The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-24
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by courtmartial. and had they not been seized?'
 T do not know" replied MT Grosvenor
 This is history" declared MT. Bart lett.
 If this Is true" responded MT. Grosve- nor, fit furnishes only another reason to excuse those of our soldiers who r1- taliated when the natives in the Philip pines sneaked up and cowardly murdered their comrades"
 MT. Williams of Illinois opposed the bill.
 W. w. Kitchen of North Carolina pp- posed the bill and the Philippine policy of the administration.
 MT. Mahon of Pennsylvania maintained that the Philippines were not fit as a country for independence. Speaking of the cruelties charged against some of our officers and men in the Philippines. he declared that they were not to be compared with the barbarities of the civil war.
 Sharp colIoquy.
 He read from official reports tales of horrors suffered by the Union prisoners at Andersonville.
 Do not the official figures show?' in- terrupted MT Richardson, the Demo- cratic leader, that a greater percenta Re of Confederate prisoners died in north ern, than Union prisoners died in south ern prisons?"
 T have the official figures here," re- sponded MT. Mahon.
 'I will put them in the record"
 He received an order to shoot the pris- oners at Andersonvlle If the Union army got within seven miles of the prison.
 ''If the north was justly indignant over the atrocities at Andersonville," inter- rupted MT. Neville, Nebraska, "why should not the American people now be indignant over the brutaiities in the | Philippines?"
 "Why parade the Civil war horrors as an excuseT' Democratic applause). 'If the administration was directly re- sponsible for the atrocities alleged to have been committed in the Philippines the Republican party should be swept out of order Democratic applause).
 While the Union prisoners were suf- fering at Andersonville," interposed Mir. Richardson. Did not the Confederate exchange those prisoners, officer for of ficer. and man for man? And was not that proposition rejected?"
 Yes, but the men in Andersonville were broken. emaciated. many of them maniacs. The north refused to exchange able bodied men for men who could not perform military service" replied Mir. Mahon.
 'I ask again" interrupted MT Rich- ardson, did not more Confederate prisoners die in Union prisons than Un- ion prisoners died in southern prisons ?''
 'I deny 1t and will put the reports in the record"
 "It Is true and I can prove it." as- serted MT. Richardson.
 "You want the south to support the government in providing the war in the Philippines" interposed MT. Neville '.why do you now seek to besmirch the south?' Democratic applause).
 .'I only desire to show that as General sherman declares. war is bell.
 AS a Republican" MT. Mahon con. cluded. "I say that I do not fear this assault upon our army. The American people will stand by the boys in blue when we go upon the hustings for the control of the next house." (Republicar applause).
 At 5 o'clock the house took a recess un, til o'clock.
 Night Session. At the night session MT. Bartlett, Dem, ocrat (Ga). replied to the remarks made at the afternoon session by Messrs. Gros- venor and Mahon as to the treatment oi Union prisoners detained in Confederate