The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-01-08
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Mr.. Butler IN. Co complained that the
documents printed in relation to the
bill related only to the canteen question
and not the more important question
as to the increase of the army. The
canteen question did not amount to
snap of the finger he declared, in COM
parison with the proposed great in
crease in the army.
Mr.. Sewell IN. j said he received
100 letters day regarding the canteen
question and he supposed the mail OF
other Senators was about the same.
Mr.. Butler suggested that the state
ment conveyed no information to him.
1.-THE Senator evidently does not de-
sire to be informed retorted Mr.. Sc
well.
THAT statement is simply gratui-
tous," holly replied Mr.. Butler.
Discussion of the committee amend
ment striking out the provision for a
veterinary corps in the army was be-
gun. Mr. Kenney, (Del), the champion
in the Senate of the proposed veteri-
nary corps, urged that the committees
amendment be rejected.
Mr.. Sewell, a member of the Military
Committee, replied that great injus-
tice would be done regular army off
GERS by the injection into the army
of a new corps. He pointed out also
that Great Britain, with large veteri
nary corps had lost hundred thous-
and horses and mules during the war
! in South Africa.
Mr.. Lodge Mass denounced as un-
just any effort of that sort to place
f, men, taken from civil life in authority
! over men who had devoted their lives
to army affairs. Discussing the gen.
eral features of the measure. Mr.. Lodge
| maintained that organized rebellion
| has ceased in the Philippines and the
| local George Washington is in hiding"
Ina short time" said Mr. Lodge, Il
believe there will be peace and order
throughout the Philippine Islands" He
| did not think, however, that the proba-
| bility of outbreaks among the Moros
and the unciyilized tribes of the inte-
rior ever would be eliminated.
1T it were not for our gunboats the
| Sulu pirates even now would devastate
the shipping in those seas.
i Mr. Bacon inquired how long Mr..
| Lodge though a large army might be
needed in The Philippines.
Mr.. Lodge replied that he could not
| say exactly.
/ In the course of sharp coIoquy with
] Mr. Bacon, TIr. Lodge said he and the
| Georgia Senator differed so hopelessly
! from each other it was hardly possible
to give him satisfactory replies to his
/ questions After some further sparring
Mr. Bacon put this question to Mr..
Lodge:
From your knowledge as Chairman
| of the Philippine Committee, of the
conditions in the islands, will the army
| of 10000 be needed there for short
time, or for an indefinite time?"
| my judgment is replied Mr.. Lodge,
! that at the end of two years we will
be able to reduce very largely the army
in the Philippines. That is my belief.
Spain had an army of 1000 men and
kept very bad order"
i And occupied little territory, in
terjected Mr.. Bacon.
Yes and occupied little territory.
assented Mr.. Lodge. He maintained
that however with force of $4,000 in
the Philippines the United States would
keep better order than ever had been
known there. With that force in the
Philippines there would be about $4,000
men left to man the Notifications of
the country, a force which he believed
to be totally inadequate. In addition
that force would be called upon to guard
the Nicaraguan canal which it was pro-
posed soon to begin to build. On that
! canal there would be employed $4,000
| laborers. They would have to be pro-
tected When finished the canal would
have to be guarded.
! Mr.. Lodge believed that at the end of
four or five years, the force might be
reduced safely to 10000 men. Conclud-
ing he said
eve are holding all the best of the
| North American Continent. Look at
your map-a great symmetrical coun-
try, all under our flag, no separate gov
eminent, your railroads running IN
steady connections and carrying freight
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and
from the Lakes to the Gulf. Europe
cannot beat that. Every separate
State system. every separate railroad
she has enhances the cost of her ar
! ticles. We ale beating her in iron and
steel. We are going to surpass her in
other articles. We shall in some way
or other equal her subsidies to steam
ships by our subsidies and put our
ships on an even plane of competition.
Does anyone suppose the other people
like our industrial achievements? They
are struggling to get an opening for
an overcrowded population and for an
ver-production. That is why they
have seized Africa and the islands OF
the Pacific. China got into trouble and
they thought that there would come
new division and they could all get
their share. 1t has been stopped. Inc
Chinese empire is going to be held to-
gether and it's markets opened TO all
the nations of the world. do not
say anything improper or boast unduly
when / say that it was owing to the
United States that this policy was adopt
ed instead of the other. We are all in
sympathy with it, but do you suppose
the other countries like it? | doubt II
very much.
Anyone who has read the neWSpa-
pers lately will have noticed there mas
been continual talk about economic led
erations to shut out the United States
from Europe. In other words they feei
the economic pressure that we are put
ting upon them. ! believe that Win
our resorces, with the character OF our
people. with our new country, with our
great continent. that the victory can
only be with us and that there can De
hut ono and Ia that conflict OF economic