The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-28
JOHNSON AGAIN.
(ConcIuded from First Pace,

day When this bill was brought into the
House. said he, the proposition TO quadruple
the size of the standing army was mon
strous THAT there was general dissent on the
Republican side of the House The chair
man of the committee had been as lacking
in frankness as the administration had been
with reference to its Philippine policy. Now
1t was proposed to take this monstrosity
and cut ii down to provide in general
for an army of 5000 with a sort of sliding
scale up to 100000, on which the President
could exercise his Well-knOWn powers of
elasticity He agreed with Mr.. Dockery
he said, that no President should be intrust-
cd with such power much less q man who
was seeking to wage war against n people
beyond the sea in order to force them TO
submit to government they despsed and
repudiated. Every man in the House, he
declared, knew what the proposed change
meant-it meant army of 10000 by direct
enactment of Congress or by the viii of the
President. There was, he urged, no reason
why Congress should abrogaTe and give TO
the President this extraordinary power He
declared this bill would cost the treasury
$l00,OO0,O0 year, and he warned the Re
pUblicans they would not dare so to their
constituents on the record
Mr.. Cannon scored Mr.. Johnson, who
would be a great man. he said. il his judg-
ment equaled his ability. He did not be-
lleve any one could be found who would
have wanted the army or navy to depart
from the Philippines up to this time.
You are mistaken" cried voice from
the Democratic Size.
Where is he, where is he?" asked Mr.
Cannon, looking around. He paused
Mr.. Handy (Dem., Del) rose up. Every
one laughed
rs there another?" shouted Mr.. Cannon.
we will nave experience meeting"
Mr.. Todd (fusion. Mich.) arose amid an
other outburSt Of laughter but ne was the
last. Mr. Cannon rdiculed the idea of trot-
ting out the ghost OF Caesarism in order to
brighten the country.
Mr.. johnson. replying to Mr. Cannon said
that the original wrong was committed when
the President sent his commissioners to
Paris to demand the ceSsion Of the Philip
pines. But now he should withdraw the
menace which inspired in the people of the
islands the well-grounded fear that we were
determined to take away their liberties
The only danger of trouble was that the
provoke those people to d just resentment
NOW was the time to fight this whole propo-
stion, to expose it and agitate it, ard not
wait until the machinery for a colonial pol
icy was forged. Ii II succeeded we would
repent in sackcloth and ashes
At ) o'clock the House recessed until s.
the evening session to be devoted to private
pension legislation.
After fitty-nine private pension bills had
been passed tonight Mr.. Ray (Rep., n. W
made the point of no quorum to prevent
final action on bill TO pension Letitia Tyler
Sample, a daughter of eX-President Tyler
at the rate of $50 per month. The Senate
passed a bin to pension her at the rate of
the House tonight restored 1t to $50 against
the committee recommendation. Mr.. Raw
prevented final action by raising the point
of no quorum. The beneficiary of one of the
bills passed tonight was over one hundred
Years old.