Evening star., 1899-02-07


| ing to vote for more explicit declaration,
| but in the present unhappy condition at
: Manila he thought the United States had
been entirely true to our principles and
| decara tions.
| Mr.. Vest inquired if the McEnery resolu-
| ton did not exclude the idea that all gov
| ernments derive their just powers from the
| consent of the governed and the further
| idea that the people of the Philippines
should have self-government.
| People Of the kind in the Philippines"
declared Mr.. Gray, have no right to de-
mand any more explicit promise than is
contained in the McEnery resolution l am
not in favor of going on my knees to those
| people. | am not in favor OF gong with ad-
ditional promises to people who are shoot
| ing down our soldiers who lifted them from
the thraldom of Spain and carried to them
| messages Of freedom.
| Il do not propose to surrender to those
| whose guns are pointed al General Otis,
! and who have killed our men on land and
! ship. Let us wait yet little while until
| We know what may develop"
Senator Lindsay of kentucky opposed any
i amendment, maintaining that the McEnery
resolution would do all for the tIlipinos
that we promised to do for the Cubans.
| Senator Caffery declared that the Nc
| Emery resolution provided for nothing nose
| or less than a despotic protectorate, with
! out any guarantee of local self-government.
| He declared that the ATTITUDE of the United
| States in the Philippines a false
| and had been false from the beginning.
| To this Senator Gray took sharp eXcep-
| ton. He declared We're in Manila by
|
| our allies, yet they had the hardihood to
| attack and kill our people. because they
| are not allowed TO enter and loot the city.
Senator Hoar inquired whether the Fill
| pinos did not hold that part of the Philip
! pine outside Manila by good a right as
we hold Manila.
Senator Caffery thought that they un-
doubtedly did.
| The Attack by the FilipinOs.
| Senator Spooner opposed making prom
! at our troops.
Mr.. Spooner then described how the at
| tack was made, showing that after several
attempts, the F'ilipinos drew the fire of the
| American sentries by attempting to run
| their lines. I'm that fire. he declared
| those tlIipnos got deServedly what they
received. 1t is my own belief that the IN
stisation of the attack came from the city
of Washington. Hours before we learned
OF the attack, in fact, on Saturday night
| ASoncillo, who has been here as a repre-
sentative of the tilipnos and has failed to
! receive any sort of recognition from this
| government, silently folded his tent like
! the Arab, and stole away to Canada Some
| BODY may be able to explain that circum-
| stance, but | have not yet heard any ex-
planation oiered Tor 1t. except that he
| Nil. Bacon suggested in reply TO Mr.
| Spooner that the utterances which may
! nave caused the hostilites were made on
| the other side of the chamber by those who
Il
! ment upon the Filpinos which they were
! not willing to submit to.
Mr.. Jones (NevD presented the creden-
| tials of his colleague Mr. Stewart who
Was reelected for a term of SIX years be-
! ginning March 4, 1899.
Without any further remarks upon the
| McEnery resolution the Senate then al 5:3J
pm, adjourned.
| Qualification of the Administrations
| News Of the ratification of the treaty
| reached
| diately after the announcement of the vote
| Postmaster General Emory Smith was with
the President at the time and was the first
| TO congratulate him. Naturally the Presi-
dent was gratlfied at the vote, and so eX-
| pressed himself. Secretary Gage came III
soon afterward and was followed almost
| Immediately by Secretary Alger and Secre-
tary Hay. Within forty minutes after its
ratification General Cox the secretary of
the Senate, appeared with the treaty itself.
/ which he promptly delivered into the Presi-
dents hands and then retired.
The cabinet members as they left the
| Nhlte House were jubilant over the rati-
hcatlon of the treaty and spoke of it as a
! great triumph Secretary Hay expressed
| his qualification that the treaty was rati-
ned, and said he only regretted that il had
been found necessary TO occupy so much
! valuable time in doing it. He said that the
| treaty would now be submitted TO the Snap-
| ish cortes at the session which opens this
| month, and he anticipated no obstruction in
| that direction to the final exchanges.
Secretary Long said: Il am ad the
! treaty is ratified-glad from the standpoint
| OF the anti-imperialist as well as from any
| other The very height of imperialism is
| TO nave these islands now under control of
one man exercising absolute military au-
bhorlty. The ratification of the treaty
| transfers the disposition of these islands
| to the American people, who through their
representatives, can give them self-govern-
lnent or make any other disposition of
them that our own principle of government
ana ideas of national welfare require"
| Secretary Alger thought that the con-
firmation of the victory at Manila, together
| with the ratification of the peace treaty
was sufficient to make the day memorial e.
He spoke of the perils of the position which
the American troops have been occupying
| Tor so many months, while the fate of the
| treaty was at issue, and said he was only
| too pleased now that these troops We're free
| to protect themselves.
When the news of the ratification of the
| peace treaty reached the President, at his
| direction 1t was cabled to General Otis at
| Manila, who promptly replied acknowl-
! edging the receipt of the message contain-
| ing the information.
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