The age-herald., 1899-01-29
AGAIN CONSUMED
 THE SENATE'S TIME MT. Frye Argues for Ratification Of
 the IT ay. u THE PEACE COMMISSION
Felt Justified in Drawing Upon the
 COuntFy'S Generosity.
HE REcITED MANY PREcEDENTs
Where Other Nations Had Pursued tho Same Course Toward Vanquished Rivals, and Dwelt Upon Ger
 many's Past Record.

Washington, January @-Senator frye continued his argument for the ratification of the peace treaty with Spain in today s made the only speech of the days session. He said that the questions of the claims of American citizens against Spain had oc- cupied much of the time and been the sub ject of much anxious thought on the part of the peace commission, but that there was no other practical solution of the problem in view of the poverty of Spain, and in fact no other policy was compatible with the reputation of the United States as nation which knew how to be generous as well as just.
 He said there were about S12,CcO,00o of those claims, and possibly the amount might reach s15,0OO,OOO. Spain had agreed as an offset to this concession on our part to pay the claims of Spanish citizens against the United States government, but MT. Frye admitted that the aggregate of these counter claims was not large.
 Felt They Were Justified
 Senator Frye also said that the commits sioners had felt that they were justified in drawing upon the generosity of this coun- try in agreeing to pay $2O,OOO,OOO to Spain for the improvements made by the Spanish government, and in conceding to them for a term of years the same privileges as claimed for the United States in the mat ter of trade in the conquered country. Such concessions, he said, were in the line of the precedents set by the most civilized nations. Many quotations were read to show that other nations had pursued this course to- ward their vanquished rivals, and especial stress was laid upon the course of Ger many in taking Alsace and Lorraine from France and paying for them $3O0,00O, ,000 when as was the case with the United States and Spain in the matter of the Phil- ippines, the doctrine that might ma..es right could not have been consulted to the exclusion of all ideas of fairness and honor and the territory taken simply as the re- suit of conquest.
 The Present Situation
 Referring to the present situation in the Philippines, MT. T1llman asked Senator Frye if he was willing to have our troops fire upon the F'ilipinos, to which MT. Frye replied that the firing stage had not yet been reached there, and he hoped that the treaty would soon be ratified and this stage thus probably averted for good. In con- clusion, he said to reject the treaty meant the restoration of the staus quo, to give up Manila and all the points taken after the signing of the protocol and to lose all the vast advantages acquired through the war in the far east.
 The Open session
 Washington, January 2S.-A spirited de- bate was precipitated in the senate while the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill was under consideration. The appropri- ations committee was sharply criticized for not providing adequate salaries for some of the consular officers and secretaries of legations of this government in foreign countries and the parsimony of the govern ment in this respect was denounced as a disgrace.
 MT. Hale of Maine was in charge of the bill, and in spite of his protests several amendments were incorporated in the measure. The bill was passed, carrying nearly $1,5OO,0O0.
 A recess of an hour and half was talk en to enable senators to attend the funeral of ex-Senator A. H. Garland.
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