The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-15
Senator HoaT's Speech Against
Expansion CahIedtu HOngKong
THEN SENT TO PHILIPPINES.
Former Minister Barrett Believes II Was
The Cause Of Open Rebellion
NAMES TIE SENATOR FOR FIRST TIME
In an ADDRESS al Lake Torss' University 10 an
Audience Known 10 Be Hostile 10 RamInsha-
Ton Discoveries Made BY 6tvmmonl.

Chicago, Jan. 15.-John Barrett. ex-
United States Minister to Siam. FOR
the first time publicly named Senator
iIoar Saturday night at Lake Forest
University as the United states sena-
tor whose anti-eXpansion speech was
cabled TO Hong Kong, and Subsequent
~ pat in the hands OF the Filipino SOL
dlers, causing, as Mr.. Barrett believed,
the open hnsurrection.
Frequently this speech and its pre-
sumed effect have been mentioned. and
the reading public has connected the
/ name of Senator Hoar with il and il is
! probable that Mr.. Barrett would not
have used the law makers name on
! this occasion had he not been facing an
andienc- KIN 'wn to be largely hostile TO
the Administrations policy in the ORR
entail islands. IL appeared further from
the ex-ministers speech that the gov
eminent had discovered privately the
stages by which the anti-expansion ad-
dress reached Luzon.
There was much interest in the recep-
tion Mr.. Barrett's speech would meet.
Al the close of the meeting ne was
cheered and the audience OF several
hundred people waited In line 10 shake
hands with him.
In the course OF his address which
was on the general subject of the Phil
lppines. the speaker said Il had been
discovered in the government investi-
CATION That Senator Hoars speech WAS
caDled III cipher and in fragments -tn
Paris, where IL was put together and
forwarded 10 Hong Kong. The message
included several thousand words and
the cost Tor transmission was said to
havs been $4,000 1t interested the gov
ernment TO know what friends the Fill
ipinos had a this time who were I'm q
position TO send the message.
was i'm Hong Kong az the time
SAID Mr.. Barrett. and / remember the
lncldent distinctly. ] was coming down
stairs in the hotel when / met the pres
ident of the Hong Kong Junta and he I
had I'm his hand the long dispatch he /
had just received. II gave a large part
OF senator Hoar's speech in fun. and 1
n summary OF the rest Of il. I asked the !
president what he was going 10 do with /
II, and he told me that ne meant TO
send IL 10 the officers OF the army i'm
the philippines. He was urged nor To do
II, but he protested that II had been
printed I'm the United States and was
public property. -Four DAYS after.-++rr
speech had been delivered il was i'm the
hands or those who saw an opportunity
to make political capital out of II. The
speech was published and distributed
among the soldiers, and believe Il was
he eliminating influence that brought
about the Filipino revolt.
HOAR WILL NOT TALK
Washington. Jan. Ex-senator Hoar
asst night declined to take any notice
IF the statements attributed 10 Mr.
Barrett. ex-minister ITO Siam, i'm an ad
iress on the Philippine question The
senator said that Gen. Otls's reports
si"e the fullest accounts of the events
hat led 10 hostilities, and that he ex
'ects, as he has already given notice.
o deal with the whole matter in the
enate.