Evening star., 1902-05-06
Senators Beveridge and Pat
terson in Sharp Debate.
ON PHILIPPINE BILL
LARGE NUMBER OF MEASURES
ARE PASSED.
Ninety Pensions Go Through-Amend-
ment of the District Code Provid-
ed as to Imprisonments.


In the Senate today. on motion of MIR.
Allison. House joint resolution making
an additional appropriation of $4,000 for
the dedication of the statue of Marshal de
Rochambeau to be unveiled in the city OF
Washington was passed.
A bill to apporton the term of office of
senators elected at the first general cleo
tion held in the territory of Hawaii was
passed
At the conclusion of routine business the
Senate began the consideration of private
pension bills.
The calendar was cleared of private pen
sion measures. ninety bills being passed
Many Bills Passed.
Other bills were passed as follows:
For relief of Howard Lodge, No. Is, l. ..
o. F. of Gallatin, Tenn.
To pay 1880 to Mrs. Martha E. West of
Stevensyille. Mont. for property taken by
United States troops in the Sioux war in
Minnesota in 1860
To fix the fees of jurors in United States
courts at IS a day.
To refer the claim of John S. Mosby VS..
the United States for the value of certain
tobacco to the Court of Claims.
Mrs. z. ]. Getty. administratix, 800 for
property destroyed in the Sioux war in
Minnesota.
To relieve VIM. ]. Smith and D. NJ Wis
dom from the 5000 bond of r. M. Thomp
son In Tennessee.
To amend an act to establish a code of
law for the District of Columbia as to i'm
prisonment of offenders.
To fix the time of holding the circuit
and district courts for the southern dis
trict of West Virginia; to allow the COM
mutation Of homestead entries in certain
cases
Directing the Secretary of the Treasury
to issue to Elisha A Goodwin. executor of
Gates of stolen United States bonds amount
ing to $500.
Granting Jurisdiction to the Court of
Claims in the case of Southern railway
lighter No TO- her cargo, etc.
To authorize the construction of a bridge
across the Tennessee river In Marion
county. Tenn
Mr.. Beveridge to Speak.
At O'Clock the Philippine bill was taken
up Mr.. Beveridge Qnd9 took the floor to
refute the statements made by Mr. Raw
Inns yesterday in his reply to Mr.. Lodge.
There quite sharp debate between
Mr. Beveridge and Mr.. Patterson as to
what had been the testimony before the
Philippine committee.
Senator Beverdge although he stated
that he had no intention previously of doing
So today, very vigorously charged the DEM
ooratic side with doing what they have
claimed the supporters of the admntstra-
terial facts concerning the proceedings in
the Philippine Islands.
When Mr. Beveridge first suggested that
democratic senator's had failed to give any
place to testimony in their speeches that
reflected creditably on the army, Mr.. Pat
terson of Colorado protested against i'm
pugning the motives of senators. and said
that he and other democrats had not done
that.
Mr.. Beveridge agreed that it was not
proper to reflect on the motives of senators,
and he exOnerated them from any culpa-
bilty in the matter. but at the same time
said they should not protest now against
any showing Of their own omissions when
they had been crying suppression and con-
ceament for so long time.
He said that democratic senator's had
quoted testimony, but had carefully omitted
parts of the testimony which reflected cred
itably on the army. He did not charge them
with any bad motive in this connection
but he wanted to call attention to the fact
that testimony in which a witness had told
of the water cure being administered also
contained statements by the same witness
in regard to the uniform kindness of Amer
lean soldiers toward the Filipinos but those
who had given such great weight to the
water cure had entirely overlooked this
statement.
Mr.. Beveridge asked Senator Carmack
whether he could name officers who had
ordered this water cure. He wanted to
know whether the fact was that the water
cure had been administered by the men
Mr.. Carmack said that he had referred to
the general orders of Gems. Chaffee Bell
and Smith when he claimed that the Off
GERS were responsible for cruelties. In the
orders of these officers they complained
that the soldiers showed too friendly and
kindly a feeling toward the FiipinOs and
urged them to cease entertaining such
friendly feelings.
Mr.. Beveridge announced that they were
finally getting at the truth Of the matter
When he asked the senator from Tennessee
to name the officers who had ordered these
atrocities he merely replied by making a
reply in "diaphanous'' way by referring
to some general orders. The senator from
Utah (Mr. Rawlins) yesterday had exon
Grated Chaffee. Now the senator from
Tennessee was generating the soldiers.
Perhaps dispose of this attack
on the American soldiers today" remarked
Mr.. Beveridge.
Mr.. CarmaCk added that the officers had
protested against the inhuman conduct of
officers above them. His Information was
that the inquiry into the conduct of Wal
ler came about through the complaints of
his soldiers He learned that from news
papers published in Manila.
Mr. Beveridge continued to cite other in
stances in which democratic senators had
taken statements of witnesses in relation
to cruelty and had left out other parts
OF the testimony that were favorable to
the soldiers.