The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-30
MIGHT MAKES RIGHT.
Advocated by a Louisiana Senator
Aguinaldo's Latest Dodge-Tired
of RichardsOn-News Votes.
Special Correspondence of The Gazette.

served compliment than was paid tt
President Mckinley by Ex-Governor
Stannard, in q speech in behalf Of the
national board Of trade, a Q partisan
body representing great business inter
ests Of all sections of the country. now
holding it's annual session in Washing.
ton, closing with these words: 1--WE
congratulate you Mr.. President. upon
the prosperity of the country and the
success Of your administration. The
president replied: II cannot conceal
the pleasure it gives me and the honor
I feel in this call IN the part of the
national board Of trade, representing.
as it does. great and varied and impor-
tant interests of our country. l rejoice
with you all upon the universal pros
perity, and I trust that that prosperity
may be long continued to the American
people,
Now that Brigham H. Roberts, the
polygamist, is out Of the house for good
and all, he probably has a greater res.
pect for the moral sense of the country
which he outraged by becoming a can
didate for election to congress-, and the
people of Utah have been taught chat
the men they send to congress must be
free from the faint of polygamy.
Representative Littlefield Of Maine,
who fills the seat SO long held with dis
tinguished honor by the late Nelson
Dingley, by his speech in the Roberts
case, which was his maiden effort III
congress-. placed himself in the trout
rank of the ablest lawyers in the house,
and it was all the more oreditable to
him, as a lawyer, that he spoke in ia
vor Of the minority report of the COM
mittee, of which he was a member.
Senators Pettigrew and Allen have,
seemingly. by the tacit consent of the
democrats, assumed the democratic
leadership of the neutrality-suspicious. it. is
because the democratic senators are
ashamed to do such dirty work-and
are still offering new resolutions,
which they know to be both useless and
meaningless. and the senate is still fool
ing them by adopting them without op.
position.
That any man should dare to stand
up on the floor of the United States
senate and advocate the doctrine of
makes right its astonishing, but
Senator McEnery Of Louisiana. did that
very thing in a speech against Senator
Pritchard's resolution declaring the
proposed DISTINGUISHING amendment to
the constitution of North Carolina, to
be a violation of the United States con.
stitution. And he added to the aston
ishment by acknowledging in reply to
questions that he had declared a SINH.
lar amendment having been adopted be
felt it to be a duty to his constituents
to support it and to defend it in the
If the people of Louisiana are
not ashamed Of McEnery and his de-
Tense, they ought to be.
Mr.. Montague White, formerly diplo-
matte agent for the Transvaal in Lon.
don. and who was credited with being
in this country on a diplomatic mission,
called on Secretary Hay this week. and
informed him that he had no official
of any sort from the Boer
government, but was in the United
States for the purpose. of doing all that
be could legitimatelyt DO to work up
sympathy for the Beers. Score.
tary Hay c%ourteously listened to Mr..
as he would to any other intelli.
gent foreigner who might call Oh him
IS a private individual but he said very
little, beyond emphasizing the neutral
Ity of this government.
The reports for and against the seat.
of Hon. M. s. Quay were this week
to the senate, and an early
vote is expected on the case. Mr..
supporters display more conf.
lence in their ability to seat him than
lis opponents do in their claim that
hey will be able to keep him out.
A%guinaldo's latest dodge-the request
through a New York paper. to send a
commission of Filipinos to the United
States to express the desire of their
,eople-was thus effectually disposed
Il by Postmaster. General Smith, whose
citations with President Mckinley are
lose enough to enable him to speak for
sit is all in Aguinaldo's hands.
lie knows perfectly we'll the terms Of
,eace, which mean surrender, acknowl-
'dgement of American sovereignty and
he fullest measure of self-government,
which will be framed after fully ascer-
the desires and capabilities Of
he Filipinos." That says all that
iced be said. This government stands
eady to 10 the right thing by the Fill
limos. and will do it in the end, but it
q in the power Of Aguinaldo to hasten
matters BY an unconditional surrender.
Ie has been told more than once that
here would be no negotiation.
The dem ocrats of the house are many
( them dissatisfied with the leadership
4 "Slippery JIM" AZ Representative
Of Tennessee, In sometimes
allied, and it would not be surprising
o see his authority 0verth1own almost
ny time. In fact. Bailey Of Texas.
he ex.leader. has shown 81 inclination