The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-14

1udl 1IoSIueuL mckinney WOUld ever
approve a sentence for the execution Of
Aguinaldo is highly improbable. Neither
is 1t likely that the insurgent leader
would be allowed to remain among his
own people-at least not for a number OF
years. His trachery in selling out TO
Spain and afterward leading an open re-
volt against that country was an unlucky
feather in his cap-one for which he is
likely to repent during many dreary
year.
That Aguinaldo would be deported to
this continent and perhaps detained for
some time in prison seems most probable
TO many officials competent to express an
opinion on the subject Uncle Sam now
has no regular military prison which
could be used for the purpose. The form
er military prison at Fort Leavenworth,
Ks, turned over to the civil authorities
Few years ago, is now United States
penitentiary. Only such soldiers as COM
NIT penitentiary ofenses. as did Captain
Garter, can be confined there. If brought
TO this continent for Imprisonment Agui-
naldo probably would languish at AL
catraz Island, San Francisco, or at Cas-
u
York, the two military stations best
adopted for long terms Of Imprisonment.
AT Alcatraz Island there are cells 5nd
Dungeons and the safest mill az prs
on equipment remaining in the country.
An interesting proposition is that in
disposing of the rebel chieftian the gov
eminent should not regard him as it
would an enlightened traitor, but should
derive its presidents from the treatment
of Indians or other primitive people who
have risen in revolt againts their parant
states. One authority ventured the opin-
loIi that Auginaldo is less TO be trus- ed
than Geronimo or Sitting Bull. The
former, whose tribe terrified the white
man almost from the time of his advent
into the country, was taken to Fort
Marion, st. Augustine, Fla, afterward
to Mount Vernon Barracks, Ala, and
finally to Fort Sill o. T. Sitting Bull,
after surrendering to our troops, refused
to be taken, and was shot dead by our
Indian police. Chief Joseph, Of the Nez
Perces, was confined for while at Fort
Leavenworth, afterward detained in In
dian Territory, and, when finally recon-
ciled, was returned to his old country
The leaders Of the Modoc war of 1923
were hanged and their followers We're
removed to Indian Territory. Thus it
will be seen that our treatment of rebel
Hcus Indians would offer a variety Of
presidents.
That Aguinaldo should be deported is
advised by an ethnologist, who says that
the famous Fiiipino's hold upon his fol-
lowers is a combination of here Worship
and that veneration for the "shaman,"
or medicine man, which civilized men can
little appreciate. The policy of the Mex
in its punishment of Indian rebels, is to
deport them to distant parts of Mexico
and keep them under surveillance until
they are thoroughly reconciled to their
new surroundings. The Seris-the al
legged cannibal Indians of Mexico, who
killed the traveller Robinson a few years
ago on Tiburon Island-were deported so
far away from their old homes that they
never could return.
European powers prefer deportation of
their rebellious colonial subjects to hang
ing them as traitors The French, for in
stance, after deposing the rebellious ma
tive Queen of Madagascar in 1897, de- |
ported her to the Island of Reunion. |
Two thousand participants in the native |
uprising in British Beuchanaland. South |
Africa, were deported by England in 1897
TO Cape Colony, and indentured to farm
ers for period of five years. Similarly
in Samoa, Malietoa, after having been
deposed by the German government in |
1887, was depOrted first to German New |
Guiena, afterward to the Cameroons in |
Africa, and finally. in 1888, to Hamburg, |
before being restored to his kingship the |
following year.
Should Aguinaldo, after being allowed |
to return TO the Philippines and after the |
of a civil government there |
renew his attempt to incite rebellion, his |
case would be disposed of before a civil |
court. Such a tribunal in passing SEN
tence would be governed by the act of |
1862, which provides that treason against |
the United States should be punishable by |
death, Imprisonment for not less than |
five years, or fine of not less than So |
CO., and that it should render the guilty |
person incapable Of holding public office |
under our government. Under this law
would be punished any rebellious subject |
the continent under civil government
Aaron Burr, who figured in the first
notable treason trial held in our civil |
courts, when tried for attempting to sep
arate States form the Union was brought
to justice while the old act of 1890 held
good. This act made death the sole pun
ishment for treason.
Military commissions not governed by
statute but organized under war power
first were brought into vogue by General
Scott during the Mexican war. During
the civil war they tried a great variety
Of charges. including "inciting rebellion"
and publicly expressing hostility TO the
United States government and sympa-
thy with the enemy
The most famous military commission
which ever sat in this country was that
which tried the conspiritors against Pres
ident Lincoln. jefferson Davis. it will he
was never tried After
having been imprisoned for two years
without trial, he was set at liberty.
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