The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-22
TALK ON PHILIPPINES
HOUSE DISCUSSING CIVIL GOV.
 ERNMENT eCHE1ER
Mir. Mcclellan, 6 New York Demo crat, Delivers . Speech Defend ing the American Aymyin
 the Archipelago.

Washington, June N.-Debate upon the Philippine civil government bill Jagged in the House today. There were seven speakers. Messrs Reeves (Ill.) and Brom- we'll (Ohio) for the bill and Messrs Mad dox (Ga.). Dinsmore (ArkJ and Thayer (Mass.) against 1t. Mir. Mcclellan fDem. N. Y.) son of the late General George B. Mcclellan delivered A short. but elo. quent defense of the army. Earlier ii tho day tho conferee reports on the mill tary academy and sundry civil appropria- ton bills were adopted.
 MT. Maddox questioned Secretary Root s Philippines. He said he could not under stand how Secretary Root got his figures. The actual amount appropriated on ac- count of tho war with Span and the sub sequent operations in the Philippines, he said, exceeded ono billion dollars, or about half of the cost of the Civil War. He declared that the cost of the army in the Philippines including transportation had been in excess of $i00. 900 am nually, and with the reduced force would not fall much below $s5,0o0.000. If the army thero for tho fiscal year cost only $40, ,00O, GOO, as Secretary Root alleged, he wanted to know what had become of the S115 0e0, 900 appropriated in tho army ap- propriation bill for that year.
 Mir. Cromwell (Ohio) defended the policy of the administration.
 Mir. Dinsmore Ark.) made an earnest speech, appealing to both sides to weigh well the tremendous issue which was to be decided in the pending legislation decided ono way 1t meant. he said. free government and independence for the Filipinos: decided tho other way. 1t meant colonial subjects and a perpetual colonial policy.
 He severely criticized General Wood S course in using Cuban funds to influence legislation fin the United States. and said if the colonial system was to be perma- nent, the time would come that, by whatever name 1t might be called. occur rences such as had been practiced in Cuba would become the regular order of things.
 MT. Mcclellan (N. Y.) in brief speech defended the army. There may have been instances of cruelty in the Philip pines, he said, but there should be no difference among Americans about up- holding our soldiers while they are under fire.
 The last speaker of the days session was Mir. Thayer (Mass.) who made a SltOIlS dHli-lulpCt SpCCSHs L1C Sdli there would be no necessity for a large standing army in the Philippines if organized resistance has ceased, as alleged.
 At o'clock the House took a recess until o'clock.
 At the evening session MT. Palmer Rep., Pa) denied that any imperial design lurked in the minds of the Ameri- can people or of those responsible for the conduct of affairs in the Philippines
 MT. Conroy Dem., Mass.) insisted that the heavy loss of life and the enormous expenditures in the Philippines was the direct evidence of the imperialistic ten- dency of the party in power He took occasion to criticize President Roosevelt's Memorial Day address as unworthy of the solemn occasion.
 MT. Snodgrass (Dem., Tenn.) argued that we had no right to govern the Filipino people without their consent.
 MT. Currier ,(Rep.. N. H.) condemned the policy of 'scuttle' advocated by the opposition. declaring it would be an ac- to the world of our in- ability to handle the situation.
 MT. Green Dem., Pa,) who made a trip to the Philippines last summer said that no one could go to the islands and honest y investigate the people and conditions there without being forced to the con clusion that the Fillpinos were capable of self government.
 At 10:30 D. m. the House adjourned.