Evening star., 1933-01-17
SENATE OVERR|DES
PHILIPPINE VETO
Hawes- Cutting independence
Measure Is Enacted
Into Law.
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Farmer Labor. end Borah. Idaho: Cou-
zens. Michigan; Cutting, New Mexico;
Frazier North Dakota Hatfield. West
Virginia. Howell, Nebraska Johnson,
California: La Toilette, Wisconsin: Nc
Nary, Oregon, Metcalf, Rhode Island;
Norbeck. South Dakota Norris Ne
braska Nye, North Dakota; Oddie, Ne
vada: Shortridge, California, and
Steiwer, Oregon Republicans.
Total, &C. AS Democrats, Farmer
Labor and 20 Republicans.
Cheers and handclapping greeted
the announcement Of the vote by Vice
President Curtis. who raped vigorously
with the gavel to stop the demonstra-
tion in the galleries.
Just before the vote Bingham. who
previously had termed some of Mr.
Hoovers veto statements as unfair
and misleading" told the Senate that
the Manila caucus OF approximately
half the members of the Insular Leg
islature which opposed the pending bill,
now the law, was on the grounds they
wanted immediate independence.
Senator Cutting of New Mexico. who
supported the Democratic presidential
candidate curing the recent campaign,
was the first to speak.
BOrah Asks Enactment.
Immediately after he finished his ap-
peal for passage of the measure, SEN
ator Borah of Idaho called for enact
ment and said the bill was the best
possible measure that could have been
passed in view OF the conflicting in
terests
Borah was the fifth Republican to
l1a ttafn Of ha
When the Senate met an hour
earlier than usual, leaders predicted the
vote on the motion to override the veto
would carry. Tie House already By
an overwhelming vote has passed the
bill, notwithstanding the disaproval of
the President.
Under the unanimous consent agree
ment entered into late yesterday. debate
in the Senate. after the conclusion of
Senator Cuttings speech. was limited to
a half-hour for each Senator who de-
sireS to speak This limitation, it was
expected, would bring vote during
the afternoon
If reports from the Philippines that
the island legislators are opposed to the
independence bill in its present form
are true, the action taken by the Con-
gress may be ineffective.
The way was cleared for the Philip
pines bill when Senator Long dropped
the bars on his five-day-old filibuster
against the Glass banking bill.
Cutting said the Senate Territories
Committee gave careful and mature
consideration to the bill He attacked
the veto message and the letters of four
cabinet members opposing the bill.
Hits Cabinet Statements.
IF the letters of the four cabinet
officers tStimson, Hurley. Hyde and
Chaplin had been printed before the
Presidents message came here, there
would have been less talk about the
statesmanlike character of the Veto" he
said He added that Hyde desired
greater curtailment Of imports from the
islands and Chaplin desired practically
no curtailment."
Hyde" he continued, demanded. in
effect. immediate independence because
no other independence would benefit
agriculture. Stimson, in effect, de-
manded no independence now or at
any future time. Hurley suggested in
dependence at an indefinite date when
conditions might in his Judgment JUS
tify"
Two-t thirds of the veto message, he
dSSeTCtu, COiHpIlStO dlllOSt NtIUdtlul
quotations from the four cabinet off,
GERS statements given out by the White
House last Sunday.
THE conclusions drawn by the
President" he said, "were inconsistent
with the cabinet letters and inconsistent
with what the President said in his
veto message"
Senator Borah, who Is chairman of
the Foreign Relations Committee said
the logic of the Presidents veto mes
sage" and of Secretary Stimsons let
ter was mo independence.
The Idaho Senator originally had
been expected to vote to sustain the
veto
4 feel said Senator Borah, that
we are voting today on the question
whether the Philippine Islands should
have independence at all. The over
powering conclusion from the Presi-
dents veto message is that the Filipi-
nos should not have independence at
any time"
Borah said the Filipino people, If
they are granted independence at any
time, will have to stand alone in the
Orient. where the teeming millions
will change conditions beyond recogni-
tion." He said the spirit of imperialism
prevails today as it did 1000 years ago
and that it prevails in the Orient.
The same argument against the free
dom of the Philippine Islands which is
made today" continued Senator Borah,
will apply century from now. If we
defeat this bill today, we say to these
people that they must remain forever
part of the United States"
Never an Ideal Time"
At the outset of his address, Senator
Borah said: