The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-21
IS CAUSTIC
the Administratio With
Suppressing News.
MADE AN INCISiVE SPEECH
Senator Hale Cougratulates Brooke Upon
His Work in Cuba-Besolutions Rela-
tive to the Government OF the
Islands.

GeS-
| sion of the senate to-day before the
holiday recess, Mr.. Pettigrew of South
| Dakota, in a Enthusiastically incisive
| speech, demanded to know whether it
was to be the policy of the representa-
| tives of the administration to suppress
facts and news when called for by q
senator. He said he believed an effort
was being made to prevent the testi-
| mony taken by the war investigating
| committee from being sent to the SEN
ate and declared his purpose of not sub
mitting to the suppression to which the
| people, in his opinion, were entitled
| Taking Major General Brooke's fare
well proclamation to the people Of
| Cuba as a text, Mr. Hale of Maine
| briefly ngratulated the general upon
| the work he had accomplished in Cuba
and said he could now see the dawn Of
| the time when the Cuban people would
| be independent
Mr. Morgan of Alabama offered an
amendment to Mr.. Bacon's resolution
guaranteeing to the people of Porto
Rlco, Hawaii and the Philippine islands
republican government and Mr.. Hoar
OF Massachusetts introduced q resolu-
ton declaring how the people of the
island possessions of the United States
should be governed.
The presiding officer laid before the
senate a communication from the re-
gents Of the Smithsonian Institute sug-
gesting in the form of a joint resolu-
ton the appointment of Former Secre-
tary of State Richard Oney to fill the
vacancy on the board of regents caus-
ed by the death Of DR.. johnson of
Louisiana. Mr.. Hoar of Massachusetts
thought this most unusual proceed
ing. He said it would be as proper for
the justices of the supreme court to
suggest to the president, who should
fill vacancy on the bench The reso-
luton was left on the table.
Mr.. Hale Of Maine had read from
the clerks desk the proclamation is
sued by General Brooke in Havana on
turning over the civil government of
Cuba to his successor, General Leonard
Wood.
This proclamation" he said, must
arrest the attention of the senate COM
mittee on Cuban affairs and of the
country. Tt is a most remarkable
statement of the progress that has been
made in Cuba. If General Brooke be
right peace and good order have prac-
tlcally been established on the island
and the people will be ready at an
early date to enter upon a government
of their own. General Brooke is to be
congratulated upon having accomplish
ed a vast work. II is much greater
than I had supposed. ! see the dawn
of the time when the Cuban people will
be able to set up a government of
their own. General Brooke having been
displaced, will soon come north, and
when he arrives will receive our con-
gratulations upon his great work.
The matter was referred to the COM
mittee on relations with Cuba,
Il ,t-tr
withdrawal from the committee on
agriculture. Thereupon Mr.. Cockrell
Of Missouri presented a resolution fill
ing the vacancies on the committees on
agriculture, claims, forest reservations,
Interstate commerce. Philippines and
pensions by the appointment of Mr..
Allen of Nebraska. The resolution
was adopted.
Mr.. Hoar introduced the following
resolution:
Whereas, The American people and
the several states in the Union have.
in times past, at important periods in
their history, especially when declar-
ing independence, establishing their
constitutions or undertaking new and
great responsibilities, seen fit to de-
clare the purposes for which the nation
or state was founded and the impor-
tant objects the people intended to pur-
sue in their present action: and,
Whereas, The close of great war of
liberation by the United States of the
people of Cuba and Porto Rico, in the
Western hemisphere, and of the Phil
ippine islands, in the Far East, and the
reduction of those peoples to coadi-
ton of practical dependence upon the
United States constitute an occasion
which makes declaration proper;
therefore, be it
Resolved, That this republic ad-
heres to the doctrines which were in
the part set forth in the declaration of
independence and in its national and
state constitutions.
THAT the purpose Of its existence
and the objects to which its political
action ought to be directed are emo
bling of humanity. the raising from
the dust its humblest and coarsest |
members and the enabling of persons
coming lawfully under its power or in |
fuence to live in freedom and honor. |
under governments whose forms they |
are to have share in determining and |
in whose administration they have an
equal share. Its most important and
pressing obligations are
"One--To solve the. difficult problem
presented by the presence of different
races on our soil with equal constitu-
tional rights To make the negro safe
in his home, secure in his vote, equal
for education and employ
ment and to bring the Indian to civil
ization and to culture in accordance |
with his need and capacity.
''Two-To enable great cities to gov
ern themselves in freedom, honor and |
purity.
"Three-To make the ballot box as
pure as a sacramental vessel and the
election return as perfectly in accord |
ance with the laws andrthe truth as the
judgment of the supreme court.
"Four-To Danish illiteracy and ig-
norance from the land.
'Five-To secure for every workman
and for every working woman wages
enough to support a life of comfort and
an old age Of leisure and quiet, as ben
afits those who have an equal share in
q governing state.
''SiX-To grow and expand our conti-
nent over the islands of the sea, just
SO far, and no farther as We can bring
into equality and self government un-
der our constitution, peoples and races
who will share these ideals and help
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