The age-herald., 1899-01-07
HOAR'S MOTION
 PREVAILED Senate f..kS for instructions Given Peace Commission SENATOR DAVIS OBJECTED Thought President Would Fur nish Necessary In E'ation'
 .s~7 cAFFERY OPPOSES EXPANSION
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 I- Delivers a Consti'~ 7 al Argument Against hcqusi' : Territory.
 
 st ANTI-CIVIL SERVICE PERFORMERS Gained Victory in the House Yester- day Y hich Y . En irely Unex- pected-Amendments to Ca- nal Bill Accepted.
ANTI-CIvIL SERVICE REPORTERS

Washington, January 6-Immediately af- ter the senate convened today the resolu-
 tion offered yesterday by MT. Hoar, of | Massachusetts, calling on the president for l information as to the instructions of the l commissioners who negotiated the treaty | of Pars together with all correspondence | and reports relating to their work was laid | before the senate. Chairman Davis, one | of the commissioners, desired that it be referred to the foreign relations commit tee but MT. Hoar insisted that the senate has as much right to such information us
 the members of the foreign relations com-
 mittee, but MT. Hoar insisted that the sen
 ate has as much right to such information as the members of the foreign relations committee. The resolution was adopted i'll secret session.
 In support of the resolution offered some | time ago by MT. Vest, of Missouri in op- | position to expansion MT. Caffery of Louis- | jana, delivered an extended speech | At the conclusion of MT. Caffery's argu- | ment MT. Morgan, of Alabama, announced l on behalf of the Nicaragua canal commit tee, the acceptance in modified form of | the amendments offered by MT. Berry be- | fore the holidays to the pending canal bill. | The amendments were not passed upon by the senate.
 The Hoar Resolution The resolution introduced yesterday by MT Hoar calling upon the president, if not | in his judgment incompatible with the pub | lie interest," to communicate to the senate | the instructions he had given the coni- | missoners who negotiated the treaty of Par.s, the correspondence which had passed | between him and the department of state | and the commissioners and the reply made | by the commissioners either to him or the | department of state was laid before the
 senate early in the session today. | Mir Davis one of the commissioners and | chairman of the committee on foreign re-
 lation, moved that the resolution be re- | ferred to that committee.
 Mr. Hoar-Mr. President, I object to such | a reference of the resolution. It seems 10 | me that the senate ought to have the infor-
 nation called for by the resolution If in the l judgment of the president it would be prop 1 CT to communicate it. l hope the motion | will be defeated
 MT. Davis-"I hope the motion will pre-
 vail
 The Call Not Mandatory | After a little debate, in which MT. Hear, l Mr. White, of California, and MT. Allen, Of 1 Nebraska brought out the fact that the | call on the president for information was | not mandatory. MT. Davis said that not to | refer the resolution to the committee in | charge of the matter would be uhprece- l dented. The latter invoked the rule of the | senate and had the doors closed for an | executive session.
 | In the secret legislative session of the
 senate the proceedings continued on the | same lines as in the open session, the sen- | ate finally agreeing without division to
 the resolution calling for the instructions. | At 12:55 p. m. the senate reconvened in open session, and MT. Platt, of Connecticut,
 secured the adoption of a resolution calling
 upon the secretary of the interior for infor- nation concerning the cutting of dead and fallen timber on the Chippewa Indian reser- vation, in Minnesota.
 MT. Caffery, of Louisiana, then addressed
 the senate on the joint resolution offered by MT. Vest, of Missouri, declaring that
 under the constitution of the United States
 no power is given to acquire territory to
 be held and governed permanently as colonies.
 IF Coffery Again Breaks Loose MT. Caffery's speech was a constitutional argument in support of the declaration of
 
 tion went to the very root of the question
 of the power of the United States to estab-
 fish permanently governments in territories
 far distant from our own lands. He pro-
 posed, he said, to institute an inquiry into
 the basic principle of the powers of this
 government.
 He pointed out that the government of
 the United States was formulated by it's
 founders in order that social and gov
 ernmental fabric of their own might be
 arxy ctn1i i1n6i into Cfl la
 said that the sword and counsels of war
 had not made him the savior of his coun-
 try: that his supreme patriotism and wis.,
 dom eminently qualified him to establish
 this government. He referred then to that
 sentence of Jefferson that governments can
 only acquire their just powers from the con. IContinued on Second Page.l