The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-02
TREATY TALKS BY SENATORS

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minutes in the Senate this afternoon 1t
| seemed likely that a vote might be
taken on one or more Of the pending
resolutions relating to expansion. An
unusually large attendance of Republi-
can Senators was in attendance. all of
them having been notified to be pres
ent, in the event of a critical vote on
the pending question. Mr.. Bacon of
| Georgia had called up his resolutions,
and Mr.. Chandler of New Hampshire
had withdrawn his motion to refer
them to the Committee on Foreign Re-
latlons
Mr.. Sullivan of Mississippi had en-
tered motion to substitute his reso-
lutions for those of Mr.. Bacon. while
Mr.. Davis, chairman of the Foreign
| Relations Committee. had announced
that he was willing that vote should
be taken Immediately. AS it was evil
dent, however, that vote on the reso-
| lutionS and amendments could not be
/ taken before 2 o'clock-the hour fixed
/ by unanimous consent for the Senate
to go into executive session-Mr. Bacon
| asked for unanimous consent that a
vote be taken at 1890 tomorrow To
this request Mr.. Carter OF Montana OBJ
| jected, and the whole question was left
| suspended.
Mr.. Rawlins of Utah addressed the
| Senate upon the Vest anti-eXpansion
resolution.
Referring to the contention of Lodge
| and other Senators that the labor prod
uct of the Filipinos would not be per
| mltted to come into competition with
American labor and its product Mr..
Rawlins pointed out that if Congress
possessed this authority it could i'm
pose duties which would prevent the
wheat grown in Oklahoma from COM
| peting with that grown in Kansas or
other States of the Union; or the min
erals produced in New Mexico and Ari-
| iona from competing with the like
products of Colorado and Utah. He
maintained that if the inhabitants of
the Philippine archipelago may be de-
MED the liberty of locomotion, not as
punishment for any crime of which
they may have been duly convicted. if
| they may be lawfully forbidden to come
to America, then we may deny them the
right of passing from enc island to an
other or from visiting their neighbor's
house, and if we may do this we may
| throw them into Spanish dungeons,
there to await the incoming tide to end
| their troubles and place them beyond
American tyranny. Allusion was made
to the contention that until the treaty
is ratified the truce between the United
States and Spain must continue, and
then Mr.. Rawlins said:
Is it possible that the end of the
war with Spain, accomplished by the
ratification of the treaty, is to be the
inception of new war with the in
habitants of those islands; that we are
to turn our guns from the Spaniards
upon them. although guilty of no crime
except the desire and aspiration to be
free?
W
cient territory around it or some other
suitable place as military and naval
base, recognize the independence of the
people of the rest of the archipelago
let them go in peace and give them the
assurance Of our protection.
What do we want the Philippines
fer? Do we want them to furnish homes
for our own people? No. Do we want
them to furnish an outlet for our sur
plus labor? Do we want them to add
a wholesome element to our popula-
ton, that our sons may find wives and
our daughters husbands? The blight
ing curse of the Almighty would rest
upon such miscegenation. Do we want
them in order TO practice upon their
inhabitants the same arts of philan-
thropy which applied to the aborigi-
nal inhabitants of this continent haze
led to their determination? Humanity
says no. Do we want them in order to
send thither SWarmS of office-hOlderS.
carpet baggers, TO riot among them
like Shiny worms, eating out their sub
stance? All, there's the rub. But for
this, this perplexing problem 1 doubt
would to-day be seriously confronting
the American people. No; there is no
conceivable good which they can bring
to us. Their retention BODIES nothing
but evil.
I'VE cannot afford to go over half
way down to the Asiatic level In order
to proportionately lift their civilization |
We have enacted laws which stand like |
cherubim with flaming swords at
the gateways of the republic TO drive |
back the hordes of the dark and degea- |
crate races of the east, lest they might |
enter into and degrade us. The SEN
ator from Connecticut fMr. Platt) |
twitted the Senator from Massachu-
sets (Mr Hoar) with seeing constitu- |
tional obstacles. lions in the pathway
leading to the House Beautiful. Would |
the Senator from Connecticut have us,
like Samson of old, destroy the lion |
at the gate in order that we might en-
ter in to wed the daughter of the Phil
istine? 1t behooves us to take warning
by that example lest we. too. by such |
benevolent assimilation, have our
locks shorn and the strength of our
institutions taken away"