The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-01-25
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Jan. "a, Ioo,


How little Mr.. McKinley's promise
TO furnish any desired information TO
Congress meant was shown when the
Senate, under orders from the White
House, voted down Senator Petit
crews amendment to the Hoar reso.
luton of inquiry, asking that the Sen
ate be furnished a copy of Mr.. Nc
Kinley's instructions to the Commits
sioners who negotiated the treaty OF
peace with Spain. That information
would, there are good reasons to be.
leve, show that there is a contradic.
tion in the policy Mr.. Mckinley
claimed to have when he gave those
instructions and that followed by HIM
since the treaty was negotiated, and
in order to avoid making a public ex-
hibition of himself by going back on
his word, he called on the republican
majority in the Senate to save him,
and his orders were obeyed.
The has agreed to vote on the Gold
Standard bill February IS.
The Roberts Committee by unani-
nous verdict found him guilty of
polygamy, and his seat will be the
penalty. The majority report favors
declaring his seat in the House vacant,
and the minority report, signed by
two members, favors seating and then
expelling him. In either case it is
good bye Roberts.
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The administration is trying to bring
Boss Platt around to its way of think
ing on the presidential question
by trotting out the western candidate
bogy to frighten Pla,t into the belief
that New York will lose the place if
he doesn't accept the Hanna McKin
ley programme without alteration. OF
course, Mr.. Mckinley, and Senator
Platt, know that there is little proba-
bilitv of the nomination of a western
man for second place, but it pleases
the former to pretend otherwise, and
it may please the several western men,
including Senators Davis and Spooner.
who are being "mentioned' as pos
sible candidates.
Senator Hoar says of ex-Minister
Barrett's charge that speech made
by the Senator caused the FilipinoS to
revolt ''Only silly head would tell
such a story, and only siller head
would believe it. Gen. Otis report
tells the story of the beginning of the
insurrection. Mr.. Banett's statement
is too absurd to discuss" Mr.. Hoar,
in speech in the Senate specifically
charged Mr.. Mckinley with having
caused the revolt, qualifying it by ex-
pressing The opinion that Mr.. McKin-
ley was coerced into 1t by the rabld
imperialists of his party.
Senator Vest, whose health has not
allowed him to take the active part he
once did in the business of the Senate,
made speech, this week, protesting
against the policy of the imperlallsts
IN calling every man traitor who
dares to question the imperallstlc
foreign policy of the Mckinley ad.
ministration, that was full of his old
time vigor, as may be seen from this
extract therefrom 81 dlsclaim now
positively any intention to indulge In
any line ofremark that may encourage
opposition to the authority of the U.
S. anywhere. But as Senator of the
u. S., representing in part sovereign
State, l deny the right of any man in
this chamber or out OF it to muzzle
me and prevent an honest expression
of opinion in regard to the policy OF
this country for fear that ] may be
denominated a traitor and a public
enemy.
am sorry oar foreign relations are
in the condition we find them today,
and yet all the world knows that Sc
far we have been most unfortunate
We have the bubonic plague added to
the leprosy in Hawaii, starvation In
Porto Rico, unrest and disqulet IN
Cuba, and a war of indefinite length,
so lar as human foresight is concern
ed, in the Philippines. Is it treason
to make this statement2 Or shall we
who opposed the Paris treaty, and
predicted the disasters that have come
and will come, be so cowardly anc
recreant to the trust imposed in us by
free people as to sit here silent fo
fear of vitrolc denunciation on the
other side, and decline to discharge
our duty as the fearless representa-
tives of great peopleP Are we t(