Show DRAGNET RESOLOT One Pertaining to Philippine War Adopted I KNOWN AS HOARS MEASURE J f Beyond a Vigorous Speech by Senator Pottigrow tho Resolution Aroused No Debate South Dakotan Bitter in His Attack on the Administration Administra-tion As Adopted the Resolution Leaves tho Whole Question with tho President as to Whether or Not Ho will Furnish Information Washington Aug l1An agreement was easily reached In the Senate today to take the final vote on the pending bill flxlnggojd as the standard of value In tho United States on February 16th After several days of debate the drag 1L t resolullon regarding the oonduci of the Philippine war was adopted It was Introduced byMr Hour and proc llcally was adopted as a substitute for I resolutions of a similar but less ex tended character offered by Mr PetU grew and Mr Lodge Beyond a vigorous vigor-ous speech by Mr Pettigrew the resolution reso-lution aroused no debate as It Is within with-in the discretion of the President to fiend or not send any oC the Information required The resolution offered by Mr Hale as to the seizure of flour by the Urlllsh authorities was adopted but only after A spirited debate nnd after the resolution resolu-tion had been niatcjjally umen eMI e-MI Davis chairman of the Committee Commit-tee on Foreign Relations made a sharp atiaek upon the resolution but withdrew with-drew his objections after It had been amended Mr Teller addressed the Senate upon the financial bill and will l continue liis speech tomorrow HOAR RESOLUTION At the conclusion of routine business I the resolution of Inquiry Introduced by Mr Hoar and amended by Mr Lodge calling for general Information regardIng regard-Ing the conduct of the Insurrection in the Philippines was laid before the Senate Sen-ate Mr Peltlgrew said he desired to address I dress the Senate upon the resolution before It was passed He favored the r passage of the resolution believing the Information asked for was entirely I proper He declared that he had received I re-ceived Information slnco the Introduction Introduc-tion of his resolutions that assured him of the facts he had asserted PETTIOREWS WILD CHARGE The blood of every soldier said he who has fallen since the war hegan is on the hands of the Administration The blood of the sixty soldier boys of South Dakota who lost their lives after being conscripted Into an unwilling service ser-vice after their terms had expired lies at the door of the Administration and there Is no escape for It I charge that the censorship of thc press and the suppression sup-pression of facts are for the purpose of advancing the political ambitions of Mr McKinley If this action aid Mr Pettlgrew put the Administration In a hole as was staled it wan not his fault Mr I Pettigrexv reverted to the assertion that time acquisition of the Philippine J was brought about by the act of God bul he added the only way he could explain ex-plain the work was that God must have used Mr McKinley as a prophet or ap pOared to tlio President In a vision At the conclusion of Mr Pcltlgrews speech the resolution of Mr Hoar was passed without division The resolution Introduced several days ago by Mr llalo calling on the Secretary of State for Information In possession of the department relating to the seizure and detention of American Ameri-can Hour by British authorities In Dc lagoa bay South Africa was laid before be-fore the Senate After It had been modlflcld Mr Platt Conn made a speech In which he said he did not believe be-lieve the passage of the resolution at ihls time wise 4 DAVIS CRITICISES HALE Mr Davis of Minnesota chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations said that the resolution was prematurely prema-turely Introduced He indicated that the subject of the resolution was now under diplomatic negotiation No conclusIon con-clusIon to that consideration has yet been reached Mr Davis said It was a question whether some of the assertions asser-tions of the resolutions were true It is said this flour la not contraband he continued This may or may not be true but It is a question of fact to be determined whether this flour Is for use of an active hostile Mr Davis said It did not become the Senator Mr Hale to Introduce such a resolution at this time But said Mr Davis what strikes me as most to be criticised In the resolution Is the concluding paragraph It Is stated that If the detention of the properly is persisted In such act will be considered as without warrant and offensive to the Government and people of the United Stales I venture to say that no pro nunciamento upon so Important a ques tion was ever made by a Government until the diplomatic negotiations re lating fo It had been completed It Is a statement which Is I made only on the verge of hostilities That concluded Mr Davis Is ery serioUs language In Its present form it means a serious diinculty I think the resolution would better be referred HALE MAKES REPLY In response to the statement of Mr Davis Mr Hale the author of the reso lution began a brief address by sending to the clerks desk nnd having read a newspaper account of the seizure of tho flour Ho had drawn the resolution with some care Intending to limit to one of Inquiry He declared the Senate and country were entitled to know what the situation was and there was Ignorance as to what was being done lie deemed It perfectly clear that as It was Ilpur and not arms or ammunition that had been seised the seizure was not of contraband goods It needed he thought uo Investigation by commit tee to determine thai flour was not con traband of war A majority ot the Senate can stIfle this resolution said ilr Hale warmly But It cannot be suppressed in any other way CONTRABAND OF WAR The discussion of the question as to whether food products were ever con traband of war was precipitated by a question of Mr Lodge Mr Hale was of the opinion that It would take a very extreme case to make lour con traband of war but he could perceive that It might bs In certain circumstances circum-stances Such an admission In his opinion however would be fraught with great danger to the United States now and In the future He did not imagine Im-agine that the State department was doing anything that would gel us Into trouble but he wanted to know what was being done MATERIALLY AMENDED The resolution as offered by Mr Hale wan malerlully amended Mr Hale himself him-self accepting the suggestions of Senators Sen-ators that certain objectionable features fea-tures be eliminated I Mr Platt of Connecticut said the resolution i res-olution as amended was not objectionable objection-able In form but he deemed It unwise I to adopt IL while the subject was l > end lug between the State department and the diplomatic oniclals of Great Britain Brit-ain At such luncturc he thought the Senate ought not to interfere He Celt 1 111111 = ii that negotlajlOns were being conducted properly and energetically on the part of our Government SHIPMENT OF MULES Mr TIMman called attention lo the 11 shipment ofmules to the British forces In South Africa from ports bf the United States the Government taking no pains to prevent IU 1 Mr Platt replied thai there was no Inhibition against the shipment of such supplies to the RrlllsF The shippers made the shipments at their own risk Mr Foraker suggested that the resolution reso-lution be directed to the Secretary of Stale but Mr Hale with some heat declined to accept any further amendments 1 amend-ments Mr Foraker Mron moved that the resolullon be amemlnd as he had suggested and Ihi motion prevailed Without further controversy the resolution resolu-tion an amended was passed It was then determined that when the Senate aUburn today It be until 10 oclock tomorrow CUBAN RESOLUTION PASSES Mr Petilgrews resolution calling for Information from the Secretary of urns ur-ns to the fiscal operations In Cuba was I I Introduced and passed without debate A bill relating to Cuban vesselsre i ported bv the Commerce commltlee was called upby Mr Berry of Arkansas and I paos6d DEBATE ON FINANCIAL BILL At 2 oclock the financial bill wan laid before the Senate und after a little lit-tle talk between Mr Aldrich of Rhode Island who suggested Thursday February 1st and Air Jones of Arkansas I Arkan-sas the Senate agreed to vote on his I February 15th that two days Intervening Interven-ing should be devoted to lenmlnule debates TELLER OPPOSES MEASURE Mr Teller then addressed theSenate on ha financial bill He contended 1 that the history of the t American people peo-ple showed that they were favorable to bimetal ism lie renewed his charge that > the financial bill Is especially a caucus measure and should not be accepted ac-cepted from the Junta of Ignorant men who constituted the Indianapolis convention con-vention This he denounced us an abandonment of the legislative functions func-tions and a surrender Ouislde Influences Influ-ences Still he was1satisfied the bill would be put on the statute books as a law because they were unable to resist re-sist the Influence behind them not wllhsiandlng the bill was Contrary to the conviction of some Republican Senators Sen-ators and notwithstanding that as late as 1800 the Republican party had upheld blmetalism ADVOCATE OF B1METALISM As for himself Mr Teller said few men had received greater honors at the hands of the Republican party than himself but his I was due to the fact thai he had been an advocate of blme tnlsm Thai this attitude was In accordance ac-cordance with the convictions of the people of his own State was shown by the platform declarations of nil the political po-litical parties of his State Mr Teller declared the silver dollar had been maintained in full value despite de-spite he said all the slanders uttered in this chamber and In public because the people demanded the silver dollar as money and with every one of them could procure a dollars worth of anything any-thing to be had He maintained that the American people and the American Nation were great enough to do anything any-thing they deemed right to do And If the should determIne to coin silver I free It would be successful Mr Teller had not completed his speech but desired de-sired to suspend and resume tomorrow The Senate then at 3o7 went Into executive ex-ecutive session and shortly after it adjourned ad-journed I |