The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-02-08

bill has To become a law Is by the
help of democrat votes, many dem
ocrats having expressed them
selves in favor Of 1t on general
principles, although it is not like
ly that Ony concerted action In its
favor will be taken by the demo-
Gratis. The republicans of the
House Ways aud Means Commit
tee have reported substitute for
the administration bill for free
trade with Porto Rico, which pro-
vides for q duty of 25 per cent Of
the present tariff on Porto Rican
products. These things sh NV that
the much talked about republican
harmony is fake.
"The threat of treason will not
deter us from disclosing the facts
as they come into our possession,"
was the def thrown at the imper-
ialists by Senator Pettigrew after
he had been ruled out of order
when trying to read quotations
from a published statement made
by Aguinaldo as to his relations
with Admiral Dewey, aud been
called traitor by Senator Hawley.
Senator Lodge read letter from
Admiral Dewey denying what Ag.
uinaldo had said. This denial of
the Admiral said of Aguinaldo; "I
never treated him as an ally, ex-
cept to make use of him and the
soldiers to assist me in my oper-
ations against the Spaniards. "That
"excepp is an important word. In
making use of Aguinaldo and his
soldiers did not Admiral Dewey
make an ally of him in spirit, even
if there was no actual agreement
to that effect?
Senator Bacon's speech against
the imperialistic policy of the ad-
ministrstion in the Philippines was
full of conservative but unanswer
able arguments against imperial
ism, which he declared meant Il
standing army of 100000 men and
an annual expense of 100000, 900.
He told the imperialists that "the
thirst for empire is like the desire
for human blood" The following
extract gives good idea of the
general tenor of the speech: "The
conditions which now exist, and
which will undoubtedly exist here
after if we permanently retain the
Philippines, makes it impossible
that they can evel become State;
and to hold them as subject col
ony makes necessary a revolution
in our system of government which
should not be aided by anyone who
is loyal to the principles upon
which that system is founded. It
is revolution which, while 1t de-
MES liberty to other people, en-
dangers the lite rty of our own peo-
ple." In answer to questions from
Senator Spooner as to what this
Congress could do, Mr.. Bacon said
it could make the same declaration
regarding the Philippines that the
last Congress did with reference to
Cuba. Senator Bacon was follow
ed by Senator Teller, who was the
author of the Cuban resolution
adopted by the last congress, and
he took occasion to express his
most sincere regret that he had
not included in that resolution the
people of all the Spanish posses.
sions acquired by the U. s., as we'll
as the Cubans. This was help from
an unexpected quarter, as Mr.. Tel
Ter had been counted as support
er, albeit lukewarm one, of the
retention of the Philippines.
The New York Reform Club, of
which Hon. John De Witt Warner
is president, has stirred up the ad-
vocates of the shipsubsidy job by
circulating Il letter against it con-
tanning this sentence: "Lobbyists
ia the employ of the prospective
beneficiaries of the bounty have al
ready carefully 'canvassed' Con.
gress, which means that every 'ap-
proachable' Senator and Congress.
man has. by some sort of a prom
ise or bribe been reasoned with
and made to see tho benefit of sub
sides" There was a regular circus
of time at this weeks meeting of
the House com lnittee on Merchant
Marine, which has charge Of the
subsidy bill, when Representative
Grosvenor, of Ohio, chairman Of the
committee, read that letter.
Kentucky democrats in Con.
gress are even more indignant at
the action of Gov. Taylor In ad-
journing the legislature and order
ing it to meet Feb. 6, at London,
and declari & martial law in Frank
fort, than they were at the bastard
ly accomplished assassination of
Goebel. They regard it all as a part