West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-04-16
|BARbAR|SM DON TG0.
Smiths Alleged Crrelties In
Philippines O:.dcrcd
Investigated.
WAFER cURIsrS TO BE IRIEr.
Gen. chaffee Instructed Also to In
vestigate Charges Of Tortur;ne Ns
tives by These Means-Presidens
Determines to Punish Brutality.
WAFER cuRisrS TO BE 1RiEp.
Cen. chaffee Instructed Also to In.


Determines to Punish Brutality.
Washington. April 16-As a result
of the consideration by the cabinet
yesterday Of the charges of cruel
treatment of Filipinos by United
States soldiers, Secretary Root has
made public certain correspondence
One was a letter to Senator Lodge
chairman of the senate Philippines
committee, which, in part, acknowl-
edged the receipt Of copy of the
testimony OF Sergeant Charles S.
Riley, and Private William Lewis
Smith, late Of the Twenty-Sixth ir-
fantry, taken before the committee
Mondoy. He also endorsed a copy
of dispatch which had been sent
yesterday to Major General Chaffee
commanding the division of the Phil
ippines, and announced that direction;
had been given to the judge advocate
general of the army to take proper
steps in accordance with the dis
patch.
Also there was made public the fol-
lowing:
War Department, Washington.
Memorandum for the adjutant general.
Cable General Cnaffee as follows:
Instructions to General chaffee.
On Feb. 19 letter was sent you,
enclosing, for Investigation, copy Of
charges made by Governor Gardener
of TayabaS province, which contained
general allegations of cruelties prac-
ticed by troops on natives, and gener-
ally Of an insolent and brutal attitude
CT the army towards natives.
On April a cable dispatch was
sent you urging action with all speed
consistent with thorough and search
ing investigation.
On the Attn CT March a cable dis
patch was sent you directing dis
ciplinary measures to produce Obedi-
ence to the preside t's instructions
subordinating military officers to civil
government in pacified provinces,
and instructing you to relieve Major
Edwin F. Glenn and Captain James
A. Ryan from duty and order them 60
Manila to await investigation int ;
their conduct, in accordance with in
structions to follow by mail.
On the oath of March instructions
were mailed you containing state
ment of charges against these Off
GERS and General Jacob H. Smith, as
the basis of the investigation ordered
by the cable of March 4.
Further instructions in both MAJ
tiers are required by the following
facts:
Press dispatches state that upon
the trial Of Major Waller, Of the ma
rine corps, testimony was given by
Waller, corroborated by other wit
neses, that General Jacob H. Smith
instructed him to kill and burn; that
the more he killed and burned the bet
ter pleased General Smith would be;
that it was not time to take prison
ers, and that when Major Waller
asked General Smith to define the age
limit for killing, he replied 'ever.s-
thing over ten"
If such testimony was given, and
the facts can be established, you will
place General Smith on trial by cour:
martial.
Water Cure Charges to Be Probed.
Yesterday, before the senate COM
mittee on Philippine affairs. Sergeant
Charles 5. Riley and Private William
Lewis Smith, of the Twenty-sixth vol
unter infantry, testified that the form
Of torture known as "the water cure"
was administered to the president Of
the town of Igbarras, Iioilo province.
island of Panay. by detachment c.
the Eighteenth United States in.
fantry, under command OF Lieutenant
Arthur L. Conger, under orders Of
Major Edwin P. Glenn, then Captain
Twenty-fifth infantry, and that Cap.
tain and Assistant Surgeon Palmer
t.yoc, st that timasa contract surgeon.
was prese Mt to assist them. The off
GERS named or Such OF them as are
found to be responsible for the ac,.
viii be tried therefor by court MAJ
tial Cenger and Lyon are in this.
country. Both the Twenty-sixth vol
urteer infantry and Eighteenth III
fantry. having returned to the United
States. and most CT the witnesses be-
ing presumptiveiy here. the secretary
If war directs that Major L. F. Glenn
Twenty-fftk infantry, be directed to
proceed to San Francisco and report
20 the general commanding the de-
partment of California, with a view
60 his Cfal by court martial. under