Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1899 — Page 1

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DAVIS UNEASY - -♦ FEARS PEACE TREATY WILL JfOT BE RATIFIED BEFORE MARCH 4. Anti-E\|m nhm i*t Orfcnnizluc n TelkliiK (nmiiaiKH Thai May Force m Special Srsmlim of (.'ongrfM. EASY UNDER SENATE RULES WHICH PROVIDE AO MEANS FOR CHOKING OFF TIME-KILLERS. The $20,000,000 Appropriation for Spain Also LlLrly to Prove an Opportunity lor Onatruction. NEW LIGHT ON PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENCE THAT WAS TRANSMITTED WITH THE TREATY. - Letter’* from Cannula William*. Wtldinan and Pratt Tellinsr of Their Dealing* with Filipino*. - glacial to t);e Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Jan. ft.—The outlook for the ratification of the peace treaty at the short session is not so bright to-night as it has seemed in the recent past. Senator Davis, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, is not confident of ratification, he having learned that the anti-expansion leaders were organizing for a talking campaign to prevent the treaty from coming to a vote. It will not l>e a difficult matter for tho opposition to hold the treaty up to the end of the session by systematic obstruction tactics, and if it be really their intention to engage in that sort of warfare, as Senator Davis and other friends of the administration fear, then the prospect for ratification this winter may be said to be very poor. I.ess than fifty working days of the session remain for the transaction of an enormous volume of indispensable business, including the great money bills. The army reorganization and the Nicaraguan canal bills will also take considerable time, and numerous other matters will be available as time-killing propositions. A shrewdly managed opposition campaign can antagonize tlie treaty in a dozen effective ways without appearing to get directly in its way. That such is tho present purpose of the anti-expansionists admits of little doubt. The obstruction plan, if determinedly pushed, will force the calling of a special session of the Fifty-sixth Congress. If the treaty did not carry an appropriation the tknate alone could be called together for treaty consideration, but as Sa>,<MO,(HX) must be provided both branches of Congress must be convened. To meet such a contingency it has been suggested that the present House put through a bill to provide for the appropriation of $20,000,(0 contingent on tho ratiiication of the treaty. The proposition is absurd, as the approval of both branches of Congress is necessary to the getting of money from the treasury, and a Senate that cannot force a vote on the treaty can be depended on to prevent the appropriation of $20,000,000 In advance. Business that is not completed when the 4th of March arrives goes into the scrap pile. Unless the situation changes from what it is at the present moment there will be no getting away from a special session. Currency reform will then have an inning. The Senate and House are likely to lock horns over the Miles and Hull-Alger army reorganization bills, with the result that neither may pass this session. Senate sentiment favors the Milos plan, and the House will probably give its approval to the bill reported by the committee on military affairs, of which Mr. Hull is chairman. That gentleman is sick and may not be out for three or four weeks, a fact which still further darkens the hope of practical results this winter. The Senate committee on foreign relations did not have a quorum and the peace treaty was but informally discussed at the meeting to-day.

INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE. Letters from Consul* Williams, nt Manila, and Wildniuu, at HuaK'Konß. WASHINGTON, Jan, 6.—The correspondence published officially in connection with the peace treaty contains much of interest from Consul Williams, who was stationed at Manila prior to the war. lie was in constant communication with Aguinaldo for some time after the battle of Manila bay and his letters throw' much light upon the relations with the Filipinos. As early as Feb. 20 Mr. Williams wrote: "The governor general, who Is amiable and popular, having resigned, wishes credit for pacification, as certain rebel leaders were given a cash bribe of $1,630,000 to consent to public deportation to China. This bribe and deportation," lie adds, "only multiplied claimants and fanned the fires of discontent." On March 19 Consul Williams complained that letters and telegrams were tampered with, lie speaks of the Influence of the church as the greatest bar to progress in the islands. Mr. Williams also stated that every leisure hour was devoted to the inspection of the forts, arsenals and battle •hips in and about Manila even at that early day and that he was sending information thus derived to Commodore Dewey who. with his fleet, was then at Hong-Kong. Spies were so thick that he did not dare copy his dispatches In office books. Mr. Williams left Manila on April 23. He Ws a witness of Dewey's victory and on May 12 resumed his reports from Cavite. His first dispatch of that date begins with assurance of "the friendliness of the Philippine natives to our country and to me as its representative. Scores of times," he continues, *T have heard hopes expressed that cither the United States or Great Britain would acquire these islands.” “Aguinaldo told me to-day." he writes on June 16, “that his friends all hoped that the Philippines would he held as a colony Os the United States.” This was only four days after the lirst formation of a provisional government by the natives. Mr. Williams aays he was Invited to he present when this government was organized by the Filipinos, but that he declined. For this he afterwards received a note of approval from the State Department. Or. Aug. 4 he wrote: "It has been my atudy to keep on pleasant terms with Agulnaldo for ultimate objects. Admiral Dewey •ays I have planted the seeds of cordial cooperation. My agreement with Aguinaldo Juts been that the conditions of government

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by the United States in the Philippine islands would be vastly better for him and his people in honor, advancement and profit than could exist under any plan fixed by himself and the Filipinos. I have traversed the entire ground of government with him in council and he has called his officials from fifteen provinces to meet for their discussion, all stated as friendly but unofficial on my part.” On Sept. 5 Mr. Williams cabled: “To-day delegations from four thousand Visayan soldiers and also representing southern business Interests came to me pledging loyalty to annexation. Several insurgent leaders likewise. Spain cannot control. If we evaluate anarchy rules.” MR. WILD MAN’S LETTERS. On July IS t’onsnl Wildman, at HongKong, wrote to the secretary of state expressing his views on the. then reported policy af the United States government to allow the Philippine islands to return to Spain. Among other things, be said, after giving the particulars of his long residence and intimate acquaintance among the people of the straits settlement: "I consider the forty or fifty Philippine leaders with whose fortunes l have heen very closely connected both the superiors* of the Malays and the Cubans. Aguinaldo. Agoneilio and Sandioo are all men who would he leaders in their separate departments in any country, while among the wealthy Manila men who live In Mong-Kong and who are spending their money liberally for the overthrow of the Spaniards and the annexation to the United States men like the Cortez family and the Paza family would hold their own among bankers and lawyers anywhere. In spite of statements to the contrary, I know' they are fighting for annexation to the United States first and for independence secondly. Tn fact I have had the. most prominent leaders call on me and say they would not raise one finger unless T could assure them that the United States intended to give them United States citizenship if they wanted it. There has heen a systematic attempt to blacken the name of Aguinaldo and his Cahinet on account of the questionable terms of their surrender to Spanish forces, a year ago this month. It has heen said that they sold their country for gold, but this has been conclusively disproved. not only by their own statements, hut by the speech of the late Governor General Rivera in tlie Spanish Senate. I was in Hong-Kong in September. 18fi7, when Aguinaldo and his leaders arrived under contract with the Spanish government. They waited until the Ist of November for the payment of the money promised for the widows and orphans of the insurgents and the fulfillment of promised reforms. Only $400,000, Mexican, was ever placed to their credit.” Mr. Wildman says that on the breaking out of the war he received a delegation from the insurgent Junto and they hound themselves to obey all laws of civilized warfare and to place themselves absolutely under the orders of Admiral Dewey if they were permitted to return to Manila. He says that on April 27. after another conference, he agreed on behalf of Dewey to allow two of the insurgents’ delegations to accomjmny the fleet to Manila, he going with them. It was only later that he prevailed on Admiral Dewey to allow Aguinaldo to go. Referring to Aguinaldo’* organization of a government he says it was absolutely necessary to take such a step to maintain control over the natives. In conclusion Mr. Wildman says: “I wish to put myself on record as stating that the insurgent government of the Philippine islands cannot he dealt with as though they were North American Indians, willing to l>o removed from one reservation to another at the whim of their masters. If the L’nited States decides not xo retain the Philippine islands its ten million people will demand independence and the attempt of any foreign nation to obtain territory or coaling stations will he resisted with the same spirit with which they fought the Spaniards.” WARNED NOT TO MAKE PLEDGES. The correspondence shows that Mr, Wildman was warned not to make pledges or discuss policy with Aguinaldo, and that he replied that he made him no pledge and exacting from him hut two, namely, to obey unquestionably the commander of the "United States force in the Philippine islands and to conduct his warfare on civilized lines.” “Aguinaldo.” writes Mr. Wildman, “has wTitten me by every opportunity, and I believe. lie has been frank with me both regarding his actions and his motives. I do not doubt that he would like to be President of the Philippine republic, and there may be a small coterie of his native advisers w r ho entertain a like ambition, but I am perfectly certain that the great majority of his followers and all the wealthy and educated Filipinos have but one desire—to become citizens of the United States. As for the mass of the uneducated natives, they would be content under any rule, save that of the friars.” Consul General Pratt, stationed at Singapore, details his last interview with Aguinaldo, saying that lie enjoined upon the Philippine leader the necessity, under Commodore Dewey's direction, of assuming absolute control over his forces in the Philippines, since, no excesses on their part would he tolerated by the United States, the President having declared that the hostilities with Spain were to be carried on in strict conformity with the strict principles of civilized warfare. Mr. Pratt states that to this injunction Aguinaldo expressed the hope that “the United States would assume protection over the Philippines for at least long enough to allow the Inhabitants to establish a government of their own, in the organization of which he would desire American advice and assistance.” Assistant Secretary Moore in a memorandum to the secretary says: “Mr. Pratt was instructed that it was proper for him to obtain the unconditional assistance of General Aguinaldo, hut not to make any political pledges.” Writing on June Ift to Mr. Pratt, Secretary Day said: “This government has known the Philippine insurgents only as discontented and rebellious subjects of Spain, and is not acquainted with their purposes. The United States in entering upon the occupation of tlie islands as a result of its military operations in that quarter will do so in the exercise of the rights which the state of war confers, and will expect from the inhabitants, without regard to their former attitude toward the Spanish government, that obedience which will be lawfully due from them’’ In a letter of June 20 Secretary Day refers at length to the report of Mr. Pratt’s conference with the Filipino leaders, saying that he fears some of his utterances on that occasion causes apprehension “lest tlie consul’s action may have laid the ground ot future misunderstandings and complications.” in reply Mr. Pratt repeats his assurance that lie has used due precaution in dealing with the Philippine leader. DEWEY S ESTIMATE OF FILIPINOS. Included in General Merritt’s testimony was a statement from Admiral Dewey, in which he speaks of the natives of Luzon as gentle and docile, and says of them that ’’under just laws and with the benefits of popular education they would make good citizens.” He adds that they are more intelligent and better capable of self-govern-ment than the Cubans. On July 24 Aguinaldo wrote to General Anderson, saying he had come from HongKong to make comqion cause with the Ame r tea ns against the Spaniards, but ask(Continued on Second I'uge.j

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7, 1899.

DIVERSE VIEWS TWO POLITICAL LEADERS WHOSE OPINIONS ARE AT VARIANCE. Richard Crokcr n Rnrilrnl Expansionist, While W. J. Ilrynn Would Haul Doxvn the Flag. STATEMENT AND A SPEECH TAMMANY BOSS (iIVKS MYNY REASONS FOR HIS OPINIONS, And Incidentally Sa>* the 1(}-to-l I**oo, a* Outlined in the Chicago Platform. I* n Head I**uc. BRYAN AT A JACKSON FEAST ■ -♦ PICT! RES THE “HORRORS” OF EXPANSION TO CINC INNATIANS, And Intimate* the Administration 1* Trying; to Ghk All Those Who Oppo*e It* Policy. ———♦ NEW YORK. Jan. ft.—The Journal and Advertiser will to-morrow print the following statement given out to-night by Richard Crokcr: “I believe in expansion; I believe in holding whatever possessions we have gained by annexation, purchase or war. This policy is not only patriotic, but it is the only safe one to pursue. Any other policy would show weakness on the part of the United States and invite foreign complications. This must he avoided, hence our policy must be vigorous. Jefferson was an expansionist: otherwise he would not have favored the acquisition of Louisiana, with Us foreign population, which, in Jefferson’s time, was quite as remote as the Philippines. In this age of steam and electricity distance is no argument against expansion. “We spend millions annually for missionary work in foreign countries. Now he have a chance to spend this money in our own possessions and make the people of our own lands good, law-abiding citizens, who in time will he loyal to our Constitution and our flag. Take England for example. The people of this little isle come pretty near owning the universe. Are not our people as intelligent, as powerful and as patriotic as the English people? The United States is the only country on earth superior to the English. Why not illustrate to the world that we are fully able to rope with greater problems than we have had occasion to in the past, and in the future dominate any emergency. “We have a population of eighty millions of people; the country teems with young men full of life, hope and ambition. Why not give these young men a chance to develop our newly-acquired possessions and build up a country rivaling in grandeur and patriotism our own United States? “I say by all means hold on to all that rightfully belong to us. If the great country west of the Rocky mountains were filled with wild Indians at the present moment, how long would it take us to suppress them and make them respect our laws and our Constitution? The same thing applies to the Thilippines and any other country that, may fall into our hands by the province of peace or war. “It is an insult to the American people and to our flag even to suggest that we abandon the peoples we have released from bondage, or, what would be more disgraceful, that we should offer to sell them to the highest bidder. Such a proposition places the American people in the same category with the Chinese, who have, neither patriotism nor a foreign policy, and are, in consequence, utilized as a door mat by the powers of the world. “This is too great a question to be considered as a mere matter of dollars and cents. Our people want their rights protected; they will not figure on the cost. Bring it down to local government, in the ease of street cleaning, the cry is ‘We want clean streets.’ regardless of the cost. They demand them as their right. Just so with our possessions, the people want the properties acquired by war protected. They will pay for a standing army, a powerful navy and the protection of our flag the world over regardless of any monetary consideration. They have proved their willingness to sacrifice their blood for tlie honor of their country and their flag. And w r hen the question is brought to an issue they will arise as one man and demand expansion, as a citizen’s sacred right. “I think the lft-to-1 question, as outlined in the Chicago platform, a decidedly dead issue. This was fully demonstrated in the last election. We did not embody tlie 16-to-l question in our platform, and the result is that we elected every one of our congressmen.”

MR. BRYAN’S SPEECH. Another Fulniinntion Against the Country’s Expansion Policy. CINCINNATI, 0., Jan. 6.—The Duckworth Club, of Cincinnati, gave its annual Jackson banquet to-night. The date was early so as to have Colonel W. J. Bryan present, as he responds to a foast at the Jackson banquet in Chicago to-morrow’ night. This club has given many notable banquets, hut the one to-night was the most distinguished in its history because of the, presence of Colonel Bryan. Democratic leaders from all over the State held cornerences with him during the day, joining in a large reception given Col. Bryan at the Chamber of Commerce at noon. Over four hundred plates were turned at the Gibson House to-night and the decorations were elaborate. After the addresses of retiring President Louis Reemelln and President-elect Gideon C. Wilson and of Mayor Tafel, Edward Kibler and Judgo Win. H. Jackson, the guest of honor, Win. J. Bryan, was introduced amid a storm of applause. After discussing the Chicago platform and emphasizing the 16-to-l plank. Colonel Bryan took up the new questions that have grown out of the war. lie called attention to the President's recommendation of a larger army, and insisted that tlie army should he divided into two branches—the army for domestic use in the United States, which he said did not need to be Increased, and the army of occupation, which is temporarily necessary for use outside of the United States. He said the army of occupation should be recruited at once. In order to relieve the volunteers, but that the term of service should be short, because the Nation’s policy is not yet settled. He suggested that the demand for an increase in the army might be considered us the first

fruit of that victory to which the Republicans pointed with so much pride last November. Turning to the question of annexation, he insisted that the Nation has not yet decided what to do with the Philippine islands. He spoke, in part, as follows: HAS SEEN INFURIATED KINE. “The sentiment of the people upon any great question must he measured during tlie days of deliberation and not during the hours of excitement. A good man will sometimes be engaged in a fight, but it is not reasonable to expect a judicial opinion from him until he has had time to wash the blood off his face. I have seen a herd of mild-eyed, gentle kine transformed into infuriated beasts by the sight and scent of blood, and I have seen the same animals quiet and peaceful again in a few hour 4. We have much of the animal in us still, in spite of our civilizing processes. It is not unnatural that our people should be more sanguinary immediately after a battle than they were before, but it is only a question of time when reflection will restore the conditions which existed before this Nation became engaged in the war with Spain. When men are excited, they talk about what they can do: when they are calm, they talk about what they ought to do. If the President rightly interpreted the feelings of the people when they were intoxicated by a military triumph, we shall appeal from ‘Philip drunk to Philip sober.’ “The forcible annexation of the Philippine islands would violate a principle of American public laws so deeply imbedded in the American mind that until a year ago r.o public man would have suggested it. It is dufflcult to overestimate the influence which such a change in our national policy would produce on the character of our people. Our opponents ask, is our Nation not great enough to do what England, Germany and Holland are doing? They inquire, can we not govern colonies as well as they? Whether we can govern colonies as well as other countries can Is not material: the real question is whether we can, in one hemisphere. develop the theory that governments derive just power from the consent of the governed, and at the same time inaugurate, support and defend in the other hemisphere a government which derives its authority entirely from superior force. And, if these two ideas of government cannot live together, which one shall we choose? To defend forcible annexation on the ground that we are carrying out a religious duty is worse than absurd. A MIXED-UP PARABLE. “The Bible teaches us that it is more blessed to give than receive, while the colonial policy is based on the doctrine that it is more blessed to take than to leave. I am afraid that the imperialists have confused their beatitudes. 1 once heard of a man who mixed up the parable of the Good Samaritan with the parable of the sower, and in attempting to repeat the former, said: ‘A man went from Jerusalem to Jericho, and as he went he fell among thorns and the thorns sprang up and choked him.’ "We entered the Spanish war as peacemakers. Imperialists have an indistinct recollection that a blessing has been promised to tlie peacemakers and also to the meek, but their desire for more territory has perverted their memories so that, as they recall the 1 former it reads ’blessed are tho peacemakers, for they shall inherit tho earth.’ “Annexation cannot be defended upon the ground that we shall find a pecuniary profit in the policy. The advantage which may come to a few r individuals who hold the offices or who secure valuable franchises cannot properly be weighed against the money expended in governing the Philippines, because the money expended will be paid by those who pay the taxes. We are not yet in position to determine whether the people of the United States, as a whole, will bring back from the Philippines as much as they send there. There is an old saying that it is not profitable to buy a lawsuit. Our nation may learn by experience that it is not wise to purchase the right to conquer a people. Spain, under compulsion, gives us a quit claim to the Philippines in return for $20,000,000. but she does not agree to warrant and defend our title as against the Philippines. To buy land is one thing; to buy people is another. 1/and is inanimate and makes no resistance to a transfer of title; the people are animate and sometimes desire a voice in their own affairs. But whether measured by dollars and cents, the conquest of the Philippines would prove profitable or expensive, it will certainly prove embarrassing to those who still hold to the doctrines which underlie a republic. A HIT AT HANNA. “Military rule is antagonistic to our theory of government. The arguments which are used to defend it in the Philippines may he used to excuse it to the United States. Under military rule much must be left to the discretion of the military governor and this can only be justified upon the theory that tho governor knows more than the people whom he governed, is better acquainted with their needs than they are themselves, is entirely in sympathy with them and is thoroughly honest and unselfish in his desire to do them good. Such a combination of wisdom, integrity and love is difficult to find and the Republican party will enter upon a hard task when it starts out to select suitable military governors for our remote possessions. Even if the party has absolute confidence in its great political manager, Senator Hanna, it must remember that the people of Ohio have compelled him to serve them in the United States and that inferior man must be intrusted with the distribution of justice and benevolence among the Nation's dark-skinned subjects in the Pacific. “If we enter upon a colonial policy we must expect to hear the command ‘silence’ issuing with increasing emphasis from the imperialists. When tho discussion of the fundamental principles is attempted in the United States, if a member of Congress attempts to criticise any injustice perpetrated by a government official against a helpless people, lie will be warned to keep silent lest his criticism encourages resistance to American authority in the Orient. If an orator on the Fourth of July dares to speak of inalienable rights or refers with commendation to the manner in which our forefathers resisted taxation without representation, he will l>e warned to keep silent lest the utterances excite rebellion among distant subjects. If we adopt a colonial policy and pursue tho course which excited the revolution of 177 ft, we must muffle the tones of the old liberty bell and commune in whispers when we praise the patriotism of our forefathers. “We cannot afford to destroy the Declaration of Independence; we cannot afford to erase from our constitutions, state and national. the hill of rights; we have not time to examine the libraries of the Nation and purge them of the essays, the speeches and the books that defend the doctrine that law is the crystallization of public opinion, rather than an emanation from physical power. But even if we could destroy every vestige of the laws which are the outgrowth of the immortal law penned by Jefferson; if w r e could ohtiierate every written word that has been inspired by the idea ttiat this Is ‘a government of the people, by the people and for the people,’ we could not tear from the heart of thd human race the hone which the American Republic has planted there. The impassioned appeal, ‘Give me liberty or give me death!’ still echoes around the. world, in the future, as in the past, the deslfe to be free will be stronger than the desire to enjoy a mere physical existence. The conflict between right and might will continue here (toaiiuned ob Second Pn*e.)

BY CLOSE VOTE * CIVIL-SERVICE APPROPRIATION CLT OFF BY THE HOUSE. ClHn** in Lesinlati ve. F.xrrntivp nn<l Judicial Hill Providing for Support of Commission Stricken Out. YEAS WERE 67 AND NAYS 61 VOTE. HOWEVER. WAS TAKEN 1\ COM MITTEE OF THE M HOLE. 1 Notice Given by Mr. Moody Hint Members \Vonll lie Plneed on Record in Open Session. HOAR’S RESOLUTION ADOPTED PRESIDENT ASKED TO TELL ALL ABOUT PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. Speech I>>' Senator Calfery In Opposition to Kxpanxion—Appointments by the President. ♦ WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The anti-civil-stervico reformers scored a victory in the House to-day. The legislative, executive and judicial appropriation hill was taken up for consideration and when the appropriation for the Civil-service Commission w as reaehed Mr. Evans (Rep., Ky.) made a motion to strike it out. This motion has been made annually for a dozen years or more, but has invariably failed. But to-day the opponents of the law laid great stress on the fact that they could not get a direct vote upon the proposition and were therefore compelled to seek its nullification in this manner. Even tnese appeals failed to bring out the full strength of the opposition, though the motion to strike out carried by a narrow majority—67 to 61. This was in committee of the whole, where no record is made of the vote. Mr. Moody (Rep., Mass.) gave notice that he would demand a record vote in the House, where the friends of the civil-service law expect to reverse the decision. Those who advocated the motion to strike out were: Messrs. Evans (Rep., Ky.), Grosvenor (Rep., O.), Hepburn (Rep., la.), Kinney (Rep., N. C.), Brown (Rep., O.) and Marsh (Rep., 111.) Its opponents were Messrs. Moody (Rep., Mass.), Hopkins (Rep., ill.), Fleming (Dcm., Ga.). Brosius (Rep., Pa.), Henderson (Rep., la.) and Dolliver Rep., la.) During the general debate on the bill Mr. Swanson (Dem., Va.), taking advantage of the latitude allowed in debate, while In committee of the whole, delivered an hour s speech in criticism of the policy of expansion. The administration which could hardly be driven into a war for liberty had, within a few months become greedy for conquest, he said. The liberators of the Cubans were to become the despoilers of the Filipinos. He contended that it was unconstitutional for the United States to undertake a colonial system and cited the Dred Scott decision In support of his contention. FEATURES OF THE DEBATE. At the opening of the session Mr. Marsh (Rep., 111.) asked unanimous consent for consideration of a bill to grant to officers and men of the volunteer army two months’ extra pay if they have served beyond the limits of the United States and one month’s extra pay if they have only served within the limits of the United State*. This extra pay to be in lieu of furloughs or leave of absence. It has been the practice to grant furloughs or leaves of absence so that In reality the bill only sought to do directly what hast heretofore been done indirectly. After this explanation Mr. Bailey (Dem., Tex.) announced that he had no objection to the measure. The hill was passed. While the legislative, executive and judicial bill was under discussion in committee of ihe whole Mr. Hartman (Silver Rep., Mont.) offered an amendment to the paragraph allowing each member and delegate in Congress SIOO per month for clerk hire, which provided if any member or delegate should retain any portion of this allowance he should forfeit his seat in the House. Mr. Mahon (Rep.. Pa.) made a point of order against the amendment and it was sustained. Mr. Hartman then modified his amendment so as to provide that any member who sought to retain a portion of the allowance for clerk hire should forfeit it. He said he had no desire to make any charges in connection with members of the present House, but he had reliable knowledge that in the past some members had retained a portion of this allowance, in some cases the major portion, and had pvit money in their own pockets. “No man who would he guilty of such an act,” he said, “is fit to hold a seat in this house.” Mr. Bingham made a point of order against the modified amendment and it was sustained. It was then that Mr. Evans moved to strike out the appropriation for the Civilservice Commission. He reviewed briefly the struggle against the extension of the civil-service law. It had outgrown its orignila bounds and he was willing to bring the question to a test by cutting off the appropriation for the commission. He was not a spoilsman. He believed in merit and in the improvement of the public service, but he was opposed to life tenure and he was opposed to the present conduct of the law. Mr. Moody said he could not believe the gentleman from Kentucky was serious in his desire to withdraw' the appropriation for the C'ivil-serviee Commission Mr. Moody expressed the hope that the debate would not touch the merits of the law, but would be confined to the merits of the proposition to wipe out the appropriation for the commission. If the law itself was vicious it should be attacked directly and manfully. To cut off the appropriation would be a reproach to Congress, it was mere boys’ play. Mr. Dockery said any attempt to nullify the law by declining to appropriate for the commission would fail. It might embarrass the commission, but the commissioners could go into the courts and sue for their salaries under the law. He agreed with the gentleman from Massachusetts. If the other side of the House desired to repeal the civil-service law it should be done openly and without indirection. The whole purpose of this amendment to-day, he charged, was to create an agitation which would compel the President to Issue the rumored order amending the law'. Mr. Grosvenor, who was at the head of the unti-civil-service movement during the

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last session, said that for twelve years he had seen this annually recurring motion made and each year it haul been met with the argument advanced by Mr. Moody that this was not the time, place nor manner In which the law should be assailed. He admitted there was some virtue in the argument. But no one could deny that the civil-service law had overreached itself. It had throttled the appointing power of the government. Men who supported It when it became a law never dreamed it would lie carried to the extent to which it has been carried. Mr. Hepburn in support of the amendment said that what the opponents of the present system desired could he accomplished by the President if some of the existing orders were rescinded. When the law was originally passed 10.001 offices covered the largest estimate any rs its supporters dreamed could be brought under its operation. To-day 72,000 clerks were within the classified service. He was not opposed, he said, to honest civil-service reform but to the humbuggery which masqueraded under that name. For sixteen years, he said, the friends of the law’ had prevented action in the House on a bill to modify or repeal it. SENATE PROCEEDINGS. Hoar’* Pence Negotiation* Ue*olutlon Adopted in Secret Session. WASHINGTON, Jan. fi.-Immediately after the Senate convened to-day the resolution offered yesterday by Mr. Hoar calling on the President for information as to the instructions of the commissioners who negotiated the treaty of Parts, together with all correspondence and reports relating to their work, was laid before the Senate. Chairman Davis, one of the commissioners, desired that it be referred to the foreign relations committee, but Mr. Hoar insisted that the Senate had as much right to such information as tlie members of the foreign relations committee, and that the President should determine whether the Senate should have it. The resolution was adopted in secret session. In support of the resolution offered some time ago by Mr. Yist in opposition to expansion Mr. Cattery delivered an extended speech. At the conclusion of Mr. Caffery’s argument Mr. Morgan announced, on behalf of the Nicaragua canal committee, the acceptance in a modified form of the amendments offered by Mr. Berry before the holidays to tlie pending canal bill. The amendments were not passed upon by the Senate. Mr. Caffery’s speech was a constitutional argument in support of the declarations of the resolution. “We have heard,” he said, “'some startling doctrines as to the power of the United States to establish governments in foreign territory acquired by tlie United States announced on this floor.” He declared that these announced doctrines were more arbitrary than any w’hieh had ever before been heard in the United States Congress. They conferred upon Congress a supreme power—a despotic power unlimited and unrestricted. He quoted from the speech of Mr. Platt, of Connecticut, to which his address was an answer, that part of the Connecticut senator’s statement of the powers of the United States in which he maintained the right to acquire foreign territory was inherent and without limitation, and that the power to establish government in such acquired territory was inherent and a sovereign right. “Here,” said Mr. Caffery, “the bald proposition is advanced that the right to govern is broad and imperial and without limitation by our Constitution. If the argument advanced by tne senator from Connecticut be true and sound, then the individual rights of man are to be held by the United States under a congressional despotism. Our Constitution knows no despotism; it sedulously provides against despotism, but right here is a despotism of the most flagrant possible character.” Mr. Caffery said even it we had the right to incorporate these distant islands, inhabited by a strange people, into this country, freedom could not exist in the subtropics. “The history of the world,” he said, “shows that God has set the bounds w’here the different peoples of the earth shall abide. When I look at the condition of the world I am unalterably convinced that no permanent sway can be held by the white man over the, black man in the subtropics, except by a strong military and cruel desj>otism.” Mr. Caffery said that we were sometimes told from the pulpit that we had a mission to perform—that mission being to spread among all peoples the doctrines of human rights. He doubted whether this could be done by placing upon the people a yoke and whether the principles of Christianity could be advanced by force. Mr. Caffery concluded at 3:25 p. m. At the instance of Mr. Hoar the House bill to extend the power and duties of the commissioner of lish and ilsheries so as to Include game birds and other wild birds useful to man was passed, the Senate bill protecting song birds being added as an amendment.

NOMINATED BY' M’KINLEY'. Yeoman* to He Retained nn InterstateCoin me ree Cos m miss loner. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The President to-day sent these nominations to the Senate: James D. Yeomans, of lowa, to be an interstate-commerce commissioner; Robert A. Moseley, jr„ of Alabama, to he consul general at Singapore; Silas C. McFarland, of lowa, to be consul at Nottingham, England; Charles C. Goodale to be surveyor general of Colorado. Receivers of public moneys—J. J. Lambert, Pueblo, Col.; Matt Daugherty. Sidney, Neb.; C. P. Matthewson, of Nebraska, agent for the Indians of the Omaha and Winnebago agency in Nebraska. Navy—Commodore Albert Kautz to be rear admiral, Capt. Frederick Rogers to be commodore. Commander Edwin White to be captain, Lieutenant Commander C. C. Cornell to be commander, Lieut. L. C. Heilnor to be lieutenant commander, Lieut, (junior grade) A. C. Dreffenbach to be a lieutenant. —- .4 THE REEF WAS GOOD. Col. Sharp Say* the Meat at (amp Tlioma* Wa* Flr*t-< lu*s. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—C01. Henry Sharp, of the Commissary Department, who served at Camp Thomas and in Porto Rico during the war, was before the war investigating commission to-day. He said that he had made the contracts with Nelson Morris & Cos. for beef at Camp Thomas and had superintended the issue and inspection of refrigerator beef in Porto Rico. He had been in the Commissary Department for fifteen years, and said that the quality of fresh beef issued at Camp Thomas was equal to any he had ever seen in the army. Governor Beaver read the witness parts of Surgeon W. IL Daley’s report to General Miles on the “embalmed beef” issued at Camp Thomas, and asked If he had noticed the “mawkish taste” and "disgusting odor” of the beef referred to. Colonel Sharp said the report In question reftrred to a time after witness left Camp Thomas, and he said positively that the description did not apply to any of the beef he had seen. In Porto Rico, he said, he had inspected one vessel of refrigerator beef at Arroyo and that the beef wa* the “wonder and admiration” of all the natives and foreign residents, none of whom had ever seen such good beef. The native cattle in Porto Rico, he said, were Infinitely inferior to the American refrigerator beef. Tlie Porto Ricans slaughtered bulls, stags and holfera (Continued on Second Fagej

PRICES RISING ♦ IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY OY ERCROWDED WITH ORDERS. * Demand for Finished Product* So Great that Nlannfacturers Hate Advanced Quotations. WEEKLY REVIEWS OF TRADE GENERNL BUSINESS CONTINUES TO RIDE THE PROSPERITY WAVE. Woolen and Cot'.on Manufactures the Only Hra nones Not K replug; Abreast with the Times. RETAILERS PAYING JOBBERS _♦ AN INDICATION TH \T HOLIDAY TRADE WAS SATISFACTORY. +., Exports still Large— Hank t tearing* IM<M>OO.OBO More This Week than Ever Before Reported.

NEW YORK. Jan. 6.—R. G. Dun & Co.’a weekly review of trade will say to-morrow: The year begins with the kind of business demand that counts. For months there has been a rising demand for materials, but now the crowding demand for finished products begins to advance prices, in the iron and steel industry about I per cent., without quotable changes in pig, except at the East. Beams have advanced $2 per ton. angles sl. bars $1 and plates are strong, with an Australian order for 33,000 tons refused at Chicago because the works are already overcrowded. Many thousand cars are covered by orders at Pittsburg; 10,000 tons bars are taken for agricultural .works at Chicago; 106,000 tons rails are taken by the Pennsylvania Company; the Midland Railway Company, of England, has ordered twenty locomtives from the Baldwin works, and many other home and foreign orders are reported. The demand has never been greater at the beginning of the year than it is now. The woolen manufacture has a similar embarrassment. While one hundred quotations of wool by Coates Bros., of Philadelphia, average 18.03 cents, against 20.71 a year ago. the market is gradually yielding, because people appreciate the magnitude of stocks on hand, which the Boston Commercial Bulletin reports at 291,000.000 pounds, an increase in its account of 114,000,000 pounds for the year. Obviously this means a great movement from the farms to millers’ stocks ami Eastern markets, but prices are not yet low enough to encourage large buying or consumption by the manufacturers. The only heavy-weight goods yet opened are at reduced prices, as had been expected, and it is still uncertain how far the trade for the coming season may provo satisfactory. Cotton goods are in fair demand, with cotton at 5.87 cents, and, while nobody can guarantee that the price will not go lower, it is believed by competent observers that the market for goods is so far relieved of accumulated surplus that prices are not likviy to decline materially, even if cotton falls. The movement of cotton thus far indicates a crop over 300.000 bales larger than that of last year, in spite of the natural disposition and concerted efforts to hold it back. As producers are not this year in unusual need, a movement so heavy hinders any advance in price, although takings of spinners have been as large in 1808 as it*t any other year, the exports larger than before. The wheat movement has to sustain it the largest foreign demand movement ever known for wheat and corn together, and Atlantic exports of 5,214.420 bushels, flour included, against 2,840.318 last year, with Pacific exports of 614,833 bushels, against 872,446 bushels last year, would givo some reason to anticipate higher price* were not the Western receipts 4,101.632 bushels, against 2,876.062 bushels for the same week last year. The wonder is that the foreign demand i'<>r corn continues so heavy, 3,572.412 bushels having been exported In this week, against 2.054,890 bushels in the samo week last year. The country Is on the up-grade, and the men who expect it to take the downward road have some time to wait. Thqre are no indications of a reaction which always follows a large and rapid business recovery, and existing conditions in the industries and in foreign trade by no means forbid the hope that the. increase may continue, as it did after the revival in 1879. for several years. Exports, compared with Imports, continue to indicate an enormous balance in cash due this country, and gold imports begin again. Failures for the week have been 243 in the United States, against 322 last year, and twenty-four in Canada, against thirty-two last year. ♦- Hit ADSTRKET’S REVIEW. Collection* Good. Rank Clearing* Large a atl Fall are* Few. NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Bradstreet’s tomorrow will say; The situation is one of quiet, sustained strength. In wholesale distributive trade annual inventories have occupied attention, and distribution in this branch Is, therefore, of only seasonable proportions. Retail trade reflects the quieting down of the eager demand ruling before the holidays, but it is significant that the majority of the reporta received since Jan. 1 in this and in the wholesale branch, refer to collections as almost uniformly good. Export trade, particularly in cereal*, continues well up to maximum figures, while reports from the great industries of tha country are favorable. The cruder forms of iron and steel have been in rather less demand this week at leading centers and large orders are few In number, heavy consumers having pretty well covered themselves for some months to come by their liberal buying in December. In finished products. however, and particularly in stock, rather more has evidently been doing. thig being reflected in advances at both the East and West in the prices of stee! rails, steel beams, plates and sheets. Some heavy orders for railroad account are reported hooked and the export trade continue* of liberal proportion*, partly aided, no doubt, by tho shading In ocean freight rate* occurring during the past month. Aside from the aggressive strength of steel prices quotations are Httie changed from a week ago. Good trade roports. both at home and abroad, and small receipts, coupled with more outside speculative interest, have mad*