The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-19
TO TAKE VOTE MONDAY
PHILIPPINES TARIFF BILL IN
 THE SENATE.
Wellington of Maryland Delivers . Forceful Speech in Opposition to the Pending Measure.
 Stewart Supports It.

l Washington, Feb. 1s.-It was agreed by | tlie Senate today that a final vote on the Philippines tariff bill aad the pending | day afternoon at o'clock. The only | stipulation made by the minority was that | the last days debate should be devoted to speeches not exceeding fifteen minutes | in duration. Senator Wellington (Md.) spoke today in opposition to the pending bill and Senator Stewart tNev.) in sup port of the measure. Mir. Wellington
 address covered the Philippines question generally. He set forth his well-known
 views forcefully. He had always been q Republican. he said, believer in the sys- tems of protection and a supporter of
 gold standard of currency. but he had
 come to the parting of ways with his par ty in 1898, when 1t developed its impe- rialistic tendencies" He opposed the D, nding ta,if bill because he did not think Congress had the right to enact
 legislation by which people were taxed without representation and governed without their consent. Y MT. Stewart made a brief legal and con- stituional argument in support of the authority of Congress to hold the Phil | ippines and to provide proper govern ment for their inhabitants. .- s. e. MT. Wellington (Md.) then addressed | the Senate upon the Philippine question. | He said he had been Republican, a protectionist and O. believer in the gold | standard of the currency. However he said the Spanish war brought the parting of the ways. He was opposed to thai war and believed that Cuban independ- ence could have been brought about by diplomatic negotiations. Then came the imperialist tendency of the Republican party and with them he could not agree Without the Spanish war, he said. Cuba might have been free, might have enjoyed indeed, larger measure or freedom and independence than she was enjoying now or would enjoy Tn the future The only thing Cuba was taught
 was how a postal official could emoezzie a half million dollars.
 | From the beginning of the war in the Philippines 1t was evident, Mir. Wellington insisted, that 1t would continue until the bitter end-that is. until the Fflipinos should be subjugated or absolutely ex- terminated. Passing incidentally from the Philippines to Cuba. MT. Wellington re- ferred to the battle of Santiago where the American squadron. he declared, was | under the command of Rear Admiral
 Sampson, but was led by "the Maryland
 hero, Admiral Schley." Applause in one of the galieries).
 From that moment" he continued, | "the end was wen. Admiral Schley com manded the vessels of the American squadron in that engagement. He, stood | In the midst of that battle and won out as no battle was ever won before. But | the administration has been as unjust | to him as 1t has been to the Cubans and | Fiipinos. He has not received that need of praise and credit that belongs to him. But an effort has been made to 1 besmirch him and to detract from his | character and from his truth and brav- | cry"
 | Mir. Wellington referred incidentally to 1 his conferences with the late President
 Mckinley regarding the ratification of | the treaty of Parts He went over the
 whole situation with the President, he | said, and made plain to him that he | (WellingtonD never would consent to vote | for any proposition which contemplated | the permanent occupation of the Philip | pine Islands by the United States. He maintained that our victories In the Spanish war had induced a reversal of
 the policy of more than a hundred years.
 The United States Government had been iured away from Its long time moorings
 by the siren whispers of European na-
 tons that this Government was becom- ing a world power. He charged that Aguinaldo had been captured by methods
 unworthy of the American army, and
 then had been compelled, under duress, to issue proclamation advising his coun- trymen to surrender.
 Mr Wellington said that after the rati- fication of the treaty of Paris. the Amerf- can administration had no definite Phil. ippine policy. Ut has been drifting" said he, without aim and without a policy" He ridiculed MT. Lodges assertion that
 Congress should make no promises to the
 Filpinos lest 1t should mortgage the
 unknown future" "The tide of morals" :" he maintained had become low, indeed,
 if a legislative promise could not be kept"
 In discussing the oriental situation. Mir.
 Wellington indicated a belief that a great
 war was imminent, probably, between Russia and Japan and due, very likely. to the breaking pp of China.
 MT. Wellington, referring to the war in South Africa. where the Boer was
 struggling for freedom in his own ter ritory." and said had our own hands been guiltless of Filipino blood, we would have enlisted our sympathy for the noblest nation that ever fought for free dom" His opinion was that in the Philippines the inhabitants ought to be