History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . 278 EXPANSION [1899 Luzon. Its methods were irregular andarbitrary—natural in view of the prevalenceof war. Aguinaldo, its soul from the firstmoment, became president. The Philippine Republic wished and as-sumed to act for the archipelago, taking ^ \^^^im JfhM ^1 ^ ? ^ f^ fe^H ^^ alj J W—— Ml ? mm.^ ??HK^.:^^^^^ ?**L«^^ pp P^ 1^^ ? •*^ .. r. 1.^..... 11th Cavalry Landing at Vigan, llocos, April, 1902. the place of Spain. It, of course, hadneither in law nor infact the power to dothis, nor, under t
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . 278 EXPANSION [1899 Luzon. Its methods were irregular andarbitrary—natural in view of the prevalenceof war. Aguinaldo, its soul from the firstmoment, became president. The Philippine Republic wished and as-sumed to act for the archipelago, taking ^ \^^^im JfhM ^1 ^ ? ^ f^ fe^H ^^ alj J W—— Ml ? mm.^ ??HK^.:^^^^^ ?**L«^^ pp P^ 1^^ ? •*^ .. r. 1.^..... 11th Cavalry Landing at Vigan, llocos, April, 1902. the place of Spain. It, of course, hadneither in law nor infact the power to dothis, nor, under the circumstances, could theAdministration at Washington, howeverdesirable such a course from certain points ofview, consent that it should at present eventry. The Philippine question divided thecountry, raising numerous problems of fact, iSgg] UNITED STATES IN THE ORIENT 279 law, policy, and ethics, on which neitherCongress nor the people could know itsmind without time for reflection. When our commissioners met at Paris todraft the Treaty of Peace, one wished our. Copyright, l8gQ, by Frances B, yohnston, Jules Cambon, the French Ambassador, acting for Spain, receiving from theHonorable John Hay, the U. S. Secretary of State, drafts to the -amount of$20,000,000, in payment for the Philippines. demands in the Orient confined to Manila,with a few harbors and coaling thought it well to take Luzon, or somesuch^ goodly portion of the the treaty at last called for the entirePhilippine domain, allowing $20,000,000 28o EXPANSION [1899 therefor, was supposed due to insistencefrom Washington. Only the Vice-Presi-dents casting vote defeated a resolutionintroduced in the Senate by Senator Bacon,of Georgia, declaring our intention to treatthe Filipinos as we were pledged to treatthe Cubans. After ratification the Senatepassed a resolution, introduced by SenatorMcEnery, of Louisiana, avowing the pur-pose not to make the Filipinos United Statescitizens o
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