Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-23

business, Hoar, Mass, presented a res
olutiOn providing for an adjournment
OF the Senate from Thursday, May /,
to Monday, May 5, the object being to
afford time for a spring cleaning OF
the Senate chamber. The resolution
went over under the rules.
The Senate then proceeded to the
consideration of bill providing for a
union railroad station in this city.
Patterson, Colo, made an attack
upon the measure on the ground, as he
said. that it was gift of a great
amount Of money to railroad corpora
tons. Patterson charged that the bill
created a monopoly.
Gallinger, N. H., a member of the
District of Columbia committee point
ed out that the great bulk of the money
to be paid by the United States and
District of Columbia was to be expend-
ed for street railway crossings.
a bill providing for the entry into
this country free of duty of a replica
of bronze statue of Rochambeau to
be erected in Washington was passed.
Without action upon the union sta
ton bill, the Senate proceeded to the
toiiSidV-i eiLicil VI Tie lllIpDlic SOStIii-
ment bill. Rawlns, Utah, the leading
member of the minority on the Philip
pine committee, addressed the Senate
in opposition to the measure.
I'VE seem to have arrived at that
point in our history said he, where
there are those who affect to believe
that it is sedition to think and treason
to talk. For Gods sake let us keep
silent until the war is over eXclaims
a psripatetic hero and graduate from
the Philippines, who wants to make
free speech treason and to cart us away
to the gallows, although he might give
the senator from Massachusetts the ben
eft of clergy on account of his sym
pathy for a 'superheated conscience
All. if we are to believe him, with the
approval of the President of the United
States.
Congress no longer has to declare
war. An Otis or Chaffee are prepared
to attend to this any day in the week.
"a few days ago a message came to
us that Malvar, the last of the insurrec-
tors, had surrendered. The next day it
was announced that Gen. Chaffee had
declared new war and had dispatched
an army to wage it against 100000
Of people in the island of Mindanao.
There are 100000 of suffering
people across the water, silent, UNI
| heard, but whose very souls cry out
against wrongs cruel, unspeakable, be-
yond the ken of mortal language to
| describe. There are now more than
| 100000 on this side of the water
wanting to know the truth, heretofore
stified and suppressed.
This bill strikes its roots into and
| drives its support from that excres-
cence upon the army appropriation bill
| of 1901, known as the Spooner amend
ment. The qualifications of the alb
solute power therein conferred, adopted
at the instance of the senator from
Massachusetts, by this bill is eliminat-
| ed.
"All property rights in the islands
and the fate of their inhabitants are
| turned over to the control and dispo-
sition of the commission, without any
qualification of Importance.
1.-THE commission may declare war
and make peace: raise armies and pro-
vide navies; regulate commerce with
all sorts of determinations between
/ ioiethuo anu pol ID. ltNy NitiOut
| limit and without uniformity. 1t may
coin money and regulate the value
thereof, and max establish religion and
punish those who do not conform to
its tenets. 1t may destroy free speech
and punish as an act of sedition the
publication of the truth in regard to
their administration. IT can establish
an inquisition, devise and apply meth
DDS of circulating torture, compelling
persons to be witnesses against them
selves and disclose information which
/ the commission may desire to extort.
1T is useless to say that this power
will not be abused. Attention will bt
invited to some instances in the his
tory of our relations at the island.
showing the extent to which our rep
resentatives have gone In acts o.
perfdy injustice, oppression ant
| cruelty"
During Rawlins' speech two efforts wer.
| made to maintain a quorum. Final,
Money CMiss.) moved that the Senate ad
journ, only five Republican senator's be
ing present when the motion was made
The vote on the motion was II to g, les
| than a quorum The roll then was Gale.
and quorum secured
Money. in Withdrawing his motion, sal,
he had no disposition to delay considera
ton of the measure, but he believed tn