The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-06
THE ARMY DEFENDED
LODGE OF MASSACHUSETTS ITS
CHAMPION.
WAS A NOTABLE ADDRESS.
YIN PICTURE OF WHAT THE SOL
SOLDIER HAS ENDURED.

r.nds of FiIiptnos Narrated-Inci-
..nts Given to show the Treat
,,ent Americans Have Met With.
-, hurled Alive and others HOr-
.s.v NutiIated-He Shows There
Are Two sides to the story of Phil
;uuipe Outrages.
Washington, May Sin vindication
- the administrations policy in the
phi,inpines. Senator Lodge of Massa-
,,,satts. chairman of the Philippine
81 cornn,tttee. addressed the Senate to-
ioy Long before he began to speak
.ha galleries were thronged with peo-
IL ord the attendance on the floor of
.ha Senate was unusually large. Mrs.
cov.les. the Presidents sister, was an
,n+erssted auditor His review of the
.itration in the islands and of the ut
tsrances of the minority in criticism
& - the army there was forceful and
Interesting. He spoke with deep earn
sstness. and at times was eloquent. He
warmly resented the imputations cast
,ron the President, the Secretary of
] Mar ana OIn6I OiliNAeAo AOA - NO-N-O0
4 said to have been practiced in the ISL
ords He said every effort had been
4 ennIoved by the officials in an effort to
,rovent such cruelties as had been re-
H terred to and measures had been taken
n nunish those guilty of them. Such
things. however, he said, were inciF
dents of every war and could not be
crevented absolutely. He had no de-
tens4 10 make of any of the cases OF
,orti,re which had been cited, but the
n men of the American army had been
+ wo1 oked beyond human endurance. He
s recited scores of instances of crueltles
r and fortunes practiced by the Filipino
hs,;reents on American prisoners.
men had. he said, had the
ears cut off; had been dlsem-
Soweled; had been driven into
streams and while drowning shot 10
4 death had been tied to trees ana
stoned TO death by women and chill
4 dren and buried alive. Others mad
bpen shot and boloed treacherously
while succoring the wounded. In the
face of these horrible atrocities, ne
said. some of the American troops hao
heen guilty Of administering the water
cure" but the instances of this KIND
were ISOLATED and RG Part Of ne gfn-,
eral policy in the philippines. he
warmly defended Gen. Chaffee for his
& conduct of military affairs in the ISL
n ands and paid a brilliant tribute to his
81 herolsm and patriotism.
4 AS he concluded his defense OF the
81 American army and the American adj
mnistration, he drew applause from
the galleries.
In a brief reply, Mr.. Rawlins of
81 Utah declared that the charges which
had been made were not against Gen.
Chaffee or the American army, but
81 against the senator from Massachu-
setts (Mr. Lodge and others, who were
responsible for the present Philippine
policy.
Mr. Lodge in his speech, expressed
81 the hope that the time would come
when measures in regard to the Phil
a ippines would be discussed with
"a view to getting the best legislation
~ possible.
One of the objects of the Philippine
81 bill, he said, was to help the develop
e. ment Of the island. The opponents OF
Il the bill he said, had charged that 1t
II opened the way to exploiters, syndi-
3 Gates and carpetbaggers.
He was aware, he said, of the gen.
81 Cl d uOSlltlly OI LIE PdA ~
to any man who has made money or
is making money and that was only
one of their principles that was car
ried out with complete success during
their last tenure of power.
There was suppressed laughter in
the galleries when he said that few
Americans at that time made money.
Mr.. Lodge, referring to the charges
Of torture in the Philippines, said it
was sONrce of bitter regret to him
that any American officer or enlisted
man should have tortured any Filipino,
or that any order had been issued that
on its face seemed revolving.
Filipino Atrocities Narrated.
But" said he, there must be some
reason for these alleged cruelties." He
lhen told of three American soldiers
III Who he said were captured by the
naked and told that if they would cry,
Long live the Filipino Republic they
might run away into the bush as
uey were. One of the men stood there
naked, he said, in the midst of that
hostile band and cried, Long live
America!" The Filipinos tied him to
tree. he said, and the women and
V1ldren stoned him to death.
,,4he other two lost heart and cried
Long live the Filipino Republic" but,
Notwithstanding this they were cut to
pieces with bolos. After that, said he,
1t is no wonder the comrades of those
n.eh went into battle with cries OF
"a Vengeance.
am not here to excuse cruelty and
wlture, but 1 cannot condemn human
.ature In an American soldier under
such circumstances"
The other Side of the story.
senator Lodge declared that only halt
VI the story of cruelty and torture in
s e Fnlllppines had been told, and he
tsTed TO tell the other half, because
aae nonor of the American name was
tseeply concerned. He then quoted
,toh the records many instances OF
ni atrocities committed by the Fill
~ insurgents upon American
n r,Gops' Men had been captured as
,.LItSSohers of war, he said, and had had
o, ueH ears cut off, their intestines cut
~o,,. ana their bodies otherwise horribly
dl-uG.ldted Others had, he said, beer
GIlven into streams and while drown
he Hdd been shot. Still others had
SRI en buried alive. Statistics, he said
r ,lUMed that the number of natives
s tt.Gt'iIdted and assaulted for sympa-
40 with the Americans aggregated
q IT, 80 he said 81 municipal officers
sss enlly to the Americans had beer
edassiihated, and 40 had been assault
"a and mutilated.
are closed his speech by saying: 1--WE
\ tbe Eiiu mat we had no friends among
!, en-. \. hplnos. Apparently the insurg.
n sns there were enough friends m ma z.
~ mat awful roll Of agsassinatlon.
-, ,aNe heard torrents OF sympathy foi
'V insurgents lighting against the llae