Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-27
MR.. RAWLINS AROUSED
DECLARED MR.. DIETRICH'S RE-
MARK AN INSULT.
Sensational Incident Interrupts Ses-
sions of the Senate Committee
on the Philippines.

town, Mass, continued his statement be-
fore the Senate Philippine committee to-
day. He notified the committee that he in
tended to ask that Corporal O'Brien be
prosecuted by the federal authorities for
perjury, and Senator Lodge, chairman of
the committee, said there was no doubt
that steps would be taken looking to the
mans prosecution.
Captain McDonald's testimony today con-
sisted in the main of the presentation of
Official documents procured from the War
Department for the purpose of refuting the
statements made by O'Brien derogatory to
the character of Mcdonald. The first of
these was a record showing that O'Brien
had been on duty at San Joaquin from July
L. 1910, to February 26 1901, whereas he
mao testified that he was present at Igbaras
thirty miles away, when that town was
burned November >, 1890. This the
occasion upon which. according to o. Brien's
testimony, a Spanish woman was NAL
treated by American officers and enlisted
men. Having produced the record of
! y 'Briens absence Captain Mcdonald re-
marked: This clearly proves that he has
lied in this instance"
The witness also presented a complete
set OF accounts of Company NJ to show
that he was not a thief" O'Bren had
charged he was
After the witness had proceeded for some
time with these accounts Senator Rawiins
said that so far as he was concerned he did
not feel that 1t was necessary to go much
into such details for the purpose of refutng
charges voluntarily made by O Brien. He
did not. he said. object to the statements.
but did not consider them necessary.
Senator Dietrich thought the situation
called for full statement. and said: IF
O Brens testimony had been suppressed as
the minority of the committee undertook to
have done just enough of his statements
would have leaked out to suit the plans of
designing pOliticiapS hy W bpy
have been used
Declared to Be an Insult
This statement aroused Senator Rawlins.
who characterized it as "a gross and malig-
nant insult and said that it was founded
upon an assumed state of facts which did
not exist. He said that he did not intend
| to submit to such treatment and" he
! added, IF the committees proceedings are
to be so conducted l shall seek protection
and take refuge in the alternative of re-
naming away. | won't submit to insinua-
tions like those made by the senator from
Nebraska. and this might just we'll be
understood
Senator Lodge remarked that the charge
had been freely made In the Senate by the
minority that the facts were being sup
| pressed in the Philippine matter. but he
added that he considered Senato Dietrich's
statement out of order.
Il used the words designing politicians
and did not, of course, refer to high-minded
senators as designing politicians respond
ed Senator Dietrich.
1t was then agreed that the official record
should contain no reference to the incident,
and the committee proceeded with its work.
Execution of Bandit.
In response to inquiries the witness re-
lated the details of the execution of the
Filipino bandit Pedro Gardenero at the
town of Guimbal, who, O'Bren had said,
mistreated by Capt. Mcdonald to the
extent that he had been subjected to a
court martial. The witness said that Gar
denero had been guilty of many heinous
Cfferses against the natives and having
been captured by them was about to be
executed in the public square when he was
rescued by American soldiers and turned
over to him. He had subsequently placed
Gardenero in the hands of Capt Boardman
who turned him over to the civil authori-
ties. and by them he was executed Capt.
Mcdonald said he and Boardman had been
tried by court-martial for placing the man
In the hands of the civil authorities and
had been found guilty of the fact. General
Hughes had, however. disapproved the find
ing as inadequate, saying, that no punish
ment was preferable to that prescribed.
The Water Cure.
Senator Culberson here entered upon a
line of questions to bring out the details of
iIt NitHtSS concerning lne aC-
ministration of the water cure. Mcdonald
said he had never, except on occasion,
been a witness Of this process, and that this
occasion was the in which the presi-
dente of Igbarras was subjected to this
treatment. He said that at the time Cap
tain, Major, Glenn, judge advocate of
Gen. Hughes department, in COM
mand, and that he understood the prisoner
had been given the cure upon Capt Glenn's
orders for the purpose of eliciting informa-
tion for him, which was secured. McDon-
aid said the water was forced into the
mans stomach with a syringe. but that he
was not badly hurt. he soon afterward
mounted his horse and rode into the noun
tains, with the troops.
Capt. Mcdonald tod of being present at
the burning of lgbarras and of himself or
dering the burning of several other towns
but he said they were all in hostile country
many of them being the homes of ladrones
and insurgents, and the houses generally
being merely nipa huts, valued at not to
exceed SIC. He never had made any effort
20 seek out the residences OF the guilty but
had generally included the entire town in
his orders for destruction.