Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-01-19
MR.PETTIGREW
TALKS PLAINLY
he Makes a Vicious Attack On
the Administration.
AIMS AT PHILIPPINE POLICY
Says "WhoIe Wretched Business
.IsOne of Censorship, Conceal
ment and Duplicity."

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 administrators policy in tho Phil
ippines and also made some startling
charges against those who were sup
porting the administration.
Mr.. Pettigrew declared that a sys-
te natic effort was being made to pre-
vent accurate information from reach
ing the people of the United States
and 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 Pcttigrew 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suggested that both be withdrawn and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.
II,
ed specific information, regardless of
whether the president wanted if known
or not.
1.-THE trouble with the imperial
ists," said Mr.. Pettigrew. sis that
they have COMPOUNDED tho interests Of
the people of the United States with
the political desires and ambitions Of
their puuy president and regarded
him and his success az 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
and significant facts had been stricken
from news dispatches from Manila and
from official reports.
GAS an instance of this work." said
he, "the Sulu treaty was mangled and
partly suppressed until after the cleo
ton in Ohio"
Mr.. Pettigrew declared the procla-
I,
on the recommendation of General
Otis, altered materially by the presi-
dent before it was published to the
Philippine natives. As originally
drawn 81 was, to his mind, flat decla-
ration Of war, and when Aguinaldo
and his leaders came into possession
OF the original they so regarded it.
THE whole wretched business,
declared Mr.. Pettigrew vehemently,
''was ore 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
from a letter written by Robert NJ.
Collins, Associated Press representa-
tive at Manila. In this letter Mr..
Collins related the substance of an in
terview upon the subject of censoring
dispatches which he had had with
General Otis. Mr.. Pettigrew read the
statements of Mr. Collins, in which he
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 dis
patch containing information which
he thought was proper to send to the
l United States he had been informed
by the censor that he had been in
structed to cut out anything that
Knight hurt the administration.