The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-02

DdIGk gress, the Senate adjourned sine die al 5:3o p. m. today. During the last hours of the session there was a tart debate or the Philippine question. participated ir by Messrs. Carmack (Tenn), Spooner Cwis.l, Culberson (Tex.), McComas CMd) and Lodge CMass)
 The conference report on the Philippine government bill was adopted with very little opposition. and then, when the decks had been cleared for adjournment Mir. Carmack called up his resolution providing for continuance of the inves- tigation of the Philippine Commission and for visit to the Philippines by the Con- mittee during the present summer. This started the debate and for more than an hour a battle of words was waged. Mir. Spooner delivered a scathing denun- ciation of the minority of the Philippine Committee, for what he declared was an attack upon the American army.
 MT. Carmack denied that any attack had been made upon the army and said that any fool could charge such a calum- ny and any parrot could be taught to re- peat 1t. The resolution was referred to a Committee. thus effectualiy killing 1t.
 Thanks to Frye.
 Just before adjournment the usual res olutions were adopted. including one of fered by MT. Cockrell the venerable Dem- ocrat of Missouri. cordially thanking President pro tenn. Frye for "the digni- fled. impartial and courteous manner in which he had presided over the deliber- ations of the Senate"
 At the adoption of the resolution MT. Frye responded briefly and then declared the Senate had adjourned without day.
 When the Senate convened today at Il o'clock for what appeared to be the clos ing session of this term of the Fifty seventh Congress there was no indication of the exciting scenes of yesterday.
 MT. Bailey (Tex) entered the chamber from the Democratic cloak room soon af- ter the invocation had been pronounced and took his seat on the Democratic side. He was joined by MT. Spooner and they chatted together for few minutes. Rep resentative BurIeson CTexD then joined Mr. Bailey and had an extended talk with him.
 Mir. BeYeridge did not appear in the Senate in the early part of the session. After his chat with Burleson, MT. Bailey left the chamber.
 MT. Hale (Ndinn) presented the final re- port of the conferees on the general de- ficiency bill and it was agreed to without debate. This disposes of the bill.
 Mir. Lodge, Chairman of the Committee on the Philippines, read the agreement of the conferees on the Philippine civil government bill.
 MT. Beveridge Arrives.
 MT. Beveridge, who had been engaged in his committee room, entered the cham Der about half an hour after the Senate convened. As he went to his seat on the extreme Democratic side, other Senators joined him and shook him cordially by the hand. MT. Beveridge then went over on the Republican side and talked for some time with MT. Allison.
 At the conclusion of the reading of the report on the Philippine bill. the House amendments to a bill reserving certain public lands and public buildings in Porto Rico for public uses was laid before the Senate. The Senate agreed to a confer ence. and Messrs. Foraker. Wetmore and Cockrell were named as conferees.
 MT. Lodge then moved the adoption of the conference report on the Philippines bill.
 MT. Culberson CTex), one of the Senate conferees, said he had declined to sign the conference report because he could not conscientiously vote for the measure as dREGGu uDOI OI ICCOIhluSilu lto PdoSdSt to the Senate. He thought 1t would serve no good purpose to make an extended statement of his position.
 Mir. Culberson said the report of the Secretary of War indicated that from May 1. 1898. to April 30. 1902. the expendi- lures for the army were $605, 900, 900 in round numbers, while of this sum only $170. .0O0.O0O was expended in the Philip pines. This statement Mir. Culberson questioned. and figured up an expendi- ture by the United States of $222. 436 406 on account of the Philippines. and even those figures. he said. did not include some of the expenditures made for the Philippines.
 Mir. Patterson (Colo) declared that from every standpoint wherever the Senate bill has been changed. the bill as agreed to by the conference had been made worse than it was passed by the Senate.
 Merritt's Action.
 He referred to Admiral Dewey's testi- mony concerning the agreement for the surrender of Manila before the attack of August 13, 1898. He said this understand ing provided that no American soldier should be killed. but that notwithstand- ing this agreement, General Merritt per mitted the soldiers to make the assault without any acknowledgement of the agreement. He asserted that this called for a courtmartial or a board of inquiry The lives of American soldiers were too precious to be sacrificed to serve the pur- pose of any one.
 Mir Patterson declared, in closing, that it is the purpose of the majority to turn the Philippines over to the control of people with money.
 The conference report was then agreed to.
 The fina! conference report on the naval bill was agreed to.
 After a short executive session, the conference report on the Porto Rico pub lie lands and buildings bill was agreed to without debate.
 Mir, Carmack CTonn) called up his reso- luticn offered yesterday on behalf of the minority of the Committee on Philip pines authorizing that committee to sit during the recess to prosecute it's in- auiry into the Philippines question and to visit the Philippine Islands in prose- cution of that inquiry.
 Investigation a Farce.
 Mir. Carmack, in support of the resolu- ton. said the committee on Philippines had not considered it. A large part of the investigation by the committee had been a farce. and the investigation had been "choked strangied and destroyed.
 Mir. Spooner declared that the attack made upon the army by the minority of the Philippine committee was not only