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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-02

ARRANGEMENT WITH ITALY,
Reciprocal Agreement Made Under
the Dinxiey Act.

WASHINGTON. Feb. The govern
nents of the United States and Italy have
entered into an arrangement under the
reciprocity sections of the Dinsley tariff
act
The arrangement does not require sub
mission to the senate and ~ generally Ike
the one recently entered into with Portu-
gai ana that made with France more than
a year ago as a preliminary 20 the pend
ing reciprocity treaty. II Is also within
contemplation that this Italian arrange
rners, at some date In the future. shall 30
followed by fal nedgra reciprocity
treaty.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. l.-Representa-
Joseph Sibley, Of Pennsylvania, who at
tanned great prominence in the Fifty
fourth congress by his earnest champion
ship OF free silver, assaiied his Demo-
cratic colleagues today for their opposi-
ton to expansion in speech that made
the floor and galleries roar.
sibiey had reeanted his views on free
silver. and is now generally out OF line
with his colleagues on the Democratic
side. He insisted today that expansion
was an original Democratic doctrine pro-
mulgated by JefYerssR- adhered to by
Madison, Jackson. Tyler. Polk and
Buchanan. In eloquent language he pic
tured the destiny of the United States
carrying the arts of peace and the story
OF the cross to the remotest corners OF
the globe. Mr.. Sibley received an Inn
pressive demonstration when he closed
The remainder of the debate today was
uninteresting. 1t touched the questions
of mediation in the Transvaal. lynching
in the South and the jury law In Ha-
wall Not much progress was made with
the Indian appropriation bills which was
was under discussion.
At the opening of the session of the
house today the speaker decided the ques-
ton submitted to him a few days ago rel
ative to the reference of the estimates for
the Rock Island. H., and Springfield.
Mass, armories In favor of the military
affairs committee far as the appropri-
atoms for small arms are concerned and
In favor OF the appropriations COMMITTEES
so far as the appropriations for fixtures
for the armories are concerned
The conference report on the urgent
deficiency bill was adopted. 1t was only
a partial agreement. Two items are stili
in dispute. One OF these, an appropriation
for a public building at Kansas City, was
agreed to. and the house still insisted
upon its disagreement to the appropria-
ton OF 5000 for the observation of the
eclipse OF the sun. as 5000 had been given
the Smithsonian institution for the same
purpose. The house then went into com
mi,tee of the whole. and resumed con-
slderation OF the Indian appropriation
bill. Shafroth OF Colorado made speech,
shafroth made speech. saying II was
the duty of the United States to mediate
between Great Britain and the Transvaal
He traced the history of the Trsnsvaal
Dutch from the migrstions from Holland
TO show that England was invading the
rights Of the South African republic.
He contended that England had prac-
tically abandoned her claim of suzerainty
over the Transvaal in the convention Of
1854 The demands OF Great Britain that
the Transvaai should adopt the English
language as the Official language and
should not impose certain taxes upon the
mines were outrageous He concluded
with the statement that no fair-minded
man could examine the controversy with
out being convinced that England was
wrong and the Transvaai was right.
His remarks were literally applauded.
Talbot OF South Carolina denounced
rAnney Of North Carolina for his refiee-
tions upon the fair name OF the South
yesterday.
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ALASKA JUDGESHIP
EXCITING RIVALRY.
Report That Three VIII he Created
Brings Ont Numerous Cardt-
dates-Bills Introduced.

Special Dispatch 70 the Pos;-Intelligercer.
WASHINGTON. Feb. bills were In
troduced today as follows:
BY Authorizing the Care Nome
Transportation. Bridge & Development
Company to construct a bridge over Snake
river. near Nome city. and to charge tolls
not exceeding 10 cents. TO pedestrians. s5
cents to animals and 50 cents for vehicles.
BY Cushmsn-Appropristi slsAce for
the establishment Of n military post near
Tacoma. provided the citizens OF Pierce
county furnish site with SO acres.
BY Simon. OF oregon-Permitting citizens
OF the United states. residents OF Cali
fornia, Oregon and Washington. to fell
and remove timber for building. agricultur-
al and other domestic purposes from min
erai lands In those states
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cailoaay with Cochran.

''Is there any parallel" asked Cochran
OF Missouri. between the territory in the
Louisiana purchase, then practically With
out population. and the Philippinese''
Nothing mas oeen said about the Phil
fpnincs" replied smiley. which was not
said about the territory now Missouri
You In Missouri we're eiassod as ssFear-
ians."
''But are the Philippines. with a popu-
lation dcnscr than Iowa. Missouri KAN
sas and Nebraska, available for oecgpa-
TOM asked Cochran.
Il think they are When jefferson ne
EutiAted the purchase az louisiana he was
the target os vltuperatiou. ridieule aRG re-
p~aach. From New England came such
eplthets as 9scooin.' 'lnpert&list, Per
veTter of the constitution, yst al admit
now that jefferson acted wisely
DO you believe The people In the Philip
pines are susceptible q tAe civilization
~ the Inhabitants of the Louisiana pur-
chase 90
I am not placing limitations upon the
powers et Almighty God, answered Sib-'
lev. amid round Of Republican applause.
Proceedlng. smiley pointed out thar mod
ern methods had brought the Philippines
nearer than the Louisiana purchase or
Texas when they were annexed
In reply to Cochrsn's taunt that the
civilization was being shot into the Phil
ipplnes S4hley said thA; the history of
civilization has been traced in human
blood Wendell Phillips had sid thar
every achievement 81 human jast.ce had
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S|B[EY COMES OUT
FOR EXPANSION.
Sharply Rebukes Bis Fellow
Democrats in Congress.
QUOTES ANCIENT HISTORY
Democrats Have Abandoned All
Traditions of the Past.
QUOTES ANCIENT HISTORY

Every Argument Against Taking
the Philippines Had Been Used
in Connection with the Purchase
Of Louisiana and the Acquisition
of Texas-The Abandonment of
Our Conquest There, II IL Was
PusiIIanfmous Act In the Nations
History-Gcts . Great Ovation.
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PEACEFUL OUTCOME
Is NON PROBABLE.
Kentucky Muddle May Pos
sibly Be Settled.
NEGOTIATIONS ARE ON.
Attorneys on Each Side Pressing
for an Arbitration.

Republicans Wish the Matter 60 Ne
Submitted to the supreme Court
of the United states, while Demo-
crats Want Their own state
Courts to settle It-Wsraen OF
the penttrntiary Ignores Par
dom issued ny GOV. Taytor-tseesel
SIN Lives. but Ills Condition 10
Very Feeble aud He Cannot Last
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Senator Fosters concurrent resolution.
directing the secretary OF war to make a
survey and estimate the cost OF construct
ing a ship canal from Puget sound to Grays
hsrbor. was favorahly reported In the SEN
az a
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Garter. Case in the Supreme Court

WASHINGTON. Feb The papers Ia
the case of Capt Garter we're received
az the supreme court Today. The ap-
plicasIon for writ oi eegtsorarf will have
10 be made Monday
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sbIey OF Pennsylvania. in an hours
speech. criticised his fellow Democrats
FOR opposing the annexation Of the Phil
ippines. lie had, he said. heard no arsu-
ment against territorial enlargement
which was not urged against the anneNa-
ton of Louisiana and Texas.
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SonunEsa on Page Two.
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The ST. James Gazette says II II ~
ported en- good authority that Gen Bulie
has again crossed the Tugela river n
three places. and that asbsing has bee
far.nceraflng an day long
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The war efsoe has no news of Buffers
alleged movements, as reported by the
St James Gazette. bat that paper Says it
has no reason 70 doubt the correctness of
its Information. although Il has not yet
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contiaEee on Page Nina
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Some unpleasant criticism Of the war
once has been caused by the discovery
that the sights OF the Lee Enfield carhines
are defective. Old cRrbines have been
supplied TO the outgoing Fourth brigade
of cavalry.
The only announcement regarding fresh
military preparations IL the formation OF
three additional batteries
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Rear Admiral Berssford started Tor the
continent taas morning on his way TO Nal
ia to take charge Of tae second British
Mediterranean feet
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soldier. SIN CONFIDENT.

sPEARMANs CAMP. Jan. so-- There Is
an optimistic feeling in al ranks Troops
are confident Of ultimate success Great
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tress of mind were wholly unprecedented,
for with the admission of the transmits
sissippi territory into the Union the lib
critics and the rights of the whole people
of the United States were so completely
upset as to justify revolution. He de-
clared that if Louisiana was admitted to
the Union, then the Union ought imme-
diately to be dissolved. He denounced in
unmeasured terms
Territorial Avidity'
of the Americans of the day. He as
serted that the Constitution was never
constructed "to form a covering for the
inhabitants of the Missouri and the Red
river country and finally, when his pro-
phetic vision brought before him the aw
full picture of senators and representa-
tives from west of the Mississippi arro-
gantly assuming a right to take part in
the legislation of the country, he asked
with fervor worthy of the most pro-
nounced anti-expansionist of to-day:
DO you suppose the people of the
Northern Atlantic states will or ought to
look with patience and see representatives
and senators from the Red river and Mis-
souri, country pouring into congress, man
aging the concerns of seaboard fifteen
hundred miles at least from their resi-
dence and having preponderancy in
councils in which constitutionally they
could never have been admittedg And
he continued further to harrow the minds
of his hearers by stating that the expan-
sionists of that day might ever, intend
to establish states in California and at
the mouth of the Columbia, and concluded
by asserting that the extension of the
principle (of expansion to states contem-
plated beyond the Mississippi cannot will
not and ought not to be borne Well,
am addressing at this moment citizens
from the very states, the possibilities OF
whose existence appeared so terrible to
the excellent Mr.. Quincy You yourselves
are the fruits of the expansion which he
regarded as fraught with such immeasur-
able disaster to the nation. You your
selves represent the results of that policy
which was followed from the days of
Washington and Jefferson. through those
Of Jackson, down to the time when Sew
ard purchased Alaska. The great Ameri-
can policy which has again been applied
under President Mckinley
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Philippines If they were successful In the
coming election. Yet not one of them
now would dream of saying that we were
not right about Hawaii; in fact, they
could not do so, when by a strange irony
the Kansas City convention had to rely
upon the vote of Hawaii before 1t could
settle it's views on the financial system of
our country.
AS Regards the Philippines,
even the Kansas City convention felt
that they had to propose some policy.
What they propose is that we should
first give them a stable form of govern
ment; second, independence, and third.
protection from outside interference. BY
the order in which they put these propo-
sitions they showed, their estimate of
their Importance. Well, what we are do
ing now is precisely and exactly to try to
secure stable form of government In
the Philippines, and the chief obstacle
in our way is the support given to the
bloody Aguinaldian oligarchy by their
sympathizers among the people that were
represented in the Kansas City conven-
ton Moreover now we are seeing that
no outside nation interferes in the island.
After we have secured a stable govern
ment we then intend to give them self
government as rapidly as they are fitted
TO- it. Our opponents say that they wish
now to give them independence. To give
independence" now would be precisely
like giving independence" to the widest
tribe of Apaches in Arizona. 1t would
mean the turning over of the most peace
full law-abiding and prosperous part of
the population to be plundered by the
banditti that are following Aguinaldo.
I'm China we see at this moment the
awful tragedy that is following just ex-
actly such movement as that which
the so-called anti-imperialists have
championed in the Philippines. The Box
ers in China are the precise analogues
and representatives of the Aguinaldian
rebels in the Philippines. Had we adop-
ted the policy of scuttle" in the Philip
pines, the policy which our political OPP
ponents now champion, the streets of Ma
Mia would have witnessed such scenes
as those of the streets of Picking. To
allow the Filipino rebels to establish
their own so-oalled government and then
to protect them against other civilized
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a year or two on the Indian frontier and
in some of the Southern states, but 1t
never entered the head of human being
to attempt what
The CLpperhend Prophets
of disaster had frantically foretold. In
'9S and 90 you yourselves saw regiments
and brigades and divisions return from
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, to
be disbanded and swallowed up in the
mass of the people, if volunteers, and if
regulars to assume their ordinary work
in fort and cantonment, and after greet
ing them on the day they returned the
bulk of the people would never have been
able to tell, except by the newspapers,
whether they had come back or not.
''Of all idle chatter the talk of the
danger of miIitarism is the idlest. The
army we have now is, relatively to the
population of the country, less in size
than it has been again and again during
the last century and quarter. in times
when we had only our own Indians to
guard against In Washington's admin
istration Gen: Wayne spent some three
years in Ohio warning against the Tagals
of that day, with an army under him
larger in proportion to the then popula-
national forces, regulars and volunteers
combined, and there is just as little dam
ger from the evils of militarism now as
there was then. 1t is as utter folly to
talk of our liberties as menaced by the
existence of force capable of keeping
order in our outlying possessions as it
would have been to talk of their being
menaced in the seventies by the soldiers
who followed Custer and his fellows
against Comanche, Apache and Sioux.
No, our opponents mean nothing and
know that they mean nothing when they
pirate about militarism, when with forked
tongues they say that they favor ex-
pansion but are against imperialism.
They used precisely the same arguments
six years ago against our taking Hawaii
that they now use against our taking the
Philippines. They pulled down our flag
in Hawaii just as they now wish to pull
it down in the Philippines. We had to
undo their work in Hawaii just as in the
end, but at an infinite cost of bloodshed
and woe, we would have to do in the
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ialism and militarism knowing tnat there
is not one shred of truth in WANT they
say, knowing If they know anything
that their words are putting premium
upon trouble in every island from winch
the Spaniards have been driven and car
ing nothing because they wish to pur-
chase party success even at the cost OF
dishonor to the flag of death and suffer-
ing to tho men that fight under the flag.
Bitter indeed is the cup they hold out to
the nation to drink, and thrice bitter 1t
will be for the nation if it does not spurn
it.
what they say about Cuba and Porto
Rico need not detain us for moment
In Porto Rico we now have Governor
Allen in charge We have established
system under which the island is advanc-
ing by leaps and bounds to prosperity
In Cuba we have put Gen. Leonard
Wood in charge and all the preliminary
steps have been taken to give to the peo-
pie of the island their own government
Our pledge to Cuba shall of course be
kept. Gen. Woods administration is
synonym for honesty and cleanliness,
and the minute that fraud was discov-
cred in the postal department, the wrong
pursuit, and the best possible proof was
thereby given that we meant what we
said and that governmental cleanliness
would be obtained in the only possible
way by the unsparing cutting out OF cor
ruption wherever it was found.
I'VE now come to the Philippines and
to the general question of expansion.
Many of the positions taken by the Pop
ulistic Democracy at the moment are so
palpably dishonest and maintained in
such palpable bad faith that to state
them is sufficient. 1t is hardly necessary
to discuss what they say about the
Constitution following the flag" The
Democratic party never championed the
doctrine thus set forth save in the dark
days. when it had become the
Handmaiden of Slavery
and rebellion, and danced to any tune
which the apostles of slavery chose to
pipe. When, under Jefferson. the great
West beyond the Mississippi was acquired,
when, largely through the instrumental
ity of jackson, Florida was added to the
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nations would be exactly as if we now
sided with the Boxers in China, demand
ed for them the license to butcher their
neighbors, allowed them to establish
their own Independent government, and
then agreed to protect them from the
wrath of civilized mankind. A more
wicked absurdity than the Kansas City
proposition for dealing with the Philip
pines was never cnunciated by the repre-
sentatives of responsible political party
ST would ask those who by their words
have encouraged the warfare of the Fill
pinos against us to recall the latter OF
Gen. Lawton. written just before his
death, in which he pointed out that the
blood of his soldiers Redeemed the hands
of the men at home who encouraged
Our Foes abroad.
'Some years ago when certain Eastern
ers were clamoring in the name of hu-
mainly against the army officers who
warred to protect the Western settlers
from the Indians, Gen. Sheridan wrote:
I do not know how farathese humanita-
rians should be excused on account of
their ignorance, but surely it is the only
excuse that can give shadow of justi-
fication for aiding and abetting such hor-
'.The schemfng politicians at Kan
sas City have not even the excuse
of Ignorance when they incite the
fnsurge ats to fresh warfare against
our soldiers with the base hope that
thereby they may further their own
political advancement.
There are doubtless many worthy and
amiable gentlemen of humanitarian ten
denotes in the Northeast who oppose ex-
pansion now, as men like them have az
ways opposed expansion. In 1911. when
Louisiana was on the point of being ad-
mitted to the Union, and the country be-
yond the Mississippi-the country now
carved into the great states from which
so many of my hearers come-was being
governed territorially, prototype of the
modern anti-imperialists, the Hon. Josiah
Quincy, addressed the house of represen-
tatives in language that, with very slight
variation, might be used by his successors
to-day. In a speech that would be quite
in place at the Kansas City convention.
or in any anti-eXpansionist meeting of to-
day, he stated that his anxiety and dis
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Union, the new provinces, with their In
dian populations were governed precisely
and exactly on the theory under which
the Philippines are now governed. Pres
idelt Jefferson secured the Louisiana pur-
chase Just as President Mckinley secured
the Philippines and Andrew Jackson
warred against the Seminoles when we had
acquired Florida from Spain, precisely as
Gen. Macarthur is now warning against
the bandits among the Tagals, in Luzon.
Unless we are willing to deprive Jefferson
and Jackson of the need of honor which
has been held to be peculiarly theirs. we
cannot deny the same high praise to
President Mckinley. At Kansas City, the
men engaged in preaching the gospel of
oishonor and reputation solemnly as
serted that imperialism abroad will lead
quickly and inevitably to despotism at
home. You men of Minnesota and the
Dakotas who are here this evening can
appreciate the fatuousness of that state
ment by the simple process of thinking
whether your liberties have been abridged
by the return of the Minnesota and Da-
kota troops who won such honor for them
selves in the Philippines. There are geo.
metrical propositions so essentially absurd
that mathematician hold their mere
statement to be equivalent to their refu-
tation. So it is with this proposition. If
it were worth while I would point out
its dishonesty and insincerity. But fla
grant though these are. its absurdity is
so much more fragrant that nothing need
be said.
$50 it is with their cant about militar-
ISM, and intimidation and oppression at
home as following what they are pleased
to call conquest abroad We cannot
argue with them on this proposition, be-
cause no serious man thinks for one mo-
ment that they believe what they assert
During the great Cevil war there were
many preachers of The gospel of disloy-
atty among the so-called Copperheads of
the North, and these men, like their rep
resentatives among our opponents today
Irophesied the subdivision of the country
when the great armies of Grant and Sher-
man should come back from the war; but
the great armies of Grant and Sherman
returned to civil life and were swallowed
up among their fellow-citizens without a
ripple. A considerable army was kept for