The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-12-29

washington, Dec. 2S.-Senators FRYE
and Davis, members OF the late peace
commission, called at the White
House yesterday for a chat with the
president. Senator Frye afterward
visited the state department and SEN
ator Davis went to bic committee
room at the capitol. Senator Davis
will not talk at length of the treaty or
the work Of the commission at Paris.
He said in answer to- Inquiries: -
1T has been extremely gratifying to
learn that the American people gen
orally approve the work of the peace
commission. 1t often happened in
Paris that after we had taken some
important action we would not learn
for ten or twelve days how it had been
received by the people in this country
After an interval of ten or twelve days
we would get the newspapers and for
the first time see how our action had
been accepted by the people,. We are
inclined to feel satisfied and exceed
ingly gratified with the apparent ap-
prevail with which our lobors seem to
have been received here Our inter-
course with the Spanish commission
ers from beginning to end was courte-
Gus, and our parting was exceedingly
friendly In manner and expression. 1
think we. all parted with mutual es-
teem-personal esteem.''
Senator Davis said he had not seen
any of his colleagues in the senate
since his return with the exception of
Senator Nelson, and he had no idea
what the feeling in that body was
In Regard to the Treaty.
He said he hoped the treaty would be
disposed of at the present session of
congress. Senator Frye was quite
frank in his discussion of many mat
ters incidental to the commissions
work, and threw light on the savagery
Of Spain toward the Filipinos On
that point he said:
Zone can hardly conceive anything
more outrageous and horrible than has
been the Spanish government of the
Philippines. The evidence furnished
us Of cruelty and brutality disclosed a
situation far more shocking than, any
thing we have heard of the Spanish
treatment in Cuba. The practices Of
the inquisition were in vogue. Col.
Whittier showed us a number Of stat
uettes, made by Filipino. who was a
Spanish prisoner, illustrating the
modes Of torture inflicted upon pris-
oners by the, Spanish religious orders,
not by the local priests, who are kind
~ disposed toward the people; not by
the Jesuits, who are engaged in edu-
catiOnal work. and are doing great
good, but by the religious orders from
outside. The RIGHTEOUSNESS, greed and
shocking cruelty practiced by these
people upon the inhabitants Of the
Philippines
Is Too Horrible
for contemplation. One of the statu-
cites represents a man with q ring
through his nose attached to a rope
running through a pulley to the ceiling
and friar lifting him off his feet by
the nose and then letting him down to
mako him confess that he was Ma
son. Another was a man with his
ankles in stocks and friar inficting
upon him the bastinado to make him
confess that he belonged to secret
society. Photographs were shown us
of the shooting of hundreds Of natives
there by the Spanish soldiers, the
prisoners bound and lined up along the
street, the soldiers facing them, and
always ulduc u SIduu LClo dAu AoiAuCAJ'
The pictures showed the crowds as
sembled and the men lined up just be-
fore, they were shot. Another showed
them falling after the order had been
given to fire, and they were photo
graphed lying dead on the ground.
The stories Of horror the people suf-
fered in the black hole,' the testimony
Of photography and that taken from
.L<~1s
inflicted upon the Fiipinos under the
Spanish rule equal to any of the hor-
rors of, the; inquisition." ..<.s....--..
''Do you think the treaty will be rati-
fed at an early dateT'
II haven't talked with my colleagues
and do not know what the disposition
of the senate isl .s-s. III: r.. =. s: 8:
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