The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-26

pE monty the same
'Tbat all laws enacted by any gov
eminent authority created under the
powers conferred by this act shah be
reported - the congress of the United
States, which hereby reserves the power
and authority. if deemed advisable, to
anDui the same"
By Mr.. HOar: That NJ sale or lease
of property shall be made, and no
franchise granted which is not ap-
proved by the president Of the United
States, and is nos, in his Judgment
clearly necessary for the immediate
government Of the Islands, and indis-
pensable for the interest of the peO-
pie thereof, and which cannot, with
out great public mischief, be postponed
until the establishment of permanent
civil government"
BY Mr.. Pettus: That every. person
in whom shall be vested any power in
or over the Philippine islands, before
exercising any SUCH power, shall take
an oath to support the constitution Of
the United States"
Republicans Are Denounced.
Mr. Morgan denounced the action Of
the Republican majority ia bringing
into the senate at this time in the ses-
sion propositions OF so far-reaching a
character as those relating to the Phil
ippines and to Cuba It was, he said,
a most important and dangerous move
ment, and, as he and a large body OF
men on his side OF the chamber be
lieved, in direct conflict with the con-
stitution. The action OF the majority,
he declared. lis a despotism in Hegis-
lation never Daralleled in the history
Of this country"
In view of the far-reaching import
ance of the Philippine and Cuban ques-
tons, he proposed to discuss them at
length. He was not freed from mis-
duty because the senate was cramDed
for time to such an extent as to place
the pending proposition upon an ap-
preparation BILL
Il will not be crowded from my
duty" he said, because 1 regard it as
q duty / owe to my constituents.
At great length Mr. Morgan discussed
the constitutional phases of the Phil
lppine question.
Without completing his speech, Mr..
Morgan yielded at $3.50. in order that
the senate might take recess until s
O'Clock.
When the senate resumed its session
at 8 o'clock the galleries were crowded,
and there was a fairly good attendance
of senators on the floor
At the request of Mr. SeWel IN. j
a resolution was agreed to, asking cab
met officers and heads of various bu-
reaus for fulI lists of officials employed
by them. at age length of service, etc.
which went over, requesting the presi-
dent for information as to the censor
ing Of dispatches from Manila prior to
Feb. 4, 1899; also for General Otis first
dispatch announcing that hostllTtles
had opened, and other information
Mr.. Morgan then resumed his speech
relative TO the Philippine amendment
to the pending army appropriation bill.
Is a Rash Proceeding.
DIT
pine amendment was, in effect, an alb
dication of power by congress and a
turning over to the executive branch
of the government the Philippines This
power once possessed by the president,
congress could never get possession of
it, without a. twO-thir6Es vote, to over
rule his veto. 1t was such a transfer
of power as the British parliament
would never dream of comforting upon
King Edward. The hazard and rash
ness Of this proceeding, he declared,
was never equaled in a country having
a parliamentary government.
Mr.. Morgan said that under the pro-
posed legislation spectators and trusts
would lick up the 100000 acres of
lands in the Philippines with their
mines ana forests of untold richness,
without the reservation Of single
homestead for the people. The senator
expressed the belief that the real mo-
tive of the measure was to give au-
thority under which the millions of
acres in the Philippines could be ''gob-
bled up by great speculative enter
prises.
Mr. Morgan spoke for two hours, and
then stated that tomorrow he would
take 10 the question OF the right OF
congress to delegate or abdicate its
powers, and after that would discuss
the Cuba branch of the subject. AT
1915 Mr. Morgan's colleague from Ala
hama, Mr.. PettUs, moved an adjourn
nept, but on the yea and nay vote the
motion was defeated.
The senate's refusal to adjourn COM
pllled Mr.. Morgan to go on with his
speech. As he resumed he referred with
some feeling to the apparent effort to
drag this measure through, despite all
the prOprieties. After an ardUous and
lengthy session, beginning at II o'clock
this morning, Mr.. Morgan said, the sen
ate had determined 10 force an old man
to go or with his speech, and, in erect
had served him with notice that ne
would go on until he closed.
But" he added, speaking with i'm
preSsiVe elaboration. I would rather
leave this chamber a dead man than TO
/ leave it a coward" 1t would be q plain
abandonment Of duty, he said, If he
should skuIk because of his age or the
/ Ia1eness of the hour.
Mr.. SpOOner tried to gain recognition
to ask Mr.. Morgan as to his plans, but
the venerable senator waived HIM OIL
and causticaIly declined to yield.
At 11:20 p. IN. Mr.. Morgan yielded 70
Mr.. SDOOner for motion TO adjourn,
and the long session came to a close