Evening journal., 1902-05-30
NPOONRR ON THB
PHILIPPINE BILL
Comments on Minority Criti.
ciSmS of lhe Measure
Declared That IIo Would Not Buy
Trade With Blood Of Human
Beings

Washington. May 30.-Interost in
the Philippine date is increasing as the
discussion draws to a close. Yesterday |
the senate galleries were throngel
with auditors, and the attendance on
the floor was larger than it has been
for some time, including many mem
bers of the house of representatives.
Mr.. Lodge. in charge of the bill, Of
fered on behalf OF the committee sew
eral amendments to the measure, the
most important being one extending
to the Philippines the provisions of
the bill of rights of the constitution of
the United States, excepting only the
right to bear arms and the right to a
trial by jury. All of the amendments
We're agreed to.
Mr. Morgan, Of Alabama delivered
an extended speech, in which he sup
ported in the main the bill as pre-
sented by the committees. He said it
! looked toward peace and toward just
and peaceful government in the
islands. He took sharply to task those
in and out of the senate who had ex-
tolled Aguinaldo, and asserted that
the Filipinos were not fighting for lib
erty. but simply as the savage tools Of
the Hong Kong Junta.
Mr.. Clay, of Georgia, opposed the
pending measure in a carefully pre-
pared speech. He urged that this gov.
ernment ought to declare its purposes
in the Philippines. He maintained
that the bill ought not to be passed,
as it would confer greater power on
the Philippine commission than ever
had been possed by king or potentate.
Late in the afternoon Mr.. Spooner,
Of Wisconsin, began a speech in sup.
port of the bill and the administra-
TONS policy in the Philippines, which
is to conclude general debate on the
measure on the Republican side He
reviewed the situation in the islands
and said the responsibility for it rest
cd not on any one party, but on all
alike.
Il have not changed my attitude OF
opposition toward permanent dOmin
ion, as has been charged" J." he declared
81 would not buy trade with the blood
of my people or the blood of any other
people. ! opposed my party's policy
in the annexation of Hawaii because
did not want to take the first Ions
p step out into the Pacific If the inten
3 ton of the minority is really to remove
e the military forces from the islands
, cannot understand why they have
done all they could to prevent the ele
; walton of the civil authority for th'
} military, which in all their speeches
they have denounced as Infamous il
q the practice of torture"
D Mr.. Spooner said Mr.. Carmack in
dulged in some observations regardini
President Roosevelt that he would re
gret. He paid a tribute to the pres
dents service in Cuba. "He has wo
y the right to be known as the frien
of freedoml" exclaimed Mr.. Spoonei
v He declared the attitude Of tn
n minority in the discussion of the penG
ing bill has been for the purpose c
influencing the vote of unthinBing PEI
pie in the congressional elections, an
that he found nothing in the speeche
e of the minority but pessimism and th
gospel of despair, suspicion and di
3 trust of the motives of those who di
a. fer in their beliefs on the measure. II
O. combatted the charge of commercial
Il, ism made against President McKinle
IL whose memory" he said, would eve
ir be fragrant and blessed memol
n throughout the nation"