The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-02
IT WAS LEFT SUSPENDED.
No Vote Reached on Senator
Bacon's Resolution.
RAWLINs IN OPPOSITION
He Argued That the Constitution Ap.
plies to Territories as Well as
States Senator Sullivan's
Compromise Resolution.


taken on one or more of the pending
resolutions relating to expansion. An
unusually large number of republi-
can senators was in attendance, all
having been notified to be present in
the event of critical vote on the pend
ing question. Mr.. Bacon of Georgia
had called up his resolutions and Mr..
Chandler of New Hampshire had with
drawn his motion to refer them to the
committee on foreign relations. Mr..
Sullivan of Mississippi had entered a
motion to substitute his resolutions for
those of Mr.. Bacon. while Mr.. Davis,
chairman of the foreign relations com
mittee, had announced that was willing
that vote should be taken Immediate
ly AS it was evident, however. that a
vote on the resolutions and amendments
could not be taken before o'clocll-the
hour fixed by unanimous consent for
the senate to go into executive ses-
sion-Mr. Bacon asked for unanimous
consent that a vote be taken at 1890
O'Clock tomorrow To this request Mr..
Carter of Montana objected, and the
whole question was left suspended.
Mr.. Rawlins of Utah addressed the
senate upon tne vest antl-eXpanSlOn
resolution, deyoting the greater part
of his time to a defense of his position
that the constitution applies as well to
people of our territories as those Of our
states.
When the senate convened Lindsay
offered a joint resolution setting forth
that the acquisition by the United
States through conquest, treaty or 9th
erwise of territory not adjacent to and
geographically a part of the continent
of North America carried with it no
constitutional or moral obligation to
admit it as a territory or any portion
thereof in the federal union as state
or states; that it is against the policy,
traditions and interest of the American
people to admit states erected out of
such non-American territories or por-
tlons thereof into our union of Ameri-
can states at any time or under any
conditions. The resolution further pro.
vides that the United States accept the
Philippines, the purpose being to hold
them only until the Filipinos are capa-
BILE of government. The resolution
was left on the table subject to call
Rawlins then addressed the senate
on the Vest anti-eXpanson resolution
as follows:
The atmosphere just now seems to
be clouded with perplexng problems.
Every one, ! presume, is imbued with
a wish, while adhering to justice, to do
the best he can do for his country. |
have not heretofore been opposed to
expansion. This nation has been one
of growth; in population from three to
seventy-five million; in territory from
the shores of the Atlantic across the
continent and out into swelling waters
of the Pacific Millions of the homes
of our sturdy and patriotic people and
magnificent states have been the fruits
of our expansion. Territorial expan-
sion with commensurate extension of
constitutional freedom, is twice blessed.
it blesseth them who give and them
who receive. No man can set an arti-
ficial barrier to the inevitable progress
of the American people. But thus far
our progress has been one of liberty,
not of tyranny. When our fathers chris
tened the republic, they gave it name
which they doubtless deemed sufficient
to cover all the eXigencies of lis future
career. 1t was to be the United
States of America" We could stretch
out to the north and to the south un-
til we encompassed the two continents
and all the islands, of the Caribbean sea,
and still we might appropriately bear
the name which our fathers gave us.
Shall we now change that name, and,
what shall it symbolic? Shall it be
the United States of America and the
kingdom of the Philippines, or shall it
be the empire of America and Asia?
Already there are special visions of this
in the political sky.
Mr.. President, l have not been so
much alarmed at the idea of extending
our borders as l have been at some of
the startling doctrines which have been
advanced by advocates of the retention
of the Philippines"
Mr.. Rawlins then discussed the ex-
tent of the power of the government
under the constitution to acquire. hold
and govern territory, maintaining that
such power must be exercised to sub
serve the objects and purposes for
which the government was created. He
contended that the constitution. in all
of it's provisions, limitations and safe
guards, was as applicable to the ter
ritories and their Inhabitants as to the
states that while some of the proViS-
ions of that instrument may not be self
executing, they are no less in terri
tory than in a state: that an act of
is not necessary to apply the
provisions of the constitution to ter
ritory.
Referring to the contention of Sena-
ter Lodge and other senators that the
labor product of the Filipinos would not
be permitted to come into competition
with American labor and its product.
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
eral product of New Mexico and Arizona
from competing with the like products
of Colorado and Utah. He maintained
that if the inhabitants of the Philippine
may be denied the liberty
of locomotion. not as a punishment for
any crime of which they may have been
duly convicted; if they may be lawfully
forbidden TO come to America. then we
NAV deny them the right of passing
from one island to another or from
visiting their neighbor's house, and if
we do this we may throw them into
dungeons, there to await the
incoming tide to end their troubles and
place them beyond the reach of Ameri-
can tyranny Allusion was made to the
that until the treaty is rati-
fed the truce between the United States