The age-herald., 1901-01-29

Filipinos to resist us to the end. There is no indication that any strong native pro- American feeling has existed whatever. As the result of twp years of wasting war we occupy about the i've hundredth part of that archipelago. No district is really 'paclfed.' We hold the ground our troops stand on, practically nothing more.
 During the campaign of 1900 it was favorite accusation against the opponents of the administration policy that they were keeping alive a smoldering rebellion in the Philippines. The newspapers and mag azines made much of this foolish argument and in many pulpit where the gospel of the bullet has supplanted the Christianity of the Bible, the pious anathema of pru- dent priesthood rose'to heaven on the wings of prayer
 Mir. Towne then declared that after the elections the resistance in the Philippines increased, and that 1t had been announced in the senate within week that Sla0o American soldiers would be needed in the islands for an indefinite period. He held that 1t was better to trade liberty to the Fflipinos for security to the United States in the islands than to force "sullen, un- willing people into slavish compliance with some of our customs by the employment of an army of 10000 men, It was a habit of the defenders of the administration policy to sheer at the term imperialism, " he said, but 1t could not be sneered away.
 You can have imperialism without an Emperor, Just the Romans found that they could have more than a royal master though he did not wear the hated name of King" asserted MT. Towne.
 Imperial Programme.
 ''The retention of the Philippines will commit us to the whole programme of em- pire. There is a law among nations, as Hamlet says there is among men, by which a bad appetite grows by what it feeds on. No nation in history has resisted it, and to every nation that has yielded to 1t, 1t has brought disaster. Athens succumbed to it and perished Rome indulged the mad ambition and followed it to her doom. It the ruin of Venice. It will work tue destruction of England in my opinion ere the close of this fateful century. Are we, with all the lessons of history before us, to prove the next victim of the insatiate passion, the greatest, most lamentable, most gratuitous sacrifice in all human tragedy?
 T do not wish to convey the impression that in my opinion the present policy will at one fell swoop convert this Republic in- to an empire in fact, but do say that the seeds of empire turk in this policy, and that time and favoring environment will and must bring them to their flower and fruit unless we make a seasonable prevention"
 BaiIey's Credentials.
 When MT. Towne had finished speaking lHe creuenlidiS OI JOSepH w. Bailey us Sen- ator from Texas, and of F. M. Simmons as Senator from North Carolina, were pre- scented. MT. McComas of Maryland created something of a stir by moving that the cre- dentials of the North Carolina Senator be referred to the committee on privileges and elections.
 Mir Hoar of Massachusetts emphatically objected, saying the people had the right to change the political complexion of the Sen- ate every two years, and that there should be no interruption In the reception of cre- dentials except under most urgent condi- tions and full legislation. MT. McComas withdrew his motion on MT. Chandler, chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, giving assurance that no rights would be waived by the present read ing of the credentials.
 The Indian appropriation bill was then taken up, the pending amendment relating to irrigation along the San Charles river for the benefit of Indians lands. Spooner and MT Carter urged that the broad general question of irrigation should not be preju- diced by dealing with separate features of the subject. When the debate had run on some time, MT. Pettigrew remarked ironi- cally that he was convinced that the ship subsidy bill had been abandoned by Repub- lican Senators, as they had taken two days to discuss this minor amendment.
 The general subject of irrigation was dis cussed, MT. Jones of Arkansas arguing that the subject was too important to be dealt with in an amendment to the Indian bill, and MT. Teller urging that 1t could best be dealt with by applying it to special locali- ties.
 The Senate at o'clock, finding itself without quorum, adjourned until tomor- row.