The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-02-28
DEB ATE Gil SEDON
PORTO RICAN BILL
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4 ORAl " lAlSiAai
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his politica, associates gave him a round
OF applause. Primary TO beginning his
argument, MIR. Bailey said an accusa-
ton Mr.. Cannon had made against the
Democratic side for voting the $4,000. 900
TO Spain was the only portion OF mat
speech that called for serious icply. MT.
Bailey said that vote committed the
Democrats TO nothing as TO the future
eaol!cy toward the philippines. Ihey
voted the money to discharge an obi
Saition of the government incurred vain %.
out tl,eir consent. Turning 10 the bill.
Mr. Bailey declared that there was IN
rolved On it {, question OF law ana
question OF morals.
MIR. BAlLEY'S ARGUMENT.
Taking up the legal question Involved.
Mr.. Bailey made an exhaustive argument
against the constitutionaffty OF the Dill.
He was listened 10 attcntivcly and ire
cuently elected applause AS he proceco-
Cd he aroused the lawyers on the other
side and was for a time almost conun-
uously engaged in crossing words with
one or the other of his adversaries.
During the excitement Of The Spanish
war. Mr.. Bailey said, he stood unmoved
He warned his countryrlen then as he
warned them to-day. that the constitution
could moi be applied to the government
of the colonies. when emotional states
-nens'' said he in conclusion, were ask
ed who would haul down the flag. cared
to say that / would take it down from any
place where the constitution could not
follow II. Democratic appiause).
do you desire TO present the anoionly
of a government restrained by the con-
stitution in one quarter of the globe and
possessed of despotic power IN the rest
of the world? How long is the consntu-
ton to shield US and its children II us
protection is withheld from the humplcSt
inhat1itant. Let me borrow the words o.
Lincoln: This republic cannot endure one
half free and onc-half slave. we must
be all citizens or in time we will be an
subjects. 1 did not want TO assilniia'c
these alien and inferior races, and pray
5c.od IN deliver us from the task. But If
you will take them they must snare our
destiny with u.s..
The Democrats greeted Mr.. Bai1eys
,,1rr1,atdon with rsI'oarious applause. ana
half a hundred of them crowded up the
aisle to congratulate him.
LOUD APPLAUSE.
Mr. Deliver. of Iowa, closed the debate
for the majority. Long and loud was the
demonstration which greeted him.
porary measure to provide revenue lot
Porto Rico. Yet it has been magnified III
this debate until it has been made to IN
cl,,de The whole problem of the govern
ment Of all territory acquired by us ps
the treaty of Paris. The President recon-
mended that Congress should aDollsn All
duties on Porto Rtcan goods, that Inc ~
habitants of the stricken island might re-
but3d their fallen fortunes ana reseheIh.e
their shattered industries. Despite the
abuse lleaped by the press upon TINS Dill
7 am ,renared to show that it viii do cx-
actly what the President recommended
should be done t.apolausei
Mr.. poIliver spoke derisiVely OF me
anxiety and zeal Of the Democracy 10
UNFOLD the President. Coming after Two
years OF calurrny directed against the
president it was but cheap party lnsen-
uitr. 1t was declared that this bill was
in behalf Of the sugar trust. Wheh me
.ras. is, declared Mr.. Dolliver, that the
sugar trust wants free trade. Inc same
was the case Of the tobacco trust.
NOT FRIGHTENED
$50 far .s / am concerned" he said.
az am not frightened by all these tales
of wee. by these predictions of disaster.
one following the other, coming up
s1rais htway out Of the Carripean sea or
1he Pacific Ocean. For I can see that,
after recent national experience. It IS
possible for a men to underrate the e1-
feet OF any appeal to the popular fear Oh
free trade on scale however smaI,
even when presented by the managers OIL
Democratic politics in the United States.
daughter on the Republican side.)
.fSut If that We're the only issue at
stake. it is not settled in my mind that
anybody ought to be frightened. certain
1y not out of his wits. even by a proposal
SO extreme as the threat of the admission
into The. markets of the Uni-cd States OF
all the products of our possessions, either
now or in time 10 come. At any rate 1t Is
not conrended that any American indus
Try is likely to suffer On account OF the
free admission into this country OF the
surplus productions of the people of Porto
Rico. And SO a horizontal reduction OF
nearly 40 per cent. in nearly all tae
schedules of tariff law of 1897. has intro
duced no element Of alarm whatever into
the American market-place. So that has
done no harm. Not only has it done no
harm. but it has already done the Re-
publican party, at least. a great service.
for 1t has put a stop to the unscrupuious
aggregation that was filling the United
States with fear that in taking possession
or vast tropical areas and territories. the
United States We're found helpless tt deal
VIII them, except on Terms VI SuCu pOii IL
cal Intimacy and commercial equality as
the constitution prescribes for the people
OF tic United States.
A LATE MEASURE.
And so. gentlemen, we present here
a revenue measure containing With it
political possibilities that the Democratic
party has had its eye on for year, and
which some OF our boys on this side
ulave GO. wild about, because they got
their eye on them only ten days ago.
daughter on the Republican side.l
Taking UP the constitutionali1y issue,
Mr.. Dolliver said:
IF the Constitution of the United
States establishes free trade between
Manila and San Francisco, as it un-
douhtcaly does between Maryland and
Virginia. then the fact that we have
got into new competition is the
least trouble that is before as. We
are in that case disarned at once in
the momentous demand which this ma
ton has made for equal rights in the
commerce Of Asia ] violate no secret
OF this government when ! say to-day
there Is pending in the State Depart
7nent the most elaborate commercial ne
gotiation ever attempted in the history
OF our diplomacy, based upon pledge
unade by our commissioners at Paris.
that whatever We did In the Pacific
ncpan we would maintain an Open door