Post-Spanish-American War treaty fails in Senate

*While it was voted on before 1900, obviously its effects were mostly felt after the start of the 20th century, and so I put it here.

The treaty following the Spanish-American War passed by a single vote. It's worth noting that while William Jennings Bryan was against annexation, he voted for the treaty.

For those that don't know, the treaty gave the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, other islands in the West Indies to the United States, and Spain gave up its right to Cuba. Suppose that William Jennings Bryan had voted his conscience. What are the effects? Senator Henry Cabot Lodge had speculated that it would keep us in a state of war.
 

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Where exactly are you getting your sources for this?

Bryan was never a United States Senator. He ran for the Senate in 1894 but lost. Only elected post he ever held was being Nebraska's First District Congressmen from 1891 to 1895. At the end of the Spanish American War his support for the treaty was limited to public speeches, and his influence from that hadn't built up to what it would be over the next 10 years.
 
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