The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-27

think eighteen months reasonable time? I do not intend to vote for the report if such delay is contemplated. Mr. Hepburn-I think 1t proper for me to say that the House conferees sought to place a limitation of six months upon the time allowed. but the Senate rejected our proposition. We were informed, however. that the action of the Senate must not be construed as a legislative ct instruction of reasonable time that the propositions were voted down because they were considered obstructive and meant nothing.
 To further inquiries of Mir. Richardson. Mir. Hepburn said
 "I believe in all sincerity it is the Sem ate bill or nothing" Mir Burton (O.) urged an acceptance or the conference report.
 Mir. Underwood and MT. Richardson of the Alabama delegation. both urged con- currence, though saying their people were strongly favorable to the Nicaragua route.
 "This Is one step nearer the canal" '" | said Mir Mann uil), and this is due to | the courage and persistency of two men. ! -John T. Morgan of Alabama. and Will | liam P. Hepburn of Iowa" Great ap- | plause)
 | N. 1sb | eGa). while primarily for the Nicara- | eua tilI said the Senate bill should be accepted rather than see all canal iegis- | Iation be blocked.
 ! Mir. Fletcher (Nfinn). one of the House conferees said personally he mad been opposed to immediate action. but as the | matter had narrowed down to a choice l of the Nicaragua and Panama route, he | favored the latter.
 l Mir. Williams (Miss), speaking for the Mississippi Valley, said that he had rath- I CT pay $500, 900 for canal at Nicara- qua than S25.0o0 for one at Panama. But l he had rather have one at Panama than 1 no canal at all
 | Mir. McRae tArk) said he considered | the substitution of the Panama for the Nicaragua route the monumental bluider of thss Congress.
 The report then was adopted. 252 70 E. ! The following votes were cast Tn the negative: Messrs. Ball tTex3, Sell | CColo.). Hay Va.). Jones tva). c. kitch- | in (N O, Loud (Cal), Neville (Neb.) and Woods (Cal).
 The House then proceeded with the l Philippines civil government bill Amendments were offered by Mir Jones (Va.) to reduce the rate of interest on bonds for the purchase of friar lands; | by Mir Cochran (Mo) to limit the amount | of land to be purchased. by any indlvid- ual to 16O acres, and by MT. Sulzer, to
 hold in trust the lands purchased of the friars for homesteads for the natives,
 were defeated.
 MT. Clark (Mo), replying to the re-
 marks made by Mir. Landis Qnd) few | days ago ridiculed MT. Landis's glowing
 euIogy of General Funston. Clark Answers Landis. If General Funston was the great hero the gentleman from Indiana made him out, to be-. said Mir Clark, the ticket nominated by the next Republican convention should be Freddy and Teddy, not Teddy and Freddy.'V MT. Landis's statement that ths Dem l ocrats, after dragging the Republicans | into the Spanish war had run away" | he denounced as a foul islander.
 "As many Democrats" he said, had | fought in the Spanish war as Republi- l cans. Dewey. Schley Democratic ap- plause), old Joe Wheeler Democratic | applause), and Hobson, all wrote their names high, and there were other Demo- l cratic heroes more obscure on land and sea. There was no politics in the Span l ish war-none in it's inception, none dur l ing it's progress. It was only upon the conclusion that politics entered, when mean conspiracy tried to rob Schiey of | the credit that was his due. But the American people would not have it. They wrote his name with those of John Paul Jones' Perry and Farragut on the list Of naval heroes"
 Proceeding, he said Mir. Landis could not shoulder the responsibility of the present situation in the Philippines upon destiny
 He asserted that he believed in God"
 said MT. Clark. f"It would be interesting to know whether God believes in him. l had rather take as the Lords exponent Jesus Christ who said: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, which is assuredly not what we are do- | ing in the Philippines
 Mir Littlefield (Me.) insisted that MT. Landis's charge that the Democrats had run away was true. He said it was no answer to assert that some Democrats had achieved glory in the war. It was Democratic statesmen he was spedkihs of But. he said, he desired to do justice to the Democrats. They did not all start to run away. When it came to the appro- priation of s20.0O0000 to carry out the provisions of the Paris treaty, which Democrats had since said was TOT the purchase of 100000 people at 2 a head. sixty-four Democrats voted for the appro- priation.
 Reed the Originator.
 "Was not Mir. Reed of Maine the au- thor of that statement about the purchase
 of people at B q head?" asked MT. Shack
 leford (do)
 Tt does not make any difference who started it." replied MT. Littleteld, the Democrats adopted it..
 Did not the ratification of the treaty
 place the United States under obligation
 legal and moral to pay $OOOo,oOO to Spain?" asked Mr Cooper CrexD Just as it places upon the United States today the obligations which you now seek to evade," responded MT Lit tlefeld Tt don't dc to answer by eulo- gizing Winfield Scott Schey, who made a look and escaped danger. This statement was met with storm
 of misses from the Democratic side MT. De ArmOnd tMoD said the Demo- crats stood where they always had stood They contended that this republic had no right to force an alien rule upon an allen people and establish on the other side Of the world a colonial empire.
 Who ran away he went on, when the treaty of Paris was ratified, who pro- claimed it to be the purpose of the Re- publican Party to hold the Philippines at the point of the bayonet? It was inu- mated that we would deal with the ques- tion of the government of the Philippines afterWard, but from that day to this you have not dared to proclaim what your ul- innate policy was to be. No, you are feeling your way along, feeling into the pockets of the Filipnos. stealing away their timber and their lands. You propose hero to enact bill which allows the na- tives to purchase forty acres of the ter ritory upon which they were born, but allows d corporation organized to exploit I-tl