The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-06-27

washington June ga motion was
entered formally in the senate today by
Senator Quay of Pennsylvania to dis
charge the committee on territories
from further consideration of what is
known as the omnibus territorial bill
a measure to admit as states the terri
tories of Oklahoma New Mexico and
Arizona. Senator Quay spoke briefly
but forcibly in support of his motion
maintaining that botn political parties
in national convention had pledged
themselves to the admission to state
hood of the territories. Senator Reve-
ridge. of Indiana, chairman of the COM
mlttee said the measure had been put
over until next session by the commit
Tee because it was believed there would
not be time now to consider it properlv.
No action was taken on the motion.
During the greater part of the ses-
slon the unfinished businesses. the bill
raufying a convention with the Choc-
taW and Chickasaw Indians, was under
discussion. 1t was no. disposed of.
House of Representatives.
Debate upon the civil government bill
warmed up the house today and hence
forth promises to be re q much liveIier
The increased interest is
due to the injection inrO the debate of
q comparison Of the cruelties charged
to have been practice1 in the PhiIip-
pines with those which occurred during
the civil war. The subject has been
lightly touched once or twice before but
attracted little attention until Mr..
Grosvenor, of Ohio, today revived the
of the extTeElitieS TO which
Grant and were put during the
rebellion. This was followed late in
the day by a speech from Mr.. Mahon.
of Pennsylvania in which he paraded
the horrors of AndersCEville and Libby
prisons. He predicted that in the COM
ing elections the American people would
stand by the boys in blue.
Mr. Grosvenor, in his speech also de-
fende the rules of the house against
the criticism passed upon them and paid
a high tribute to Speaker Henderson's
~1mpartiality. Mr.. DeA~mond, of Mis-
souri,, spoke at considerable length in
opposition to the administrations Phil
lppine policy The other speakers today
were Mr.. Olmsted, Of Pennsylvania:
Williams, of Illinois. Corliss. of Michi-
gan and w. w. Kitchin. of North Caro-
lima.
Mr. Kitchin opposed the Philippine
Dill and the Philippine policy of the
administration.
MI DeArmond~ repudiated utterly the
charge that the opposition TO the pres
ent Philippine policy IL critiClsing some
of the acts of army Off :ers in the Phil
ippines is slandering aid assailing the
army. The democratic party, he de-
clared, was not opposed to expansion
founded upon American principles. Elk
pansion was one thing, colonial empire
was another. The democratic party
was anxious to see the expand
as expansion was understood by the
fathers. Expansion upon the American
continent north or south, he said, was
the democratic idea of expansion, not
holding to subjugation 10, 200, 900 people
1000 miles beyond our border.
Mr.. GrosvenOr said that if everything
that had been said of General Jacob
Smith were true, if he had issued the
order to make Samar a bowling will
derness." and to kill all over 10 years
of 6 he cOuld find its counterpart on
both sides during the civil war. He
then proceeded to read a report from
General Grant to the government at
Washington telling of the arrangement
he had made to carry desolation every
where through the Sh enandoah valley,
to seize all men under 80 years of age
as prisoners of war, destroy the crops
and make the valley q barren waste"
Before Phil Sheridan got through he
made it a barren waste said Mr.. Gros-
venor. He then real The letters of
Stonewan Jackson" edited by his wife,
a statement that Jackson believed that
the black flag should be raised and no
quarter given as the best neal of re-
sisting invasion and saying that he had
urged this policy upon Lee. He also
read a telegram from General Beaure-
gard urging the passage of a bill for the
execution of prisoners. By this means,
the telegram read:
England will be stirred to action"
When the bill was introduced in the
confederate congress-" interrupted Mr..
Bartlett, of Georgia, had not Lincoln
issued a proclamation 10 seize the citi-
Gems of the valley of Virginia and try
them by court martial and had they
not been seized?'
Il do not know" replied Mr. GrosVe-
nor.
THAT is history" declared Mr.. Bart
lett.
IF that is true" responded Mr.. Gros-
Vencr, lit furnishes only another reason
to excuse those of our soldiers who re-
taliated when the natives in the Philip
pines Sneaked up and cowardly murder
ed their comrades
Mr.. Mahon of Pennsylvania, speaking
of the cruelties charged against some
of our officers and men in the Philip
pines, declared that they were not to
be compared with the barbarities of the
civil war. He req from official reports
tales of the horrors suffered by the
union prisoners at An
DO not the official figures show" in
terrupted Mr.. Richardson, the demo-
cratic leader, "that a greater per cent
age of confederate prisoners oled In
northern than union prisoners in south
ern p~risons?"
Il have the official figures here re-
sponded Mr.. Mahon, It will put them IN
the Record" He read I'm order TO snoot
the prisoners at Andersonvile II the
union army got within seven miles Oh
the prison.
IF the north was justly Indignant
over the atrocities at Andersonville.'
interrupted Mr.. Neville. of Nebraska
why should not the American people
now be indignant e the brutalities
i'm the Philippines? Why parade he
civil war horrors as an excuse? Demo
cratic ~applause). If the administration
was directly responsible for the atroci-
ties alleged to have b ,en committed IN