The age-herald., 1902-04-29
CHEERED BY DEMOCRATS;
 APPROVED BY OWN PARTY
Speech Is Considered More Remark able From the Fact That SibIev Left Democratic Party On
 Spanish War Issues.
"A WASHINGTON. April 2S.-Represen

IA HAohlNGION, April 2S.-Represen.
 ~ tative Sibley of Pennsylvania
 m created something of a sensation In the House today during the general debate on the agricultural appropriation oiii by severely denonnclng General Jacob H. Smith for the orders he issued in the samar campaign. He declared that Gen. eral Smith was a disgrace to the uniform he wore, and expressed the hope that the President would strip him of his uniform within forty-eight hours
 MT. sbley's speech was enthusiastically applauded by the Democrats and was re- ceived with some evidence of approval on the Republican side. The speech was con sldered the more remarkable in that 1t came from a Republican who came from the Democratic party on the issues raised py the spanish war and who since haG been an ardent expansionist MT. Will Hams Democrat of Mississippi endorsed what MT. sbley had said.
 MT. Sibley said he had been an expan- sionist and defended the policy of the ad- ministration in the acquisition of the Philippines. Duty and honor. he said. justified our position there. The commer- cial welfare of the nation demanded thar we should control that archipelago. which stands as the gateway to the Oriental world.
 1 Stories of Cruelty.
 He then continued: When I have heard -he statements made that we are cruel in the conduct of that war I have
 thought perhaps the partisan was speak
 ing But when I have read, as I have
 within the past forty y-eight hours, that
 a general wearing the uniform of the
 army of the United States, one who stands under the shadow of our flag, is- sues orders not to conciliate a province, but to leave it bowling wilderness and to kill all above ten years of age, then, 1t seems to me. that humanity must have marched backward for eighteen cen l turies, and that Herod agaIn appears. I l have read of Timour, the Tartar. have read of Achilles; have read of the Sar- acen scourge, but thank God that since the tragic scene on Calvary 1t has taken l eighteen centuries to produce a Smith. have read of the water cure believed that was exaggerated. Can any man whose blood pounds in his pulses, any l man who has read his Bible or who has been reared at the knee of Christian woman, justify the perpetration of such cruelties upon another man who wears the guise and the image of his Creator? And yet we hear this man attempting to justify acts by which men are pumped so full of water as to nearly drown them and then brought back to life by thump- them the stomach with the ht1ff of musket That is not civilization, that is not ChristianiZing the world. I am thankful that these are spasmodic cases
 Raises Vigorous Protest.
 Against that, as a man who belongs hope, not alone to the Republican ranks but to the whole brotherhood of man, the wide world around, want the mem- bers of this house. on this side of the chamber and that, to voice their protest against all such measures. (Applause) [ hope the President of the United States will have the courage, upon what the man admits, to discharge him dshonor- ably from the service that he has dis | graced (applause.) He admits that he is- sued the order to leave the province 8 | bowling waste and a wilderness, and to l kill all above ten years of age, the in- l nocent with the guilty. That man never l ought to be permitted to stay in the 1 service of the United States until the 1 sun goes down. He is a disgrace not alone to the party but to every man who | ever wore the uniform of the United l States and he is blot and a disgrace to l our present civilization. I care not how l adroitly his lawyers may frame their plea | or how subtle be their reasoning, the 1 fact admitted by his own mouth that he issued such orders Is sufficient for the hope that there Is the courage and the patriotism and humanity and the Christ ianity at the other end of the avenue that will not let him wear the federal uniform twenty-four hours hence"
 The conference report on the Chinese exclusion bill was adopted without de- bate. This sends 1t to the President.
 At SEQ p. m. the House adjourned.
 THE SENATE.
 Washington. April 2S.--After a brief ses.- sion today the Senate agreed to the House amendments to the oleomargarine bill as passed by the Senate. The measure now goes to the President for his sigma ture. MT. Simmons, North Carolina ad- dressed the Senate in opposition to the Philippine government bill. He urged that the Philippiness ought to be turned over to the inhabitants of the islands He denounced the ''cruelties and barbar- ities'' alleged to have been committed on the Fiiipinos by the American army and said that he felt 'like calling upon the great. brave and humane man now in the White House to probe the thing to the bottom and at least to make them ob- vtous.'
 In conclusion MT. Simmons protested against the holding of the Philippine Islandg as a possession of the United States. declaring that if retained ths islands could bring to this country only disaster and misfortune.
 Mr. Platt. Connecticut in presenting the conference report on the Chinese b.li Said the conference had agreed that 10 definite limitation should be placed upon the operation of tho Geury law. cs re- enacted, but that It should remain In force until otherwise provided by law.
 The conference report was agreed to and the Senate at 6:l0 b. uu. adiourued