The Portland daily press., 1900-01-31
We Owe As Much to Them As To
the CubanS.
Three Hours Speech by
Georgia Man.
Brief and Unimportant Session
OF the House.

Washington, January 29.-For more
than TIRES hours today Mr.. Bacon, Demo
crat Of Georgia. occupied the attention OF
the senate with discussion Of TIRE
Philippine question. His argument,
which had for Its basis his own resolus
tions, dsclaratory Of the governments
policy toward the Philippires, was
listened to carefully by his fellow Ssns-
tors and by a large gallery audisnoe. He
maintained that the United States owed
as much to the Flip,nos as 1t did to the
Cubsns, to whom by resolution Of Con-
eress self government had been promised
and he strongly urged that his resolutions
declaring 1t to be the Intention OF this
government to confer the right Of govern
msnt upon the Filipinos be adopted as q
means not only OF terminating the war
but Of extending to Q struggling people
jus tics and freedom.
A bill providing that the cannon on the
aanboat Nashvill, from which the first
shot was fired In the Spanish American
war be condemned and presented to the
city of Nashville, was passed..
MIR. Hoar offered . resolution desiring
the committee on rules to consider
whether some suitable plan could not be
adopted for the enlargement Of the
capitol and for providing for the transac-
tion Of pu bio business ether than execu.
tive business elsewhere 60 that there may
bs sufficient space provided for the CON-
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two houses Of Congress. The resolution
was agreed to.
A resolution presented BY Mr.. Hoar
providing that on Thursday, February
20, Wasbingto farewell address be read
to the Senate in accordance with Its
usual custom by Senator Foraker OF Ohio
was adopted.
A resolution offered yesterday by Mr..
Pettigrsw calling upon the President for
information az to whether the people of
Samoa were consulted on the treaty re-
Gently made in relation to the islands and
whether any protests have been received
from the Samoans against the treaty was
laid before the Senate.
On motion Of Mr.. Davis the resolution
was referred to the committee on foreign
relations by q vote Of 80 to %. Mr.. Petit
grew then asked unanimous consent to
have printed ~ a public document =
statement by Aguinsido giving \ history
of the revolt OF the Filipinos against the
Spaniards. He raid 1t was document Of
great interest to the Senate and the
country, but on objection the question
went over. After the passage OF num-
Der Of bills on the calendar. ..Mr. Bacon
of Georgia, addressed the Senate on the
Philippine question.
MIR. Bacon after discussing some pre-
llminary points, said 10 partt
"Uuder thess resolutions, II adopted,
the United States will do fIr the Philip
pines practically the same as they have
undertaken to do for Cuba.
"Ths question presented may be con-
uisely stated as foliows: when the oondi-
tions are ripe, when peace has been re-
stored, and the authority of the United
States 10 NO longer resisted In the Philip
pines, shall the United States then ACCORD
free government to the Filipinos to be
Independently exercised by them, or will
the United States thereafter retain the
the Philippine Islands, with the view to
their permanent retention % q part OF the
territory OF the United States"
After discussing previous acquisitions
OF territory, Mr.. Bacon said:
'iIu each of those vast aoquisitions and
in the uses made Of them there was ex-
pansion and great expansion. But 1t was
not simply expansion Of the territory
subject to the Jurisdiction Of the United
States 1t was also an expansion or rath-
or an extension Of the same political sys-
TENS and political institutions which ex-
listed in the original states-the sxpan-