The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-26
Washington Day by Day

Washington. June 25.-(speciaI. )-Hav- ing provided elaborate and all-embracing methods for American carpetDaggers ana native plunderers to further rob and op- press the Filipinos. the Senate of the sugar trust and Panama frauds says to nearly million of American white peo- pie that they, too, shall remain subject to carpetbagger domination.
 In name the Philippines government bill now pending In the House, after hav- Ing passed the Senate, grants to the Fili- pinos the shadow of a certain form of To- cal lf-government, and in doing so provides for the oppression of those peo- pie; but the Senate is deaf to all entreat- les from the people or Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma from relief from the carpetbaggers set over them by the President and the Senate.
 Neither Oklahoma, Arizona nor New Mexico Is to be received into the Union as a state. because the Republican Sen ate believes or fears that in either case two Democrats would be elected to It's membership. The Republican House passed a bill admitting the three terri tories as states. That was politics a show of an attempt to carry out pro- vision of the national Republican plat form. Clearly 1t was understood between the leaders of that party that the Senate should hold up the measure and keep down the Democratic Congressional and Presidential votei The thing Is too plain, too extensively corrupt, Tor any man to be deceived.
 TY,ara xyoa barpain to the effect that the Republican Senate should defeat the action of the Republican House in favor of the new states. And it seems equally certain that a bargain was likewise made to defeat the Nicaragua canai measure.
 "All of you in the House vote for the Nicaragua bill, and we'll do the rest" quoth Spooner, Hanna & Co.,, Senatorial agents of the trans-continental railroads and the sugar trust; and twas done, Same way with statehood for the terri tories. All a partisan Republican game to fool the people.
 So clear Is all this rascally double-deal- ing with great questions of State that one Is almost pursuaded that the apparently bitter quarrel in the Republican ranks regarding Cuban reciprocity Is merely blun. TAe RepuDllcan party UeinB pledged to do something for Cuba It's President and Congress determine upon a sham battle and proceed to "do" Cuba for the benefit of the two sugar trusts the big devil and the little devil of all this mouthng hypocricy and insuffer- able cant manifested by the party of fraud and highway robberyl There Is nothing more plausible.
 The Dingleyites are determined to re- tain control of the governmental not by cash and cant then by other means In the past they have stolen tAe Presidency once and purchased 1t several times. They remain prepared for either proceeding.
 One of the most outrageous wrongs of the Philippines bill is that for a territory about the size of the State of Alabama namely, the island of Luzon, seventeen governors are provided, ca .1 receive a salary about equal to a,ary of the Governor of Alabama. IGtlc will be of course a corresponding number of other officials; and thus we shall have the spectacle of Filipino territory populated by the poor being taxed seventeen times more heavily than a territory o1 similar extent in the United States, all for the purpose of so-called local government, and in addition the wretched Filipinos will pay taxes to keep a most costly and