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Senator Prevents Publication in
Record of Excerpts from Phil
ippines Testimony.
BEvERID6E SEEKS TO HAVE IT PRINTED.
Senator spoonor Resumes His speech
begun Thursday on the Philip
pines Bill-DecIares No Question
of Imperialism Has Deen Raised
Except for Party Purposes.

Washington, June AT the conclu-
zion of routine business in the Sen
ate Saturday-the body having con
yened at II a. Reconsideration OF the
Philippine government bill was re-
sumed.
Senator Beveridge (Ind) presented
certain excerpts from the testimony
taken by the Philippine committee ar
ranged carefully with reference to
certain phases of the Philippine ques-
ton, and requested that they be print
ed in the Congressional Record. Sen
ator Beveridge explained that they
covered particular points in the testi-
mony arranged in logical sequence and
he thought it was perfectly fair and
just.
Senator Hoar suggested that he
Thought a compilation of the kind pre-
scented ought to have the sanction of
The Philippine committee, and he
moved that the matter be referred to
that committee.
Senator Beveridge said that the
widest latitude had been afforded to
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matter in the record and he thought
it scarcely fair that objection should
be made to his request.
Senator Allison hoped Senator Hoar
would withdraw his motion, and indi-
Gated some criticism Of the Massachu-
sett,s senator's action. AS Senator
Hoar would not withdraw his motion
Senator Beveridge withdrew HIS re-
quest, announcing that later he would
read the matter, if necessary, to get it
Sn the record.
In resuming his speech begun Thurs
day Senator Spooner referred to a
statement of Senator Hoar, minute
before. that there ought not to be
sides in this Philippine debate. One
trouble one of the weaknesses of the
discussion and one of the wicked ele-
ments, he said, is the fact that there
had been and were now sides in this
question. He thought there ought to
be no ''sides."
ut is" he said. "a question which
belongs to the American people 1t
is a problem of delicacy and of some
danger and weapon Of no man and
of no party.
"The interest. of all men in public
and private life is to get at truth with
out private opinion or party strife.
81 have not been in favor of perma-
nent dominion over the Philippines"
said Senator Spooner, "but l do not
mean by that that ] have been in
favor of the United States running
away like a coward. or abandoning a
people who have come under our
protection or surrendering them to
tyranny. anarchy and chaos"
He said he had never been able to
contemplate with equanimity the adj
mission of the Philippines as a state or
states. Nothing was dearer to him,
except his home ties. than that this
government should be confined to this
continent.
No question of imperialism, he said,
had been raised in this problem except
for party purposes. There never be-
fore has been an instance" he declared,
where a portion of the American peo-
pie have sought, necessarily. and l
think unfairly. to put this country in
the wrong and to stain the honor of
the country with dishonor "They had
Formed" he said, ga narrow and squint-
eyed view of every question of fact"
Colloquy with Honr.
During the course of Senator Spoon
er's speech Senator Hoar inquired if
the inhabitants of the Philippines
were not people where there were
millions of men, acting together, who
raised an army, selected general,
turned Spain out of all territory ex:
cept only the city of Manila, and who
had agreed upon a constitution, re-
publican in form.
"They would be people replied
Senator Spooner, eff that were true"
'It is true" said Senator Hoar
81 deny it," insisted Senator Spoon
er. II deny that there is more than
superficial truth in it."
Senator Spooner said Aguinaldo
had an army of proclamations. CON
fiscations and assassinations. Quot
ing from the diary of Aguinaldo, SEN
ator spooneg said that when Philip
pine independence was established
Aguinaldo and his friends would GO
to Europe with an appropriation of
S1,000,000 for expenses.
Filipino Gives Testimony,
Washington, June 2.-Felipe Buen-
canine, formerly of Aguinaldo's cab
met, was before the house committee
on insular affairs Saturday. He said
his country. the Philippines was like
q sick man Commissioning from danger
Gus illness. 1t was still bleeding from
the wounds of war. Its aspirations
were those of Washington. liberty
with justice, under American sover-,
eighty. which they loved. They looked
to congress to give them a Just and
liberal government. He detailed the
facts connected with the early upris-
ing Of tie Filipinos.
Aguinaldo was an idol. and the peo-
pie believed him when he told them
that Dewey had promised them in
dependence He reviewed all that had
been done since the outbreak. and
spoke of the gradual extension of
American authority and practical paci-
ficatiGn of the greater part of .he is
lands. There were now 500 munich
pa'ities established and they had
proved satisfactory. Under the Taft
systeda he said the FiIpinos have
greater liberty than they would have
enjoyed under the Aguinaldo govern
ment, had it been established. Gov.
Taft was now the idol of the people.