The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02
MI. .PEH|GREN ONCE MORE
The South Dakota Senator Tries tc Get Statement by Aguin-
 aldo Into the Record.
HE FINDS THE ROAD BADLY BLOCKED.
Mir. Pettiurew Charged With Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy Main Objection to Aguinaldo.s Statement Is That It is . Tissue of Known Falsehoods.

Washington. Jan. 31.-When the sen- senate convened to-day. Mir. Hale (Me.) made partial report of the confer ence committee on the urgent defi- ciency bill. It was adopted, and fur ther conference was requested.
 Mir. Pettigrew wished a statement made by Aguinaldo printed as q docu- ment.
 He said that if it was not allowed he would read the statement,and there by get it in the record.
 Mir. Hawley (Conn.) said he would object to the reading as reasonable.
 Tt is giving aid and comfort 10 the enemy, and that is what the senator from South Dakota is doing all the time," said MT. Hawley
 Mir. pettigrew asserted that the de- partments were holding back informa- ton.
 NIT. Lodge (Mass.) objected 10 the Aguinaldo statement, because, he said, 1t was mass of falsehoods. He re- sented the statement that anything was held back.
 Mir. Lodge also read a statement from Admiral Dewey. denying the statement of Aguinaldo, and saving that he had never received him with military honors. nor saluted the Fili- pino flag; nor promised the Filipinos independence in any way whatever
 MT. Spooner thought it was about time to draw the line upon this coun- stant and daily suit of Aguinaldo against the United States. He said that no statement of man in arms against the United States should be placed on the records of the senate. It would. he thought, be construed as encour- agement to those in insurrection against the flag and authority of the United States.
 Mir. Spooner made a touching al- fusion to Gen. Lawton, and read from . letter of the dead general, who dep recGted the utterances of the anti imperialists in America on account uf their effect in the Philippines. Mir. Gallinger (N.H.) said that it was time the kind of argument of the
 
 the senate. He said it was question whether we should believe the charges of Aguinaldo or the statement of Ad- miral Dewey.
 Mir. Jones (Ark.) said he thought that all the truth should be known. He thought great mistake was made in refusing to pass the resolutions of in- Ha al .l.z be no objections to printing docl- ments. If they were true they ought to be known; if false their untruthful- ness would be shown. There had been rigid censorship of everything com ing from Manila, said Mir. Jones. He charged that the republicans feared to have the truth regarding the Philip pines being known.
 Mir. Pettigrew replied at some length, saying the United States had less than one quarter of the soil in the Philip pine archipelago, and that the way to peace was to grant the Filipinos inde- peBdence. He read from the queens speech at the opening of the British parliament and said that it was made to appear that the English were at tao ked by the Boers. There was no more truth in that statement than in the similar one that the United States had been attacked by the Filipinos.
 Mir. Sewall (N. J.) said he was not in favor of Philippine acquisition, but no matter what his personal opinions were. he supported the flag when it was attacked. He deprecated beyond measure the action of the senator from South Dakota (Pettigrew) and under the circumstances he was traitor to his country in supporting the arch traitor of the United States, who had sold himself to Spain and betrayed his own country. He characterized the prs ceedings as monstrous.