The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-31
SENATE ENJOYS A
VERY WITTY SPEECH.
Continued From Page One.


which led them to the establishment of a
constitution, which in explicit terms for
bade any such discrimination.
I Puerto Rico and its people came I'M
/ der the sovereignty of the United States
by force of the treaty with Spain, and |
think all agree that If any part of the
people of the island levied war against
the United States or adhered to our enc
| mics, they would be guilty of treason.
/ But treason Is an exclusively defined con-
| stitutional crime and it cannot exist on
| the island unless the constitution that de-
| fines IL is in force there"
Proctor then continued:
| We may do many wrong and foolish
things without violating the constitution,
! but il does not follow that We must do
| them or ought to do them, and / claim,
| MIR. President, that the plain people, the
sensible, honest American people, who
| look at this question from no standpoint
| OF interest, who are not sugar men nor
tobacco men nor men who have any
| commercial or class interests which II is
| claimed must be placated by our action,
| are the best judges of what Is fair and
/ right and honest and that their judgment
! in tho end must and will prevail If we
are not bound by the letter of the con-
! stitution. We are bound by justice and
| humanity to deal with these questions in
| the spirit of American institutions and
! American civilization.
| THE people believe as the president did
/ when he wrote in his annual message
| that our plain duty is to abolish the GUS
| toms tariff between the United States and
| Puerto Rico
The people know that sentence by
heart and they will repeat it millions of
times within the year from Its deliver
| ance unless we perform what the presi-
! dent says is our plain duty The people
peneVe this Is question not OF mere
| policy but of principle
/ ,,la ofl ar, he. .,.t.v
| ihe pea Oh harmony III the party aP-
! peais 10 me strongly. But TINS Is ques-
! tioh hlgher than pohey or party; IL IS
| question OF principle ana II Is better that
| even a small minority OF the party shouid
| De rlght IMAM that we shouid all De wrong
| II is OF vital consequence MT fresi-
! ueht' that TINS, our irst important step
| IN ieslslation lof our new acquisition
sn9uiu 50 eohilne1u ,aseii ~ ,ae jug men,
anu ooiisoieiiee Vi .iie 'ii'ei '.s'i peopie
! 'e""s %" c""s''"'io""'
AT the conclusion or Proctors speech
Pettus addressed the senate on some OF
! the constitutional phases presented by
| the Puerto Rican bill.
! Il will attempt to show said Pettus,
| how a majority of this senate has quit
the public road-the road pointed out by
| the law of the land, and also show what
| the result of it will be In discussing this
! question we will get back to the very
| foundations. The great error of those in
/ the majority here is that they are in vio-
| lation of all our notions of justice and
| common sense. They take their departure
In the belief that the United states Is a
sovereign in the sense that some Euro
| pean nations are sovereigns. 1t Is not so,
and can never be.
I'VE are governed in our relations with
| these territories by the law of nations
! far as they are applicable. Tho idea is
that when territory is coded to nation
| that nation cannot necessarily exercise
| tho powers of Its former owners 1t must
| exercise sway I'm accordance with its own
! limitations When we took the islands
| we took them with the limitations of ex-
| erctsing only such power over them as
! was posslhle under the conditions In the
| United States"
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| "t6uleht' La"ycis hhoNn ma. "heh
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hust take an ne says On Supjeet' ina.
| II wiz nov 90 20 take sentence mere ana
| announcer thete' puN II 10 eAacuy what 'he
! senator ala IN quoting Justice Bradley In
| the mormon chutch case
Gently Roasts Beveridge.
pettus then turned his attention to the
| speech Of Beverdge and said
/ we had a wonderful declaration yester-
| day from our great orator-wonderfuI II
/ was marvellous In all its parts It was so
! marvellous that I dare not say that such
/ thing has never before been heard IN the
/ senate when YOU get q genuine orator
/ he Is absolutely absolved from an rules OF
/ logic and common sense H.aughter1
! When it is necessary. in the fervor Of ora
! torical fourishes. to prove any proposition.
/ true or false rules of common sense and
/ tho decent observations OF what Is due
/ to others must not stand In the way Of
my reputation as an orator II viii not
I Gu. n tt l. necessary. must break down
I The ideas OF an Observance Of what the
senator from Vermont has characterizoi
MS the best policy II 4 Is necessary
must draw on my Imagination FOR facts
aud on my memory for flights % fancy as
ovid Bolus dli When an orator snGaks