The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-28

says 10 MIN:
=" Young man, come with me and I will
do you good
" Let me alone! cries the vagrant. Let
me alone! Take your hands off me!
In solemn and sepulchral tones, equal to
those of my distinguished friend from Mon
tana CN1r. Carter, the Rev. Mr.. Chadband
replied:
" Young man. will not take my hand
from your shoulder. 1 am a toiler and
moiler, and intend to do you good in spite
of yourself
So continued Mr.. Vest, sit is with the
President. He places his hands on the
| shoulders of the Filipinos and says: I am
toiler and moiler, and l intend to save
you in spite of yourself. And he wants
10000 missionaries with rifles to shoot his
good resolutions into effect"
He said that all those who were opposed
to the plans of the administration were de-
nominated as traitors, but he repudiated the
charge with scorn. ''If spoken" he said,
lit is a slander; if written, libel"
WHITES PESSIDIISTIC VIEW.
Mr. White spoke against the bill and
| against the present policy in the Philip
pines To-day, he said, the guns of the
| Fflipinos were pointed toward us and our
| guns We're pointed toward them. The Pres
| ident recognized, he said, the seriousness
| Of the situation, as all thoughtful persons
| did. 1t seemed that the Filipinos had been
saved from Spain only to be turned over to
another master. The principal ground of
| their resentment was that no policy had
| been outlined to them, no assurances given
them of fair and just treatment. Mr.. White
| said he could not contemplate the situation
in the Philippines with any other feeling
1 than baf af no
bility of assimilating the F1lipinos. The
| outlook was very gloomy He advocated
| the freedom of the people Of both Cuba and
| the Philippines. He agreed with Mr.. Sewell
that war was likely with Cuba. why if
we were to give the Cubans their freedom,
were our armed soldiers anchored on that
island? How vain and visionary the the
ories Of men when behind it all is the grim
spectre of lucre," he explained. Even this
great Republic might reverse itself. He had
felt from the beginning that the country
was on the verge of ruin, and he found in
the pages of history Justification for this
apprehension. We claim, said he, to be
Christian, a civilized and a progressive peo-
pie, but are we in earnest? Are we not
about to discard the embems of peace and
enter upon an era of contest? war may
| come, but If it does come it must be for
freedom. to defend liberty and not a war of
conquest if it is to receive my vote" he
| said
Mr. Caffery took occasion to make an ar
| gument against an increase in the standing
army. He declared it was an extolling of
the military calling, of militarism which
was the forbidden fruit which had led to
the destruction of republics in the past.
| An amendment of Mr.. Thurston striking
i ont the raIofi0cr 70 he -
for appointment of officers in the provisional
/ regiments was agreed to.
Mr.. Hawley offered as an amendment a
| proviso of the fifteenth section authorizing
the President to enlist temporarily in the
t service for absolutely necessary purposes in
| the Philippine islands volunteers, officers
and men, individually or by organizations.
now in those islands and about to be dis
| charged, and directing that they shall be
counted as part Of the volunteer force au-
thorized by this act and that they shall not
be enlisted for more than six months nor
beyond the time necessary to replace them
| 1t was adopted.
| GORMAN'S S AMENDMENT
Mr.. German offered the following amend
ment as a provision of Section 15:
THAT each and every provision Of this
act shall continue in force until July l, 1901
and on and after that date all the general
staff and line officers appointed to the army
under this act shall be discharged and the
numbers restored in each grade to those ex-
| listing at the passage of this act and the
enlisted force Of the line of the army shall
be reduced to the number as provided for
| by law prior to April l, 1898. exclusive of
such additions as have been. or may be,
made under this act to the artillery and,
| ba dad h,- ~,
who may be appointed prior to July l. 1901 !;
and provided, further, that no officer who
has been, or may be, promoted under exist
| ing law under the rules of seniority, shall
be disturbed in his rank
The amendment was adopted, 6S voting in
| the affirmative and none in the negative.
| Mr.. Warren was paired against it. Mr..
| Bacon said the adoption of the German
amendment simplified the situation mater
| ially This bill would place an annual ex-
penditure of $S5, 100000 upon. the country,
| but Notwithstanding the fact that the war
| in the Philippines was an unholy war he
1 felt it his duty TO support the bill and would
| do so.
| An amendment offered by Mr.. Carter pro-
| vided that three of the provisional regi-
! mcnts, at the discretion of the President,
| should be cavalry, whose members should be
particularly proficient in horsemanship and
craftsmanship, the regiments to serve
mounted or dismounted. 1t was agreed to.
! In the course of a speech against the
| general features of the bill, Mr.. Allen made
| the statement that he had received many
letters from the volunteers in Manila pro-
| testing against being used to shoot down
those whom they had regarded as their
| friends. Those men. he maintained, ought
| to be recalled.
| Mr. Hoar announced his intention not to
| support the bill. 1t was not bill for sup
plies, nor was it bill for the complete re-
| organization of the army. 1t was then mere
| ly bill to provide an army to make war
] upon the people of the Philippines With
| the exchange of ratifications of the peace
| treaty the war would be at an end 1t
would then be necessary to determine
whether there was to be civil war
PETTIGREW DESERTS" MKINLEY.
Mr.. Pettigrew also announced his inten-
ticn to vote against the bil saying there
was arm& enough now and that with the
return of peace there could be no need of a
great army. Neither the President or any
senator had attempted to explain the pur-
pose of the bill. He could see no reason for
| the increase except to coerce the people of
the Philippines and deprive them of their
liberty. This must be the policy of the ad-
| ministration if it was capable of having a
| policy. He predicted that the effort to de-