The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-01-14
SENATOR AolR TALKS
AGAINST EXPANSION
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Ills Colleagues tovote Against
the Peace Treaty.
CRISIS IN The NATIONS HISTORY
lA,cclares the Question Is One OF the
Gravest the Country Has Ever
Been Confronted WITH
Replies TO Plat.

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Washington, Jan. 1o.--In the senate
TINS morning the bill providing that
al h%onorably discharged soldiers and
saliors OF the war Of the rebellion, the
war OF 1872, the Mexican war and the
war with Spain who are disabled in
any way be admitted to the home for
disable volunteer soldiers, was
Gallinger, of New Hamp-
shire,, offered an amendment to the
nasal appropriation bill, appropriating
SS,O0O,00O to pay officers and men OF
Inc navy, the bounty due them for the
capture and destruction of Spanish
vessels during the late war.
Hoar Against Expansion.
senator Hoar called up the resolu-
ton introduced by Senator Vest
against national expansion, and adj
dressed the senate.
u am quite sure, said he, in begin
nlng, that no man who will hear what
!! a will doubt that nothing could
induce me to say it but n commanding
[sensesof public duty. l dislike to dit
Ter the president whose election
J. nailed with such personal satisfac-
n such exulting anticipations
the republic. l dislike to differ
from so many of my party associates
In this chamber, with whom / have for
SO many years trod the same path and
sought the same goal. / have believed
religiously, and from my soul, for half
a century, in the great doctrines and
principles of the republican porty. /
stood in a humble capacity by its era
die. / do not mean, il L san help 1t. to
follow its hearse.
TT is not my purpose to discuss the
general considerations which affect
n acquisition OF sovereignty by the
American people W the Philippine
islands, which has been or may be pro-
poseds l am speaking today only on
the theory of constitutional inter-
probation propounded by the senator
from Connecticut CPlatt). If Mt any
time hereafter the senator shall seek
to put mis- theories into practice by re-
ducing to subsection n distant people,
dwelling in the tropics, aliens in blood,
most of them Moslem in faith, unable
to speak or to comprehend our lam
guage, or to read Or to write any LAM
gnage, to whom the traditions and the
doctrines of civil liberty are unknown,
it Will be time to point out what ter
rihle results and penalties this depar-
ture from our constitutional principles
will bring upon us"
Foresight of the Fathers.
Senator Hoar said that our fathers
who framed the constitution We're the
wisest builders of states the world
has yet seen. They had studied an
Gent history and had learned that
while there is little else that a democ-
racy cannot accomplish, it cannotruie
over vnssal states or subject peoples
without bringing the elements of
death into its own constitution. Our
fathers, he said, learned two lessons
from the history of Greece-the dan
ger of disunion and domestic strife,
and of an indulgence in the greed and
lust of empire, and he hoped we might
avert the latter danger as we had
ayerted the former. In this connec-
tion he quoted Prof. Greasy rs saying
in his Fifteen Decisive Battles of the
/ World:
yet in history that acquired dominion
over another nation that did not rule
it selfishly and oppressively."
Senator Hoar believed, he said, this
country to be q nation-a sovereign
nation. He believed congress pos
sessed all the powers necessary to ac-
complish the great objects the trainers
of the constitution intended should be
accomplished. But he denied that it
possessed the astonishing and Eek
travagant" powers under the constltu-
ton which the senator from Connect
cut (Mr. Platt) attributed to it. Sen
ator Hoar then quoted Senator Platt
as saying:
"As n nation the United States pos
sesses every sovereign power not re-
served in it's constitution to the states
or to the people. The right to acquire
territory was not reserved, and is
therefore an inherent sovereign right.
In the right to acquire territory is
found the right to govern it, and as the
right to acquire is sovereign in
herent right, the right to govern is a
sovereign right not limited in the con-
stitution."
Constitutional Power Limited.
These propositions Of Senator Platt
Senator Hour expressly denied. He
affirmed that every constitutional pow
er is limited to the one supreme and
controlling purpose declared in the
constitution itself:
I'm order to form a more perfect
union, establish justice, insure domes.
tic tranquility, provide for the com
mon defense, promote the general well
fare and secure the blessings of lib
erty to ourselves and to our posterity.'
Senator Hoar held that the powers
of the United States must be atirma-
lively delegated or they do not exist
In other words, the implied power
referred to by Senator Platt-the pow.
er to govern territory acquired
through war-loes not exist.
He said while Senator Plat had adj