The age-herald., 1901-03-02
READY FOR TIE PRESIDENT Democrats Failed in Their At-
 tempt to Fiibuster MORGAN STiRS UP THE SENATE He Offered an Amendment Concerning the Canal Project, Which Was
 Ruled Out By the Chair.
 Appeal Failed.
MORGAN sTiRs UP THE SENATE

Washington. March 1.-The House re- moved all possibility of an extra session today by concurring in the Senate amendments to the army appropriation bill The vote stood 159 to 1S4 The bill now goes to the President The House was brought to vote by a special or der prepared by the committee on rules, which permitted an hours debate on side. The Democrats attempted to fili- buster, but they were overwhelmed. The Philippine and Cuban amendments were defended by the Republicans and assailed by the Democrats. MT. Hull of Iowa frankly admitted that he had invested money in the Philippines. He said it was a legitimate enterprise, which was not looking for government favors. Subse- quently when he stated that the com pany would not have invested money If Bryan had been elected, the Democrats jeered and hissed and shouted that 1t was because, if Bryan had been elected, the Philippines would not have been ex- plotted. MT. Lentz of Ohio challenged MT. Hulrs right to vote, but MT. Hull voted aye The final conference report upon the Indian appropriation bill was adopt ed, and a number of minor bills were put through the final stages The con- ference report on the St. Louis Expo- sition bill, which agreed to Sunday clos ing, was agreed to, and the bill was sent back to conference. A motion to concur in the Charleston Exposition amendment UQ tad ta cutter service bill was sidetracked early in the day by vote of the house.
 The Army Bill.
 MT. Dalzell of Pennsylvania, from the committee on rules presented the special rule providing vote on the motion to concur in the Senate amendments to the army bill after one hours debate on each side. He demanded the previous question upon the adoption of the rule.
 The previous question was ordered 139 to 12O This allowed twenty minutes on a side for debate upon the adoption of the rule. MT. Richardson, the Democrat ic leader, declared that the rule was de- signed to force vote after two hours debate upon the most important issue in the history of the country. The Philip pine and Cuban amendments engrafted upon the army bill by the Senate were offensive, obnoxious and unconstitutional. They had been placed upon the bill in opposition to every rule of the House. Yet no opportunity was to be allowed to amend them. Under the Senate amend ment there would be governed 10000, coo Filipinos as American subjects without a ri~ht y,fo amendments proposed as to Cuba would deny the people the free government which the American government promis- ed the Cubans
 Test of Imperialism.
 Mir. DeArmond of Missouri declared that we were now having the first real Con- gressional test of imperialism. Hereto fore Congress he said. had shirked it's duty and had allowed the President to rule with the hand and force of an Elm peror. Now, without opportunity for discussion, hardly for protest imperial ism was to be sanctioned by the Congress of the United States. He declared that by trades, bargains and connivances, the rights of 100000 people in the Philip pines were to be frittered away War in Cuba was to be risked. T commend to the tyrants here the plunder they will get" said be- For myself, I stand true to my conception of duty and l condemn the infamy they are perpatrating." (Dem- ocratic applause.)
 MT. Lacey of Iowa called the attention of the Democrats to the precedents for the proposed legislation. Of course he said, the proposed method of government was purely temporary. In time a per manent form of government would be established.
 MT. Richardson said if the act for the government of the Louisiana purchase was substituted for the proposed propo- sition any Democrat would vote for It.
 MT. Dalzell asserted that the propor- ton relative to the Philippines found an exact parallel in the Louisiana purchase.
 But the Louisiana act" interposed MT. Williams of Mississippi was to con- tinue only until Congress should meet again. This act is to remain in force un- til Congress shall otherwise provide. It cannot provide otherwise without the ap proyal of the President
 Generous Proposition.
 eThis act" replied MT. Dalzell, lis much more generous than that enacted for the government of the Louisiana territory" He called attention to the fact that the Presidents instructions to the Philip nine commission gave the Fflipinos every constitutional guarantee, including the right of trial by jury. As to the Cuban amendment it simply provided for the maintenance of tn Monroe doctrine and the proper sanitation of the island to pro- feet ourselves and the Cuban people.'
 The rule was adopted-145 to 127.
 MT. Richardson then attempted to de- lav proceedings by a point of order but was overruled by the speaker, and the House tabled MT. Richardson's appeal from the decision by 140 to IF.
 MT. Hull moved to concur In the Sen ate amendments in gross. MT. Grosvenor, supporting the Philippine and Cuban amendments, related the circumstances of the Ostend manifesto in 1854. when the emissaries of a Democratic President