The age-herald., 1900-03-15
|S MADE
 A TRADE MARK MT COwherd Speaks on the . Philippine Question: AN AGE OF COMMERCIAL GREED The Banner of Liberty Has Been
 Almost Forgotten. QUOTED CECIL RHODES SPEECH He Hoped That No One Would Ever Rise and Point at the American
 Flag as Great Com
 mercial Asset.
QUOTED CECIL RHODES SPEECH

Washington, March 14.-The District of Columbia appropriation bill was taken up in the house today, and under the latitude allowed Mr. Adamson of Georgia discussed the Nicaragua canal MT. Cowherd of Mis- souri the Philippine question, MT. Howard of Georgia questions relating to the Phil ippines and the "open door" policy in the Orient, and Mir Fucker of Missouri the advisability of electing senators by the peo- pie.
 Mir Cowherd held that the advocates of imperialism were actuated by two motives -militarism and commercial greed. He de- nied that Jefferson was the father of mod ern expansion, quoting extensively from Jeffcrsons writings to show that Jeffer- sons motive in securing the annexation of Louisiana was to avoid embroiling the country in foreign wars in the future. Jef- ferson, he said, desired to insure peace Modern expansionists courted foreign com plications.
 dn every treaty of annexation made un- der a democratic administration there was a clause which provided that every inhaIoi- tant of the territory annexed should be come an American citizen. The treaty of Paris was the only one acquiring territory in which it was left to congress to decide the political status of the inhabitants.
 'fIr. Chairman" concluded Mr. Cowherd, there was time when we boasted not of the money we could make-not that yon- der flag carried trade in its wake, but car- ried liberty. Today its proud boast is that trade follows the flag. The other day when General French rode into Kimberley, to the relief of that beeaguered city, the newspapers tellNhs the citizens held re- cepti' n for the English officers and Cecil Rhooes, the very incarnation of the land lust-the land-grabbing spirit of the age in response to a toast said that the people of Kimberley had done their part in pre- serving for the world the greatest commer- cial asset of the age-the English flag
 Not Commerc al Asset
 'Mr. Chairman, hope the day will never come when any man can rise in any land and point to wonder banner as commercial asset. (Applause.) trust, sir, that some thing will survive of the days when that banner fioated above Washington and his barefooted, bloody patriots at Valley Forge l trust something still will live of the spirit that animated the men who upheld that banner when they stood with stubborn old Andrew Jackson at New Orleans I trust something of the love of liberty still per- meates this nation that permeated the fol- lowers of wonder flag when they marched with Grant on his stubborn advance to Richmond.
 And, MT. Chairman, if the day ever comes when that banner is nothing but a oial ,fI civ .tri, ,1f white upon it's folds should be dyed in the blood of the men we killed and conquered end from wonder ground of blue you should take every star that represents an inde- pendent state Applause on the demo- cratic side)
 MT. Adamson Georgia, delivered a long argument in favor of an isthmian canal and MT. Howard, of Georgia, discussed the "open door, policy i'm the east.
 MT. Rucker, Missouri. submitted an argu- ment in favor of constitutional amend ment for the election of senators by the people. He said that thirty-two states were !. on record as favortng the popular election of senators.
 Mfr Grout, Vermont, in charge of the Dis trict of Columbia bill, which carrdes $6 ,4S0,- 37S made general explanation of its pro- visions.
 A bill was passed to settle the title to real estate in the city of Sante Fe., N. M. The house at 4:50 D. m. adjourned.
 THE SENATE
 Washington, March 1.-Two arguments were presented today in which almost anti podal positions were taken by two senator's MT. Teller of Colorado, in a brief speech, maintained that the constitution could not extend over territory acquired by the United States, while MT. Turner of Wash ington elaborately contended that the con- stitution embraced the acquired territory the very moment the United States took permanent possession of it. MT. Teller held that this government could make the out lying territory into states, or could hold it as long as 1t saw tit. while MT. Turner maintained that the United States could not hold colonies or dependencies. Aside from the constitutional questions, the two senators were in practical agreement. Both were opposed to the pending loill, and both objected to any of the insuar territory be- coming a part of the United States any of its inhabitants citizens of the United States.
 Soon after the senate convened President Pro Tenn. Frye announced his signature to the bill fixing the standard of value to money of the United States. The measure 1--.