President. if you want to take up the Philippine question tonight. you will find every man in this Chamber who is not a Republican prepared to take it up with you. and if it be necessary to sit here at night for that purpose. we will sit here at night. We recognize it as one of the crying evils of the day that there has been no legislation respecting those islands for two years and more. We are sick of the military authorities there who are deporting citizens of the United States from Manila to the United States. and citizens of Manila from Manila to Guam. shutting up newspaper establishments. and denying free speech to the people of that country. whether they are American soldiers. as Mr. Rice was. or whether they are native citizens of the Philippine Islands. We will stay with you as many hours as you want to stay upon the legislation which the President declares is of immediate necessity. but if you want to pass this subsidy bill it will have to be debated.
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