The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-17
SENATE RATIFIED
SAMOAN TREATY
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conduct of the Filipino war was laid
before the Senate. Mr. Lodge moved
that the resolution and the one which he
| had offered as Il substitute for ii be laid
on the table in order that that offered
by his colleague. Mr.. Hoar might be
adopted. The motion was agreed to.
Ihe Hoar resolution with AN amend
nlent offered by Mr.. Lodge to which Mr..
about TO be passed when Mr.. petti.rew
Hoar had agreed was submitted. 1t was
offered an amendment calling for inGOr
nation as to all the Instructions which
the President had given the commission
ers who had negotiated the treaty Of
Paris together with the correspondence
that had passed between the President
and the commissioners.
OBJECT TO PUBLICITY.
MIR. Davis, Chairman of the Foreign
relations Committee and one of the conn
mlsSioners, made the point of order
against the amendment that it was eXecu-
tive business.
President prO tenn Frye who was him
self one of the commissioners over-ruled
the point because he said it was within
the discretion of the President whether
he should send the information to the
Senate or not.
MIR. Davis protested against public
discussion of this amendment but explain
ed that nothing passed between the Pres
idcnt and the comm ssioners to which pub
LEGATION is objectionable to him. but ought
not to be made public at this time.
The Senate then went into executive
session and ten minutes later i'll omen
session n moticn made by Mr.. Davis to
table the Pettigrew amendment was car
ried.
Mr. Hale NIaine) followed with a brief
statement in which he said:
THE result of the negotiations of the
Paris Treaty WAS to my mind calamit
ouS."
The debate on the resolution was COL
Guided by an earnest. but brief speech
by Mr.. Vest, Dem, No. He regarded
it as very unfortunate that nothing could
he said by the opponents of the Admin
istration's policy in the Philippines with
out calling forth AN imputati On of i'm
proper motives.
"The friends of the President" said
Mr. Vest. s. and ! am not his enemy
assume that any remarks made about
the Paris Treaty or its negotiations. is
an attack upon the Administration This
to have been forgotten that the leading
Administration Journals of the country
stated when the treaty was under con
sideratiOn that the commissioners had
been instructed to rake the island of
Ltlzon. 1t seems to me that there should
be no objection to the laying of the whole
matter before the people. if. as the Sen
ator from Minnesota (AIr Davis,) says,
he has 10 objection to such a course.
On his Western tour, the President
said the whole archipelago had fallen like
ripe apple into our hap and we were
bound to meet our new duties as they
were presented to us. Were we to leave
them, or were we, as the Junior Senator
from Indiana (Mr. Beveridge) so elo-
Quently told us the other day. trustees
under God to hold them as a part of
our mission to regenerate the earth!
J What is the position of the Presi-
dent?" inquired Mr.. Vest. He directea
the peace commission to take one island
I.uzon-ard afterwards abandoned that
policy. He has since said the acquisition
of the islands was an act of Providence
that we could not leave them as deere
lets"
'"The fact is this whole question is
in nebulous and foggy condition.
OBJECTS TO "A MUZZLE
Il disclaim now any intention that
my remarks should reflect upon my cOun-
/ try. But / deny the right of any man
tn muzzle me and restrain my right TO
express my opinion in my own way. We
have the bubonic plague added to lepro-
/ sy IN Hawaii; we have starvation iii
| Puerto Rico: we have unrest and dlsqulet
in Cuba; and we have a war of indefinite
length in the Philippines. Is it treason
to say this.
when the Paris treaty was ratified
here every mam who voted for 1T knew
them that he voted for a war, for there
had been Il battle with Agulnaldo the
Saturday preceding. Every Senator
! knew then as he knows NOW, that we
were paying S20,000.000 for a war in the
archipelago, the end of which might come
III month and might mot come In ten
years.
Il simply put before the Senate and the
country this propositions: Are we TO re-
main silent. refraining even from ordina-
ry criticism as to the conduct of the
war; for fear that we are to be denomc-
ed as allies of Aguinaldo and opposed to
the authority of our own country!
j
will be misconstrued, because it seems
to I've the policy in certain quarters to
brand every man who does not give his
unqualified assent to all that is done III
this Philippine war as unworthy the con-
fidence of the people"
The Currency Bin was taken up and
Mr. McLaurin, Dem.. s. CO, discussed
his amendment. He advocated the re
peal of the law placing a tax ON State
bank circulation and permission to State
banks to issue circulating notes. He
maintained that the increase of the bank
ing facilities would not help the South
and West if provided according to the
provisions of the pending BILL He would
have each State regulate its own dCmes-
tic currency. both in volume and kind.
At 2:45 the Senate went into executive
session and at 400 D. M. adjourned.
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