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WASHINGTON, Feb. 27-The COM
promise army reorganization bill was
| passed by the senate this evening al
| 7:10
| When the senate convened at II
O'Clock this morning it seemed moro
| than likely that the bill might not ba
| passed during the day.
! Mr.. German, of Maryland, insisted
| that his amendment-providing that
| the army should not be increased per-
| manently Or beyond July 1, 1901-be in
corporated in the measure. For sew
eral hours it appeared probable that
| his insistence would throw the bill
over until tomorrow and perhaps de-
feat 1t. An agreement was reached
| finally however, and Mr.. Gorman's
amendment, in slightly modified form,
was accepted.
The notable speech of the day against
| the measure was delivered by Mr.
Vest, of Missouri, but his brilliant elo-
| quence availed nothing against the
| measure as finally agreed upon. He
said:
| know of but one parallel of this Philip
| pine scheme of Christian philanthropy 10
| is to be found In one of Dickens novels,
| BLEAK House.
| An eminent divine lays his hands upon
Poor Jo" and says to him: Young man,
come with me and 1 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 CMr. Carter the reverend Mr.. Chad-
| band replied: Young man, l will not take
my hand from your shoulder am toiler
| and moiler and l intend to do you good in
| spite Of yourself"
| So 1t is with the president. He places his
| hand upon the shoulder of the Filipino and
says: 81 am a toiler and moi,er and I in
tend to save you in spite Of yourself And
he wants 100000 missionaries with rifles to
| shoot his good resolutions into effect.
CHANGE OF MASTERS.
| wi. ViillS NOdl-J SPOKE against tl6
bill and against the present policy in
| the Philippines. Today, he said, the
guns of the Filipinos were pointed
| against us, and our guns were pointed
against them.
| He could not contemplate the situa-
tion in the Philippines with any other
| feeling than that of shame. There was
no possibility of assim1lating the Fill
| pinos. The outlook was very gloomy.
| He advocated the freedom of the peo-
pie Of both Cuba and the Philippines.
I'VE claim said he, Ito be a Chris
tian, civilized and a progressive peo-
pie. But are We in earnest? Are we
not about to discard the emblems Of
peace and enter upon an era of con-
quest? War may come, but, if it does
come. it must be for freedom, to de-
| fend liberty and not a. war for con-
! quest, If it is to receive my vote"
Mr.. Caffery took occasion to make an
argument against an increase In the
standing army He declared it was an
extolling of the military calling. of
| mtlitarism, which was the forbidden
fruit which had led to the destruction
of republics in the past.
Mr.. Hawley offered as an amendment
proviso of the fifteenth section. au-
thorizing the president to enlist tenn
porarily in the service, for absolutely
necessary purposes in the Philippine
islands, volunteers, officers and men.
individually or by organizations. now
in those islands or about to be dis
charged providing that they be count
ed as part of the volunteer force au-
-I,oII
not be enlisted for more than six
months nor beyond the time necessary
| to replace them. 1t was adopted
Mr.. German offered the following
| amendment as provision of section Is:
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 I'M
der this act shall be discharged and the
numbers restored in each grade to those exist
ing at the passage of this act, and the en-
| listed force of the line of the army shall be
| reduced to the number provided by law
| prior to April l. 1898, exclusive of such ad-
chtions as have been or may be made under
this act to the artillery and except the cadets
| provided for by this act who may be ap-
| pointed prior to July l, 1901: and provides
| further. that no officer who has been or NAV
be promoted under existing law or under the
| rules of seniority shall be disturbed in his
| rank.
The amendment was adopted. sixty
eight voting in the affirmative and
| none In the negative. Mr.. Warren was
paired against it.
An amendment, offered by Mr. Car
ter, provided that three-fourths of the
provisional regiments, at the disere-
ton of the president, should be caval-
ry, whose members should be particu-
larly proficient in horsemanship and
Workmanship, the regiments to serve
mounted or dismounted. 1t was agreed
| to.
SOLDIERS PROTEST.
In the course of speech against the
general features Of the bill, Mr.. Allen
(Neb.) made the statement that he
had received many letters from the
volunteers in Manila protesting
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
rot to support the bill 1t was not a
bill for supplies. nor was 1t bill for
the complete reorganization of the
army. It was then merely 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 It would then-be necessary te