Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-06-05
The amendment was pending when
the house adjourned.

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the house adjourned.
Washington. May 2s.- Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts. in charge of
the Philippine bill, offered on behalf
of the committee several amend
ments. the most important being the
one extending to the Philippines the
provision in the bill OF rights OF the
constitution OF the United States, ex-
cepting only the right to bear arms
and to trial by jury. All amendments
were agreed to. Senator Morgan of
Alabama delivered an extended
speech in which he supported. in the
main, the bill as presented by the
committee. He said ii looked to-
ward peace and toward a just apd
peaceful government in the islands.
Some changes were necessary. in his
opinion, but these he thought would
be made He declared there never
had been a pretense of an organized
Filipino government in the islands,
and he said that, had Dewey recog-
nized Aguinaldo's claims, he would
have given aid and comfort to the de-
clared enemies of the United States.
He took sharply TO task those in and
out of the senate who had eXtolled
Aguinaldo and asserted the Filipinos
were not fighting for liberty but sim
ply as savage tools OF the Hongkong
junta Senator Clay of Georgia re-
garded the action of the United
States since the ratification of the
treaty of Paris as great mistake and
urged that this government ought to
declare its purpose in the Philippines.
Such action would put an end TO the
trouble in the islands. He main
tanned the bill ought not to be passed,
as it would confer greater power on
the Philippine commission than ever
had been possessed by king or poten-
tate. Senator Spooner of Wisconsin
began speech in support of the bill
which is to conclude the general de-
bate on the measure by the republi-
can side He reyiewd the situation
in the islands and said the RESPONSE
bility of it rested not on any one
party but on al alike. 1t appeared
strange to him that measure intend
ed to exalt the government and subor-
dinate the military power should
create such adverse criticism and
he declared that on the democratic
side nothing was heard but pessi-
mism; the gospel of despair, sus-
picion, distrust, and imputation of the
motives of republican senators. He
declared that never in the annals of
time had an army carried to a people
so much of amelioration, so much
kindness and tenderness as the Amer
lean army HAD carried to the Filipinos
by direction of President Mckinley.
The house passed the bill to in
crease the subsidiary silver coinage.
The democrats directed the fight
chiefly against the provision to recon
the standard silver dollars into subsi-
diary coin as public necessities might
require. Some New York democrats
voted for the previous question, but
voted with their colleagues on
motion to recommit with instruc-
lions to strike out the provisions rela-
tive to the recoinage of silver dollars.
Conference reports on the omnibus,
public building and Notifications APP
preparation bills were adopted and the
house adjourned until Monday. The
text of the subsidiary coinage bill fol-
lows: The secretary of the treasury
be authorized to coin the silver bull
lion in the treasury purchased under
the act of July IA, 1890, into such de-
nominations of subsidiary coin as he
may deem necessary to meet public
requirements, and thereafter as pub
lie necessities may demand to recon
silver dollars into subsidiary coin:
and SO much of any act as fixes a
limit to the aggregate of subsidiary
silver coin outstanding and so much
of any act as directs the coinage of
any portion of the bullions purchased
under act of July IA, 1890, into stand
ard silver dollars is hereby re-
pealed"