Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-30
57th CONGRESS.
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government Of said island such munich


pality shall reimburse said government
for the sum thus paid, and said govern
ment is hereby empowered to collect
said sum by the levy and collection of
taxes on such municipalities.
Some other amendments were made,
but they We're of a verbal or minor
character.
Morgan, Ala. then addressed tho
Senate upon the bill. He cordially APP
proved the general purposes Of the
measure. Which he said were n decided
improvement upon the law now in force
in the Philippines. Certain changes
which he did not indicate ought to be
made in the bill, but in a general way
it looked toward peace. He read an ed
itorial article from an Alabama news
paper which he adopted as his own sen
limentS. That article held that as the
United States had put its hand to the
pillow in the Philippines it could not
turn back.
The insurrection in the islands, Nor
gan said was broken, and the duty was
| Lett to this government to provide "a
| Just an! equitable government for the
| people. Divisions in the councils in the
country. he believed, kept the bolomen
ana ladrones in the field. When that
division was settled peace in the islands
| in practical way would be assured.
| If Aguinaldo had in fact driven Span
ish dominion from the islands and had
| destroyed the power of the United
| States 30 hold Manila under the peace
VI otocol, he said, he would have worked
q miracle in the development of ma
| tional power that no other man ever
| attempted
| IF Spain was unable to cope with his
| forces, he said, sit does not follow
| that AGuinaldo could destroy by an
edict the military and naval forces Of
The United States.
| II excuse those who now see fatal
| policy" continued Morgan, "in the
policy of the peace treaty; | still excuse
| them Tor not trying to repeal that con-
cession when we know that the success
of such an effort would throw the Fill
Pine people back into the arms Of Spain,
| whose tyrannies have made her their
| unforgiving enemies"
| To have crowned such war, Waged
| with generous purpose with such a
result, said he, would have dismaycd
stronger hearts than those That bea t
| III the bosoms even of his Democratic
| colleagues.
| There never had been, said Morgan,
Il nretence OF organized government in
the Philippines. 1t was unjust to crit
.clZe Dewey for refusing to recognize
| ASuinaldo as President of the Philip-
+! pine government
| had he done so said he, he would
given aid and comfort to the declared
| enemies of the Cnitcd States"
| He spoke of the religious freedom
| gwen to the Filipinos by the United
States and said chat it was our arms
that divorced church and state in the
| Philippines.
We have dedicated those islands, y
ne said, Ito the freedom of religion; we
| have unshackled them from the domin-
| ION of an established church and no
| power VIII ever exist that can undo
our work through military, civil or
| other agencies"
AT the conclusion of Morgan's speech
| Ihe senate, on motion of Lodge agreed
| that when it adjourned, today it be I'M
| til Saturday After some routine husi-
| ness Clay, ea., addressed the Senate in
| opposition to the pending Philippine
bill.
Clay thought that when the treaty. of
| Paris was made the United States
| ought to have insisted upon the relin-
| punishment Of ana not upon the cession
| OF the islands. Such action would have
| enabled the United States to take pro-
per care of the islands without looking
to their permanent retention. He did
not think the policy the United States
| was pursuing in the islands was either
| right or just. H said the Democratic
| party never had declared in favor or
| leaving the islands before the estab-
| llshment OF n stable government 1t
| was IN favor of carrying out every OBJ
| llSaton OF the government in the is
| lands but declaration of purpose on
| the part OF the United States would
| nave prevented The struggle that has
| been going on for three years
Clay declared that while it was said
| that the pending bill was temporary in
| character it would remain in force if
| enacted, for perhaps a hundred years
1t would remain in full force until re-
| pealed and it'Would confer more power
| on the Philippine commission than is
possessed by the Congress of the United
| States.
Spooner, Wis, next addressed the
Senate. The knowledge that he was to
speak had attracted hundreds of audi
| tors and the galleries We're crowded
| The people of the United States he
thought must be strangely impressed
by the action of the Senate on the Phili-
pine question. 1t seemed to MIN strange
that this bill-a measure to eXalt civil
government in the islands and to subor-
dnate the military power-should be
delayed for weeks by speeches which
tended to show that the opposition Of
our military forces in the islands had
been a disgrace and dshonor to the
country.
Referring to the speech of Carmack.
Tenn, who had said of the President
that his natural gait was running
away" SpoOner, said the intention of
Carmack was to intimate that Presi-
dent Roosevelt was man of impulse.
1.-The President of the United States"
he declared, of all men whom know.
is one who does not run off from duty
or danger
He said President Roosevelt had left
his place in the government to go to
Cuba where he offered his life in the
midst of flying bullets for liberty-for
lihnrtV Of the npnnln of mi. d.