Just rights OF other