Evening star., 1902-01-29
The Race Question.


where we are not allowed to protect our
wives and children?'
The Race Question.
Mr. Spooner-If we had the same rule
for the colored people in the Philippines as
the senator refers to in the south, God help
| the colored man in the Philippines.
Mr.. Tillman-God help him. In the
Philippines now you have already butch
cred in three years three times as many as
| the Spaniards did in three centuries.
Mr. Spooner-It is one thing to kill men
with arms in their hands against govern
ment and against the flag. 1t is another
thing to burn them
! Mr. Tillman-You burned them in Kansas,
| sir.
Mr. Spooner-Wherever it is done it is an
outrageous crime.
Mr. Tillman-Oh it is a very easy thing
for, man who has not come in contact
with them in close quarters to theorize and
| sentimentalize to what other people
ought to do.
| Mr. Tillman was admonshed by the pres
| ident pro tenn. that he must not interrupt
senator without first obtaining leave, to
which he replied that he was ''taunted in
way that white man from South Caro-
| lima can submit to.
At the conclusion of Mr. Spooner's re-
marks, Mr.. Teller (Coi) offered the follow
| ing amendment to the pending bill as
separate section: 'Be it further enacted,
that the Constitution and all laws of the
! United States which not locally inap-
| plicable shall have the same force and ef
| feet within the said Philippine archipelago
as elsewhere within the United States
Mr.. Teller declared that the outrages and
tortures committed in the Philippines by
| the Spaniards had been increased since the
advent of the Americans into the Islands,
Saxon succeeded the languid Latin in such
an undertaking.
! AdministratiOn's Policy.
at is incumbent upon this administra-
tion," said Mr.. Teller, ''to tell us when 1t
| is going to bring about peace and order
in the islands. If this administration
| hasn't got a policy except to drift, We
ought to know it,
| Mr.. Teller further along referred to what
he declared was the establishment in the
Philippines of RECOMMENDATION camps and
| to the repetition in the Philippines of the
horrors introduced into Cuba by Weyler.
He said that a private letter from an army
officer in the Philippines had been received
in Washington, in which an army officer
establishment of concentration camps: "If
| this thing is to continue l will have to
apologize to Weyler."
Another officer was quoted adding:
1.-The time has come when I'm ready to
| apologize to him now.''
Mr.. Teller in response to a volley of
questions replied that he did not know the
/ name of the writer of the letter and would
not mention 1t if he did know it. AS he was
proceeding to discuss the censorship of
| press dispatches sent from Manila, he was
| interrupted by Mr. Foraker, who quoted
| from an interview with President Taft of
| the Philippine commission, under yester-
days date, in the course Of which he stat.
ed that there was no censorship of press
| dispatches now. Further along Judge Taft
with reference to the alleged establishment
of concentration camps, explained that
| only an insurrectionary Gordon had been
established with a view to crushing out
what remained of the rebellion Mr. For
| aker said that if there was anything more
| barbaric than another it was the establish
ment of concentration camps in Cuba by
| General Weyler and for any senators to
say that this government had established
| anything of the kind in the Philippines
was for him to make most serious
| CHARGE
Mr. Beveridge Interrupts.
| Mr.. Teller was insisting that he had good
authority for the statement that press dis
patches were censored in Manila when he
| was interrupted by Mr. Beveridge Qnd),
| who said that it had been stated by author
| ity on the floor Of the Senate that press
| dispatches were not censored in Manila.
He was prepared to make the same state
ment from personal observation In the
Philippines. He was well acquainted, he
said with the Associated Press cores
pondent in Manila and knew from him that
| the censorship had been suspended. Why
| therefore, he said, Mr.. Teller persisted in
making MS assertion concerning censor
| ship was not clear.
Manifesting considerable irritation, Mr..
Teller declared he would let the Senate
| consider. the ''impertinence' Of Mr. Bev-
| eridge in interrupting him for a question
and then proceeding to lecture him. He
said there had been some rules of decency
and courtesy which had been recognized in
i the Senate for twenty-five years. This is
| the first time in my experience" said he,
'.that senator has gained the floor to ask
/ a question and then charged the senator
| who yielded to him with being liar
Mr. Beveridge promptly disclaimed any
/ intention of discourtesy toward Mr.. Teller,
| but insisted that he would now and at all
other times correct misstatements when
| they were persisted in by other senator's.
"Well, / consider that the senator was
very discourteous,'' retorted Mr.. Teller
Soon afterward Mr.. Teller, referring to
| the Associated Press dispatch from Ma
Mia, quoting General Wheaton as critics.
ing some utterances of DR. Schurman in
his Boston speech, said
There is not senator on that side of
the chamber pointing to the republican
| side. who did not know that the state
ments in that dispatch were true
Republicans Resent Charge.
Instantly half dozen republican sena-
| tors, including AFR. Lodge. Mr.. Hawley and
Mr. Platt of Connecticut. sprang to their