The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-19

Washington, Jan 1S.-For an hour
today Mr.. Wellington (Rep) occupied
the attention of the senate, continuing
the debate on the Philippine question.
He took as his text the resolution he
introduced last Tuesday declaring that
the United States should not take per
manent possession Of the archipelago.
but, after subduing the instruction.
which he sincerely deplored. should
confer upon the Filipin0s the right to
govern themselves. affOrding them
such protection as they might need.
Mr.. Teller (Sil Rep, Colo) resumed
his speech on the financial bill. in the
I course of which he arraigned Secretary
Gage for his negotiations with the Ma
tiOnal City bank of New York. He had
not concluded his remarks when he sus-
pended them fer the day.
By special order il was I o'clock
when the senate convened. the delay
being on account of the ceremonies at
tendant upon the unwilling Of the Web
ster statue.
Inquiry as to Transvaal Agent.
Mr.. Allen CNeb.) offered a resolution
directing the secretary of state to in
form the senate if any person had been
accredited from the Transvaal TO the
| United States government in any ca
pdcity, and if such person were Of
1 ficially accepted and recognized. and if
not, why not. Objection was made to
/ immediate consideration Of the res0lu-
ton and it went over under the rules.
Mr.. Ross (Vt) offered a resolution
declaring that the provisions Of the
constitution GO not. unaided by an act
| Of congress. extend over Puerto Rico
and the Philippine Islands; that by the
Paris treaty the United States takes
| sovereignty over Puerto Rico and the
Philippines and are under duty to ex-
| ercise il for the general welfare of the
/ inhabitants, and that a separate de
: partment of the government is de-
/ manded to take charge Of all outlying
/ dependencies.
/ IN accordance with a previous notice.
! at the conclusion of routine business
/ Mr.. Wellington Md addressed the
/ senate On the Philippine question.
Wellington On the Philippines.
The text Of the speech was the joint
( resolution which he introduced Tues
I day last declaring that it is not the
purpose of the United States to de-
/ prive the FilipinOs of their right Of
! government. and the war now be-
I ing Waged is not for the permanent
= possession of the islands, but for the
/ establishment Of peace and order, and
further declaring that the Filipin0s
shall have the privilege, under the
protection Of the United States, Of es-
/ tablishing a republic.
Mr.. Wellington said he was not ready
/ to enter upon a policy Of expansion,
( the first exemplifiCatiOn of which is to
7 be the taking by force of arms Of the
/ ISLANDS. persons and privileges of the
I Philippine islanders" History indi-
/ Gated that imperial destiny" had
/ wrecked many republics.
Great Blessing to England.
] He believed that one Of the greatest
I blessings that ever befell England was
/ the loss Of the American colony Re
/ ferring to Great Britain's war with the
( Transvaal. Mr.. Wellington said:
She has not met the Caucasian race
( since the CTimean war and now. when
/ fer the first time for half a century she
1 attempts to send her army to destroy
a brave and courageous, but unsOrtu-
nate people, she all at once rudelv
/ awakers from the dream Of her power.
because she finds that corruption has
! eaten 10 her very vitals and her army,
1 which she deemed was still like that Of
/ Cromwell-invincible been belab-
/ Ored and defeated every day since it
/ attacked the Beers. And justly so. And
/ it may be at no distant time that the
ir5idious influences which have thus
deba5ed her Will entirely destroy the
/ weighty structure Of the empire she has
erected.
Struggle For Freedom.
IF the propositions advanced in 1776
were true then, and applicable to the
! American people, struggling for free
! dom, have they grown less forceful by
/ the passage Of a century and quarter
( of time2 And are they less applicable
now to a struggling people in the year
1900, even though they dwell in the dis
tance and are weak beginners in fhe
I contention for national life and the es-
/ tablshment of government by their
/ own consent, so long denied them by
the tyranny of Spain. If il was true
| then. it is true now.
| In the language Of President Nc
kinney himself: From Plymouth Rock
to the Philippines, the grand triumph
ant march Of human liberty has never
/ paused Shall it pause nOW2 Shall the
| advancing columns Of freedom seeking
men be retarded2
In the resolution I have offered
clearly indicate the purpose I have in
view. 1t is not to abandon the present
war until certain conditions have been
reached, but to endeavOr to reach the
! attainment of the conditions as quickly
as possible, and then give to the inhab-
itants of the Philippines an opportunity
of creating for themselves, as we did in
revolutionary times by evolution and
1 seif-exertion, the best government pos
sible Cor their condition"
Effort to Rob Schley.
Mr.. Wellington referred to the part
the people of his own state had taken
in the war with Spain, saying. "On that
July morning which, by it's rising sun
heralded the destruction OF the Spanish
naval power in Santiago bay as it IL
Illuminated tne line Of American war
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