The age-herald., 1902-01-21

:. O a5I'a- [. J AN posed'' to paying a cent under that head. But he was glad to entertain fIlhce Henry because it would give the lie to the impression certain anglomaniacs were trying to foster that we were In league with England against Germany.
 Rlotous Expenditures.
 MT Clark also indulged in some general comments on the vast increase in gov ernmental expenditure. which had grown, he said, from S1.52 per capita in lS6o to. SIP per capita last year. He insisted that if these .riot;ous government eXpendi- lures" went on, the republic would top pie over of it's own weight He character ized MT. cannon's claim that we neld on to the Philippines for forever ard day as most idotic and melancholy declaration. Holding on to the Philippines he said. already cost the United States s300, 000.000 and was now costing at the rate of $12.OOO,OO0 a month
 MT. Cannon twitted MT. Clark with having voted for the $5,OOO,OOO appropria- ton for the St. Louis exposition. Taking up MT Clarks statement that the per capita cost of the government had in- creased from $15 in 1860 to SIP in 190O Mir. Cannon said it was absurd to com pare the situation then and now. As an evidence of the changed conditions he pointed out that pensions and other things growing out of the Civil war had cost nine thousand millions. Proceeding, Mir Cannon declared himself the friend of the constitution, which, he said, fol- lowed the flag everywhere. Then with eloquent words he described the glory that had come to the country, conclud- ing as follows:
 For a Correct Policy.
 q am for German policy: I am for French policy; I am for correct policy: and I am for Great Britian's as long as 1t is correct. When she is right when she is our best customer, l am for treat ing her as such-for meeting her half way and standing with her as we stand with other nations and with other civil izations And thank God when she is wrong. we are strong enough and great enough to say thus far and no farther shall thou come.'i
 MT. DeArmond of Missouri sarcastically ridiculed the remarkable appearance of the gentleman from Illinois oCannon) in the garb and guise of friend of the con- stitution.
 Mir DeArmond defended the war for the liberation of Cuba. and referring to the Philippines said: I've would have scorn- ed at the beginning the suggestion that starting in as deliverers, starting in as the champions of freedom the rescu- CTS of the oppressed, we ourselves should become the spoismen and the oppressors and the tyrants.
 The English civilization which MT. Cannon gloried in continued MT. De- Armond, was the vaunted civilization against which men, women and children were struggling and dying in South Af- rica in defense of liberty. The attitude of the mighty English nation in South Africa, he said, was something similar to ours in the Philippines, but he believed that eventually the American people would be aroused to the enormity of their attitude and in their sober second thought would refuse to allow themselves to be made the dupes of those who make LIS examples of the same civilization which was slaughtering liberty in South Af- rica.
 The speaker and Mir Grosvernor of Ohio had a tilt over the fact that Will liam J. Bryan had helped to secure rati- fcation of the treaty with Spain. MT. DeArmond said the war was over and he believed the people should be relieved of the expense of the army. If Mir Bryan had supposed that 1t was the intention of those in power to hold the Philippines at the point of the bayonet and inaugurate a colonial policy, the treaty never would have been ratified. MT. Grosvenor follow ed with some extended remarks upon the ship subsidy bill. After further remarks by MT. Grow of Pennsylvania, MT. Will Hams of Illinois, MT. Alexander of New l York and MT. Underwood of Alabama l the House, at 4:55. adjourned.