The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-13

nut tree and works for fifteen cents day. This is the labor thar would be placed in competition with the Ameri- can labor.
 Mr. Lamar tFla.) arraigned the Re- publican party for departing from it's foundation principle of protection. It was, he said, this protection that had built up the tobacco industry of his State. By the employment of Chinese ! In the sugar factories of the Philip , pines, Mir Lamar asserted, an effectual repeal of the Chinese exclusion act would be accomplished SC far as that | industry is concerned This, he said would benefit only the American To- bacco Company. Mir. Lamar denounced | the Democratic position on the bill if \ 1t stood for treating the Filipinos as | American citizens.
 | Mir. Clark (Mo.) took issue with the | position of both parties on the bill It | was not Republican because 1t looked | to free trade. He did not concur with 1 his own party that the Philippines 1 were a part of the United States, and | consequently entitled to have all tariff | barriers removed.
 Mir. Clark asserted the bill was not
 meant for the benefit of the Filipino,
 but the sugar trust"
 A brief speech against the bill was l made by Mir. Mccall (Mass.). As to the | tariff, MT. Mccall announced he was in | favor of 9 judicious revision of exist | ing schedules. He predicted that New l York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and other States would join in this demand.
 T say to you he concluded. that If you do not treat protection as a rational principle instead of a cast-iron, in1- mutable system of schedules, then we are liable to have the Democratic party and possibly the deluge."
 l In a speech, MT. LongSworth (Ohio) gave the House his impression of his Philippine trip last summer. Mir. Long 1 worth was greeted with applause and marked attention was given his casLi- gation of the Filipino character. He favored the bill as the best means of developing the Filipino into a condition l of seIf-governmentfi at which moment he would be more than glad to drop 1 the islands.
 The passage of the bill, he said, would not damage one iota an American in- 1 dustry or American labor employed in that industry. No one, after smoking l one native cigar he said, would want | another, and with only one island or which sugar could be raised. and that without harbor, he saw no danger ] from that source.
 | 'T for one" continued MT. Long worth, "am not in favor of holding the Philippine Islands as a part of the l OnlI6u StaleS A inoIneHI loIlSeT tudn WE 1 absolutely have to-"
 l This statement was met with general applause. particularly Democratic
 There were. he said, two characteris- | tics of the Filipino mind which made 1 elf-government remote. The Filipino was absolutely incapable of forming a conception of the duty of a public of
 icer and just as incapable of compre-
 hending the dignity of labor
 Tn briaf znaaph MT PotI IN q l
 declared that the S1,90O,000 campaign
 fund of the Republican party at the
 last election had made it sure that
 there would be no railroad rate legisla-
 tion nor any revision of the tariff
 Turning his attention to the incident
 of the election of Mrs. Minor Morris
 from the executive offices of the White
 House. MT Pou expressed great regret
 that hysteria had been indulged in to
 magnify that incident.
 At 455 p. m, the House adjourned
 until tomorrow at II o'clock.