The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-16
ROOT ORDERS GENERAL CHAFFEE TO
COJRTNARTLAL GENERAL SMITH
LFHE SANCTIONED THE MASSACRE
Administration yeHse Its Intention Commanding Testified
stuCd Su1anaes 10 Kill All .pnos Over Ten Years of Ae-Dmand
Congress Impe Secretary o War Publish
Ontfatng His Intention o Detect the Offender

q unteer infantry testified that the form
/ Of torture known as the water cure
I was administered TO the presidente OF
I she town Of lgbarTas, IioiiO province
! island Of Panay. by detachments of the
/ Eighteenth United States infantry un-
/ der command of Lieutenant Arthur l.
! Conger. under orders OF Major Edwin
f. Glenn, then captain OF the Twenty
/ nth infantry, and that Captain and
! Assistant surgeon Palmer Lyon. al
/ that time "a contract surgeon, was
present TO assist them.
To be Courtmartialed.
The officers named, or such of them
as are found TO be responsible for the
act viii be tried therefor by court
martial Conger and Lyon are in this
country. Both the Twenty-siXth vol
urteer infantry and Eighteenth infan-
try having returned to the United
States and most Of tho witnesses being
presumptVely here. the secretary of
war directs that Major T. r. Glenn.
Tnenty-hfth infantry, be directed to
proceed TO san Francisco and report
"a tie general commanding the depart
ment of California, with a view to his
trial by cOurtmartial under charges al
'eging the cruelties practices by him
T
at igbarTas or the 9th of June. 1890.
If YOU can discover any witnesses
still In the service in he Philippines
who can testify in support uf the
charges, or if Major Glenn desires the
attendance of any persons ROW serving
In the Islands as witnesses for the de-
Tense, you viii direct them to proceed
10 san Francisco for that purpose. As
the two years allowed for the prosecu-
ton by the StatGte of Limitation is
nearly az ar end no time is 10 be lost.
You win take So ch course in advancing
or pOstpOning the Investigations preVi-
ously ordered into the conduct of Cen
eral Smith and Major Glenn as shall be
required TO enable YOU TO execute these
instructions
Ell Is believed that the violations OF
law and humanity of which these cases
90 true. are examples. will prove to be
few and occasional and not 90 character
lze the conduct OF the army generally ~
TIE philippines, but the fact that any
such acts of cruelty and barbarity appear
Co have been done indicates the necessity
of post thorough searching and eX-
haustiVe Investigation into tbe general
charges preferred by Governor Gardener
ana you viii spare no effort in the in
yestigation ordered under these charges
90 uncover evers such case which may
have occurred and bring the offenders to
Justice
The president desires TO know in the
FULLEST AND ulest cfrcufns laHflai n3afuer
an the facts nothing being concealed.
aud no man being for any reason favored
or shielded. For tho very reason THAI
the president intends TO back up the army
i'm the heartiest fashion in every lawful
and legitimate method Of doing its work.
he also intends to see that the most
rigorous care is exercised to detect and
prevent am cruelty or brutality and
that men who are guilty thereof are
punished.
Great as the pr0vocation has been in
dealing with foes who habituaIy resort
to treachery, murder and torture against
our men, nothing can justify or viii be
held 10 justify the use of torture or H.
human conduct OF any kind Oh the part
of the American army.
(Signedl "ELIHU ROOT,
Secretary OF War.
April 10. 1902"
Representative BurlesOn of Texas to-
CAV introduced a resolution calling on the
secretary o. war for fun transcript of
the proceedings before the courtmartial
which recently tried Major Waller in
Manila for executing Filipino guides.