Of course I do not undertake to say that it is accurate. but it was in harmony with the views which I understood the Senator to entertain when we voted upon the treaty. The Senator in that speech said: The greater question is. What shall we do with the Asiatic Islands? We did not contemplate that when the war began. I have found that there had been a worse condition for two hundred years in the Philippine Islands than there had been in Cuba. that there had been the wickedest government that ever afflicted the human race. Now. you can not return the islands to Spain.