Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1899 — SENATORS WHO MADE TREATY RATIFICATION POSSIBLE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SENATORS WHO MADE TREATY RATIFICATION POSSIBLE.

■ V ✓ — . The advocates of the treaty have argued from the start that our relations toward the islands couftj not be clearly and legally defined until the Paris convention was approved by two-thirds of the Senate. They farther insisted that pending the ratification of the treaty the administration was powerless to make any overtures looking to the pacification of Aguinaldo and his follower*. They predicted that the attitude Of the opposition would eaoourage the* insurgents to attack the city of Manila and this prediction has been fulfilled.

SENATOR M'ENERY. SENATOR JONES. SENATOR M’LAURIN.