The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-05
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formation as to the necessity for an
increase in the strength of the army
was referred to the committee on mill
tary affairs
Senator Petugrew also introduced the
following resolution:
Resolved, That the senate hereby
expresses its condemnation of the re-
fusal of the secretary Of war under
whatever influence 10 send the senate
copies Of papers called for by its reso-
luton Of the 10Th Of December, 1900
Teque sting the secretary of the war TO
send to the senate a report of A. l..
Lawshe in relation to the receipts and
expenditures in Cuba. as in violation
Of his official duty and subversiVe of
the fundamental principles of the gov
ernment and of a good administration
thereof
Consideration of the resolution was
postponed until t0aorrow.
The 6. us 34ii i, ssthe4 taken SIP and
Mr.. Carter asked unanimous consent
that the unObiected committee amend
ments in the bill be considered and
passed upon Mr. PettigreW objected.
declaring that as his efforts to obtain
information from the regular channels
had been thwarted he proposed to have
time to obtain It in some other way
The president has no authority to
decide what shall be done with the
Philippines" declared Mr.. Wellington.
THE moment the treaty of peace was
ratified" said Mr.. Carter that mo-
ment 1t became the supreme law of the
land. If the president had refused to
maintain the sovereignty of the United
States there he would have laid him
self liable to Impeachment"
Flag Once Hauled Down.
HAS he not already given up sover-
eighty over portion of Alaska p in
quired Mr.. Wellington.
Mr.. Carter replied that what the
president had done as 10 the Alaskan
boundary had been accomplished
through a mOdus vivendi, a purely tenn
porary arrangement
1T is nevertheless a fact declared
MI Wellington that territory over
which we had undisputed sovereignty
has been abandoned. The British lag
has been raised over it. That is the
fact"
Mr.. Carter-That is the alleged fact
only.
Mr.. Wellington, continuing, said the
Alaskan boundary was distinctly mark
ed by stones, and the territory acquired
by the United States from Russia was
clearly the territory of the United
States. He said that if the president
should be impeached if he reIinGGished
territory in the Philippines, he should
likewise be impeached for relinquish
ing sovereignty in Alaska"
DO you approve of the relinquish-
ment Of territory in Alaska ?'' inquired
Mr.. Carter
Il do not" replied Mr. Wellington
Mr.. Carter-Then do you approve of
a reiinquishment of the Philippines?
That is quite a different matter"
said Mr.. Wellington
Mr.. Teller (Colo), sharply criticised
the pending measure as the entering
wedge for a large standing army. You
viii want not 100000 men" he declared,
but you Will want 100000. and you will
want them for a hundred years This
measure is not intended n rely TO meet
an emergency. but to fix upon the coun-
try a great standing army"
Mr. Teller said it would he easily
possible to pass a bill in forty-eight
hours that would provide for an army
of 100, 900 men or 200, 900 men for SER
vice IN the Philippines provided it was
made to apply to purely emergency
service and for q definite limited time
He attacked the Philippine commission
now in Manila for legislating for those
in whom they had no interest.
THE car of Russia said he sis
an absolute car. He has a council of
sixty men who sit with him. but these
men are Russians. They have the sym
pathy and ambitions of Russians. But
these Americans in the Philippines are
strangers to the country and to the
people. Under the law they have a
right to be there, but under Gods law.
which is higher, they have no place
there at all Their actions are the
worst form of Imperialism"
Teller Follows Lincoln.
Mr.. Caffery inquired whether in the
circumstances Mr.. Teller would vote
to maintain the authority of the Unit
ed States in the Philippines.
AS Mr.. Lincoln announced in re-
gard 20 the Mexican war" replied the
Colorado senator. "a war that he did
not believe in. he would vote for such
Z. force as the government needed. So
| have no doubt that as long as our
flag floats in the Philippines archipel-
ago / viii, reluctant as T may be, Vate
to maintain the army and the flag
there. If that is illogical. it is illogical
because there is no better way out of
it,
Mr. Hoar suggested a general amend
ment to the bill looking to the cOncilia-
ton of the FilipinOs, ana expressed the
opinion that in time of peace the ma
ton should have one soldier to 1000 of