Show N A BLAZE OF GLORY I Thus Closed Debate on Porto Rico Tariff Bill Bil HOUSE PACKED TO DOORS I Closing Arguments wero Made by Dolllver of Iowa and Bailey of I Texas Rival Champions of the Respective I Re-spective Sides Both Spoko for an Hour and a Half Bailey Spoke of Legal Phases Dolllver was at His Boat and Unbounded Enthusiasm I I Greeted His Address Washington Feb Z7Thc general I I debate on the Porto Rico tariff bill I closed today In a blaze of glory The galleries were banked to hue doors and every seat on the floor was occupied when the rival champions of the rc specllve sides ll Dolllver of Iowa and Mr Bailey of Texas made the closing arguments Each spoke ior an hour I and a half The speech of Mr Bailey devoted as It was exclusively to the legal le-gal phases 0 the controversy while it way profound 1 and Impressive did not arouse the unbounded enthusiasm which swept galleries and floors while Mr Dolllver wns speaking The lowai was at his best and his wit eloquence and sarcasm In turn drew salvos of applause I ap-plause from his Republican associates I Before the closing speeches wore made Mr Cannon of Illinois chairman of the Appropriations committee and one of the eterans on the Republican side made an exceptionally effective speech In support of the bill Messrs Oarmnck Dem Tenn Clayton Dem 10 Kleberg Tex Pearce and De Armond Oem Mo also made speeches In opposition lo the billTho The Republican managers are now confident that with the modifications agreed upon at the conference last night the bill will command a narrow majority In the final vote tomorrow CARMACK OPPOSES DILL Mr Carmack of Tennessee opened the debate In opposition to the bill The alternative presented by the bill he said was the abandonment of our priceless principles l or of our new possessions pos-sessions He < aid that Mr Grosvenor the other day hud displayed dense Ignorance Ig-norance when he had declared that this was the battle of 1SGO over ugain Ho read from the Republican platform of l GO to show that It set up the very contention maintained by the Democrats Demo-crats nowthat the Constitution was supreme In the Territories and extended extend-ed over every foot of ground over which the United States had Jurisdiction PAYNE CHANGES FRONT Mr Clayton of Alabama who followed fol-lowed Mr Carmack created much amusement and enthusiasm by reading a letter written by Chairman Payne toW to-W 11 Curtis of Palmyra N Y January Jan-uary 21 i 1900 In which he advocated free trade with Porto Rico on the ground that it would give relief to the strlclen Island The letter also contained con-tained the following reference to the Phillpjjlres Under the treaty the Philippines are to have free trade with Spain for ten years We could not extend ex-tend these tariff laws to the Philippine Islands even If I we would NEW YORKER NOT DISTURBED Mr Clayton asked thai this letter and in extract from Mr Paynes speech In support of the bill be printed i print-ed In pirMrl columns In the Record Mr Payne smilingly assented to the request and expressed the hope that I there would be no objection Mr Kleberg of Texas and Mr Peary of Tennessee also opposed the bill The hatter declared that the brood of trusts had flocked to Washington and had compelled the leaders of the Republican Republi-can party to turn their backs upon PorLo Rico He asked If the Ieople of hat I Island were not entitled to as much consideration as the Sultan of Ruin who was granted free trade with all the Philippine Islands DE ARMONDS IDEA Mr Dc Armond of Mirfcourl aid this bill proposed to set aside the Conslllu Ion not for l l the purpose of doing something phllantrophlc but in the Interest In-terest of the partial or complete enslavement en-slavement of a helpless people This change of front had been brought about by thu Influence of the agents of mighty corporations CANNON FOR Tllli BILL Mr Cannon of Illinois followed Mr De Armond lie spoke with much earnestness ear-nestness He was old enough he said to Judge j time I by events nnd he had grown to distrust those who came when great public crises arose talking of tho constitutionality of measures to meet thorn Ho remembered when a President with a whole party behind him asserted thai there was no power under the Constitution to coerce a sovereign State when those Stales were already In arms prepared to shoot the life oul of what was loft of those who attempted lo embarrass the Government during the war It was the shield of Vallaiullngham and Voor rees READY FOR A CRISIS Mr Cannon said he for one belle be-lle veil llio Conslltullon was made for the people and the country and not the people and lie country for the Constitution Consti-tution Never thank God said he had there been a day or hour during the administration of Jefferson Jack sun Polk Lincoln or McKlnley when In a crisis a way had not been found to meet it ADMINISTRATIONS POLICY What Is the Administrations policy pol-icy asked Mr Norton of Ohio Ill tell you responded Mr Cannon Can-non As to POItO Rico do the only thing that can bring relief to tho island pass the bill As to the Philippines continue lo do as we are doing putdown put-down the InsurrectIon and restore law and order Im for keeping the Philippines Philip-pines ho continued under the treaty and under the Coribtllutlon subject to the legislation of the country that owns them and work out good resjulls I for them and good results for us Ill risk the possible verdict on thai issue DEMOCRATIC BOGIE MAN Continuing Mr Cannon declared that the Democratic members were not real ly at heart opposed to this bill but they had he said act up a hogle for campaign purpose umi I lucy wero bound to make the most of Then In his inimitable singsong manner time I Illinois member drawled out the opposition I oppo-sition arguments against the Admlnis I trullonB I policy bringing the thirty I tribes of barbarians lie Sultan of Sulu I and his wives the Negritos find the MnlnvK time alleged violations of the j Constitution the 520000000 paid for the I Philippines nml olhpr nrgumonta L which Mr Cannon styled > I bogies set up I to scare people I WHAT HE PROPOSED DOING In conclusion ho said all the Democratic I Demo-cratic mugwumps and Populists are saying My God dont fracture the I C01n81l1llut ° n Stand by the President I Well I um going to stand by the President I oted for him before and ho IH wing 1 to bo our leader und our great loadomln > the coming las l-as by wns In the last campaign And In my Judgment he Is going to be elect I Id and I am going to be bullllnjr for IiI I-iI that Idc DC I him while oxfry man on the House IB I cussing and anmlng hii9 In his heart If he Isnot on the stump I BAILEY CLOSES FOR OPPOSITION that Mr halley of Texas declared I the to was Involved In the bill IL q1t9 lion of law and a question ot moralS Ho made exhaustive arvument mn l an I against the constitutionality of Hu bill arousing the lawyers on the other side so that for a lime he was ulntOSt con tlnuoulsy engaged III crossing swords odnr with one or the other of his arle DOLLIVFR P CONCLUDES DECJVTJE Mr Dolllver of Iowa closed the debate This bill said bate for the majority measuie to ho temporary Is merely I a proMd revenue for Porto Rico Yet this debate It has been magnified In Include the until it has been made to whole problem of the government of all territory acquired hy us by the treaty of Paris U was declared that thIs bill was In when the fact behalf of the Sugar trust I Is declared Mr Dolllver that the I Sugar trust wants free trad The same was true of the Tobacco trust The sjndlcates had piled up the I wharves In San Juan awaiting their I rich harvest when free trade came und tlielr representatives hung about the 3 i halls of Congress seeking to advance a f free trade bill He ald there was lIt r tie to be feared from the scribes and ph lrIMle of the Constitution In their deliberations before the Supreme court of Imagination COMMERCIAL NEGOTIATIONS If old he the ConstitutIon of the United states eslaCJIshcs free tra1 between Manila and San Francisco as It undoubtedly does 1 between Maryland and Virginia then the fact that wo I half got Into a new competition Is only the least trouble that has been before I us We are In that case disarmed at once in the momentous demand which this nation has made for equal rights In the commerce of Asia I violate no secret of this Government when I say that today there Is pending In the State department tho most elaborate commercial com-mercial negotiation ever attempted In the history of our diplomacy bused on n pledge made by our commissioners at Paris that whatever we did In the Pacific ocean 110 would maIntain an open door for the commerce of the world I PARIS TREATY We are in the Philippine islands Under un-der circumstances known and read of nil men I am not going to stand here a minute to defend the treaty of Paris I dont Intend to go Into detail about how It happener to be agreed upon I will say to both sides of this House hut when the world knows as it will I soon know every line In the history of that transaction by the publication of the whole archives of the negotiation every American will perc iC thit Ihe President of tho United States ended our war with Spain on the same high L level hat the American people began it and will be able lo invoke upon evei v part of his performance the gracious t favor of Almighty God and the considerate con-siderate judgment of mankind GOES FOR BRYAN No man he went on should hac I oted for the appropriation lo carry that treaty Into force who had not taken the manful resolution to shoulder the infinite responsibility which It laid I upon his h country He denounred In L scathing terms a man who would sclzo a miserable opportunity to harass the Government for political purposes Yet L such a man leaving his uniform In Florida had hastened to Washington I to rally his supporters for the ratification ratifica-tion of the treaty In order thai he might subsequently turn It to political account ac-count In the heat and dust of the coming campaign he said the moral I characteristics of such a man would L not escape the allenllon of the American Ameri-can people BLATANT STUPIDITY Mr Bryan had advised not that we should abandon the archipelago in which there was some sense but that L we should rather with our army recog nlsccs the military leadership of a chief of one of the sixty tribes and assume responsibility without nuthorlly In the history of the world said I Mr Dolli > er no such blatant stupidity stupid-ity hud masqueraded for wisdom I ever L In tho annals of 0 forlorn political party par-ty t If t ibis Government withdraw I It would at least take Its baggage with It If II stayed It would stay of its own rightWHAT WHAT DEMOCRACY SOUGHT Proceeding he said the Democrats had sought to turn everything good or bad to political account that It had gone Into partnership with the diseases dis-eases In the camps and had tried to pick op votes at every soldiers funeral fu-neral that it had magnified the quarrels quar-rels of officers had muirnlHed our scandals scan-dals before the world and had formed 1 a treaty of peace with the Tagal 1 leader I Mr Dolliver thou defended lie Presidents Presi-dents course in the Philippines read Gen Lawtons letter charging that the Insurrection In I the Philippines wus kept alive by thc agitation In this country coun-try and urged his connIrymen North and South without regard to their t political party to put a stop to the unscrupulous un-scrupulous agitation that for nearly two years has filled the hearts of our own boys with despair and the hearts I of their enemies with confidence and I good cheer DIFFICULT RESPONSIBILITIES Oh my countrymen Mr Dolllver concluded we are In the midsl of such dlfllcull responsibilities that I sometimes some-times feel that our resolution and our 1 purpose are almost over helmet lucre i I are two Ideas of the national duty In I this emergency Ono is that the Nation should lake care of itself and let thue world alone That Is a narrow view I I of our national duty The other Ideal I of national life an ideal born In theI heart of the workman of Nazareth Is that no nation lieth to Itself alone but that every real national life pours itself out In the service of mankind I dont belleo lhal the American public with a motive like that and u purpose like that will be allowed by Providence to fall amid tho dllllcultlei of this hour BELIEVES IN UNCLE SAM You have read the mnsteiplexo of fiction where a hand from the sky touches the shoulder of Napoleon the great puts an end to his career and says to him Your business lt I over your lime In up your affairs are at un end Thai was the gleam of a superb Imagination There Is In tills world the steady light of n fain more superb even than that u faith In the future of humanity a faith In the greatness of the republic a faith In providence who has guided eery foot alei of our national life from Infancy until this hour Let us have faith In God and faith In the American republic I repub-lic and In our future mission I bo lleve In the United States of America I bick the old republic of our forefathers fore-fathers against the world Nor do I think that since the good days of Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln there has been upon the helm of our affairs u steadier wlsar kinder 1 1 braver hand than the hand of William McKInley President of lie Unlled Stales At 5 oclock llio House look a recess unlll S oclock Al lie night session Messrs albert Dem S C liellarny fDom N C Denny Oern Mel Burke DeaL Tex Quarks Dem Vn Dougherty Dem Mo Rlxey Dem Va Stokes Dem S C and Stevens DQin Tex spoke against the IMII At 0 oclock the House adjourned |