Show BITTER TALI Sensational Mate in tie Serate on PhiDPine llStiOll PETTIGREW GETS WARM South Dakotan Makes Some Startling Charges ADMINISTRATION DENOUNCED He Declares that n Systematic EfEorfl was Being Hade to Prevent Accurate Ac-curate Information from Beaching the People of the United States from tho Archipelago and that it was n Political Scheme to Furthou the Candidacy of1 McKinley for Bo nomination and EcElcction Referred to the Censoring of Dispatches Dis-patches Declnring that Important and Significant Pacts had Bcca Stricken from News Dispatches from Manila and from Commercial Reports Washington Jan 11A spirited and at times sensational debate was precipitated pre-cipitated In the Senate today on tIme Philippine question the basis for tIme speechmaking being a resolution of Inquiry In-quiry offered several days ago by Mr Pcttlgrcw of South Dakota to which substitutes were proposed Mi Pctti Sew attacked the Administrations policy in the Philippines and also mido some startling charges against those who were supporting the Administration Administra-tion He declared that a systematic effort was being made to prevent accurate acCu-rate information from reaching tho people of the United States and that it was l political scheme to further the candidacy of Mr McKlnley for re nomination and reelection The debate de-bate was terminated by a resumption of consideration of the currency bill at 11 oclock Mr Stewart of Nevada made an elaborate elab-orate speech on the question of the national na-tional finances Before adjournment the Senate after af-ter prolonged debate passed the bill conferring additional powers upon the director of the census ROUTINE BUSINESS TRANSACTED An unusual amount of routine business busi-ness Including the presentation of petitions pe-titions and introduction of resolutions was transacted Among the bills Introduced was one by Mr Spooner Wls providing la brief that when the insurrection in the Philippines shall have been suppressed the government of the Islands shall be vested in such person or persons as the President may direct until Congress shall direct how the Islands shall ber governed PHILIPPINE QUESTION UP At the conclusion of lie routine busl ncsss the resolution offered by Mr Pet tlgrew of South Dakota several days ago together with the substitute for it offered by Mr Lodge of Massachusetts Massachu-setts was laid before the Senate The objection of both the resolution and the substitute was to obtain from the President If not compatible with public pub-lic Interests ail information In regard to the Insurrection in the Philippines Mr Lodge suggested that both Mr Pettlgrews resolution and his own substitute sub-stitute be withdrawn and that them resolution offered by Mr Hoar with suitable amendments be adopted as a substitute for both HOAR RESOLUTION SWEEPING The resolution offered by Mr Hoar was sweeping In Its call for Information Informa-tion relating to the Philippine insurrection insurrec-tion but Mr Lodge said his desire for all information concerning the resolution resolu-tion was so great that hu proposed to offer an amendment extending It1 provisions pro-visions It had been stated hu said that there was danger of an uprising In Manila by the Filipinos with time object of murdering Americans and all foreigners It was statcu tLISU Filipinos had threatened to throw bomb into the funeral procession oC Gen Law ton INFORMATION WANTED He wanted information upon these well others lie pointS as as upon what Information time wanted to know Government possessed as to mepril111 placed upon other tribes by AgUH1kJtt0 and the Tapaloa lie wanted cspCS18hb how the Filipinos hnil ttf to know and Spanish prisoner mImr0 mcrlcaii boTiS wide dlveWenee nf InformaO lluti point If the GOVerijtphuI upon Information relating to the 5 had received by Awulna < k RW iKcmcnt the liwurKcntfl from the U J J cncnuIraru2 and what effect that cncourog rCPii1 the course of the had upon he thought the Senate and LhCtij were entitled to It MATTJiK OF COMMON R It was a matter too of conU port that the AntInper l hind been urging ouC the uver This work Mr QW 11111 Imad little 0ffe t betJLUSC hi of the 1iSOflS slgillllCIIflCO had bCOfl lF 1L Little attention the Government to this action because wild Air SLnBlble man wants to into a martyr even Mr J be malevolent allY II iii there wa no deposit suppress Information to W1IAT HOAR lESIP general ic jjr Honr PaM he ttii ill 1 uvould bt lie cord uHl his colleague Clad to have the correspondence be twcen the President and the peace corn uilsslon at Paris but at this time would not Insist upon that He wanted hov ever the distinct recoinmendallpns nnd Instructions ofthc President to thc Philippine commission Mr Lodge suggested hat the resoltf tion of Mr Pettlgrew and his own t substitute bb laid on the table and that of Mr Hoar with his proposed amendment be adopted t PETTIGREW SENSATIONAL To this Mr Pcttigrew objected Ho had he said asked In his resolution for apeciflc Information which he desired r Ho then launched Into a rather sensational sensa-tional speech containing many bitter attacks on the Administration The Information covered by the amended resolutions of the Massachusetts Scn ritor IUH nol all that might be called for Senators might ask hi said for information concerning the desecration of churches bv American soldiers In the Philippines and as to many other of the horrors that follow In the path of war It was evident11 he aald that I the object of the Administration was to keep detailed information from the people and It was quite as evident the political success of the President and of the Republican party was of greater j concern to the imperialists than whether I wheth-er the information asked for should reach the Filipinos SOUTH DAKOTAN BITTER Surh an objection to the sending to the Senate of Information as that It t I would bo communicated to the Filipinos Fili-pinos was ridiculous since the Filipinos already weru In possession of IL The real reason for objecting to its publication publica-tion was that It was deemed not desirable desira-ble that lie American people should liavo Jt The trouble with the Imperialists L paid Mr Peltlgrcw Is that they have confounded the Interests of the people of the United l Stales with the political desires and ambitions of their puny r President and regarded him and his success as more important than a rightful right-ful treatment of the Filipinos JIK WANTED THE DOCUMENTS Mr Pettlgrew said he wanted the Information In-formation which he was seeking whether the President regarded the publication of It as compatible with the public Interests or not And he wanted I Jt whether the President desired It should or should not be known If any amendment la to be made to the resolution said he It ought to be jnade read that the information should t be transmitted to the Senate If not incompatible in-compatible with the Presidents inter osta as u candidate for reelection The fact Is this whole business is bound up In the Presidents desire again to be a candidate of his party for President CENSORING DISPATCHES Mr Pcltigrov then devoted some time to a discussion of tho censoring of dispatches dis-patches from the Philippines He declared de-clared that important and significant facts had been stricken from news dispatches dis-patches from Manila and from commercial commer-cial reports because It was regarded by the powers that bo aa undesirable that they should reach the American people As an Instance oC this work said he the StUn treaty was mangled and partly part-ly suppressed until after the election in Ohio HIS VIEW OF PROCLAMATION He discussed at length the proclamation proclama-tion issued by the President declaring that it was in such shape that Gen Otis recommended It should be changed in order not to provoke hostilities on the present Filipinos Subsequently he said it was altered materially and as altered was published to the Filipino nation As originally drawn It was to I his mind a flat declaration of war and when Agulnaldo and his leaders came into possession of the original they so regarded it CHARGES DUPLICITY The whole wretched business declared de-clared Mr Pettlgrew vehemently was one concealment and duplicity intended to deceive not only the people of the United States but also the Islanders Isl-anders themselves In substantiation of his charge that the dispatches from the Philippines were censored In the interest of the Administration Ad-ministration Mr Pettlgrew quoted from a letter written bv Mr Robert W Collins Associated Press representative at Manila In this letter Mr Collins related re-lated the substance of an Interview upon the subject of censoring dispatches dis-patches which he had had with Gen Otis Mr Petllgrew read the statements state-ments of Mr Collins in which he had I ald it was the evident desire of the officials of-ficials to prevent certain Information from reaching the people of the United States When he Collins had llled a dispatch containing information which lie thought was proper to send to the United States ho had been informed by the censor that he had been instructed instruct-ed to cut out anything that might hurt I the Administration Subsequently when he had desired to send a story relating Jo tim use df silver In the Philippines tho censor told him that his Instructions were to allow nothing to pass him which would be helpful to William Jennings Jen-nings Bryan in the United States I PARTICULARLY SARCASTIC Upon this point Mr Pettlgrew became particularly sarcastic and again adverted ad-verted to what ho termed the Presidents Presi-dents desire to succeed himself as President even though essential Information In-formation had to bo suppressed to accomplish ac-complish that end Mr PcttigreTT declared that the President Presi-dent himself really began the war in the Philippines and was responsible for It If said he the Administration had had a spark of honor In dealing with the Filipinos it would have told I H Gen Merritt to lay the whole truth of the intentions of the Government be fore Agulnaldo and his associates Had I this been done Mr Pctllgrew believed half the trouble might have been avertedWAR WAR MUST GO ON That ho had fired the first shot I which had precipitated hostilities no body denied Even after the fighting bad begun ho said an effort was inado by Agulnaldo to secure a suspension suspen-sion hostilities but he had been told by Gen Otis that now the fighting had been begun It must continue to the grim end H HE WERE A FILIPINO If said Mr Pettlgrew I were a Filipino I would fight until I was gray against the unholy aggression of the United States If this Country Is wrong this country could take no grander post Lion before the nations of the world than lo admit that It Is wrong Wo have reached the turning point Wo jnuKt decide whether we arc to pursue L ± course 0f rapacity and aggression on British the principle ur to pursue a n course of Justice and right No nation Jong can pursue such a course is the imperialists have marked out for usa us-a course of wrong and treachery to friendsand hopo to stund well before the nations of the world Air Patti yjrew was cut off by thc expiration of the morning hour STEWART ON FINANCE The currency bill was then taken up and Mr Stewart addressed the Senate opening with an attack on the Repub lican party for bringing In a measure so utterly contradictory of the St Louis platform lie then entered upon a general discussion Of the financial conditions or the world and attacked the advocates of the gold standard for denying that either the supply or j demand I de-mand for gold has any effect In cstl jrtating the quantity of any particular doraniodlty which a given amount of ijold will buy REFERS TO GAGE Referring to the reply of Secretary Gage to the Senate he said Tho Sec rotary of the Treasury Is i not HO absolutely abso-lutely Ignoiant money science as his contention that the value of gold never changes would seem to Indicate In Ills reply 1 ° the > resolution of the two houses of Congress respecting his transactions with certain Nuv York bunks bo givos for jcuson for ih jAjsltlng the money of the Government In national banks that It laT auecwary j1r1 T I L Tk 4 to tlo so lo avoid contracting the circulation cir-culation and that to keep It In the treasury would disturb the business of the country Il seems a little strange that the Secretary can understand that locking up money In the treasury vaults disturbs business and ut the same lime thinks It Is necessary to use only tho commodity gold upon which to stamp money although every for plgn financial trouble takes sold out of the country and deposits It In foreign I for-eign vaults In his lectures on gold the Secretary claims 11 possesses In irlnslc value while In administering the treasury he regards the volume of money In circulation an of paramount ImportnnOi and deposits the surplus of the treasury In banks lo keep It In use and prevent contraction THEORY IN JUSTNESS It Is passing strange thai businessmen business-men shape their transactions In view of the probable supply of money but when they discuss tIn money question they follow the example of the Secretary I Secre-tary and assert that the quallly of the j I material used as money Is the only question of Importance without regard to the volume In circulation Is ll nol singular lint people cannot sec the absurdity ab-surdity of the intrinsic value theory ivhila In every kind of business Industrial In-dustrial as well as speculative they net on lluntianllllvo theory of money In their business they have In view the supply of money hut many of them In their argument follow the teachings of the I velsuids and tin t Harrisons and i maintain thai all they want is intrinsic values In Ihc money In circuUillon no inilte whclhcr the volunm Is large or small Nb DODGING ISSUES In i conclusion Mr Stewart said The passage of tills bill whatever may have been the I Intention of Its authors will bring this question j squarely before the American people If this bill should become a Jaw there will be no dodging the Issue It must be met and thai Issue will be between a Government by a colossal and im i perlal concentration of capital wield Jug the sovereign power of the United Stales to create contract and expand I lie volume of t money and an honest measure of value conslsllng of the le j gal lender money of the hulLed Stales DEMOCRATS NOT READY Sir Aldrich In charge of tho llnau cial bill asked to have some arrunge mont made regarding that measure 3Mr Jones of Arkansas replied that no Democrat was ready lo speak on the hill but he assured Mr Aldrich there was no dlsposllion In clelny ll unduly Mr Aldrlch said the bill had been before be-fore the Senate for three weeks an ample time in which to prepare for Its discussion Therefore ho had a right to Insist that the bill be disposed of as soon as possible NO SPEECHES FOR THE BILL Mr Teller asked It there was lo be no speeches In support of the measure To this MrAldrlch said he was unable to reply Republicans he thought were prepared lo vole upon it Mr Teller regarded II as remarkable that a measure of such importance should go to a vole without discussion from all sides At the request of Mr Aldrich the financial measure was postponed until 2 oclock Monday nexl The Senate then agreed that when It adjourned today to-day U be until Monday REGARDING THE CENSUS Consideration of Ihe census measure conferring additional authority upon up-on the director of census was then begun Mr Hoar withdrawing withdraw-ing an amendment ho had offered of-fered Mr Pettlgrew offered an amendment amend-ment directing the director of the census cen-sus to collect statistics In regard lo the distribution of wealth In regard lo the extent to which machinery has displaced dis-placed manual labor and In regard to private and corporation indebtedness The amendment was defeated Mr Allen of Nebraska proposed an amendment providing for the collection of statistIcs relating to trusls and that too was defeated by a viva voce vole Mr Allen demanded the yeas and nays and wanted to know of Mr Carter Car-ter If he proposed lo deny this Informa llon lo the people SHOULD BE HEARD Mr Carter replied lInt the amendment amend-ment was simply a proposlllon lint a 3aday enumerator or a 600 clerk should determine whal institutions In an olllcial document are criminal He held that these Inslllullons were entitled en-titled lo their day In court If these institutions are trusts he said if they are In violatIon of law they are entitled to be heard before the laws of the country shall be applied to them Mr Allen declared that the effort to prevent the gathering of Information regarding trusls was a scheme to sidetrack side-track him There Is some hidden power il seems he said In Congress respecting this mailer AN AMUSING COLLOQUY A sharp and amusing colloquy took place between Mr Allen and Mr TIll man of South Carolina The latter criticised the amendment andMr Allen Al-len charged that Mr Tlllmanhad gone over lo the side of the trusts lit emphatically denying thIs Mr Tillman likened Mr Allen lo a dog In a Southern opossum hunt who followed the trail lo a tree and then reared upon il The tree was cut down and no opossum was found The hunters went home In disgust declaring the dog had been chasing a haul spooler spoo-ler Thai said Mr Tillman Is what my friend from Nebraska Is doing do-Ing Laughter Mr Allen replied with some heat declaring de-claring that Mr Tillman would llnd difficulty In explaining his position to the people of his State He said there was a disposition among Senators to say The public he damned and he had no idea there was any intention lo gather information regarding trusts The bill was passed without further objection The Senate then at fi10 p m went into executive session and soon after ward adjourned until Monday |