The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-25
TRUSTS TO OWN ISLANDS.

Washington. Jan. 2t.-At 2 o'clock.
the end of the morning ses-
sion. Mr.. Lodge. chairman Of
the committee on the Philippines.
called up the Philippines tariff bill and
the senate proceeded to it's considera-
ton. The effect of Mr.. Lodges motion
was to make the measure the unfin-
ished business of the senate.
senators Rawdns opposed the bill.
After reviewing the bill proposed by a.
majority of the committee. Mr.. Raw
Inns said it must be plain that the ma.
Jority measure would not tend to pro-
mote peace and order in the Philippine
archipelago. He did not think It diff
cult to foresee the results of the policy
proposed by the majority. War. insur-
rection. brigandage, robbery and as
sassination would continue. Industry
and trade would be paralyzed.
Waste of blood and treasure would
continue. The horror of the situation.
now indescribable, would grow more
aggravated.
The Philippine commission, he as
serted, desired to have large sums of
money for expenditures. There was no
limit to the commissions power to
multiply offices, employments and SAL
aries. 1t owed no responsibility, he de-
ciared, to the Filipino people. One OF
the necessary results. he insisted. OF
the administrations imperial pro-
gramme" was that the officers in the
island would replenish their fortunes
and then return to this country to live
in affiuence.
Look" said he, "at the conduct of
our agents in Cuba stealing the trust
funds committed to their care Exam
inc the proceedings of even our judges,
marshals and other officials in far dis
tant Alaska. Conspiracies to commit
a larceny of wealth seem to become
predominant The policy outlined by
the majority proposes a permanent in
stitution Of the practice Of tyranny"
He declared that the object of the
measure proposed by the majority was
to obstruct and destroy trade with the
islands by placing embargoes upon it.
These methods. he insisted, would in
cite the islanders to further hostility,
and instruction.
The great army now maintained in
the islands was insufficient to protect
life and property. He ridicuIed the
plan of campaign adopted by the army
in the Philippines and denounced the
''finesSe" by which Aguinaldo was
made prisoner. 1t was idle. he said,
to suppose that the people of the ISL
ands ever would forgive us or look
upon US as friends.
After reviewing briefly the origin of
the instruction, Mr.. Rawlins said it
was not too late yet Ito fulfill our
pledge to accord them their indepen-
dence. 1t is not yet too late for US to
stay the hand Of the carpet-bagger and
remove the islands from future ex-
ploitation."
The exploitation, he declared. would
result in the control of everything in
the islands by trusts. When the Phil
iEpines became thus trust infested
the result could be forecasted readily.
The Democratic proposition he
said. lis that tariff should be imposed
for revenue, the duties to be so adjust
ed as TO operate equally throughout
the country and not to discriminate be-
tween class or section.
1.-THE proposition which the minority
submits, if adopted, promises
simple remedy for the troubles which
aff1ict U.S. 1t proposes to relinqutsh
the islands. 1t proposes that so long
as we continue in possession Of the ISL
ands there shall be freedom Of trade
between them and the United States.
When the United States wtthdrawS
from the islands and they assume in all
respects the attitude OF q foreign coun-
try, they will be subject to the pro-
visions of our general laws relating to
tariff taxation.
..T ,at the Ishmaelite go. Otherwise
the burden of our difficulties will grow.
Taxes. like the Old Man of the Sea,
will hang upon our backs. And in the
md the CORY head of the republic may
no raised upon a pike as terrible
warming to any who would struggle to
De free
MI Gaines Of Tennessee opposed the
tenn in the bill providing for the es-
adjustment of a military post at Ma
lila. and denounced the administra-
ions policy in the Philippines. Mr..
Iaines declared that while in the Phil
ppines he learned absolutely that the
americans promised independence to
he FiIipinos.
Mr.. Gaines said that the information
lad been given him in confidence, and
hat if he were to divulge the names
# those who had given it to him they
would lose their heads. This reply
tIicited jeers from the Republican side.
Mr.. Dinsmore of Arkansas also spoke
n opposition to the administration
Philippine policy. He insisted that we
hould not turn our backs upon the
glorious traditions of the past and en-
er upon a colonial policy.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Rawlins
peech, Mr. Bacon of Georgia referred
o a colloquy between himself and Mr..
lodge concerning an order of the Secre-
airy of war to permit ships under for
ign flags to enter the trade between
he United States and the Philippines
fter the decision of the supreme court
hat the islands were domestic terrific
V. No exigency of trade. in his Opin-
On, was suffering for such violation of
he law.
Mr.. Bacon said that if he had been
he secretary of war he would not have
ssued such an order, because ne could
onceive of no emergency which would
farrant him in violating the law He
rotested against what he considered
he "hot haste in pressing the pend
ne measure and against what he as
erted was an effort to withhold from
he senate information relating to the
Mr.. Stewart of Nevada
1ok issue with Mr. Bacon's argument
nat an executive officer could not set
side a law for the public good as being
contraventiOn of the history and ju-
sprudence of England and America
lie asserted that the rule had existed
,r centuries that statutory law must
ield to great emergencies.