The age-herald., 1900-03-10
LINDSAY MADE
 A GREAT SPEECH
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| in view determine the civil rights and the | political status of the Filipdnos, for it was matter of eXpediency with us. The ex- l pectation that odious tariff provisions had l no greater or more commendable purpose | than to make a case for the supreme court in advance of legislation in respect to the Philippines, would not be accepted as suffi- cient, for 1t was not the business of con- gresS to make cases for the courts. More over, the Philippines, while lawfully sub ject to our sovereign Jurisdiction are not integral parts of the United States and their inhabitants were not in his opinion, entitled to claim that they can be govern ed only under and in exact accordance with
 the constitution of the United States. The Consti ut onaI Question The doctrine that the constitution of the United States follows the flag, and that no
 country to which title may be acquired,
 whe by treaty or conquest, can be held
 and governed otherwise than as integral
 portion of the United States did not com
 mend itself to him. The United States was
 not less than nation, as these contentious
 would make it appear. If 1t be necessary or expedient for a republic to go to war to over-run the territories of its enemy, it may lawfully over-run and occupy them, and, at the close of a successful war, may indemnify itself for the expense and dam
 
 such portions of the conquered territory as
 justice and expediency may reasonably demand. It may require the inhabitants of
 the conquered country to submit to reason-
 able and just rules prescribed for their gov-
 ernment 1t was to avoid the claim that,
 by the acceptance of the cession from
 Spain we placed our services under obl-
 gations to the people of the ceded territory,
 to clothe them with American citizenship,
 however inexpedient or preposterous or
 even dangerous 1t might be to do so, the stipulations of the old French, Spanish and Mexican treaties were omitted, and ma terially different stipulation inserted tin the treaty of Paris. f0af MT Lindsay then considered decisions of the supreme court which were relied on to show that the constitution propria vigore follows the flag, and admitted that they contained some expressions which
 tended to support the view, but the ques-
 tion raised by the treaty of Paris never
 had attempted to define the civil rights of
 a person coming under the dominion of the
 United States in virtue of treaty contain
 ing the stipulation that the civil rights and
 the political status of the native inhabitants
 of territory ceded to the United States shall be determined by congress.
 All the judicial opinions relied on had been rendered in cases arising under treat ies fixing and defining the personal rigMs of the inhabitants
 Those who represent what they term anti-imperialstic sentiment of the country would not he said, of course accept ilis view. They would attach no controlling importance to the covenants contained tn earher treaties fixing the status of coun- try and people ceded ito us and not leaving this to extend ex propria vigore under the constitution, but would claim that without them the constitution would have extended the supremacy of its provisions over the
 ceded territories and converted their dnhab-
 itants into citizens of the United States.
 Summing up his position with reference
 tine difference between the treaty of Paris
 and o,her treaties by which the United States had acquired territory, Senator Lindsay said:
 Tie PaIi, Trea'y
 ''The treaty of Paris does not provide, as have other treaties that the inhabitants of tine territories ceded by Spain shall at any time, or in any contingency, be made citizens of the United States, or that their
 civil rights are to be measured by line con-
 sttutfon. These rights committed to the determination of congress. The Asiatic countries ceded by Spain cannot be incor- porated into our union. Their people can not be admitted to the rights of citizenship We have, therefore, the alternative either to refuse the performance of the duty which, in the estimation of the civilized world, we assumed by the acceptance of the cessdon, or else, courageously to set about the task of giving to tlnese people the best government they are capable of administering. l do not flavor, and I do
 not believe the Americans favor the per manent holding of the Philippines in a stale Of vassalage, but we do not hasten the day of their national enfranchasement by demanding for them rights which their conditions make tit impossible for them tn enjoy, or by Charging them with duties
 they are papa5ly unable to peCform
 "I insist that we may legislate for Porto
 Rico and its people in the broadest spirit
 of justice and generosity without endang- ering our authority to solve the Asiatic problem on lines consistent with the best, interests of the United States and .he Phil ippines or principles that will secure to the people of those islands national autonomy whenever they may demonstrate their ca pacity and disposition to preserve domestic order and to perform the international obli- gat1ons that must be assumed should they become an independent state. Lost Principal Markets
 ''We cannot forget that with the cession of Porto Rico, she lost the principal mar kets she had long enjoyed; that our tariff laws have been systematically applied to her products and that the markets of Spain and Cuba, which were once open to her. can only be reached now by the payment of Spanish and Cuban duties. She has lost
 free intercourse with Spain and Cuba, and 1t is now proposed to deny her free inter- course with the people of the United States We cannot afford to do this unjust thing. ''I shall vote to amend this bill so as to
 make 1t provide for absolute free trade with the people of Porto Rico."
 At the conclusion of Mr. Lindsay's speech | he was not only applauded by the auditors in the galleries. but he was warmly con- l gratulated by his colleagues.
 The senate then, at 4:05 D. m, took a re- cess until o'clock tonight, when the read l ing of the Alaska code bill will be resumed No other business will be transacted.