The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-27
GROSVENOR BAL[ED UP
To Criticise McKinley's Policy Is
High Treason.
-$A
BUT HE HAS NO POLICY
CONGRESS MUST DECIDE FATE
OF PHILIPPINES.
Administration Congressman De-
clares Independence For the Gu
bans Absurd Proposition-Those
Who Oppose Mckinley Will Be
Responsible for Bloodshed.

lar army passed without notable incl
dent. It's feature was an hours speech
by Mr.. Grosvenor Of Ohio, whose utter
ances, rightly or wrongly, are frequent
ly supposed to reflect the views of the
president. Mr.. G~rosvenor declared
most emphatically that the present
situation in the Philippines was due
to the opposition in this country to
the ratification Of the peace treaty. He
announced that the future OF the
Islands was a matter for congress to
decide and that for the president TO
a policy would be for him TO
usurp the authority of congress. The
friends of the bill continue to express
great confidence in the passage or the
bill, but they admit hat some import
ant notifications may be made. The
advocates of a general staff detailed
from the line may be successful and
the size of the infantry companies may
be reduced.
Without preliminary business the
house resumed consideration OF the
army bill.
Mr.. Marsh (Rep., Ills.), d member of
the military committee, was the hrst
speaker. He opposed certain features
OF the bill, although he said he heartily
favored the reorganization n enlarge
ment of the army. In committee ne
had reserved the right to oppose these
features. He was not prepared to say
that the regular army should De IN
creased to 100. 600 men, but ne was Will
ing to leave the size OF h army to the
discretion of the president, and he SAID
he should offer an amendment giving
him that discretion. Continuing, MT.
Marsh said he violated no commence
when he said that the president was
in sympathy with his proposed amend
ment. The president had told HIM that
he would not enlist a MAJ or commls-
sion an officer more than he deemed
necessary. He should at the proper
time, HI said, offer an amendment pro-
viding that staff officers should be de-
tailed from the line for four years
duty. They should then return to the
line, and be ineligible for staff duty
again until they had served four years
in the line. He expressed the opinion
that the weakest point in the army
during the war had been in the staff.
The plumbers made could be traced to
that weakness. General Miles, the
head of the army, he said, was in favor
of a. detailed staff.
He was in favor of annexing the
Philippines, whether the natives were
willing or not. For four years we had
fought in this country to force the
southern people to submit TO the consti-
tuition against their will. 1t was alb
surd to say that we could not employ
force to take and hold the Philippines.
Mr.. Dinsmore (Dem., Ark opposed
the bill. \ standing army might lead
TO disaster, he said. In the course OF
his remarks, Mr.. Dinsmore raised a
laugh at the expense of Mr.. DollIver
(Rep., Ia by recalling a statement
made by the latter in a speech during
the Fifty-hrst congress, in which ne
predicted the free coinage of silver be-
fore the close of President HarriSonS
administration. Mr.. Dolliver called
attention to the fact that the speech
was made in opposition to free coinage.
MI. Dinsmore warmly opposed the
annexation of the Philippines.
GROSvENOR'S VIEWS.
Mr.. G~rosvenor Rep., o. followed Mr..
Dinsmore. IN opposition, MI. Grosve-
nor said he would approach with due
solemnity the measure fraught with
such far-reaching consequences. He
should aim simply to point cut his own
position, distinctly disclaiming that he
spoke for anyone else. He did not Won
der that there was a wide, distinct,
antipOdal difference upon the questions
said to be involved in this bill. Those
who imagined it threatened an assault
upon their liberties naturally opposed
it vigorously. Despite this alleged
u q LIN PIC1R(@N
but twice in the history of the coun-
try had the regular army been used,
save in war. He recalled the action
of President Cleveland during the
Chicago riots, in sending troops there
on the advice of Secretary Olney, say
ing that that act commended itself to
him more than any other of the Cleve-
land administration. The idea that the
army might be invoked to subvert our
liberties was a man of straw, which
gentlemen set UP. 1t was a SANDER
upon the American people.
He characterized Mr.. JOhnson's
speech yesterday as the most vindlctlve
attack made upon the administration
he had heard on the floor of the house.
The trouble was that the foundation
upon which the whole magnificent SUI
p~erstructure was built was false. The
argument he had made answered it
self as soon as the intelligent mind re-
capitulated the history of the past few
months. Mr.. Grosvenor contended
that the purpose of the administration
had never deviated from the time the
declaration of war was adopted, with
the absurd provision in it which no one
here would support nOw. From that
day to this. his government. under
the guiding hand of the administration,
had never deviated from its purpose,
and stood today, simply executing the
orders and DEGREES of congress, of civ
~iliZation and of Almighty God.
CUBAN FREEDOM ABSURD.
Does the gentleman mean n Tel
Ter provision as the absurd provision
in the declaration of warp asked Mr..
Dinsmore.
81 mean the provision that the people
of Cuba were and Of right ought to be
free and independent" replied Mr.
GrosvenOr.
proceeding. Mr.. Grosvenor declared
thatsthe foundation of all our trouble
originated May /, 1898. incidentally,
at his point, ne mentioned the desul-
tory discussion in the press of Admiral
Dewey as the Democratic candidate
fer the presidency in 1900. And yet,
he said, it was Dewey who had got the
country into all this trouble. At that
time. he continued, there was not a
thought of the Philippines; there was
not one on this floor who knew within
n thousand how many islands were in
the archipelago. At that time, when
we had no thought of the Philippines,
continued Mr.. Grosvenor, Dewey was
instructed to find the Spanish fleet and
destroy or capture it. The most bril-
liant page in our history was the m
sver that splendid officer and his men
gave to those Instructions. But when
he had executed his orders, he found
himself poweriess to get out of Ma
Mia bay. Was there, he asked. anyone
who would undo Manila and tear those
shining pages from the history OF this
country At this point Mr.. Grosyenor
paid an eloquent tribute to our SOL
diers and sailors, officers and men. and
said thai no one should stain, with his
consent. their honor until proofs were
produced, not Of mistakes, but of dere-
lictions CT duty.
The president had been criticised for
not informing congress Of his ultimate
purpose regarding the Philippines. The
president wa never 2 usurper; he had