Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1898 — SENATE TO HOLD UP TREATY. [ARTICLE]

SENATE TO HOLD UP TREATY.

Senators Pettigrew and Hale Will Fight Annexation. Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota is opposed to the annexation of the Philippines. “If our policy should happen to annex any territory north of us,” he said, “I would he heartily in favor of it. But I don’t think it will be to the advantage of this country to take in the people of the tropics.” Senator Hale announces that he will most vigorously oppose the annexation of the Philippines, as he did the Cubans. Hale says the peace treaty cannot possibly pass the Senate this winter, if it includes the proposition to annex the Philippines. This statement, n Washington dispatchm says, causes a general feeling in, legislative circles that President McKinley will be compelled to call an extra ses pion of the Senate at least to handle the treaty.