The news & observer., 1901-01-17
BRUTAL AND COWARDLY
Ale n, Money, McCumber Denounce it
in Strongest Terms
Mr.. TELLER'S AMENDMENT AGREED TO
It Strike Out the Paragraph in the Bill En-
powerng the President to Retire Any
Officer Who Has Been Sus-
pended From Duty.
pended From Duty.
lBy he Asgociated Press. J


Washington, Jan. 16.-A final vote
upon the pending Army Re-organiza-
ton Bill will be taken by the Senate
4 o'clock Fri0ay under the terms of at
an agreement reached late today. The
feature of the debate was the denunc a
ton of the practice of hazing at III.
West Point Military Academy Mr. IL
len (Neb). Mr. Money CWis), and Mr..
McCumber (S d.. declared it to be
an evidence of brutality and cowarcice
Mr.. Gallinger reported the Pension
Appropriation Bill and it went 60 the
calendar.
The House bill to divide the State OF
West Virginia into two judicial districts
was passed
Consideration of the Army Re-or221- 4
ization Bill then was resumed. M.
Teller moved to strike out that para :
graph of the bill which empowered the
President TO place on the retired list
any officer who has been suspended
from duty by sentence of court marital
or by executive order in mitigation Of
such sentence.
Mr.. Teller said that the paragraph
might apply TO Major Joseph w Wham,
whose record he dwelt upon as splen-
did one filled with acts of gallantry at
Nashville, Franklin and other battle
fields.
The amendment was agreed to-
Mr.. Allen declared his opposition to
the pending measure in any form. He
declared it vas wrong in it's purposes
and radically wrong constitutionally.
He maintained that the Filipinos owe
allegiance only to their own island
Government. however weak and puny
it may be- They are not rebels though
they may be insurgents.
"The fiippancy with which the term
traitor and Il eason are being used these
days" said Mr.. Allen, is getting to
be a stencn in the nostrils of some
of us
He declares that brutality had been
developed at West Point which ought
not to be expected TO exist among bar
barians. THE prize fighter" said Mr..
Allen, is a gentleman compared with
some of those young ruffans at West
Point The first thing a fourth class
man meets at West Point is brutal as
sault and humiliating indignity. These
things take place within the knowledge
Of the officers of the institution.
HE who will use his superior
strength in humiliating or brutally
treating a weaker person is coward.
And yet this bill encourages and sup
ports West Point as at present it is
conducted.
With authority | would stop that
brutality at West Point or / would dis
mantle the school
II have information which leads me
to believe tnat haZing at West Point
is resorted to to force out of the insti-
tuition cadets appointed from civil life
in order TO make room for the sons of
army Ulcers, and if unsuccessful they
prescribe a course of examination
which they could not pass themselves
and thus force the prescribed cadet
from the school"
Mr.. Money (Miss) declared that if
he were a cadet at West Point, "and
was hazed in SO cowardly and brutal
a manner, would kill the hazers. if the
opportunity did not come for hundred
years afterwards
Mr. Allen continued:
"Those cadets carry hazing almost to
the extent Of taking life and in one
and the Senator from Mississippi
(Money) says they have taken life in
several instances.
Mr.. McCunIber IN. d. argued in sup
port of the pending bill. Referring to
West Point he said:
ANY bully who is guilty of attempt
ing to punish one who is physically un
able to meet rim is such a coward that
he should be discharged from the SER
vice.
Mr.. Teller declared the conditions in
the islands mad not improved since the
United States had succeeded Spain
there.
Mr. Teller said:
II want to Lold the islands because !
think that would be better for the Fill
pinos and hat the islands will be valua-
BILE to u.s. If, however. we can hold
them only by force there is no consid-
Grafton. .fiaaEtial. commercial, or any
other that viii justify us in retaining
them
Mr.. Butter IN. O. in opposing the
pending measure said he was ready
now to vote f,r any army that the gov
ernment mi, 1T need for the present
emergency or for any that might arise,
but he was unalterably opposed to the
creation OF a large standing army.
He urged tnat not single reason
had been fucnished for the creation Of
an army of 100000 soldiers and for the