The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-18

about as numerous for the amount of noise they make as was the coyote wnich disturbed Grants sleep on the western plains.
 Has the gentleman forgotten the last speech of the late President Mckiniey! asked Mir. Thayer tMass.)
 "I have not" answered MT. Grosvenor. q wish the gentleman would take that speech and read 1t and act upon 1t. 1T he does he will rise in my estimation ninety odd per cent.
 Speaking of the Taft Commission he was saying that one of the members 0f that commission was distinguished Ten nessee Democrat, when Mir. Price lTenn.) interrupted to say that in the campaign of 1900 Luke E. Wright, to whom MT. Grosvenor had referred. had voted the straight Republican ticket. .
 Mir. Shafroth (Col) who has recently returned from the Philippine islands de- ciared there was many popular n1isap- prehensions about the Filipino people. There was highly educated people among them capable of conducting gov ernment and of governing themselves. A government by strangers must fall Tn many respects. Mir. Shafroth went over a list of the salaries paid to the Afneri' can officials in the Philippine islands te show interests of poor natives who paid taxes. MT. Shafroth said the spirit oi independence and liberty lived in the Filipino as well as the American and until the Filipinos were free the situation could not be satisfactory either to them CT to us
 Mir. DeArmond tMo.) who also has recently returned from the Philippine islands aroused much enthusiasm on the Democratic side by a denunciation of the pending measure and of the entire Philippine policy of the administrator. He declared the bill proposed was legis- lation after the manner of an empire. 1t disregarded the rights of the Fftipinos as we'll as the American representatives. It was legislation by the War Department legislation by alien for alien. We denied the necessity of taking the islands. We acquired them in folly" said he, let ua dispose of them In wisdom. Almost every man in the islands longs for independence and liberty. How long will it be before another instruction breaks out? Who can tell how many of our youths 1t will lay away In the country church yards and how many dollars of extra levy il will cost the people? How much better would it be for us to return to the princi- ples of any American party and make an end of our trouble. Why not dispose Of them to some country that wants colo. nies? Any disposition of them is better than their retention"
 Mir. Patterson of Tennessee denounced the bill as tending toward imperialism and against the interests of the whole country. The Democrats he said always had favored the acquisition of territory which would be carved into States with American citizenship, but op- posed any colonial system.
 Mir. Robertson Uaa.) member of the Ways and Means Committee, said he would vote for the bill. The failure of this bill, he said, in effect would mean free trade with the islands and that he was opposed to bringing the sugar and rice planters of Louisiana into free com petition with the sugar and rice producers of the Philippines. This bill would be a notice to the Filipino people that they could hope for equal rights with Ameri- can citizens and must prepare for inde- pendence. He said he believed that free trade with the Philippines and reciprocity with Cuba which was now threatened would be the annihilation Of the sugas Interests of his State.
 The House. then at 5 D. m.. adjourned.