The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-02-24
VOTE WILL BE HAD !.
TUESDAY AT NJ NJ.
which the pending bill was based.
DEFENDED THE BILL.
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which the pending bill was based
DEFENDED THE BILL.
mr. russell. sof Connecticut of the
-waysSand Means Committee, DEFENDED
the bill on bcth%c commercial and lesai
grounds; and asserted the Connec.icue
tobacco growers had no interestzln eA A-
Guiding Porto Rican tobacco
Mr.. Littlefeld CRepnblican). OF Maa .iI
followed He opposed 4he Dill ne ne saw,
because it is unrepublican, I'M Ameficali'
unprecedented. unwarraritcd, land uncoh-
zstitutionaI. He advocated rcsenerltln5
Porto Rico by a loan the United ssates
could authorize it to make, three OF ao.'l
million being sufficient He reviewed d,5s .,1e
old Porto Rico loans to SPAN anu ~
and Jamaica, pointed out that lrlt ie' .le
island had manumittcd o9,V'o sl ls1 9 1
out tumult or bloodsned. -
II saw, said he, "that 1T lies In the
mouth of no man to say that fot.o
Rico could not repay loan OF slo,ooV'Vn
If operat ting under free trade ID 1Iee iii'ii-
8kets | assert that this Dill IS dri"h
against the advice of General LAWS,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of the island; AGAINST
the protest of the people OF rolto 49, 49,,
AGAINST. the counsel of Secretary Root'
ae,;-7st the recommendations CO the
President, and against the original recon-
n,enda tons of the chairman OF the ways
and Means Committee The greatest ca
laD,lty which over shadowed the Repuoii-
can PARTY" he said, was the caiaHllty
involved in the pending bill. (Applause.)
1t was unrepubican, and he asked when
before had it been proposed to place n
duty on American capital and American
labor He argued that if the industries
of the United States were 20 be protecteu
against the industries OF Porto
and against those of the Philippines, the
industries of those islands couid he'ei
prosper MAY our flag he concludeo'
..noat over the whole republic, IN the
Occident and the Orient; over the Pearl
of the Antilles and the 1Q.e00 Islands near
rar-or Cathay. upon land and sea. over
school. home. and church, the emblem Oh
our integrity and good faith, OF Hoerts
and freedom, Of the measurable pieSs!hss
of a. Christian civilization, OF human
rights guaranteed by the Constitution,
not dependent upon the evanescent Will
of State or national legislatures. too Of
ton affrishted at their own shadows;
rights Embedded in the Constitution not
float ting as empty bubbles on the per-
t,,rbed surface of eloquent perorauonsi
rights that are eternal and world-wloe'
not ephemeral and circumscribed: OF OPP
portunity, not oppression, ana OIL iesez
Grafton. not repression.
Mr.. Payne asked unanimous consent LOT
| a vote Tuesday.
Mr.. Richardson. the Democratic Ioot
| leader, consented to this, ana Tue ast , CO.
ment was formally entered INTO. ~ Mas
| a part of the agreement that coEi iI1 te
amendments and a substitute Cou,u oe
| presented The House at 4:o3 Z. ~. re-
| cessed.
In the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-Despite vig-
| oro,ls and influential opposition. W.T.. feit-
! rose. of Pennsylvania, succeeded In get
| before tie ochSiIS
| today. anu three notable speeches we're
| delivered. ,,,a
Afr a sharp parliamentary i1 sanhnGev,
| Involving the seating of Mr. Quay De
taken up for consideration. On an aye
| and no vote the motion preval!ed-5f 70
| cause some surprise. It is known that
| some senators who will vote, il the OPP
! port,l,lity be offered, to seat MT quay
| voted against consideration OF the reso
| l,1tion while on the contrary, others
| who voted for consideration probably
| will vote against seating him. me vole.
| therefore. cannot be regarded as quite
| a test of Mr. Quays absolute strength
| in the Senate.
| Following the taking up of the reso-
| luton. Nir. Daniel (Dem.). of Virginia,
( delivered a speech, in which ne V!soi-
ously supported Mr.. Quay's right to
Mr.. Vest Dem.), of Missouri. and Mr.
Foraker tRep9, Of ohio delivered o, notn-
/
ment bill Both We're constitutional
= . MR.. DANIEL SPEAKS.
Mr.. Daniel, of Virginia. addressed the
Senate in support of Mr.; Quays ri;a'
tained and the more he studied II the
more he was convinced. that senator
appointed by 4 Governor was entltiea
| to his seat as clearly as he himself was
! entitled to one. Mr.. Daniel reviewed inc
| QUAY case and many similar cases which
had come before the Senate holding
that the weight of precedent was iarseiy
at O'Clock Mr.. Cullom called up the
unfinished business, not with desire
| to take Mr.. Daniel from the floor. put
to preserve his bill as the unfinished
business.
Mr.. Penrose said that without conced-
ing the right of the unfinished business
to displace a question of highest prlvi-
lege, he would enter no objection to a
resumption of the consideration OF the
Hawaiian bill after Mr.. Daniel had con-
cluded his speech. The unfinished bust
ness was laid aside temporarily by unan-
| imous consent.
HAWAIIAN BILL.
The Hawaiian Government bill was
then taken up. and Mr.. Morgan resumed
his speech. Mr.. Morgan, not having con-
Guided, yielded the floor at 80 Z. NJ 70
Mr. Aldrich who presented the report
of the conference on the financial bill.
An arrangement was effected whereby
some member of the Conference Commits
tee would on next Wednesday make q
statement concerning the changes made
by the conferees and that the next day
the report would be taken up for con-
| SideratiOn.
The Hawaiian bill was again taken up,
and Mr.. Vest addressed the Senate. He
had been intensely opposed, he said, to
| the annexation OF Hawaii, but that was
| now a dead issue.
II shall vote for the BILL he said ut
is above and beyond constitutional OBJ
lection, and does not raise any of the
issues that are raised in relation to
Porto Rico and the Philippines.
Mr. Foraker, of Ohio, replied briefly
to Mr.. Vests remarkable argument"
He asserted that the author of the
Declaration of Independence entertained
no such views as those advanced by Mr..
Vest, and he sketched the kind of gov
| eminent Thomas Jefferson himself was
engaged in setting up. He drew dis
tinction between territory belonging to
| the United States and territory which
| was a part of the United States
Rampden-Sidney Celebration.
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