Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-05-04
s6th CONGRESS
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law. The bill was amended 50 as to
provide for $3.50 additional compensa-
ton to census supervisors.
The army appropriation bill being
taken up. Pettigrew continued his crit
icism of the treatment Of the volunteer
soldiers in the Philippines. He read
number of letters from members of the
South Dakota Regiment complaining
of their treatment there. Some of these
contained profane expressions, which
fact caused Gallinger to enter protest
against their being printed in the rec
ords Such language should, he said,
be obnoxious to any man occupying
seat in the Senate.
To this Pettigrew replied that the
letters were from men who had been
conscripted to fight in a cause in which
they did not believe and placed in cir
cumstances which were generally OBJ
icctionable. These conditions We're, he
said. calculated to make men swear,
but while the South Dakotans occa
sionally dropped into this bad habit it
was still true that the religious senti
ment was as strongly developed in
them as in the senator from New
Hampshire.
HaWley referred to the letters as
blasphemous and gave notice of his
intention to move to have stricken out
of the permanent record letter from
Pcttigrcw to the President. which the
former had read. yesterday.
Pettigrew contended that no mere
fragments Of a tribe was opposed to
the United States in the Philippines.
but that the entire population was an
tagonistic. Only a small circle of
country around Manila had been con-
quercd by our forces and he asserted
that 4 standing army Of 100000 men
Woull be necessary to maintain order
in the islands.
Teller advocated the amendment for
travel pay. saying that we could main
tain an army in the Philippines only
by pursuing 4 liberal policy. Suppose
it did cost $1,000 900. that was a mere
baGatClle compared with entire cost Of
the war. Teller said he had been as
surcd by an army officer who had but
recently returned from the Philippines,
that we did not actually hold a dis
trict in the island of Luzon bigger
than the District of Columbia. This
was no more territory than was held z
year ago. He did not. he said. men
ton this fact as Il elimination against
the government on this account, but,
on the ether hand it was puerile t.
say that the money due the troops
of economy.
Proctor said that no military organ
ization as such had received travel pay
had been made in individual cases.
Tho Aston Battery was largely COM
posed, Proctor said. Of men in the reg
ular army and upon the whole they
had not Jared 50 well as some of the
purely volunteer organizations.
Taking up Pettigrew's criticisms,
Galliuger, n. H.. said some Of the
South Dakota soldiers were not dis
posed to object to the governments
treatment of them. He read from an
address by the lieutenant colonel of the
South Dakota Regiment in which that
gentleman had said that he had vet to
| find soldier who did not regard it as
| personal insult to say that the United
| states was responsible for the Philip
pine war.
Pettigrew said he had no information
whether Lieut.. Col. Slower had ever
made the speech attributed to him. but
| whether he made it or not that gen.
| tleman could not have known who be-
gan the fighting. being several miles
away. He had. he said, no controver-
sy with Mr.. Slower and as for Gal
linger if the administration could
stand to have him as its champion, he
| Pettgrew) could stand it,
This attack. Gallinger said, he con-
| sdercd gratuitous and unworthy
Turner referred to the fact that a
resolution had been adopted by the
Senate, two months ago, asking for a
list of soldiers who had received travel
pay and that the paymaster general
had replied that his force was INSULT
cicnt to supply the data during the
present session Of Congress. If this
was true, he said, it was hardly con-
sistcnt to say. as Proctor had said
that there We're only scattering in
stances in which the extra pay had
been allowed.
Tillman criticised the war depart
mcnt for not supplying the informa-
ton asked for by the Senate.
Replying to Pettigrcw's charges as t.
the prevalence of insanity and sui.
cides among the soldiers in the Philip.
pines, HaWley read a statement from
the surgeon general saying that the in.
sanity had not been above the average
tiansbrough said there had been NJ
complaint from the North Dakota
troops similar to that represented t
have come from the South Dakotas
HaWley's point Of order against tho
Turner amendment for the allowanc,
Of travel pay, made yesterday, wa.
sustained.
The bill was passed as amended with
out division.
The Senate then passed 1877 privat,
pension bills. Among them were bill
granting pensions of $50 month eacl
to Gen. James Longstreet, who was ;