The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-01-17
AFTER THE HAZERS
Senators Expressed Their Sentiments
Very Vigorously.
IT is C0WARDLY AND BRUTAL,
Said Senator Allen, and He Also Said
Stronger Things.
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THE PRACTICE ENGENDERS COwAgDlCt
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TIE PRACTICE ENGENDERS COwAgDlCt
Allen Said 10 Some Cases halers Should
Have Been Killed,
CONDITIONS IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
Have Not Improved since United
states Took Charge, Declared
senator Teller.

WASHINGTON. January l6..-,At the open
ing OF today's session Of the senate Mr..
Gallinser reported the pension appropria-
tion bill and It went TO the calendar
Mr.. Teller moved to strike out that pro
vision of the army bill which empowered
the president TO place ON the retired list
any officer who has been suspended from
duty by sentence OF court martial or by
executive order in mitigation of such
sentence 1t was agreed TO-
Mr. Carter asked for Hnai vote Upon
the bin at O'Clock tomorrow.
Mr. Allen said that ror the time being
he wuuld object although subsequently
he might withdraw his objection. Mr..
Allen then entered uron an extended dis
cilssion Of ;he pending measure, declaring
his opposition to It any form It misht he
presented. He declared II was wrong In
It's purposes and radically wrong consti
tutionally.
Adverting to the Philippine question,
he said Tho Fflininos never owed al
legiance to the United States and they do
not to-day They owe allegiance only to
their own island government, however
weak aud puny It may be, They are not
rebels though they may be Insurgents.
| ann opposed no this bin because It's
av0wed purpose is to provide soldiers to
be cent to the Philippines"
Discussing the presentation a fey days
ago of petition of zoos Flliplnos to tho
senate, Mr.. Allen urged that the sIgners
Of the appeal simply were exercising
their right TO appeal TO congress, yet he
SAID tho petiton was denounced by Mr.
Iiawley ur treason.
| "rhe nlppancy with which the term
Ntraiicr' aad treason are being used
these days sai1 Mr. Allen. lis getting
to be a stencil in the nostrils of some
Ct us.'
In the course OF his remarks. Mr.. Allen
discussed vigorously the situation at
West Point as brought out by the pend
! irg investigation, He declared that
brutality had been developed at Weat
Point which Ought nat to be expected to
exist among barbariHus
| This thing called haziug--prize ight
ing" exclaimed MIR Allen. "Why, the
prize fghter is n gentleman compared
with same OF those young rutnans a.
West Point. Indeed life has been lest
| recently"
| In brief review of Booz's case. Mr..
Allen declared that the firEs thing 4
! fourth classman meets at West Point il
brutal assault and humilating ind.gnltIcs.
and these things" shouted Mr. Alien,
take place within the knowledge of the
officers of the institution. These new
I cadets are compelled 10 eat soap: they
are compelled TO get Down on their knees
1rd jump like frog and they are com
PEELED to endure other indisnities which
! would not dare in this presence TO men,
tion.
Some OF tho regular army officers say
hazing can not be helped--that 81 con not
be prevented You pace one OF the old
volun,eet officers NJ the head OF that in
stitutlon, ard ~ six weeks he will put a
stop TO II or there will be some dead
cadets there
This brutal outrage ought 10 be sup.
pressed and Il can be suppressed, Boy
or man. he who Will use his superior
strength in humiliating or brutally treat
Ing a weaker person Is q coward. And
yet this bill encourages and supports
West Point as at present II is conducted
with authority I would stop that bru.
tality a. West Point declared MIR. Al
len, "or | would dlsmantle tho school
and turn over 10 the various States the
education OF the youth OF the country
for military purposes.
81 have informauoh which leads me
to believe that hazlng 81 West Poin'
Is resorted 70 for the purpose Of fore
ing out OF the ins5iution cadets appoint
ed from civil life in order 10 make room
for the sons OF army officers. And il
they can not force ont the caie. by hui.
initiation they prescribe a course OF ex-
animation which IS IN their Own hands
and which they could not pass them
selves, and thus force the presoribe'
cadet from the school,
Mr.. Gallinger Interrupted TO say thai
: the testimony token by the investigat.
ing committee showed that young Gran
and young Sheridan had been haze,
quite as seriously as any Others,
Mr.. Money declared that ths~ hazinl
never was warranted and that he knew
OF some cadets who had been hazed e
the point OF danger
They we're hazed 10 degree" sait
Mr.. Money, with deep feeling. "tha
would have wlrranted the hazee - Kill
ing the hRzers."
, They ought to have been killed" in
Z terjecteG Mr.. Allen
And want TO say" continued Mr.
Money. that II ! were a cadet al Yves
Point and Was hazed IN so cowardly an
brutal a manner I would Kill the hszer'
4 IL the opportunity did not come for
. hundred years Afterwards
= Continuing his discussion of the aetlo
: OF the cadets az West Point Mr. Ale
:. sAid. These cadets carry hazing aimos
o 10 the extont OF taking life and "a on
d instance recently they have taken HE
: and the senator from Mississippi tMoney
: says they have taken life In several In
: stances"
!. Mr. Nccumber "a. d. arEued In sup
por; of the pending bill Incidentally h