Show T TREATY AT WITH WIT T THE f SUlT SULTAN f LUI Secy Sec of War Aar Taft Abrogates it Because of Failure to Respect It MOROS VIOLATED TERMS OF IT Has lIa Urea Been Suppressed Justus Just as Tar lIar as us It Has lias lIeen Heen Possible ros I lc Wellington Washington Marsh March 11 Secy Tail Taft was WIlS heard by the t h house hOl t torn cont millet on s on oti the th fIend pend ins lux bill to provide for tor the more tore d ct 8 administration e of ot U f civil govern overn meat In the he hc Philippines Previous to tn the tho hearing Chairman Challman Cooper rend read to tho the n cable cablegram inurn gram by IJ grey S Tuft Taft on Of March 2 tho the hates ti uty between rho Iho United and unil time tha summa sultan of Stunt Sulu and his The cablegram says nays In view of ot thu the failure allure on the part of oC the sultan and tho the signing dattos datto to tl discharge tho the and fulfill the tho conditions Imposed on m them th m by b uM sold agreement they have forfeited all right to the tho therein stipulated to tobe tobe be bl paid 1111 thorn thom and to all ell other oth r con COli considerations to n them thorn under the agreements limo tho treaty Is abrogated and held for naught and und an as resident residents of or the More Mara province lit h tho the Philippine archipelago the they ne n c subject to the laws enacted therein under the mho cover of tho the United n s The lh secretary said this action yeas taken because disturbances In the Jolo Joba group Indicated the the Moros Maros had 10 toted the tho terms terns of tho the treaty Prompt action was wall taken In preference to re referring erring ferring the tho matter mutter to Congress be because because cause of at the continuation I of ot the die dis disturbance turban lI President Pre Roosevelt wets was consulted and approved the action Secy Sec Taft told the lie committee that he had received rl a n cablegram today front from Gen Oell Wade Wilde nde stilting stating that Gen Oen Wood reported that on account of ot the tha lintl ln r proclamation tho the Moron of tho the Itlo Hlo Grande Graide del Mindanao die dis district had risen that this armed force hud lied been met and defeated with no American loss but with considerable less lees to 0 the tho Mores foroe A considerable num number number ber her of ot email cannon were captured from tho iho Moros In the engagement I am disappointed at this news remarked r d Secy Beey Taft because I 1 sup supposed posed hosed that the Moron of that district were In a n condition where here that sort of thing was sync not possible Tho The secretary denied dented absolutely nb that tho the treaty recognized either slavery or polygamy But nut slavery av ry has existed said raid Mr Ill of ot Tennessee Whenever n a slave has haa presented himself he has hILS been beep freed The Moros Mores have loc not gone lone to war on account nc of ot slavery neither line has slavery been de strayed by force torce of arms none by the United Elutes but bUI tho the slave trade has hns been heen suppressed just an nil far as an n It line has been Tho The situation of slavery lavery pre pie valid vails wherever there are Maros was the answer Mr Crumpacker Immediately Matted drafted a substitute for or the Patterson bill abro abrogating abrogating gating the treaty providing that the tho action of ot the th president and secretary of at war token taken on March 2 1901 1904 fi abrogating the hates Dates treaty be bo boc confirmed c anti and approved y Taft TaCt ap all approved proved this but the tho committee decided 11 to deter defer Its Ita action on the matter mo desir desiring lag ing to hear Sec Becy Bec Taft Tatt on the railroad problem In to the Islands Before Defore leaving tho subject however howler the secretary said Mid that In his hl opinion there thero were not more than Moron Moros In the Islands al 01 although al although though It had been supposed that there were a n Secy Taft then reviewed the fiscal conditions In the Islands He should be agreeably surprised ed he said If the Isis hI Islands rinds ands got liol out without actual loss Iou on 01 the tine friar land I nd proposition SeD Taft will again b be heard on Wednesday 1 |