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Teller Says, Hold Philippines and
Fit Them for Self-Government.
OUR DUTY PLAINLY SHOWN
The Question Now is, “rims Disposition
Shall be Blade of Our Acquircment. “'-
Have “laced 0121' Flag in the Island and
There It BIuSt Stay for Their Protection
and Our Glory.
Washington, D. C, Dec. ill—The
chaplains o: 1ening player in the Sen
ate yestei day morning VV as an expres—
sion of thanks and p1aise“f01 the me:-
Cies of this memorable year; for (ii--
vine guidance and guardianship of our
sailors and soldiers in the late war
with Spain; for divine conduct of,ou;'
affairs, leading us to success and tri—
umph; for the negotiation of the treaty
, of peace; for the growing kindly 1-011—
1- tions
between this country and our
neighbor, the Dominion of Canada,
and with the.kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland; and for our friendly re—
lations with all the great powers of
the earth.” .
The concurrent resolution for the
holiday recesg from to—day until V1701]-
nesday, January 4, was reported and
agreed to.
lVli'.P1"0ct0rs resolution for a select
committee of senators to visit Cuba
and Porto Rico Lvas reported from the
committee on contingent expenses.
“In order to give the senator from
Maine (Mr. Hale) an opportunity to
object," said Mr. Proctor, “I ask for
the immediate consideration of the
resolution.”
“I object," came from Mr. Hale, and
the Senate.
On motion of Mr. Hoar, Republican
of Massachusetts, it was 01"de1ed that
on W'ednesday, February 22, Wash—
ington’s farewell address be read to
the Senate by Mr. VVolcott, Silver Re-
publican of Colorado.
A. bill to authorize General Bates,
United States army, to accept the dec—
oration of. the Legion of Honor from
France. was passed.
Mr. Teller. Silver Republican of Col—
orado. addressed the Senate in opposi-
tion to Mr. Vest‘s resolution which de—
clares that, under the constitution, no
power is given to acquire territory to
be held and governed permanently as
colonies.
He said. that, after the very able ex-
position by Senator Platt of Connecti-
cut on Monday, much that he might
have said might be properly omit-
ted.
He thought that on the question of
the power of the general government
to acquire territory there V'as no
ground for discussion.
“If,” said he, “we are a nation, we
are entitled to exercise all the powers
of a nation; and in all the history of
the world there has been no case that
I know of where the power of acquisi-
tion has been denied to a sovereign.
That the founders of the republic in-
tended to create a nation nobody can
dispute, for in the very earliest date
of our history that doctrine was as--_
serted in both houses of Congress and
through the judiciary department of
the government.
“In 1861 the power of the govern-
ment to defend itself was inserted by
those. who were in power in the na—
tion. Not on the ground that/there
VVas a constitutional provision for
su(h a(. 3.121. but because it is the pre-
rug-.1tiVe of a nation to defend itself.
That question was settled fm all time
\1llt‘ll Leo ha; ided his S\\()1(l to brim
'11: -1111mmattox.
“'V’V'lu-ilxrr we shall exercise the pow—
er which we possess is one question:
:hw r to possess is another ques-
f’t-n. (luring acquired teiritory we
have the right to govern it. \\ e mus:-
‘Cfii‘xljl‘il if. for nobody else (an. M ho
(11:11.1 "than th» l'nited States can gov—
(rrn ("11‘ or l’orto Rice or the Philly;-
iiiit i::;"‘-1‘:ds
“Che (_1.:r:ion £01 us to-day is not
that ol om noVVCi to acquire. but
V' hat disposition We shall make of the
acquiicmint.1 will admit that it is
the: moral duty of the people of the
United States in relation to these
countries to keep in mind that funda-
mental Democratic doctrine which on-
derlies l'rce government—that the just
powers of government are deriu d from
the consent of the governed, but
is our duty to extendto these peoples
just such rights as we shall think
them entitled to. That will be deter:
mined by their condition. You can
lay down no hard and fast rule. The
fourth clause of the joint resolution
on which the war was begun, declar—
ing to the world that the war was not
to be a war of conquest. but was to be
in the nterest of freedom, only ap—
plied to Cuba, but if any amendment
had.been proposed to add to the \‘."Old
‘Cuba’ the words ‘and every posses ion
we shall acquire,’ it would have had
the unanimous support of both houses
and the president.
“I am not one of those who would
turn,back to Spain these islands. 1
am not one who would give them up
to any other nation in the world. Nor
would I give them up to the people
of those countries under present con—
ditions.
“\Ve \\ cnt into the war in the into:- -
est of human freedom and good gm—
it
moment. You cannot now stop; yin
are bound to accomplish the objects
for which the war was begun. You
cannot do that by turning over the
gmcinmcnt of tho: so vaiious countiie:
to their people in the present condition
of affairs. sut you:ought to keep/in
view, all the time, that some day these
people are to be self reliant and self
governing.
“W'e should say to all the world:
‘We intend to give these people. self
government. but we do not intend that
they shall become the prey of any for--
either by conquest or by
treaty.’
“In doing this I deny that we violate
any plinciple of the Declaiatlon of In-
dependence or of the Constitution 0‘
the United States, or that we (“Sli-
gard the great fundamental piinciple
that governments derive their just
powers from'the consent of the gov-
erned. Our flag shall float in those
countries, not only as an emblem of
power, but as an emblem of good gov—
ernment and of-protection to them, as
it is to us.
“I would call the people around me
nvnmine
the resolution went to the calendar of
V .Z [13 T '1'
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and say to them: ‘What kind of a
government do you want? Are you
capable of maintaining a. government
without our aid?’ That government,
of course, must be founded on repub—
lican principles, 'for we cannot afford
to recognize the monarchical idea, even
if some of the leaders and rich. men
of that ccunt: 1/ want it. It must be
a “o‘u’lllnt’”’ of the people, for the
ALL
people and (ultimately) by the people,
And the sooner it is "by the .ieople”
the more acceptable to us. Go to VVaI
Mr. President? No, I want to aVoicl
war. and 1he way to avoid war is to
Ebnsult these people. The way to get
war is to attempt to force a govern-
ment against them by our people, and
not a Sovcrnment of their own, by
themselves. ,
.“I do not wish to give up these is-
lands. or to give them to another pow-
or. it We give them up We leave that
people in a, worse condition than they
were in when we took away the power
of Spain. ‘vVe leave them a prey to
their own vices and a prey to all Eu-
rope. ”We must stand by them. “’13
have out up our liag there and there
it is going to stay. It is going to stay
there for their protection and for our
glory."
At 1be close of Mr. Teller’s speech
tho. resolution was laid aside without
action and the bill to amend the
mole ,ation lav. s vas taken up and ad-
vacated by its author, Mr. Elkins, Re—
publican of West Virginia, who said
that nine—tenths of the coastwise trade
was in favor of it.
At two o’clock the Nicaragua canal
bill came 17;» as the unfinished busi-
ness.
Mr. Caffery, Democrat of Louisiana,
argued against the bill,. contending
that it violated the ‘Clayton—Bulwer
treaty in'its essential and vital parts;
that it violated the concession made
to the Maritime Canal Company by.
Nicaragua and Costa Rica; that it
was of doubtful constitutionality, and
that it proposed a new and extram—
dinary method of construction, un—
known heretofore in the construction
of any great public works.
Proceedings in the House.
At the opening of the session of the
House of litepresentatives yesterday,
Mr. Cannon, Republican of Illinois,
called up the conference report on the
army and navy deficiency bill, and
moved its adoption.
Mr. De Armand, Democrat of Mis-
souri, asked whether the reappropria-
tion of the balance of the fifty mil-
lion dollars to be expended under the
direction of the president would in any
way sanction or authorize the payment
out of that fund of one hundred thou-
sand dol‘ars 4-.RCll to VVhitelaw {eid
and Judge 1791‘ for services as peace
commiss io 111:- is '
eseeeeaeesesse
Some oi‘ the newspapers had re»
ported that such payment was to be
made, Mr. De Armand said.
Mr. Cannon said that he knew noth4
ing about it. He had seen the state—
ment. and also its denial, and he cal—
led attention to the fact that the origi-
nal fifty million dollars was appropri—
ated for the national defence. ‘
In 1(3pr to inquiries he said that the
11'111111onint1on made no change. and
that tht’T‘ was nothing in it to author-
ize such 11:1. expenditure.
The import was then adopted.
The in committee of the
whole. took up the agricultural bill.
An arrangement was made by which .
there should be four hours of general 2
debate. two l‘iours on a side. I
Mr. lVadsworth, {er ublican of new i
York. who was in charge of the bill. 5
explained its provisions briefly. It
airied “43 6'16 322, or an increase of
$181120 oV G1 the amount (ariied by the -
cuzrrnt laVV.
House,
)Ioving )Iontank’s Dead.
New York, Dec. 21.—Colonel Kim- ’
ball, the head of the quartermaster‘s ‘
department ‘in this city, is completing
the arrangements for transferring the‘,
bodies of the dead heroes who he bur— ,
led in the ‘
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camp cemetery at Montauk i
Point to the Cypress Hill National 5
Military Cemetery, on Jamaica ave-
nue, near Norwood avenue, in East
New York.
Colonel Kimball said yesterday that
it had been finally decided to reinter
all of the bodies in the Cypress Hill
Cemetery and that the work would be
pushed from now on rapidly but care-
fully, and would probably be complet—
ed somewhere about January 15 next.
There are about two hundred bodies
interred at Montauk in the camp ceme-
tery. Many of them were taken from
the detention camp, but most of them
came from the general hospital.
The graves are all marked and tho
war department is in possession of all
the necessary information concerning
the dead soldiers.
In the detention camp, where fifty~
four men died during the existence of
the camp. Colonel Egbert and the
nurses :1 charge took particular pains
to see that a bottle was buried at the
head of each grave containing a piers-3
of: paper upon which was written the
soldier’s name and all of the particu-
lars that could be obtained about his
friends or relatives. The cause of his
death was also given.
Six and One-half Years for Steele.
Philadelphia, Dec. 21.—William Steele
who was cashier of the wrecked Chest-
nut Street National Bank, has been
sentenced by Judge Butler in the Uni—
ted States district'court to six years
and six'months’ imprisonment and to
pay $300 fine.
Steele was convicted of conspiracy
with the late William M. Singerly.
president of the bank,_in making end
tries in the books of the bank and
false reports oi? the bank’s condition
to the comptrollcr of the currency. and
in misapplying the funds 01' 1.11:: bank.
The President Endorsed. ‘
Dec. 21.-——Hyde Park
Post, G. A. 1-1., has indorsed President
McKinlcy’s Atlanta declaration that
the time has arrived when the Federal
government should assist the South—
ern states in caring for the graves of
the Confederate dead.
A. cepy of the resolutions were tele-
graphed to the president at Augusta,
Ga.
Hyde Park Post is the first in the
country to act on the proposition.
Dubuque, 1a.,
Knuak Acquitted.
Berlin, Dec. 21.——-The provincial court
has acquitted Mr. Frank 'Knaak, of
New York of the charge of lese majes-
te, in referring to Emperor William
as a sheenshead, because, it appears.
Mr. Knae 1.. was intoxicated when 111—
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