The age-herald., 1902-05-09


 unless the operators agree to arbitration or make counter propositions, which will contain a substantial concession, the com mittee of miners will declare a strike to- morrow.
 orders which senators had the "devilish impudence' to justify.
 Does the senator think" inquired MT. Spooner. that the phrase 'devllish im- pudence' is proper under the rules of the Senate?'
 WITHDRAWS EXPRESSION.
 "No, I do not" said MT. Carmack And I withdraw the expression"
 He maintained that the soldiers of the American lrmy were driven on to com init the outrages cited by their officers He quoted General Chaffee as saying that the mericans had not friend in the islands.
 MT Dolliver and MT. Beveridge imme- diately called attention to the fact that what General Chaffee actually had said was that extreme vigilance should be exercised without giving offense to the natives.
 MT Foraker called attention, too, to the fact tlat this order of General Chaf- fee had been written two days after the massacre at Balangiga, and evidently
 was intended to make the troops more vigiant against surprise and treachery
 MT. Carmack declared that the evident purpose of the government was to force brutal and inhums warfare upon a people whether combatants or non-com-
 batants together.
 Interrupting, MT. Foraker insisted that what had been shown by Republican Senators was that tine cruelties in the Philippines were not the first cruelties that had been perpetrated in warfare.
 They haG not justified the alleged order of General Smith, although they realized there might have been extenuating cir cumstances.
 There are not and cannot be-" de- l clai ed MF. Carmack, "any extenuating circumsta noes for the murder of whole people, including women and children" As an instance of the awful result of warfare MT Foraker interrupted to relate briefly the story of the battle of Santa Fe, which occurred some time in the cos. A egiment of volunteers under command of Colonel Chiv1rgton. wiped from the face of the earth a band of Indians, nler, women and children.
 MT. Patterson interrupted to say that the battle of Santa Fee followed the most inhuman atrocities on the whites com | mitted by the Indians. The Indians had aLCdCkeQ the WDlIeS WIere the latter naQ a right to be.
 Tn this Philippine case" said he, I've are shooting an unwilling people into submission to a government In which they have no voice and which they don't want
 MT. Carmack declared that the United States was entering on a century of con- stant warfare, for no other result than that a few carpetbag politicians might l | Az. Philippine Islands as they used to rob tho people of the south
 A THEATRE OF SCoUNDRELIsM. MT. Foraker inquired If MT. Carmack thought it was the purpose of President Mckinley in taking over the Philippine l islands to provide a theatre of scoundrel- 1 ism; was 1t the purpose of the Senate in confirming the Paris treaty to provide a scene of villainy and outrage? Where did the purpose referred to by the Senator l from Tennessee originate?. Mir. Carmack replied that McKinleys s purpose was that of benevolent assmi- laton;" 'the purpose of the Republican party now is malevoient Assimilation" | Qaughter)
 | Following MT. Carmack, MT Deliver of Iowa deplored the tone and character not to speak of the purpose of the pend ing debate upon the Democratic side. He l said he had met only day or two ago a veteran newspaper man. who, with tears in his eyes, had asked him If there was not a man in the United States Senate who would raise his voice in defense of the American boys in Samar. That man, said MT. Deliver, had a son with Major Waller and that son had gone through all of the horrors of Walters march tcla Ia ha to raise his voice in defense of those brave boys. He declared that the south ern part of Samar had been burned by order of General Chaffee because of the l Balangiga massacre before 'poor old | Smith" set foot on the island. That burn ing, he said was a fitting retribution for | the massacre.
 MT Deliver then read an editorial from Memphis newspaper upon MT. Car | macks recent speech on the Philippine | question, in which that paper took sharp | issue with the Tennessee Senator as to his conclusions MT. Delivers comments upon the editorial as he read it were highly amusing. He said he had heard | MT. Carmack's speech three times before when both were members of the House.
 cARMAcK GROWS SARCASTIC.
 MT. Carmack retorted that where MT. Delivers language was not WlIty, ms gestures were ridiculous. ''So far as his argument Is concerned said the Ten nessee Senator, "he might just well have been swinging from his prehensile tail from a leafy bough."
 The speech, he declared, was accom- panied by similar gestures and was of It. tie force or effect so far as the main quesci )n was concerned Thu II, wspap.r from which MT. Dolli Is' read was owned largely by Luke F. Wright, a member of the Philippine commission. He charged that MT. Deliver in his speech justified murder in the Philippines and defended the order of General Smith. Poor old Smith," he continued, "the scourdrel-the murderer-the butcher! I am glad to say that the Senator from Iowa is the only man thus far that has risen in his place to defend that bloody old scoundrel."
 "I did not call the Senator from Iowa to ord 4-' s1id MT. Carmack, If he had been any other Senator on that side I would have done so. l did not call him tO order hecauae I knew that to re0lIire