The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-21

session of the senate today before the
holiday recess Mr.. Pettigrew or South
Dakota in a Enthusiastically incisive
speech demanded to know whether 1t
was to be the policy of the representa-
tiyes of the administration to suppress
facts and news when called for by a
senator He said he believed an eHort
was being made to present the testl-
mony taken by the war investigating
committee from being sent to the sen
ate and declared his purpose OF not
submitting to the suppression or lnfor-
nation to which the people, IN MS
/ opinion, were entitled.
Mr.. Morgan of Alabama offered an
amendment to Mr.. Bacon's resolution
| guaranteeing to the people OF Porto
Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines re-
publican government and Mr.. Hoar OF
| Massachusetts introduced resolution
| declaring how the people of the island
possessions of the United States should
| be governed.
At the opening the presiding officer
laid before the senate communication
| from the regents of the Smithsonian
Institute suggesting in the form of a
J joint resolution the appointment or For
mer Secretary of State Richard Olney
to fill the vacancy on the board of re-
gents caused by the death of DIR. VIII
| liam Preston Johnson of Louisiana.
Mr. Hoar (MasS.), thought this a
most unusual proceeding. He said it
would be as proper for justices of the
supreme court to suggest to the presi-
dent who should fill vacancy on the
bench. The resolution was left on the
| table.
Hale Praises General Brooke.
Mr. Hale (Me), had read from the
| o1a GaSlr tha rr0cla fiOO issued 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. 1t is most remarkable
statement on the progress that has
been made in Cuba. If General Brooke
be right, peace and good order have
practically been established on the is
land and the people will be ready at
an early date to enter upon govern
ment of their own.
General Brooke is to be congratu-
| lated upon having accomplished a vast
| work. 1t is much greater than 1 had
supposed. l see the dawn of the time
when the Cuban people will be able to
set up a government of their own. Cen
eral Brooke having been displaced will
soon come north, and when he arrives.
will receive our congratulations upon
/ his great work"
The matter was referred to the COM
| mittee on relations with Cuba.
| Mr.. Harris (Kan.), announced his
withdrawal from the committee on ag-
riculture Thereupon Mr.. Cockrell (Mo.) !,
presented a resolution filling the va
cancies on the committees on agricul-
| ture claims, forest reservations, inter-
state commerce, Philippines and pen
sions by the appointment of Mr.. Allen
| (Neb), The resolution was adopted.
Disposition of Islands.
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 their independence. establishing
their constitutions or undertaking new
and great responsibilities, seen fit to
! declare the purpose for which the ma
| ton or state was.founded and the i'm
portant objects the people intend to
| pursue 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 a condi-
ton of practical dependence upon the
United States constitute an occasion
which make a declaration proper, there
fore be it
Resolved, That this republic adheres
| to the doctrines which were in the past
set forth in the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and in its national and state
constitutions That the purpose of its
existence and the objects TO which its
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are ennobling of humanity, the raising
from the dust its huns5lest and coars-
est members, and the enabling of per-
sons coming lawfully under its power
or influence to live in freedom and in
| honor, under governments whose forms
they are to have share in determin-
ing, and in whose administration they
have an equal share. Its most import
ant and pressing obligations are:
Pressing Obligations.
81. To solve the difficult problem pre-
sented by the presence of different races
on our soil with equal constitutional
rights. To make the negro safe in his
home, secure in his vote, and opDor-
tunity for education and employment,
and TO bring the Indian to civilization
need and capacity.
'2. To enable great cities to govern
themselves in freedom, honor and pur-
ity.
"3. To make the ballot box as pure
| as a sGcramental vessel, and the elec-
ton return as perfectly in accord with
the laws and the truth as the ludg-
ment of the supreme court.
"A. To Danish illiteracy and Ignorance
from the land.
''5. To secure for every workman and
| for every workingwoman wages enough
to support a life of comfort and an ole
age Of leisure and quiet, as BELTS those
who have an equal share in self-goV-
erning state.
'6. To grow and expand over the
continent and over the islands OF III:
sea, Just so fast, and no faster, as W.
can bring into equality and self-gcv'
ernment under our constitution, people:
and races who will share these ideal.
| and help to make them realities.
Not to Force Freedom.
az. To set a peaceful example OF free
dom which mankind Will be glad to fol
| low, but never to force even freedom
upon unwilling natives at the point o
the bayonet or at the cannor's mout n
49, To abstain from interfering witt
the freedom and just rights of Other
nations and peoples, and to remember
that the liberty to d. right necessarily
involves the liberty to do wrong; anc
that the American people have no righ
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