The age-herald., 1900-01-19
TWO SPEECHES
 IN THE SENATE Wellington Not Yet Ready for
 Expansion TELLER ON CURRENCY BILL It Would Bring Our LegisIatiQp f..o Contempt. TIES g gLT OF PARTY RULE ONLY IGS arply Rebuked Secretary Gage N@ { His Dealings With National
 Banks and Read From Fa- " nous Hepburn Letter.
It Would Bring Our Legislation
 f..o Contempt.
TIES 2 gLT OF PARTY RULE ONLY

Washington, January 1S.-For an honf today MT. Wellington. Republican, of Maryland, occupied the attention of the senate, continuing the question on the Philippines He took his question from the introduction of the bill of last Tuesday.
 Mir. Teller, silver republican, of Colo- rado, resumed his speech on the financial bill, in the course of which he arraigned Secretary Gage for his negotiations with the National City bank, of New York.
 By special order it was 1 o'clock when the senate convened, the delay being on account of the ceremonies attendant upon the unvefling of the Webster statue.
 MT. Allen, of Nebraska, offered reso- lution directing the secretary of state to inform the senate if any person mad been accredited from the Transvaal to the United States government in any capaci- ty, and if such person were officially ac- cepted and recognized, and If not. why not.
 Objection was made to immediate cons sideration of the resolution, and 1t went over under the rules.
 MT. Ross. of Vermont, offered resolus tion declaring that the provisions of the constitution do not, unaided by congress. extend over Porto Rico and the Philippine islands; that by the Paris treaty the United States takes sovereignty over Porto Rico and the Philippines, and is under the duty to exercise it for the general welfare of the inhabitants, and that separate department of the government Is demands ed to take charge of all outlying depends encies
 In accordance with previous notice. at the conclusion of routine business MT. Vel. lirn,f .~F
 on the Philippine question. The text of his speech was the joint resolution which he introduced on Tuesday last declaring that it is not 'ihe purpose of the United States to deprive tine Philippines of their right of sef-government, and the war now being waged is not for the permanent possession of the islands, but for the establishment of peace and order, and further declaring that the Filipdnos shall have the privilege under the protection of the United States of es- taiolishing a republic.
 MT. Wellington said he was not ready to enter upon policy of expansion, "the first exemphfica ton of which is 10 be the taking by force of arms of the islands, persons and privileges of the Philippine islanders
 History, he said indca ted that ''irnperiai destiny had wrecked many republics
 ID eshiHS TOT England
 He believed that of the greatest blessings that ever befell England was the loss of the American colony. Referring to Great Britains war with the Transyaal. MT. Wellington said:
 She has not met the Caucasian race since the Crimean war, and now when for the hrst time for half century she attempts to send her army to destroy brave and l..
 courageous but unfortunate people she at once rudely awakens from the dream of her power because she finds that the corrup- tions has eaten to her vatals, and her army. which she deemed was still like that of Cromwell ll-invincible-has been belabored and defeated every day since its attack on the Boers. And justly so. And it may be at no distant time that the dnsiduous tn- ferences which have debased her will en- tirey destroy the weighty structure of the empire she has erected.
 If the propositions adopted in 1776 were true then and applicable to the American people struggling for freedom, have they grown less forceful by the quarter of time? And are they less applicable now to struggling people in the year 1900, even though they dwell in tine distance and are weak beginners in the contention for na- tional life and the establishment of govs ernment by their own consent, so long de- nied them by the tyranny of Spain? If is was true then, 1t is true now.
 Tn the language of President Mckinley himself, From Plymouth Rock to the Phil- ippines the grand triumphant march of human liberty has never paused Shall tt pause now? Shall the advancing columns of freedom-seeking men be retarded, obs structed?
 "In the resolution I have offered clear y ind1cate the purpose I have in view. It is not aDanGon present war untfr certain conditions have been realized, but to endeavor to attain these conditions as quickly as possible, and then give to the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands an opportunity of creating for themselves as we did in revolutionary times, by evolution and self-exertion, the best government pos- ssble for their condition
 Mir. Wellington referred to the part the reaple of his own state had taken in the Spanish war, saying: "On that July morn- ing which by It's rising sun heralded tho ---~-~~~~-~~---------~~
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