The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-17
AMERICAN GENERAL IN THE.
PHILIPPINES MAY HAVE
MILITARY TRIAL..
RESULT OF WALLER CASE
Secretary Root Cables General chaffee
to Investigate Newspaper Reports
and if Found Correct to Order a
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES That Gen.
eral Smith Ordered lndiscriminate
killing of Natives. ~

Z Washington, April Secretary
Root has cabled General Chaffee at Ma:
Mia to investigate the newspaper re,
ports of the Waller trial, and, if they
are correct, to courtmartial General
Smith. Also if the facts are estab-
lished as testified before the senate
Philippine committee to courtmartial
the officers who administered the
water cure to the ,presidente of L.
barras. These officers are Major
Glenn, Lieutenant Conger and Assis
tant Surgeon Lyon. -.
Press dispatches state that upon the
trial of Major Waller of the marine
corps testimony was given by Waller,
corroborated by other witnesses, that
General Jacob H. Smith instructed
him to. kill and burn; that the more
he killed and burned the better
pleased General Smith would be; that
it was no time to take prisoners, and
that when Major Waller asked General
Smith to define the age limit for kill
ing, he replied: Everything over TO-
Before the senate committee on Phil
ippine affairs, Sergeant Charles Riley
and Private William Lewis Smith of
the Twenty-sixth volunteer infantry
testified that the form Of torture
known as
1.-THE Water Cure"
was administered to the presidente of
the tow of Igbarras, Iloilo province,
island of Panay, by a detachment of
the Eighteenth United States infantry,
under command of Lieutenant Arthur
l.. Conger, under orders of Major Ed
win F. Glenn, then a captain of the
TWenty-fifth infantry, and that Cap
tain and Assistant Surgeon Palmer
Lyon. at that time a contract surgeon,
was present to assist them. The Off
GERS named, or such of them as are
found to be responsible for the act will
be tried therefor by courtmartial.
Conger and Lyon are in this country.
Both the Twenty-sixth volunteer in
fantry and Eighteenth infantry hay
ing returned to the United States and
most of the witnesses being presump-
lively here, the secretary of war directs
that Major E., F. Glenn, Twenty fifth
Infantry, be directed to proceed to
San Francisco and report to the gen.
eral commanding the department of
Oo14IO1u1d Will d view " LIS Cfldla Dy
courtmartial under charges alleging
the cruelties practiced by him upon
a native of the Philippine islands at
Igbarras on the 9th of June, 1900.
AS the two years allowed for the prose
cution by the statute of limitations is
nearly at an end,
No Time Is to Be Lost. ,.
1t is believed that the violations of
law and humanity, of which these cas-
es, it true, are examples, will prove to
be few and occasional and not to char
acterize the conduct of the army gen.
orally in the Philippines, but the fact
that any such acts Of cruelty and bar
barity appear to have been done indi-
Gates the necessity of a most thorough
searching and exhaustive investigation
OF the general charges preferred, and
no effort will be spared in the investi-
cation already ordered under these
charges to uncover every such case
which may have occurred and bring
the offenders to justice.
The president desires to know in
the fullest and most circumstantial
manner, all the facts, nothing being
concealed, and no man being for any
reason favored or shielded. For the
very reason that the president in
tends to back up the army in the hear
test fashion in every lawful and Iegit-
innate method of doing it's work, he al
so intends to see that the most rigor-
Gus care is exercised to detect and pre-
vent any cruelty or brutality and that
men who are guilty thereof are pun
ished. Great as the provocation has
been in dealing with foes who habit
ually resort to treachery, murder and
torture against our men, nothing ~can
Justify or will be held to justify the
use of torture or inhuman conduct of
any kind on the part of the American
army.
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