Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-17
IN CONGRESS-.
The McEnery Resolution Passed
by the Senate.

The Vote Was 10 TO 22---senatOrs HoHr
and Hale Made Speeches In Opposition
to It---TeXt Of the Revolution.
The unanimous consent agreement
reached by the Senate Saturday to vote
Tuesday afternoon on the resolution OF
Mr.. McEnery of Louisiana, declaring
policy of this government in the Philip
pines, was not vacated. The resolution
was adopted 20 to %. 1t was noticeable
that several Democrats who we're present
and not paired refrained from voting An
amendment offered by Mr.. Bacon of Geor-
ga several days ago was defeated. The
vote on the amendment was a tie-29 TO
29-and Vice President Hobart cast the
deciding vote against the proposition. The
voting was preceded by three and one-half
hours of debate, the Senate having con-
vened at L A. NJ. in order to admit OF dis
cussion on the resolutions. Speeches
were delivered by Mr. Stewart of Nevada,
Mr.. Bacon of Georgia, Mr. Hoar of Massa-
chusetts, Mr.. Hale of Maine and Mr.. Mason
of Illinois. The speeches of Mr.. Hoar and
Mr.. Hale were notable utterances. They
defended the positions they had taken on
the Philippine question, and Mr.. Hale
drew a dark picture of the United States
in the islands.
Mr.. Hoar was opposed to the McEnery
resolution, because, he maintained, 1t gave
no hope of freedom or liberty or self-gov-
eminent to the inhabitants of the Philip
pines, and because it provided that they
should never have part in their own gov
eminent, or become part of the United
States. 1t was, he held, an infamous dec
laration-a declaration simply that the
Louisiana sugar planters should never be
afraid OF the competition of the Philippine
islands. To the Philippines the McEnery
resolution would be a message of tyranny,
of hate, of oppression, and of slaughter.
Mr.. Hoar adverted to the references in
speeches to Aguinaldo as an 'unprincipled
adventurer," and then entered upon de-
fence of the Filipino leader. He spoke of
Aguinaldo's appeal to the people of the
United States as remarkable, capa-
BILE of being drafted by mot 10 men on
this planet" 81 do not see," said Mr..
Hoar, with feeling, chow any American
heart, not of stone, could fail to recognize
the force of that appeal"
Mr.. Hale, among other things, said :
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 a gil
gantc event. The slaughter of people in
no way equal to us, meeting us with bows
and arrows and crawling into the jungles
by hundreds, there to die, has stupefied
the American 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. am not enamored
of the McEnery resolution. 1t contains
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bad" He regarded the Bacon resolution
as much the better. But" said he in
conclusion, "the car of Juggernaut will 90
on. The grinding will continue until the
people finally make themselves heard upon
Mr. Mason delivered a speech in which
he attacked the policy pursued in the
Philippines. He said, however, that he
was an optimist and believed the people of
the United States would declare for HUI
man liberty as well in the Philippines as
in this country.
Following is the resolution: THAT by
the ratification of the treaty of peace with
Spain 1t is not intended to incorporate the
inhabitants of the Philippine islands into
the citizenship of the United States, nor
is 1t intended to permanently annex said
islands as an integral part of the territory
OF the United States; but it is the inten-
lion of the United States to establish on
said Islands government suitable to the
wants and conditions of the inhabitants of
said Islands, TO prepare them for local self
government and in due time to make such
disposition OF said islands as will best pro-
mote the interests Of the citizens of the
United States and the inhabitants of said
islands"