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Puritans had bought and paid for every
foot of land acquired from the Indians
and that the statue of 1922 was Cruel
ana barbarous."
Do YOU approve Of it," he demanded,
"wnen at the beginning of the twentieth
century YOU make it a precedent
Il think" said Mr. Spooncr, "that our
fathers bought the lands OF the Indians
in Massachusetts, and then proceeded to
buy their scalps."
Il will agree retorted Mr.. Hoar, that
this policy which the Senator defends in
the Philippines is well supported ny all
the wicked precedents which can be
four in the lives of good men" Laugh
ter).
Senator'S declared Mr.. Spooner, "who
denounce our policy in the Philippines in
general language, on ex parte testimony
ought not to forget that our forbears,
(brave men in war; also found it neces-
sary to resort in war to what in time of
peace no man on earth would approve"
Does the Senator approve of that or
der?" demanded Mr.. Hoar, 'in war or in
peace"
"If it were necessary suggested Mr..
cbusetts so that the pilgrim might pro-
tcct his home from destruction, his wife
from debauchery and his children from
cruelty, | would have done what he had
dnoe. What does the Senator say?"
ut never was necessary to do it," Mr..
Hoar declared "!t was a base and
wicker order. and when the Senator talks
of forbears / am happy to say that the
man of that generation who bore my name
incurred obloquy and indignities through
resisting things then as | do now" ZAP
rlause).
Mr.. Spooner said to Mr.. Hoar that if
he did not believe his party was right
and could not act with them he would
vote for the other party.
- This elected quite a long reply from
Mr.. Hoar who said he did not believe
the Democratic party was right in their
view OF the question. He believed that
Republican party would work out the
problem right in the end, but that they
should be shown that their present policy
was wrong. He could not be expected to
abandon a party in whose policies in the
main he believed, to join party to whose
policies he was opposed.
In conclusion Mr.. Spooner declared that
if the Democratic party ever obtained
control of the government, no such fat
uous and cowardly'' policy as now sug-
gested by the minority would be fol-
lowed. The Democratic party would fol-
low the plan now suggested by the Re-
publicans and would declare that it was
impossible to withdraw from it.
Mr. Pettus, of Alabama, discussed some
of the legal phases of the Philippine
question, dealing with the powers of the
United States and of the several States.
He held that it was impossible for the
United States to govern any territory
now operated in accordance with the Con-
stitution of the United States.
Mr.. Bate, of Tennessee, said he SYM
pathized with the efforts of the minority
to get at the truth in the Philippine
question, although he did not want to
be put in the attitude of criticising the
army.
Mr. McLaurin. of Mississippi. declared
that General Otis and General Funston
had slandered the private soldiers in the
Philippines, but he said that Democratic
Senator'S had not in any way slandered
the army and that that charge itself was
slander.
At 5:15 p. mh the Senate took a recess
until o'clock.
At the opening of the evening session
Mr.. Carmack. (Tenn.), took the floor.
He said the debate had been carried on
by the minority in the hope that the
bill would be purged of it's most OBJ
iectionable features All hope of sub
stantial amendment of the bill was now
abandoned.
He scoffed at Senator Morgan's theory
that the Filipino insurgents were the
"tools of wicked conspirators at Hong
Kong" saving that that was the dis
honored plea of despots, the plea of con-
quest and murder and robbery in all
ages. He proceeded in an exceedingly
sarcastic vein to reply to some of Mr..
Morgan's arguments. He said he did not
know of a more dangerous doctrine than
that advanced by Mr. Morgan, that the
army was more representative of the
people than Congress.
He did not believe that the United
States had reached the stage of degen-
Grafton and decay when the custody of
its liberties rested in the array.