The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-14

the United States may ply between
these ports. Notwithstanding our
coaStWise navigation laws, until the
Isl day of January, 1895, when it is
believed these islands may safely come
under the operation Of our present
statutes and vessels only of the United
States be employed in our commerce
with them"
Our People Handicapped.
At present our own people who ship
goods to these islands are said to be
Handicapped by the internal revenue
tax and duties paid upon foreign goods
imported here and used in the manu-
facture Of articles sent to the Philip
pines. The sixth clause of the pro-
posed bill is designed to remedy this
The fourth section provides that all
the duties and taxes collected under the
act shall not be covered into the gem
eral fund of the treasury Of the Unit
ed States, but paid into the treasury
of the Philippine islands TO be used and
expended for the use and benefit of
these islands
The object of the bill is said to be to
meet a pressing emergency, practically
and efficiently, and is presented as the
best that can be devised in the limited
time left in which to act.
Minority Presents Its Report.
Representative Richardson presented
to the house the minority report,
signed by all the Democrats of the
ways and means committee except Mr..
Robinson. The report says in part.
THE measure is but another step in
the well marked line of imperialism. It
is enacting a policy Of pure cOlonialism
and the worst form of that policy. We
are opposed to our government at
tempting to hold territories as colonies
and treating the inhabitants thereof as
subjects, and imposing upon them a
government of force. This is the meth
cd of an empire instead of a republic.
We oppose the whole policy of the
majority in dealing with the Philippine
archipelago. We believe that instead
of the effort they are making to set up
and hold permanent colonies there, we
should long since have inauguTated a
policy assuring to the people Of those
islands, stable government and their
ultimate independence.
But, even if there is to be an ad-
mitted change in our institutions and
our form of government and a wide
departure from the old landmark Of
political truth, that all governments
instituted among men derive their just
powers from the consent Of the gov
erned; and if it be admitted that we
are to embark upon the dangerous and
desperate policy of colony holding and
subject governing, to none of which do
we agree, even then we could not give
our assent to the passage of the pend
ing measure. The colonial plan set up
by this bill is unjust and iIliberal in
the extreme" BW
A comparison of the trade with the
Philippines with the cost Of maintain
ing the army is made, with the asser-
ton that at the end of the next year
the Philippines viii have cost the
United States S450, 600, 900.
Representative Robinson (Dem.) of
Louisiana announced that he would
vote for the bin in the house, and
Representative Mccall (Rep.) Of Mass
achusetts announced that he would
vote against it. With these exceptions
the Republicans of the committee ex-
pressed themselves in favor of the
measure and the Democrats opposed
to it.
The house agreed to the Special or
DER for considering the Philippine tariff
bill and adjourned until Tuesday.