The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-19

ycu will yourselves see the unwisdom OF |
giving the Cubans independence. (Re- |
publican applause)
When gentlemen ask for liberty for the |
Filipinos Mr.. Hepburn said he would like |
to know by what authority they made
their demands.
Il spoke for the people of the United
States" intel'posed Mr.. Shafroth (Colo.), |
'those who love the declaration of in
dependence" democratic applause).
when you speak of the people of the
United States asked r. Hepburn, "do
you include all the people or do you elm
mate the black people?" Naughter).
Il include them ALL" replied Mr. Shat
roth.
THE ATTACK. BY MCCALL
Mr.. Mccall (Mass.), member of the
Ways and Means Committee, who opposed
The Porto Rican tariff bill in the last
Congress opposed the pendingmeasure in
q vigorous speech. So far as the pending
bill was concerned, Mr. Mccall aid that
he disbelevcd so profoundly in the admin
istration's Philippine policy that he could
not support it, What have we seen in
the last three years?" he asked. I'VE
have witnessed the solemn farce of four
or We very estimable American gentlemen
sitting as legislature over ten millions
of people of whose language, customs,
conditions and exitence they were prob
ably ignorant four years ago. We have
witnessed the spectacle of an American
army numbering over seventy thousand
men engaged in conquering a people
struggling for independence We have
. seen our highest court apparently forget
ful that this nation was established as
a protest against the power Of one peo-
pie to tax permanently another people,
declaring changes exempt from the limi-
tation upon the great central power of
taxation and thus opening the way for
autocratic government ard for the eX-
ploitation of subject people. We have
seen our permanent standing army multi
piled more than three fold and the ex-
penses of our military establishments ap-
proach those Of the most army ridden ma
ticns of Europe. We have seen ourselves
take a position, highly inconsistent in
point Of justice with the Monroe Doctrine
when, demanding that the governments
of the over crowded Eastern Continent
shall keep their hands off from this hem
billions of untitled acres and vast un-
touched forests, seize at one stroke a
thousand islands in the other hemisphere.
IF four years ago writer of burlesque
opera had put these things in play he
would have stood apart and alone in his
profession rs the <o0nsummate creator of
impossible situations. And yet these
fantastic things have within little more
than three years been written in our his
tory"
Mr.. McClelland New York;, closed the
debate for his side. He said he was in
absolute accord with his party associates
in the hope that ultimately under Demo-
erat auspices, when the Filipinos have
learned to govern themselves, the Uni
ted States would grant them independ-
ence.
The acquisition of the Philippine Is
lands. he said was the most costly
plunge ever made by a reckless gam
bier at the Monte Carlo of International
politics.
The debate was closed by Mr.. Dalzell
PENN, in a speech of an hour. He drew
parallel between the government of the
Louisiana Territory Immediately after its
acquisition and the government of the
Philippines to show that the latter was
much less arbitrary and desnotic than
the former. He commended to those on
the other side who were so Jealous of
the rights of the 'lttle brown men" in
the Philippines the protection of the
rights OF the black men in the South.
Those on the other side dcclaimed about
the consent of the governed" while in
some of the Southern States their friends
were writing into organic law methods
for relieving themselves of the consent oi
the governed Republican applause).
Mr.. Dalzell taunted the old side with
their utter inability to present anything
as substitute for the pending bill. He
| said they desired to make their protest
| as ineffectuaI as possible.
RICHARDSON'S MOVE TO RECOMMIT
Upon the conclusion of Mr.. Dalzell's
remarks Mr.. Richardson, the minority
| leader. moved to recommit the bill with
| the following instructions:
/ ITO report bill reducing the tariff laws
| and international revenue laws now IN
| force in other portions of the United
| States to a revenue basis; and to apply
| the same to all portions of the United
| States including the Philippine Islands
| to be in effect until order has been re-
! stored there and the Filipinos permitted
| with the aid of the United States, to es-
! tablish a stable and independent govern
/ ment."
The motion to recommit was lost II:
| to 172. and the bill passed, 163 to 1913.