Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-02-02

AT the opening Of the House, the
Speaker decided the question submit
ted to him Il few days ago relative to
the reference Of the estimates for the
Rock Island, Ill. and Springfield,
Mass, armories in favor Of the mill
tary affairs committes so far as the
approximations for smd1 arms are con-
cerned ana in favor If the appropria-
ZION committee 50 far as the appropria-
tons for fixtures for the armories are
concerned
The conference report IN tn urgen-
cy deficiency bill was adopted. 1t was
only q partial agreement. Two items
We're still in dispute. One Of these. the
appropriation FIR the public building
At Kansas. was agreed to and the
House still insisted upon its agree
ment to the appropriation Of $1,000 for
the observation Of the eclipse Of the
sun. next May, a. $1,000 had been given
the Smithsonian Institution for the
same purpose.
The House then went into commit
tee Of the whole and resumed the
Indian appropriation bill.
Shafroth Colo. made a speech say
ing that il il the duty Of the United
states 10 mediate between Great Brit
ain and the Transvaal. He traced the
history of the Transvaal Dutch from
the migrations from Holland and to
show that England was invading the
rights Of the South African republic.
He contended that England had prac-
tically abandoned her claim Of sue
rainty over the Transvaal in the con-
Of The demands nf Great
Britain that the Transvaal should
adopt naturalization laws for the ben
eft Of the Titlanders. should adopt the
English language as the official Ian
guage and should not impose certain
taxes Ilpon the mines was outrageous.
He concluded with the statement that
no fair minded man could EXAMINE the
controversy without being convinced
that England was wrong and the
Transvaal was right His remarks
were literally applauded.
Talbert. S. c., denounced Linney. n.
G., for the reflections upon the fair
name Of the South. yesterday.
Sibley, Pa, criticised his fellow Dem
ocrats for opposing the annexation of
the Philippines. He had. he said.
heard no argument against territorial
tHId StIltul was NV VI SNh
against the annexation of Louisiana
and Texas.
rs there any parallel" asked Coch-
ran. Mo, between the territory in the
Louisiana purchase, then practically
without population. and the Philip
pines?"
Nothing has been said about the
Philippines replied Sibley, which
was not said about the territory now
Missouri You in Missouri were class
ed as barbarians.'
But are the Philippines. with pop
ulation denser than Iowa. Missouri
Kansas and Nebraska. available for
occupation?' asked Cochran.
II think they are. When jefferson
negotiated the purchase of Louisiana
he was the target of vituperation, ridi-
Guile and reproach. From New Eng
land came such epithets as 'Jacobin.
imperialist perverter of the constitu
ton vet all admit now that Jefferson
acted wisely
DO you believe the people in the
Philippines are susceptible of the civil
ization of the inhabitants of the Louis
lana purchase?
II am not placing any limitations
upon the powers of Almight God, an
swered Sibley. amid a round of Repub-
lican applause.
Proceeding, Sibiey pointed out that
modern methods had brought the Phil
ippines nearer than the Louisiana pur-
chase or Texas when they We're an
nexed. When Louisiana was purchas-
ed. he said, no man ever lived lohE
enough to go to it's western limits anu
return. Today, we can hear from ha
Mia in few hours and MAKE tie
round trip in few months
In reply to Cochran's taunt thdt CIV
iIizaton was being shot into the fhli-
ippines. Sibley said that the history u
civilization had been traced III human
blood. Wendell Phillips had said that
every achievement of human justice
had gone from rack to rack and scat
fold to scaffold.
shall we hold Porto Rico and the
pbiIinnine archipelago?' asked Sibley.
every foot We hold by the double
title of purchase and conquest, and
nv belief is that where once the
shadow of our banner has fallen there
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