Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-02-26
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amendment was decided to be i'm order
by vote of 80 to 30
Spooner offered an amendment to the
amendment providing that until d per
manent government shall have Deen
established in the Philippine arcbipel-
ago full reports shall be made to Con-
SresS on the first day of each regular
session of all legislative acts and pro-
,eedincs of the temporary government
and that full information shall be sup
piled to the President as to the con
ditions in the islands. The amendment
was agreed to.
Vest. Mo. offered the following
amendment to the Philippine PROPOSE
ton.
That no Judgment. order or act. by
any of said officials. so appointed. shall
conflict with the law and Constitution
of the United State.
Spooncr thought this fact ought to
he recognized and especially by Demo
Gratis. Many of them held that the
Constitution extended to the Philippine
islands cX proprio vigorc.
Vest replied that the doctrine that
the Constitution was in force in the
Philippines was held by such good Re
publiCans as ex-senator F.dmundS. CN.
President Harrison. cX-GoV. BuutWclI
and many others. He did not know
what the decision Of the supreme court
upon this point would be. but it was
rumored that the supreme court would
not decide the question at all as to
whether the Constitution extended to
the islands of its own force.
Tillman. vigorously opposed the
Philippine amendment. He declared
that the enactment of the proposition
into a law together With granting Ger
tain requests of the Taft commission to
sell public lands and lease mines would
open TO the people OF the Philippines all
the dangers Of carpet bag government.
Daniel made a constitutional argu-
ment against the Philippines provision
in the bill, incidentally supporting the
amendment proposed by Vest.
Daniel said he recognized the treaty
of Paris to be as binding upon him as
it would have been had he voted for its
ratification. In his opinion il would
be a mistake tfrom all standpoints Of
sound legislation to do anything more
than provide temporary arrangements
which later might be set aside and an
nulled
Cafery. La. made an argument
against confering such power upon the
President as was contemplated by the
pending proposition.
Berry. Ark. inquired whether the au-
thority conferred included power to
dispose of public lands in the islands.
Caffery replied that undoubtedly it
did include such authority. Hoar.
Mass. inquired whether as a matter Of
fact it was not one of the chief pur-
poses of the pending proposition to
provide for the sale Of the public lands
before the Filipino people had an op-
portunity to have voice in the sale.
Precisely So replied Caffery. and
il the Filipinos ever come into their
own territory will discover that they
have no public lands. They Will ell
have been alienated.'
The leading bald proposal here isl
said Hoar. that the public lands and
franchises of II COO Of people shall
be sold by Americans to Americans rs
upon the whole tho best means of paci-
tication. The best means of paCifyinc
man" continued Hoar sarcasticaliy
'is for one foreigner to take and sell
his property tn another foreigner. And
this is the method by which we are to
teach the principles Of liberty and self
government"
Caffery. who followed. was saying thor
was no precedent for TINS Wild ana com
prchCnSiVc grant Of power when he WAS
interrupted by Mallory. Fla. VINO N
uuircd if it would not he better for our
government tn proceed along present
lippG than CONGRESS- "a ;IIpnf tho
nomdin1 nronnsition
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tor ~ w,o,,Id i've FAR hotter for rs 10 pn
on forever ns We are than that we should
do Voluntarily 50 grave an ini'l=tirc to
Fairbanks, Ind. read from the ropn~t
of the TAFT commission t" show The ne
C"SSity for the proposed 'onic'c1c" OF al
thority and added that unless tn" adthor-
itv WIS conferred there could he no dn-
yClorIncut Of the resource, If the IS.
lands
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Rawlfns TITAN. made an extended ar
Gumcnt against the grant NJ a power