The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-11
CONCESSION
 TO DEMOCRACY Keifer's Reason for 0p-
 posing Measure. OLD TIMER MAKES SPEECH DaIzell Argues for Passage of
 Philippine BILL sheppard of Texas Brings Up Election of Mrs. Morris, and Brief Reply
 Is Made By Grosye-

bill by MT. Daizell of Pennsylvania opened the proceedings in the House today. It was followed by several otE- CTS against the measure, most notaoie of which was two-hour address py the veteran statesman, Mir Keller or Ohio. an ex-Speaker, who returns 10 the House after retirement of twenty years. Mr. Keller bespoke stand pat doctrine of the most pronounced type and said he should oppose the pending bill because 1t was a concession to the Democratic principles. His speech was replete with recollections of earlier days and received the closest attention and liberal applause from both sides of the chamber.
 Just before the session closed, the incident of the election from the exscu- tive offices of Mrs. Minor Morris was made the subject of discussion by Mr. Sheppard of Texas A brief reply was made by Mir. Grosvenor, who deprecated sending out sensational reports regard ing the American administration.
 Mir. DaIzell (Penn.) opened the de- bate upon the Philippine tarin Dill. He asserted that the Philippine archi- pelago was portion of the United States and sought free trade both ways. but under the circumstances. that, at this time, Is impossible. When the treaty stipulation which granted Spain the same advantages as the United States. expires In 1909, there will be free trade under this bill Asserting that the future of the Philippines was a problem for statesmen that are to come, Mir Dalzeil insisted that self-govern- ment had been given the Philipine peo- pie except ri tho two rights, trial by jury and to bear arms.
 Either Foreign CT Domestic.
 we have" said Mr. Daizell. "ex- tended to these people our navigation laws, our immigration laws, our alien contract labor laws Do you mean to tell me we shall commit them to our oppressive policies, require them to carry their goods only in American bottoms. and still exclude them from our markets7 No. the Philippine Isl- ands must be either wholly foreign or wholly domestic"
 Referring to the charge of inconsis- tency made against him yesterday by MT. Bonynge (Colo.) Mir. Dalzell re- marked.
 q want to say that the charge of in- consistency which Emerson has char acterized as the terror of feeble minds has no terror for me There is no man who will continue for any length or time in public life who will not It some time or other be charged wish apparent inconsistency. The question that was all-absorbing and agitating the American people when that speech was delivered, was, Does the consti- tuition follow the flag in the govern ment of our insular possessions, and are we bound by the limitations of the con- stitution?
 q strongly maintained that we were not, the Supreme Court subsequently, decided that we were not-to that doc- Urine stiiI adhere. In pointing out the dangers to which we should be sub 1ected. I said that it would bring us free trade with Porto Rico and with the Philippines; that it would incor- porate into the body of our citizenship I2,0O0 900 Malays, and protested against putting our labor on plane with the savage labor of the Philip pines.
 q still contend that if bound by the limitations of the constitution, all that I said then would be true. But pro- nose to demonstrate now that the en- nctment of this measure will not place the labor of the Philippines on plane with our farmers, nor will it affect a single dollar of a single American wage earner.
 Refused to Halt.
 "The gentleman is right l did call halt-but the people of the United states refused to respond. They said our constitution may not follow the flag, but justice and fair play do." (Ap- plause.)
 CharaCterlZlnR IS the fabulous amount of sugar and to- bacco which the opponents of the bill declared would come from the Philip hines under the new rates, MT. Dal- zell itemized costs of pound of Phil ippine sugar laid down in New York winch aggregated 4.13 cents as against S90 as the cost of Michigan beet sugar and S71 of Colorado sugar From this he deduced that within the next cen tury the American beet sugar was in no danger from competition with Philip pine sugar.
 An interruption was made by Mir. LonRworth, of Ohio. who was member of the Taft Expedition to the Philip pines last summer. Had it not been demonstrated, he asked that all of the sugar raised in the Philippines was raised on the Island of Panay and that all the labor required has to be brought to the Island from other Islands? [
 This, Mir. Dalzell replied was his un- derstanding.
 MT. Dalzell concluded with the plea shall we follow the President of the United States. the great leader of the Republican party, or shall we desert him7 It will not do to try to hide self Interest under the plea of loyalty to protection--it will not do to sheer at eentiment-if it fails here it will not fall in that great forum of the Ameri- can people, people that sprung to arms to avenge the sailors of the sunk en Maine. and split the blood of it's sons in war, not for glory or con quest, but for humanity
 'The same ennobling sentiment calls us to-day-lNt us answer in the same spirit
 opposition to the bill was made be. cause of the fear of rice competition by MT. Pu1o tLouisiana.)
 As a result of an Interruption Champ Clark, (Mo.l made this comment re. ~arding the Dingley tariff law:
 An Observation by Clark.
 ''I think if is an internal curse to the whole American people"
 MT. williams, the minority leader. in- teriected into MT. Pujo's speech tbo exact Democratic position on the tarjnt
 Tt should be levied solely with re- gard to tho maximum revenue pro- ductlon. If 1t protects in places. well and good, but that should not be ifs primary object.
 MT. Keifer tohio>, once Speaker of