The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-05-09
THE SENATE DEBATE
Carmack Of Tennessee Bitterly De-
nounced General Funston and
DEFAMERS OF THE SOUTH.
Said McKiuIey's Purpose Was BeneyO.
lent Assimilation and
THE REPUBLICAN POLICY TODAY
Was Murder, VilIainy and MalevoIent
Discrimination.
he REPUBLICAN POLICY TODAY
Mr.. DOLLIvER scATHlNGLY CRITICISED.
carmaek Declared that ledge Was Dis
honorina the Country by Defending
Murder Of Women and Children.

Washington, May s.--The discussion Of
the Philippine bill was continued In the
senate today, aud MIR. Carmack CTennl
replying to Mr.. Burton, made bitter dc.
nunclatlon Of General Funston. lie said
he did not question his physical courage,
but a few acts of daredeyitry In the
philippines did not make hero
When Funston had stated that Aguinaldo
had burned 800 people alive ut one time.
said Mr.. Carmack, he told deliberate
and premedltated lie. In his opinion, he
said, Funston is not to be believed upon
any question whatever.
The sudden Weakening up Of the repub.
ncans. he said, was for the deliberate pur.
pose of revlving sectional hate, in order
to divert this debate and the attention
Of the people from the atrocities which
have been permitted in the Philippines.
81 suppose 1t is in obedience to instruc.
lions from the White House" said he
that the effort is being made to reopen
Inc wounds Of the country that have been
healed"
Facing the republican side and speaking
with evident emotion. Mr. Carmack said:
Il shall be ready to meet every slanderer
Of the South, aud every dofamey OF It's
honor, whether the assaiaar comes from
some part Of the country beyond the bor-
ders OF the South, or whether Ii be some
recreant and degenerate son who has
proved traitor to the bosom Of his moth.
err
After stating that he would not be divert
ed from the Issue now before the senate
by the folschoods brought into the debate
Mr., Carmack said, referring to tho charges
Of lynchings, etc, In the South you can
not help us by denunriati1n. The best
thing you can 90 is to keep your mouths
shut and let us alone.
Mr.. Carmack declared That Mr.. Lodge
was dshonoring the American army and
the American senate by defeRslne orders
which looked to the murder of women and
children. Such orders Of death-a brutal
and inhuman order-could not be iusti1ed
oy anybody; yet these were the orders
which senators had the "deyilish impu.
denco" to Justify.
Does the senator think" inquired Mr..
Spooner, that the phrase 'devilish lmpu.
dence' Is proper under the rules of the
scnnte?"
NO do not said Mr.. Carmack, and
| withdraw the expression" He maintain
ed that the soldiers Of the American army
were driven on to commit the outraees
cited by the officers. He quoted General
chance as saying that the Americans had
not friend in the Islands.
Mr.. Deliver md Mfr Beyerdge immed
lately called attention TO the fact that what
General Charee actually said was "ex
IRENE vigilance should be exercised with.
cut giving offence to the natives"
Mr.. Foraker called attention, too. to the
fact that this order Of General Chaffec had
been written two days after the massacre
at Balnnglga, and evidently was intended
TO make the troops more vgllant against
surprise and treachery.
Mr.. Carmack declared that the evident
purpose Of the government was to force
brutal and inhuman warfare upon a people,
whether combatlnts or non-combatants
Intcrlupting. Mr.. Foraker insisted thar
what had been shown by republican sena.
tors was that the crueltIes In the PhiIIp-
pines. were not the first crueltes that had
been perpetrated in warfare They had not
justified the alleged order Of General
Smith. although they realized there might
have been cxtenuatlng circumstances.
"There are not and can not be" declared
Mr., CNImack, ANY extcnuatlng circum.
stances for the murder Of whole people.
including women and children"
As nm Instance Of the awful result Of war
fare, Mr. Foraker interrupted To relate
briefly the story Of the battle Of Santa Fe.
which occurred some time FL the eos
regiment Of volunteers under command of
Colonel Chivlngton, wiped from the face
Of the earth n band OF Indians, men,
women and children.
Mr.. Patterson interrupted to say that the
baltic OF Santa lee followed the most In
human atrocities on the whites Committed
by the Indians. The indians had attacked
the whites where the latter had right 70
be-
I'm this Philippine case" said he, 1--WE
are shooting an unwilling people into sub
mission TO a government In which they
have no voice and which they don't want
Mr. Carmaek declared that the United
States was entering on century of con
slant warfare for no other result than that
few carpet bng thieves might have op-
| portuniiy to rob the people Of the Philip
/ pine Islands as they used to rob the people
Of the south
Mr.. Foraker inquired II Mr.. Carmack
thought Il was the purpose Of President
Mckinley In taking over the Philippine
/ Islands to provide theater " scoundrel-
| Ism; was II the purpose Of the senate in
confirming the Paris treaty 10 provide
scene Of viliainy and outragel when di |
the purpose referred TO by the senator from
Tennessee originated
Mr.. Carmack replied that McKinley's pur-
pose was that Of benevolent assimiiia-