Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-11
SISTER REPUBLIC
OF THE FILIPINOS
What Senator Pettlgrew Calls Agui-
OaIdO's lnsdrgent Movement.
SENATOR RAWLlNS SPEAKS
Petigrew Says Americans Began the
War on the Rilipiuos New
Resolution offered.

Washington, Jan. 1.-THE resolution
Of Senator Pettigrew regarding the at
tempts TO open negotiations with the
Filipinos was taken up. Senator Hoar
had offered a similar resolution Of
broader scope.
Mr. Lodge offered further amend
ment to include any information COM
Ing to the war department Of plans OF
people Of the Philippines In arms
against the United States regarding the
projected uprising In the city of Ma
Mia, for the destruction Of foreign
property and massacres Of residents;
also regarding treatment of prisoners
By insurgents.
MI. Lodge referred to the published
reports oil the plan to thrown dynamite
bombs during the funeral Of General
Lawton TO create a diversion during
which an uprising was to occur. His
amendment also covered information
regarding the anti-imperialistlc utter
aEces which We're being disseminated
among the insurgents and alleged doc
uments circulated among United States
soldiers serving in the Philippines last
summer urging them not TO re-enlist
Information regarding all these facts,
Mr.. Lodge said, should be known.
Mr., Rawlins suggested that If the
resolution was 10 be burdened, why not
make 1t include all the preliminary ne
gotiations with the insurgents before
the war began.
Mr.. Lodge said that was what he
was trying TO procure, a full and COM
plete account OF all occurrences from
January IL, 1895.
MIR. Hoar assented TO Mr.. Lodges
plan, but said he should also like 10
include the Presidents instructions to
tile peace commissioners in Paris But
he presumed there would be objection
to that and he would not press IT, He
would, however, press the request for
all instructions to the Philippine com
missioners
Mr.. Hoar was also DESTROYS that this
information should be sent in from time
to time, not in one huge unwieldy
document.
Mr.. Pettlgrew insisted upon separ-
ate action upon his resolution. He re-
ferred feelingly TO the manner In which
his reLolution Of December 18th was
shelv,d on the ground that II would be
Immediately telegraphed to the inCur-
gents but In reality TO prevent the
American people from knowing the
facts. His present resolution called
for specific facts and should be passed.
Mr.. FettigreW said,
The resolution OF Senator Lodge
should read, II not incompatible with
the interests Of a candidate for re-
election
The whole conduct of administration
senators here, said Mr.. Pettigrew, is
In line with the policy Of concealing the
news and suppressng the facts,
Mr.. Pettigrew charged that vital
parts had been suppressed in Otis
report that the news of the Sulu treaty
had beer mangled and suppressed until
the Ohio election, and that Gen. Otis
had had altered the Presidents proc
lamation before he issued H. Otis had
defrauded the Flipinos and the ad-
ministratioH and had humbugged the
American people. During his remarks
Mr.. Pettigrew referred TO the insur-
gent government as a sister repub-
lie q"
Mr.. Pettlgrew became involved in a
sharp passage alarms with Mr.. Gal
linger (N. H) The latter attempted TO
interrupt Mr.. Pettigrew, but the South
Dakota senator said he declined TO yield
to stump speech.
THAT Is what the senator from
South Dakota has been making for
five months" observed Mr.. Gallinger,
sententiously.
II do not object TO these remarks
from the senator from New Hamp-
shire" retorted Mr.. Pettigrew, "be-
cause he is such a genial gentleman,
as his colleague knows"
This sally. referring TO the well
known hostility between the two New
Hampshire senators. created a general
smile in the Senate.
Continuing, Mr.. Pettigrew referred TO
the letter Of r, II. Collins. the Asso-
ciated Press correspondent in Manila.
about the strict censorship In Manila,
as a further proof that the admins
tratlon was seeking TO keep the truth
from the American people. Mr. Petit
grew said he refused TO leave TO the
Presidents discretion the question OF
answering his interrogatories. An ad-
ministration that would suppress the
truth from the public would not hesi-
tate 10 conceal the facts from the Sem
ate. The policy OF the administration,
h. said, had been in his opinion insti-
gated bN England,
He charged that the United States
commenced the war first by the proc
lsmation, by the President In Deem
Der, 1895 and afterward by firing the
first shot and killing the first man.
'Jf / were a Filipino" said Mr.. Petit
grew, II would fight until was gray
against this policy Of criminal agrees
slon."