The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-01
THE HAWAIIAN
GOVERNMENT BILL
Final Vote Postp tpon'ed I'm in:
til Tomorrow.
THE P PHILIPPINES
MIR. mcLaurin Of South Carolina
Speaks on Them in Senate.
SHOULD HOLD TIE ISLANDS.
He Held That They are Rishtfnlly
Ours by Paris Treaty, and That
They Should be Held. Affordin.
the Pilipinos livery Oppor-
tunity to Acquire Art of
sclcGovernment.
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THE P PHILIPPINES.
Mr.. McLaurin Of South Carolina
Speaks on Them in Senate.
SHOULD HOLD THE ISLANDS.

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WASHINGTON. Feb. 2s-Notwithstand-
ing the agreement made by the Senate to
vote on the Hawaiian government bill
at to-day's session, the final vote on the
measure was postponed until 4 O'Clock to-
morrow. Practically no progress was
made on the bill to-day, although 1T was
under consideration nearly four hours
Mr. Aldrich explained the conference
work on the financial measure. One Of
the amendments authorizing the go
reserve to be held in bullion as we'll as
gold coin was added, because the facill-
ties for the coinage of gold would not at
present admit of the coming OF gold n
sufficient quantity to maintain at all
times the reserve in gold coin. The pro-
vision prohibiting the use of bond-sale
proceeds to pay the current government
expenses was due to the apprehensions of
the House conferees that so-ealled end
less chain might be established.
He said the authority to suspend the is
sue of certificates where United States
notes and silver certificates in the gene
raj fund exceed sixty millions OF dollars
was simply another way CT protecting
the reserve. The issue first OF silver
certificates of small denominations was
10 avoid any possible contraction of the
currency. The additional coinage OF $50
Co0Co0 of subsidiary silver vas to meet
expected later needs of our island pos
sessions. The authority for banks to is
sue one-third of their circulating notes in
denominations of five dollars was agreed
| to because banks in remote parts of the
country needed good deal Of currency
in small bills to accommodate customers
| NTT ri
Concerning the bimetallic amendments,
AIr. -:Aldrich said the position ia Zen by
the United States was that bimetallism
was now impossible, except by interna-
tional agreement.
Mr. McLaurin. of South Carolina, was
then recognized to speak on the Philip
pine question. He said:
'.In the discussion of this question
there has been manifested disposition
to ignore the conditions by which we
are confronted. and to project the de-
. bate upon line of political sentimental
ISM This mode of discussion is not
only unpatriotic, but is an evasion of the
trust isues. This is not a political
question"
Mr.. McLaurin strongly deprecated the
position which the Democratic party had
taken in making the Philippine question
and expansion a political issue. He
Of the greatest Democrats who ever lived
were expansionists, and to prove by
their acts and measures that if it had
not been for them the United States
would not have been the nation it is to-
day.
He took the ground that the Philip
pines are rightfully and legally ours by
the treaty of Paris, and that the United
States should hold them, affordinS the
Filipinos every opportunity to. acquire
the art of government, and giving them
all the powers and rights possible in
the circum stances. He dWelt particu-
larly on the great opportunities afford
ed by the islands for trade between
Americans and the atoms OF the Orient
He did not agree with some of his col
leagues on the Democratic side that our
trade in the East was a mere figure of
the imagination. He quoted statistics
to prove that the experience of the last
decade contradicted these who asserted
that our Eastern trade was not OF i'm
mense consequence.
TRADE IN ORIENT
..It is in the Orient" he said, that we
must lco!1 for markets. There must be a
change in our policy. We must enter into
actual competition for this trade. We
must as a nation recognize changed condi-
tions, and I believe that by holding the
Philippines our trade in the Orient will
continue to increase until all surplus pro-
ducts for years to come will find rernune-
rative markets in the east
Mr.. sMcLaurin then discussed the special
interest of the south in the expansion of
our trade.
II am glad, said he. ''to believe that
the southern people have determined TO
investigate and study this question rather
than to be led biindly by political anti-ex-
pansioniSts The southern farmer by the
money received for cotton last year has
become aroused. Fealty to party and mis-
leading influenced, I fear, caused among
them opposition to territorial expansion
Efforts were made in my own Stale to
suppress all information to arouse public
sentiment against expansion. The fright
full cnostI of imeprialisrn has been held up
before the people of the south to frighten
them. but I+believe it is impossible much
longer to thus mislead them
Mr.. McLaurin said. in sketching the pro-
eress of the soLth during the pastalWent5
Years. that the blight of negro suffrage
ton1 negro domination had almost extn-
r,,;sbed hope and energy ard manly effort.
hut like a giant bound with fetters, she
aroused herself at last and again started
mon an era of industrial life
E ..rvanital has flowed into that section"
I'll he .eThere is confidence in all
southern enterprises. The bitter nner;o-
sries of the past are being 1orgotsen IN
the rush Of the deyelopment OF ou-5re-s
sn,,rcess Our people feel thai they are
80 IN J, ma Il of this great country, and
arc lsft free and untrammelled to work
o,,t their own destiny Our southern
M urys,l sn,lfaccurers have already reached out
( - the market of the Orient and dtscov-E
sred their advanta The southern
"a TTner needs such markets for his raw !
cotton TO make its production remunera-
{ = 80 KEYaTo THE EAST.
3seRy the acquisition OF the Philippines
,,,ra hold the key tosthe eastern situat ton
s Wes need not rely solely upon treaty
fights to secure the open door..Ebuts can
s demand etisal commercial opportnnity