The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-23
EXCITING DEBATE IN THE HOUSE
ENDS WITH A DRAMATIC
DECLARATION
CANNON AN ARTFUL DoDGER
Half n Million Appropriation RuIed
Out on n Point of Order Is In
serted in a Somewhat
Different GuiSe
ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO DEAD

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Some of the
old partisan fire was injected into the
proceedings of the house today when the
item in the urgent deficiency bill ap-
propriating $500,0G0 for military post at
Manila, which the Democrats have been
using as a text for speeches in opposi-
tion to the Philippine policy of the ad-
ministration for the last three days, was
reached.
Mr.. Cannon, in charge of the bill, con-
fessed that the appropriation was sub
ject TO a point of order and it went over.
In lieu thereof he offered an amendment
to appropriate the same sum for shelter
and protection" of the officers and en-
listed men of the army on duty in the
Philippines. This the chair held to be
in order and it at once became the sub
ject of a very spirited debate in which
Mr.. Richardson, the minority leader, Mr.
Williams, of Mississippi, and Mr.. De
Almond, of Missouri, were plUred against
the chairman of the appropriations COM
mittee. Partisan applause rang out on
each side to cheer on the respective
champions and there seemed to be a
solid lineup upon each side of the po-
litical aisle.
But when the vote came to be taken,
Mr. Cummings, a New York Democrat,
voted with the Republicans, turning
angrily on his political brethren as he
OlO So dI1U Will Cl4lCIIGO 4lSI SlldAlIlS
in their faces, crying out that he hoped
he might be paralyzed when he refused
to vote to T Meet an American soldier.
The vote N the adoption of the amend
ment stood ayes 127, nays 1OO.
A HOOsier in the Breach.
When the house went into committee
of the whole and resumed the debate
upon the general deficiency bill, Mr..
Padgett CTenn.), the first speaker, advo-
Gated the adoption of a declaration in
savor of pledging the United States to
give independence to the Philippines.
The debate closed with an hours S
speech in defense of the administrations
Philippine policy by Mr.. Watson, of In
diana He denounced the statement
which, he said, was made on the other
side, that the United States had taken
the place Of Spain as the despoiler Of
the Philippines. He produced figures from
the Spanish budget to show that so per
cent of all the revenues of the islands
under the Spanish regime was diverted
to the mother country. On the other
hand, he said, every dollar raised from
taxation since the American occupation
had gene into the insular treasury.
we have heard these speeches be
FORE said Mr.. Watson, addressing him
self to the other side. When William
Mckinley, the gentlest memory of our
day, was president, these same epithets
were used. You remember how they
hurled, their maledictions at his head
how the doleful prophet from Missouri
CMr. De Armond) prophesied unutter-
able woe unless all these things should
happen that he wanted to happen.
Beautiful Tribute to Mckinley
"Why, the stately and mournful stan
zas of Isaiah, the deep and melancholy
reflection of jeremiah, the sharp and eX-
II,
but as the murmurouS breath as compar-
ed with the woe-laden and sorrow bur
dened prophecies of the gentleman from
Missouri. daughter and applause) Be
hold they did not come to pass. Those
clean hands of the great statesman now
gone were charged at being dripping
with the warm, fresh blood of his fellow
men. That heart which we now know
to have been pure was charged with be-
ing nesting place for tyranny and
hate. That breast which we now know
in its aims embraced humanity and hu-
manity's cause was charged with being
a spawning place for oppression s
breed. They did not hesitate to say that
the fertile brain which throbbed with
love for all mankind was full of schemes
for land robbing for lust of empire. for
greed of gain. We know that all these
arrows hurled at his head were broken
at his feet and left his name untarnish-
ed. The powder was all burned and
found no flaw in his armor, no stair
upon his shield. And now that the mar,
row chasm which separtes us from eter-
nifty is bridged, and his soul has fitted
through the dark and somber shadows
and William Mckinley stands immortal
it does seem remarkable to me that oul
Democratic friends should loose the
tongue of vituperation, of slander, OF
aspersion, of Villifcation, in speaking
of the Republican party and of the boys
fighting over yonder in the Philippine,
under the shadow of the American flag
(Applause.)
The bill was read for amendment under
the five-minute rule.
Mr.. Cochran, Missouri declared tha+