If we keep steadily in view the idea that if these people are capable of selfgovernment. they shall have itand I have no doubt of their ability to manage their own internal and domestic affairs practically without oiu super vision. although some Senators say that is not the factif we yield that to them. we have not violated any principle of free government and of a free people. and. all of this repeated newspaper clamor that we are about to do something extremely bad if we deny to those people full citizenship. it seems to me. is without any foundation whatever. Mr. President. I had intended. as I said before. to go into very many phases of this case. and to touch upon even our relations with our Asiatic possessions. but 1 shall not do so now. I shall content myse.f with saying practically now what I have saidthat this bill seems to me to be incongruous and unsatisfactory from any standpoint. I do not care whether it be from that of making Puerto Rico a part of the United States or making it a .colony.