The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-20
ANOTHER. ER.DAYSDEBAlE
eENATE STILL DISCUSSING PHILIPPINE TARIFF BILL.
1Gr. Burrows of Michigan Speaks in Favor of the Measure While Hr. Money of Mississippi
 Opposes It.

Washington, Feb. 19,-The Senate con- lnued the consideration ot<the Philip
 ines tarin bill today. the main speeches
 cling made by Mir. Burrows CMich.) for
 he bill and Mir. Money (Miss.) against although Mir. Mitchell (Oregon) MT. foraker (Ohio) MT. Mallory Fla.) and Mir. Tillman (S. CD all took more or less part in the general debate on the sub ject.
 MT. Burrows maintained that Congress was dealing with the question as 1t was today and not with any reference as to what took place in the past or might take place in the future.
 MT. Mallory (Fla.) spoke particularly In favor of his amendment to that DOT ton of the bill relating to the naviga- lion laws and said that 1t was necessary in the interest of American shipping. Mr. Money maintained that 1t was not % much a question as to what could be done with the Filipinos as 1t was to legis- late in the interests of our own people.
 There were several rather lively ex- changes between Mir. Foraker and the opposition Senators during the debate.
 Soon after the Senate convened today . resolution offered by Mir. Tillman S. CD was adopted, directing the Civil Ser vice Commission to transmit to the Sem ate . report showing the appointment of
  the Government from the several States and the District of Columbia. together with the percentage of employees in the departments. |
 At the conclusion of routine business. lfr. Burrows (Mich.) addressed the Sem ate upon the Philippine tariff bill. He said 1t was mot his purpose to discuss fully the Philippine question. but to just say how the United States was in the ~<,t>x ss G.. the islands. He said that Congress was now dealing with questions as they were found today. but not as they were in the past, or might be in the future. He said the nation was confronted by a condition and not theory.
 we hold: he said "the Philippine Islands by title that cannot be chal- lenged by any court in Christendom. We have become responsible for them to the nations of the world. The pending bill simply provides revenues sufficient for the needs of the government of the Philippines"
 After he had compared the pending bill and the substitute offered, by the minority. he entered upon a discussion of the events which led up to the war with Spain. The war, he said. was in response to the popular demands of the United states. and no people were more clamor- JUS TOT war than those now which con- stttuted the minority. /
 While MT. Burrows was reading the proclamation of President Mckinley known as the Benevolent Assimilation" proclamation. Mir. Tillman inquired if he contended that the President had au- thority to issue that proclamation.
 No doubt of it," replied Mir. Burrows
 Tn other worlds" suggested Mir. Till man. although that proclamation sedulously ignored the political Status of the Filipinos,- it was expected that the nine millions of people would acceed to its provision'"
 Mir. Culberson said that the proclama- tion was considered so extreme that part of 1t was suppressed by General Otis.
 Mir. Burrows asserted that the Fiipinos were not prepared either by education or experience for independence and could not maintain 1t if it were granted them.
 MT. Mallory (Fla.) dclared his opposi- tion to the principles underlying the pending measure and to the specific pro- visions of the bill. He made an argu- ment in support of his proposed amend ment to the bill, providing that the navi- gation laws of the United States. suita- ply modified. should be applied to traffic between the United States and the Philip pines and among the islands of the archipelago.
 Mir. TilIman presented number of public documents, as he said, in refuta- tion of statements made by Mir. Burrows in his address earlier in the day. Those papers generally bore on the treatment by the United States of the inhabitants of the newly acquired countries and were intended to show that in the past they have been. received as citizens. He laid especial stress on the difference of the circumstances connected with the acquis- ton of Louisiana and those connected with the acquisition of the Philippines. The former he characterized as demo- cratic expansion and the latter as repub- lican subjugation.
 Quoting President McKinley's announce meBt that we must pursue a method of benevolent assimilation Of the Filipi- nos Mir. Tillman said that the assimila- ton which had been practiced could be contrasted to nothing we'll as the parable of the lamb and the lion It would be found. he said. when they could get up. that the lamb would be in- side the lion.