| Show NELSON ON LBERT i Republican Senator Interprets the Declaration of Independence S + S OUR FATHERS MISTAKEN CONSENT OF GOVERNED NOT ALWAYS AL-WAYS NECESSABY f Iminortal Declarations Were True Only t a Certain Extent IDnne sot Senator JResents An Allusion t X Norwegian Extraction Senator 3vust Obey Instructions r Washington Jan 20In the senate today M Kelson Unn was recognized recog-nized to make a speech upon the Vest antiexpansion resolution antexpansion resiuton His address was a constitutionalar gument In support of the right of the United States to acquire and govern foreign territory He maintained that I was no longer a unsettled question j that this country had the power not S ony to acquire foreign territory by discovery dis-covery conquest or treaty but also to govern territory so acquired That question Lion he said had been settled by decision e l r fs gr I cision of the supreme court and was scarce longer open to debate He re fcrrM to the territory that had been acquired in the past by the United I States government and declared that in no single case had the people of the territory acquired been consulted or their consent secured In the two cases of Texas and Hawaii we had more nearly approached the point of consulting consult-ing Lhe inhabitants than in any other but even in these cases there was but a 5 shadow of consultation In that of Hawaii less than 6000 t > f the inhabitants inhabit-ants had been aslied for their consent t annexation Mr Nelson then entered upop an I elaborate constitutional argument citing cit-ing numerous authorities In support of his position He maintained that the i arguments that taxation without representation aments taxaton resentation was tyranny and that governments gov-ernments derived their just powers from the consent of the governed were true only in a limited extent A majority ma-jority of our people he said were without with-out direct representation Women minors mi-nors and Imbeciles were without representation rep-resentation in our government and had to bear their share of taxation They had in other words to uiergo the burdens of our government without any ovlce in its control In rsponse to a question by Mr Mason Ma-son Ills Mr Nelson said that nora no-ra could truthfully say but the rights of Englishmen had been destroyed ore or-e eii in any sense impaired bt Great Britains great scheme of colonization Further replying to 11 Mason he declared de-clared that the United States our own magnificent government was the product prod-uct of the colonization plans of England and demanded t know whether Mr Mason would desire to blot out that great work of England What the p ple of England have done said he certainly cer-tainly the people of the United States could accomplish Colonies have not destroyed England Eng-land How will they destroy us Mr Tillman S C interrupted Mr Kelson and referring to the contest between be-tween Sweden and Norway and the praxtical severance of their relations inquired why the Norwegians at home wanted liberty while those of the fmted States did not desire fo give liberty to the Filipinos This reference to Mr Nelsons Norwegian Nor-wegian birth aroused him I am a citizen of the United States Mr President he replied I am not representing either the people or the grv nment of Norway whose rights and liberties I am satisfied are greater than those of the people of South Carolina Caro-lina Laughter WHITES EXPLANATION Mr White of California arose to a question of personal privilege relating r to the action of the legislature of Call i the senator from forma in Instructing snator fr that state to vote for the ratification of the peace treaty He read the legislative legisla-tive resolutions and also the letter of hi Republican colleague Mr Perkins asking for an expression of opinion calling attention to the fact that the legislature was Republican 3 was Mr Fencins The question he s ud was 5 nJirther as a senator he u as to vote his own convictions or to comply with i this request and vote in accordance with the opinion of others Mr White went on to say that he had 1 It > joined with Mr Perkins ill his request re-quest iur instructions from the legislature legisla-ture and therefore did nut consider hiis If bouiid by the iruclions col Si n L himself as well his ic igue His colleague in his ter had gr strong and cogent nisms fo refusing to ratify the treaty and he as Fury that Mr Perkins was not at liDi t y t JOIn with him in JUng the J 1 61 ntnuents so well expressed by him j B eiJ not mean to minimize the im 01 no < p nce of public sentiment and con fi t SI that he always took i into con silt J itin < in deciding upon a course of atu l r but he was not in the habit of zutu liy vcMng upon it until he had witii SI all questions in his own mind Tru Vniti d Statis senators were in atl i in seiso agents of the stal they re ji iji nted but this did not mean that j tii > ire to shift in position with ev l C5 > tui n of the tide The State legisla ti < had 1 right to instruct him in mufti mling 1 the exercise of his < < > itHie I his conviction If so a E iivtT l elected as a Republican would r tuz ally be expected to b d > ne a Iii nn i at if i the next leprislatuit should clur to 1JL ii that sides side-s s in sis Mr White had concluded his It < 1ubls i an colleague Mr Perkins aur = eil in senate He paid 1 high tribute to thC honesty enerjo and abil it > i Mi Vhte but notwithstanding hf j tc I argument he believed this to I D ruly i < resentative government I i p S bill nc he felt tha his obligation p to th > jcople of his state and that hn he lid ascertained what their i I 1 ir < wer he would be falsv to him I e S > id to hem if be did nt heed their I I v = I am opposed saiu tH to I tIcS jiicy sf acquiring the Philippine Sis I IS i d ls believinc sucn a policy to lie 1 a I xe < to our tvinment ami its ii 1 > gitutionp but ninetenths < f the people j S c Y ptato as tlitir wlsnes are cx Tt = > 1 thi nugh a legislature recently j ected think Itll rwise Wliile I shall i 5 StE fr th pending treaty it will be j uuikr pretest 1 PHILIPPINE RESOLVTION i PHILIPIXE lE OLTLX Mr Calfery of Louisiana offered the I fun < wlnf concurrent resolution That the president b and is hereby r jisf d if not incompatible with the I public intert PIS to furnish to the senate i sen-ate top its any communications re j i c ivcl by 11w stlie department frT Ian I I-an rppres maims O 1 agents of the g Lilid Philippine republic and also i I fm nith aD information in his I ti any lftrmaton pos gpsior or any il < Humeats filed before the state department relative t < the bounds of the tiimories in the Philippine Philip-pine islands togetner with the number of inhabitants thrrejnheld respectively under the cjitm of the 1 rican forces and the authority of the so cald Philippine republic showing par I tiouiarly what Islands or parts of I Islands if any can in any e o t bo I delivered de-livered by Spain to the Und ytutto I Tte icsolutlon went over under ob jti n |
