The times., 1899-01-25

lea. Indeed. it has been the standard
remedy used and recommended by the med
ical profession. II
peace and too few if it is to go TO war 10
subiugate peoples whom we had declared
| that we meant TO make free
Further. the Hull bill provided several
| hundred lieutenants to be appointed with
out age limit and without examination
! other than a professional one. The bill
was honeycombed, he said, with political
| patronage Mr. Hull had estimated the
| cost of the army under his bill at s57,-
| 00O. 600; the War Department had esti-
mated in one letter at $72.000,0G0 and III
| another at SS2 00O. 600. Many articles, he
! said, were omitted in these estimates, for
| instance, the ammunition, in order to
make the country believe that the bill was
! less costly than ii really was. He was
| sure il would cost over S100000,00O per
year.
Mr. Parker said that the majority bill
| differed very little from that of the min
| ority so far as numbers were concerned.
! The majority bill said 100000 regulars; the
| minority So 900, 50 600 of whom should be
volunteers. to undergo the same diseases,
| the same disabilities, the same troubles of
which the volunteers had so bitterly
| complained in the past. Where would
| our little fighting line of $1,000 men have
! been had not the Spaniards yielded when
\ they did. Yet now the gentleman wished
| to put us back to where We were when
the Maine was destroyed in Havana Har
Dor, and We had to wait four months be-
| fore We dared TO resent it.
| Mr.. Parker then paid a glowing tribute
/ to the merits of order to be maintained by
/ the sword in the Philippines. He was in
! terrupted by Representatives Cox and
! Gaines with queries as TO what We should
l IL ;f
/ order.
/ Mr.. Cox asked whether we would make
/ them good by shooting them, while Mr..
1 Gaines declared that he would preserve
order by means of courts, injunctions, and
so forth.
Mr. Parker ridiculed Mr.. Gaines sugges-
( tion. and finally declined to discuss the
question further, saying that now, when
the War Department was straining every
nerve TO prevent an outbreak in the Phil
ippines, was no time TO talk of reducing
the army.
Mr. Brown of Ohio.
Representative Brown of Ohio spoke in
favor of the bill and assumed to interpret
President McKinley's views on the sub
ject of expansion. Where" he said, lis
there any statement by the President
showing that he intends to hold the Phil
ippines permanently. challenge any mem
ber to point out any such statement
MIR. Greene Of Nebraska at once called at
| tention 10 the Presidents speech that We
! had raised the flag Of the United States
! in both hemispheres" and asking who
would haul it down"
Well said Mr. Brown, ''if you want
TO know that you had better ask the Presi-
/ dent"
Later Mr.. Brown contended that his
+ challenge TO show remark OF the Presi
dent referred only to official proclamations
and orders.
Representative Lamb of Virginia opposed
the bill. He paid a glowing tribute to the
volunteer soldiery of the Republic. Speak
/ ing of the President, he said: IF Presi-
/ dent Mckinley has well discharged the
! duties of his high station, as know that
/ he has, so also has his great competitor for
the Office that he holds well played his
part in the events of the past year
! Mr. Bell of Colorado also spoke and the
House then took a recess until S p. N.
At the Night Session.
When the House reconvened at clock
Representative Lawrence of Massachusetts
spoke in opposition to the bill, giving a
resume of the amounts of the agricultural
products and exports of the United States
/ during 1898, which he claimed were pro-
duced and exported as a direct result of
statesman, William Mckinley
Next came Representative Simpson of
Kansas, who opposed the bill. He said
that the people of his State believed that a
large standing army was dangerous to the
liberties OF the people. He had listened
attentively to the speeches of the other
side, attempting 10 discover the reasons
for the bill. For more than a hundred
years it had been impossible to largely in
crease the regular army. Now, what change
did the Republicans allege had taken place
that required this? They were not needed
in Cuba, because the United States was
going to give up that island. Certainly
5000 men would do for Porto Rico and
Hawaii. Were they, then, wanted for con-
quering the Philippines? The Republicans
would not as yet admit this
True, as Mr.. Brown of Ohio said in the
afternoon, the President had not declared
himself, but then President Mckinley was
master of the English language and
words, il had been said. We're given TO man
to enable him to conceal his thoughts
Before very long Mr.. Marsh OF Illinois
fell afoul of Mr.. Simpson, asserting that in
declaring war Congress made no pledges
as TO Cuba. In an animated interchange
with the Populist leader Mr.. Marsh as
serted that the war was begun by the
declaration passed on April %, which de-
clared in formal language that war had
begun on April q, four days before. Mr..
Marsh promised TO explain his peculiar as
sertiOns in a day two.
Not CoIonizins Nation.
Mr. Simpson resumed his remarks, say
ing that he did not believe that the United
States could ever be a colonizing nation
Our democratic ideas would prevent our
ruling distant peoples. He thought that
the Filipinos had fought and had CON
| quered the Spanish with the expectation
Of being set free. and that we should have
TO fight if we did not set them free
Now, he continued Congress should
: look this situation in the face The in
creased army was needed solely for use In
the Philippines. If it were not needed for
that purpose it was not needed at all He
favored securing the liberal treaties thai
, the Filipinos would gladly grant us, and
then leaving them to govern themselves
The United States was now trying to dc
what Spain had tried to do two hundred
years ago, when she had conquered the
Netherlands and tried to conquer England
all in the name of good government fol
the interests OF civilization and for the
glory of God.
Representative Greene, OF Nebraska, fol
lowed in opposition TO the bill after
which the House adjourned until today al
noon.
. Major Webb's Discharpc