| Show LAST DAY ON PUERTO RICO Debate on the Proposed T Tariff ariIT Measure Is Isi I i j W arm armI I orol Opposition to 10 StIll ba a It I ItIs Ie Is IJ tin house ur of lid Washington Fob last Jut day of tM the general or of the Puerto moo tariff bill opened with n a twenty minute speech Ly by Mr Tenn In op to the bill The alternative by 11 the bIll III lie be said was th the ot of our priceless principles or of our lon The country bad been dazzled with the gorgeous picture ot of empire but yet at al the very er th thresh threshold lIh old ot of the new departure he be said gin tiemen on the other had been ap 01 polled lest the trade which they had holl lOOked nt at with willi covetous eyes would bring ruin and destructIon to American labor Therefore the new possessions were ere to romo colonies and tie Ie turned over oer to carpet bagger adventurers nil lie caid that the other lither d day y had displayed dense denso ignorance when he had I declared that this was 11 the tho battle of oC 1860 1800 over oer again lie rend read the Republican platform of 1860 to show that It sot Ret up the er ery by the Democrats the Iho was supreme In the Tern tories and extended over oer every foot uC of over oer which the UnIted States had That was the doe 1100 trio ot of the and Abraham Lincoln saId he and we VI stand here hereto to defend defene the thOry that III slavery r and cannot be Imposed within th th Jurisdiction ut of our country that life lICe liberty and the pursuit of hap hall are the inalienable right of nil alt within our Mr dr Clayton Ala cAla who followed Mr r Carmack created much amusement and b by reading n a letter 11 by Chairman Payne to W H CLIntis ot of Palmyra N Y January U 24 isee 1900 In lie he advocated irs trade with Puerto RIco on the ground that It give relief to o the The letter iso contained the follow following n reference to the Under the treaty lie are areto areto to hay Iree with Spain fur for ten tep years Ve to could not the e tarIff laws 1118 to th Philippine even een It we 1 would Mr r J to the request and th hope hopt that there thero would lie he no objection and Pear Tenn also the bill The latter latler declared that the brood of treats hall had flocked to Washington ton ed aM compelled ha the leaders ot of the tho lican party to turn their backs Puerto lie e If the people of the were re not entitled to 10 IS as much as the sultan JuHan ot of Sub Sulu vIto ho was WAIl granted free trade linde with nil all the Philippine islands Mr Ir Df Dc Almond Moh 10 said the tho bill proposed to act tIle tho Con Constitution not for the of oC doln doing something bUt Lut In the t ot of the partial or enslavement ot of A helpless eople The change channe ot of front had been brought by br the Influence ot of the agents ot of mighty might corporations |
