Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-09

through all of the horrors of Waller
march across the island. He proposed ne
said. to raise his voice ia defense of those
brave boys. He declared that the south
eern part of Samar had been burned by order
of Gen. Chaffee because of the Balangiga
massacre before poor old Smith set foot
on the island. That burning, he said, was a
| fitting retribution for the massacre.
Il do not propose to listen to such state
ments in silence said Mr.. Deliver. 81 am
tired of hearing the American soldier chal-
lenged by such statements as have been
made on this floor by the syndicate OF vi
tuDeration."
He said that in some distant day we
might retreat from those islands, but the
retreat would not be conducted by the
men who had stained the uniform of the
army of the United States in the Senate of
the United States. That might as well be
understood now as at any other time. He
said that we might at some future day go
back to the islandS to gather up the bones
of our dead, but he did not want the OPP
portunity afforded the relatives of those
dead even to intimate that they had lost
their lives in a dishonorable cause.
Mr.. Dolliver then read an editorial from
a Memphis newspaper upon Mr. Carmack' S
recent speech on the Philippine question
In which the paper took sharp issue with
the Tennessee senator as to his conclusions.
Mr.. Delivers comments upon the editorial
as he read it were highly amusing, and both
the senators on the floor and the people
in the gallery laughed heartily at his sar-
castle illusions.
In reply Mr.. Carmack said that he had
no idea of tossing jaw bones with the re-
EQUITABLE tongue slugger from Iowa" He
declared that where his language was not
witty his gestures We're ridiculous. so far
as his argument is concerned" said the
Tennessee senator, .'he might just as we'll
have been swinging from his prehensile tail
from a leafy bough.'
The speech, he declared, was accompanied
by simian gestures and was of little force
or enect SO far as the main question was
from which Mr.. Dolliver read was owned
largely by Luke f. Wright, member of
the Philippine commission.
He charged that Mr.. Dolliver in his
speech justified murder in the Philippines
and defended the order of Gen Smith
Poor old Smith," he continued, the
scoEndrei-the murderer-the butcher |
am glad to say that the senator from Iowa
IS the only man thus far that has risen in
ms place to defend that bloody old scoun-
drel.
Il do not call the senator from Iowa to
OF der, said Mr.. Carmack. IF he had
been any other senator on that side | would
have done So l did not call him to order.
because l knew that to require him to
speak the language of decency and cour-
tesy III debate would have been to condemn
life
Mr.. Carmack Called to Order.
Il call the senator from Tennessee to
order suggested Mr.. Hoar OIass). and 1
desire a ruling from the chair on my point
of ORDER
BY direction of the President Pro Tempore
tMr. Frye the stenographer read the final
statement of Mr.. Carmack'
The language" said the chair. was
clearly out of order. But the senator has
taken his seat
Il do not" interposed Mr. Doliver re
1an Of
to pay any attention to-"
That settles it," said Mr.. Carmack. "if
the senator from Iowa thinks it of no i'm
portance 1t cannot be. However, Mr.. Pres
ldent, since the chair rules that my lam
guage was out of order l will withdraw il. -
With this statement the exchange of per-
SonalltleS between the senators from Ten
nessee ana Iowa ceased. Almost imme-
diately Mr.. Carmack rose from his seat and
walked over to Mr.. Dolliver and shook
hands with him cordially. After chatting
a minute or two in evident good feeling
the Tennessee senator stepped down to
the desk of Mr.. Hoar and shook hands
quite as cordially with the venerable sem
ator from Massachusetts. Thus the sharp
debate between senators was ended in per-
feet good humor.
Mr.. Lodge Corrects a Statement.
Mr.. Lodge of Massachusetts,, chairman of
the Philippine committee. called attention
to the story published a few days ago I'M
der date of Lynn, Mass, saying that a son
Of the Rev. w. H. Walker of that city had
described in letters to his father the killing
Of 1000 Filipino prisoners by a company of
the 10th Infantry. Mr. Lodge said that
statement from the War Department in
dicated that the company referred to had
not been in the province where the shoot
ing of the prisoners was alleged to have
taken place, and that the department had
no information of such killing. He read
telegram from a Boston newspaper sent to
it's correspondent in this city quoting Rev
Mr.. Walker, and saying that he had not
received any such information from his son.
The only letters received from his son
were of date of last November. and made
reference to any crueltieS practiced
either by the Americans or by the Fflipinos
Mr.. Money of Mississippi expressed his re-
greet at the temper that had been shown
and that the debate had taken a sectional
turn. He thought it would be we'll for both
sides first to learn the truth about the or
der of General Jacob Smith in Samar. If
the charges are proven he did not believe
any senator would defend him
The Senate at 5:45 went into executive
session and in five minutes adjourned
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