The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-01-19
Dakota Senator Delivers
Sensational Speech.
AIMED AT THE PRESIDENT
Says Philippine Policy Is One Of "COn-
cealment and Duplicity" On Part
Of The Administration.

A spirited and at times sensational
debate was precipitated in the senate
Thursday on the Philippine question
over the resolutions of inquiry. Mr..
Pettigrew, of South Dakota, attacked
the administrations policy in the Phil
ippines and also made some startling
charges against those who were sup
porting the administration.
Mr. Pettigrew declared that a sys-
tematic effort was being made to pre-
vent accurate information from reach
ing the people Of the United States
sand that it was a political scheme to
Further the candidacy of Mr.. McKin-
ley for denomination and reelection.
Before adjournment the senate, after
prolonged debate, passed the bill con-
ferring additional powers upon the
director of the census. At the open
ing the Pettigrew resolution and the
Lodge substitute, both seeking from
|. the president all information regard
ing the Philippine instruction, were
laid before the senate Mr.. Lodge
suggested that both be withdrawn and
the Hoar resolution be adopted as a
substitute.
Mr. Lodge said he wanted informa-
ton especially as to the effect of the
encouragement the Filipinos received
from the United States. Mr.. Hoar
agreed with Mr.. Lodge.
Mr.. Pettigrew objected. He want
y led specific information, regardless of
whether the president wanted it known
or not.
'The trouble with the imperial
ists," said Mr.. Pettigrew, sis that
they have COMPOUNDED the interests of
the people of the United States with
the political desires and ambitions of
their puny president and regarded
him and his success as more import
ant than a rightful treatment of the
\ Filipinos. The fact is, this whole
business is bound up in the presi-
! dents desire to again be a candidate
of his party for president.
Mr.. Pettigrew discussed the censor
ing of dispatches from the Philip
pines. He declared that important
and significant facts had been stricken
from news dispatches from Manila and
from official reports.
"As.an instance of this work." said
y he, "the Sulu treaty was mangled and
partly suppressed until after the cleo
ton in Ohio"
Mr.. Pettigrew declared the procla-
nation issued by the president was,
on the recommendation of General
Otis, altered materially by the presi-
dent before it was published to the
Philippine natives. AS originally
drawn it was, to his mind, fiat decla-
ration of war, and when Aguinaldo
and his leaders came into possession
Z of the original they so regarded it.
''The whole wretched business, u
declared Mr.. Pettigrew vehemently,
'swas one of concealment and duplicity,
intended to deceive not only the peo-
pie of the United States, but also the
islanders themselves"
In substantiation of his charge that
the dispatches from the Philippines
were censored in the interests of the
administration, Mr.. Pettigrew quoted
N from letter written by Robert M.
Collins, Associated Press representa-.
tive at Manila. In this letter Mr..
Collins related the substance of an in.
teryiew upon the subject of censorine
dispatches which he had had with
General Otis. Mr.. Pettigrew read the
statements of Mr.. Collins, in which be
said it was the evident desire of the
officials to prevent certain information
from reaching the people of the
United States.
When he (Collins) had filed a dis
patch containing information which
he thought was proper to send to the
United States he had been informed
by the censor that he had been in
structed to cut out anything thai
might hurt the administration.
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