The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-23

| by Mr.. Spooner was false document and
| was got UP for the purpose of making cam
| paign material. ut is untrue and deny
| it," he said.
1.-The trouble with the Senator from
| South Dakota is that everybody who does
| not make case against the Government
| is liar said Mr.. Spooner
THE reports returned by General Otis
are garbled mass of untruths,'' said Mr.
Pettigrew, land no man can put faith in
| them
Judge Day was wrong when he said that
| the acquisition was a mere purchase y
| continued Mr.. Spooner. The protocol states
| that Spain cedes the last gem in her crown
| to the United States in t.Naty of peace
and not of purchase. Much has been said
about the Declaration of independence. /
| have always regarded this document as a
| justification for rebellion. Why. the man
| who pcnned all men are created free and
| equal. WIS himself an owner of men and
!; women and it was never intended to apply
to the black skinned people. For sixty
| years whole race of people were held in
shackles in the United States under the
! Constitution. l think that the Senator
from South Dakota was right in his argu
ment the other day when he argued that
| the civil war grew out of the item, the
| consent of the governed The seed of that
| war was sown in the Constitution.
Mr.. TilImnn Intcrposcs.
! Mr. Tillman stated that but for the very
articles which the Senator from Wisconsin
had condemned. there never would have
been any Constitution nor any Union and
that the North had chased the negro to
| the South when it had no further use for
| him.
| As to the Spanish title TO the Philippine
| Islands Mr. Spooner asked whether anyone
would challenge the title and sovereignty
| OF Spain on the first day CT May, when
i Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet Spain,
, he said, then held Manila, held all the sea
! coast and was in as absolute control o.
| the archipelago she ever had been. 1t
| was. therefore. but a pretence for anyone to
say that when the war broke out there was.
from any standpoint. any defect in the t, lie
and ownership of Spain to the Philippine
archipelago.
In the course of his speech Mr.. SpoDcer
said: I've have not made war of con-
quest On tie Philippine Islands We have
got then b. conquest of Spain. / appeal
to the American people if it be not true
that the inspiration. the thought, which
led the President and the Senate to take
that cession and led the country to applaud
it, was that, thereby. we could more ef-
fectually liberate the Filipinos from Spain,
and that more easily lift them up from the
paralyzing effect of long continued Span
ish tyranny"
IF the Filipinos ere not being subju-
gated what need have we for sixty thous-
and men there?" said Mr.. Tillman.
The Use of the Army.
They are there to enforce the authority
of the United States over territory which
We acquired" said Mr.. Spooner. ut was
to gain that sovereignty and to acquire
that territory that the treaty was ratified
The President of the United States was
bound by his oath of office to do, in that
regard, precisely what he has done He
has been criticised. He has been grossly
insulted in this Chamber. He has gone
his way, patiently, exercising the utmost
forbearance. All his acts have been char
acterized by a desire to do precisely what
Congress. by the ratification Of the treaty.
and by the increase Of the Army imposed
! upon him. He has done it in a way TO
impress upon the Elipinoss as tar as lam
guage can do it, bis desire and the desire
of our people to do them good; to give
them the largest measure of civil, relig-
ious, and individual liberty, and to give
them, as rapidly as may be, participation
in their government.
He has done it all in disregard Of hos
tile criticism, and Of the endorsements
and complications of the situation, vastly
intensified and enhanced here at home.
He has done what, by his oath, he was
obliged to do. He has gone forward with
the Army of the United States and with
the flag of the United States to enforce the
authority of the United States and obedi-
ence to 1t over the territory Of the United
States"
At this point Mr.. Spooner pleaded IA
tigue and said he would finish his speech
tomorrow.