1899. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 1451 bring about some fancied political advantage by an effort to defeat pants of the galleries that expressions of approbation or disappro-­ the ratification of a treaty which, if unratified, must bring back a bation are not allowed under the rules of the Senate. condition of war as it existed before the report of the commission­ .Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President-- ers, passive it may be, Mr. President, but full of uncertainty and Mr. LODGE. I move that the Senate proceed to the considera­ full of disaster to the interests and the welfare of our country. tion of executive business. For my part, I do not believe these tactics can win. There are Mr. ALLEN. I hope the Senator will withdraw that motion. on both sides of this Uhamber enough men animated with high · Mr. LODGE. I beg the Senator's pardon. I did not see that patriotism, ready to obliterate party lines and to stand shoulder he had risen, and I withhold the motion. to sl10ulder together and with the Government, notoecause it is a Mr. ALLEN. I was simply going to request the Senator to republican Government, but because it is an American Govern­ withdraw his motion for a time, but I am told on this side of the ment, and they will agree to fight out hereafter the questions that Chamber that his motion is according to the unanimous-consent may arise as to the conduct and disposal of the Philippines when agreement, and I suppose I shall have to submit to it. the treaty shall have been ratified. · · EXECUTIVE SESSION. l'ifr. President, no matter what any man m ay say, this war was a war solely of humanity. It can not be too often reiterated that Mr. LODGE. I renew my motion that the Senate proceed to it had its inception in unselfishness and it finds its conclusion in the consideration of executiv.e business. equal unselfishness. The course of events, unexpected and neces­ The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to tho sarily unforeflee n, leave us at the conclusion of this war char~ed consideration of executive busines<:J . After three hours spent in with a duty toward !l,000,000 people in far-off, distant seas. We executive session the doors were reopened. and (at 5 o'clock and 15 found them cruelly oppressed by Spain. No man with bowels of minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until Monday, February G, compassion would want to turn them back to that country. We 189!>, at 12 o'clock meridian. know but little about them. We have reached only the very fringes of our knowledge of that country, its topography, its peo­ NOl\IINATIONS. ple, their character, and their possibilities. But it is believed by men at least as wise as we that there exists there a condition Executive nominations received by the Senate Februm·y 4, 1899. which if left to itself would result in internecine strife, perhaps COINER. extending over a. generation, with its accompaniment of blood­ Mayer Uohen, of Louisiana, to be coiner of the mint of the United shed and murder and rapine; and th::i.t the people there are as yet States at New Orleans, La., to succeed H . Gibbs Morgan, removed. apparently unfitted for self-government. More than this, they realize that if we to-day abandon those COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS. islands as a derelict upon the face of the waters we leave them cpen John W . :Mix, ·of Connecticut, to be collector of customs for the to the land-hunger and the grP.ed of the countries of Europe that district of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut, to succeed are now seeking to colonize land the wide world over, with the Henry W . Ba}Jcock, whose term of office will expire by limitation probability that our action would plunge the world in war. February 22, 1899. Mr. President, for one I am not unwilling to face the responsi­ PROMOTIONS IN TIIE NAVY . bilities of this treaty with all that its terms imply. We shall not Lieut. (Junior Grade) Volney 0 . Chase, to be a lieutenant in the put our hands upon that people oxcept to bless them. American Navy, from the 13th day of January, 18U!l (subject to the exami­ institutions mean liberty and not despotism, and our dealings nations required by law), vice Lieut. George T. Emmons. retired. with those islanders, be they brief or be they for all timo, can only Ensign William C. Cole, to be a lieutenant (junior grade) in the serve to lift them up nearer int9 the light of civilization and of Navy, from the 13th day of January, 1800, vice Lieut. Volney 0. Christianity. Chase, promoted. We have been told during this discussion that our occupancy Asst. Surg. l\Ioulton K. Johnson. to be a passed assistant surgeon of the Philippines would have a tendency to injure our own peo­ in the Navy. from the 12th day of November, 1898, to fill a vacancy ple and engender corruption among our own officers sent to gov­ existing in that grade. ern them. Mr. President, such a statement is llumiliating, and, I believe, untrue. In the large cities of this country municipal government is woefully bad, and it is bad solely because the peo­ ple living in these cities are negligent and unwilling to bear their HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. share in local administration. But outside those cities the civic SATURDAY, February 4, 1899. virtues of the people of the United States are of the highest char­ acter. Onr relations with those islands would be honorable and The House met at 12 o'clock m . Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. fair and just. We live in the light of publicity. We might make HENRY N . COUDEN. mistakes-we probably shall-but out of our government of those The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. islands those people. by our example and unuer our control. "Will DIGEST AND MANUAL. find themselves made more secure in their lives, their happiness, and the protection of their property. Mr. PERKINS. Mr. Spealier, I present a privileged report. Mr. President, it has also been frequently said in the progress of The Clerk read as follows: Resolved, That there be printeu 2,600 copios of the Digest and :Manual of this' discussion that our continued occupancy of those islands is the Rules and Practice of the Honse of Representatives for t he third session contrary to the spirit of American institutions. Who shall say of the Fifty-fifth Congress, the same to be bound and distributed under the this? This Republic represents the first and only experiment in direction of the 8peaker and Clerk of the Honse. absolute self-government by the Anglo-Saxon race, intermingled Mr. BAILEY. I should like to hear the last part of that reso- and reenforced by the industrious of all the countries of the Old lution. World. For more than a hundred years we have endured, and The resolution was again reported. every decade has brought us increasing strength and prosperity, Mr. BAILEY. Well, is that the usual resolution? and, it may be, an increasing tendency to greater bitterness in l\fr. PERKINS. That is the usual form, I will say to the gen­ our consideration of questions of internal policy. Who is to say tleman from Texas. that in the evolution of such a Republic as this the time has not Mr. DAlLEY. Are these copies of the book not placed to the come when the immense development of our internal resources credit of members? ana the marvelous growth of our domestic and foreign commerce Mr. PERKINS. They are always distributed through tho Clerk's and a realization of our virile strength have not stimulated that office. Anglo-Saxon restlessness which beats with the blood of the raco l\lr. BAILEY. If that is the usual course-- into an activity which will not be quenched until we have finally Mr. RICHARDSON. I will state, Mr. Speaker, that that is the planted our standard in that far-off archipelago which inevitable oxact form in which this resolution bas always been passed. These destiny has intrusted to our hands? documents go to the Clerk's room, and thEiy are distributed upon It may well be that this people have found, through the outlet application of members. · which the results of the war with Spain compelled us to take, the l\1r. BAILEY. My particular interest was from the fact that one course which shall lead to the perpetuity of our institutions in my own State, and in many States of the Union, the legisla­ and the safety and stability of the Republic. tures aro now in session, and there is an unusually large demand Time alone can determine and make clear the duty we owe our­ for the publication. selves and the people of the Philippines. To-day we face the ques­ Mr. RICHARDSON.· I wanted to say, Mr. Speaker, that I tion of rejecting or emasculating the conclusions solemnly reached never did understand why this document was not distributed by the commissioners of Spain and the United States or of stanu­ through the folding room the same as any other document, so that ing loyally by our Government. For myself there is but one path; a member would get his pro rata; but it never has been done. It to my vision that way alone lies honor. has always been the case that it went into tho Clerk's office, and rApplause in the ga.lleries.l was distributed in that way.