Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-17
SCHLEY CASE BOBS Up
Debate in the House in Which
the Old Controversy Is
Reopened.
Representative Williams Makes
Fun at Expense OF Admiral
CroWninshield.
Maclay's Third Volume OF Naval
History Not Used at Naval
Academy.


another lively day of debate Friday.
! Philippine atrocities and the Schley
| case came in for considerable attention.
The naval appropriation bill received
| little attention after the more eXcit-
| ing themes of debate came up. Mr..
| Cannon, of Illinois, and Mr.. Hepburn,
| criticising the extent to which naval
officers secured comfortable berths
ashore, whereupon Mr.. Williams, of
! Mississippi, made a very sarcastic
speech at the expense of Admiral
tCrowninshield.
| Mr.. Williams asked who would de-
/ lasting renown by staying ashore and
deity pulling the strings With
mock gravity he read a poem begin
ring: WHO is Crowninshield, pap?
| There was much laughter at the con-
c!usion of the poem-"Great Crownln-
SHIELD the greatest tar that ever
stayed ashore
In a more serious vein Mr.. Williams
referred to the Sampson Schiey con-
| troversy. Whatever the official conclu-
sion might be, the American people, ne
| said, had come to the conclusion that
| Admiral Schley had had something to
| do with the battle of Santiago. ana
vet IT had happened that Historian Ma
Iclay had written history and sub
mitted it to the great naval authority.
Crowninshield, declaring that Schley
| had nothing to do with the victory. De
smile the imperial ukase that the Schley
case must be dropped. Mr.. Williams
said the American people were not ais
posed to be stopped in pursuing 'heit
own conclusions. He commented on tiie
fact that the committee on rules haa
buried a resolution calling for an m
yestigation of the charge that auiihfai
Crowninshield had passed on the Ma
CLAW history Reverting to the Crow
remarks yesterday, comparing the clNii
war with that in the Philippines, ME-.
Williams declared that as an American
he hurled back the comparison, anu ne
asserted that never in the ciVli cohiiie'
had there been an order to make
"howling wilderness or Jusuiyihs
murder and rape by soldiers. Had we
reached the stage when the army was
,rreater than the nation, asked MT.
Williams. when the criminals In the
,,rrnv can not be held up to eXecratioll!
Sneaking for the committee on rules
Mr.. Grosvenor, of Ohio, said the MAC
lay-C,rowninshield resolution had hae
Abeen. reported as it would have peen
mere sound and fury after the Schles
,,,,,,t Of tpojlirv proceedings.
Mr. Foss read a dispatch just re-
ceiyed from the navy department say
ing that the third volume of the Mac
Law history, dealing with the Santiago
battle was never in use in the naval
academy. and that there was no pur-
pose to use 1t.
Mr.. Grow, of Pennsylvania. affirm
ed the statement that. civil war con
ditions were similar to those in the
Philippines. The duty of a command
ing officer was to protect his soldiers
and is necessary meet severity with
severity.
Mr. Cochran, of Missouri. asserted
that there was absolutely no parallel
between civil war conditions and the
barbarities in the Philippines. Never
was charge made that Union or
Confederate soldier made an assault
on an unarmed non-combatant nor
that an order went forth to desolate
country. 1t was desperate extrem-
ity. he asserted, that compelled the
other side to take refuge in civil wal
conditions which offered no parallel.
ut seems to me that the soldiers OF
81 to '65 should speak for themselves"
said Mr.. Lands, of Indiana, address,
ing himself across the aisle TO the
gentlemen from Mississippi and Mis-
souri, who had just spoken. Mr. Lam
dis said the veterans of Indiana reared
q magnificent monument at Indianapo-
lis yesterday in memory of those who
lost their lives in the civil war. AT
that dedication resolutions We're passed
declaring that the criticisms made on
war methods in the Philippines were
like the criticisms made by the cop
perheads from 1861 to 1865, and that
the copperheads of 1898 to 1902 are
no less venomous than their ances
tors" The resolutions closed with q
declaration of scorn and contempt fol-
those who brand our soldiers as cruel
and inhuman.
Those are the sentiments of the SOL
ders of Indiana who fought from 1851
to 1865 exclaimed Mr.. Lands,
"They ask no man from Missouri to
speak for them"
Wasn't that resolution railroaded
thru against protests?" asked Mr.
Cochran.
ut was not" answered Mr.. Lands,
1T was adopted and it received tho
support of some of the leading demo-
Gratis in Indiana"
And it was opposed by some of tho
leading republicans of Indiana" ex-
claimed Mr. Robinson, democrat, OF
Indiana. The latter, amid much con-
fusion, read an account of the consid-
Grafton of the resolution, showing con-
siderable opposition and expressed the
belief that the soldiers of Indiana never
did and never would Justify such reso
lutions.
Iowa at Washington.
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