The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-29
PERSONAL TAUNTs MADE
Encounters Were Missed by a
 Narrow Margin.
Spooner and Tillman and Teller and Lodge Engage in Heated Colloquies Charges of Prevarica-
 tion Heard.

Washington, Jan. 2S.-A@ Philippines storm was central in the Senate chamber today for nearly three hours. but was void of definite results At times it look cd very serious and the spectators who thronged the galleries watched it with breathless interest. Acrimony i'll Senate debates is not infrequent. but old Sena- tors say it has been years since there has been such a hurricane Of bitter yituperation, of personal taunt, ot ugly charges and of unmodfied criticism as was witnessed today.
 Not since the discussion of the resoiu- tions leading up to the Hispano-Ameri- can war have any scenes occurred ip the Senate comparable with today. Even that debate lacked the personal bitter ness manifested at times today. lrrita- ton was aroused on both sides of the chamber and once or twice personal en- counters between Senators seemed im- minent.
 Once, when Senator Teller taunted the Republican Senators by declaring they knew the statements made in d recent dispatch from Manila in which General Wheaton was represented as criticizing the opponents of the governments policy in the Philippines were true, haii dozen Republicans were on their feet in an instant Senator Lodge. at whom the taurit seemed to be aimed. particularly, h,irriedly crossed from his seat ln the center of the Republican side to the main aisle of the Senate and white to the lips, passionately challenged the statement of inc Colorado Senator and demanded that he withdraw it. Senator Teller so mooiiieo the statement that further hostihtfes al that time were averted
 One of the sharpest coiloquies of the session WAS between. Senators boomer of Wisconsin and Tillman of South Carolina. The race problem, involving the iynchings of negroes. was interjected into the controversy, and much feeling was manifested by both Senators.
 MT. Spooner declared that if the same rule was to be applied to the colored people in the Philippines as Mir. Tillman referred to in the south, then Gold help the coIored man in the Philippines. " God help him in the Philippines '' shouted the South Carolina Senator pas- sionately. You have already butchered in three years three times as many as the Spaniards did in three centuries"
 Tt is one thing" rctorted MT. Spooner, "to kill men with arms In their hands against the government and against the flag. It is another to burn them"
 Senators in their excitement seemed for the moment to have forgotten the subject of the uebate. The chair (Mr. Frye) was able with difficulty to main tain order. When the discussion was finally ended for the day. the chair felt called on seriously to admonish Senators hot he -,tIe of fGa lN.,6x bod ,k~& observed and after reading the rule which had been violated. he expressed the hope that in the future Senators would have a care to observe it. Such an admonition has not been made by the presiding of- ficer in the Senate in many years.
 Prior to the outbreak of the Philip pine question, the Senate concluded the consideration of the bill establishing a department of commerce and passed it. The name of the new department was changed to that of the Department of Commerce and Labor.
 When the Senate met today Mir. Bacon (Gal offered a resolution providing that the Committee on Printing consider the eXpediency of printing a special edition of The Congres sional Record for sale to the general public for $2 at the long ses- sions and $l for the short sessions He said that some action ought to be taken by Congress to insure the public more complete information as to the doings in Congress. No newspaper could afford to present to its readers, he said, more than a brief synopsis of the proceedings in the two branches of Congress.
 The resolution was adopted
 Consideration of the bill to establish a department of commerce then was re- stunned, the pending amendment being that of MT. Pettus, providing that a de- partment of labor should not be made a part of the proposed new department. Af- ter a brief discussion. the amendment was rejected, 19 to B.
 Mir. Bacon then offerd an amendment, providing that the new name of the new department should be the Department of Commerce and Labor.
 Mir. Nelson, in charge of the bill. agreed to the name and the amendment was adopted.
 Mir. Hale withdrew his amendment of fercd a few days ago transferring the Interstate Commerce Commission to the new department. The bill was reported from the Committee of the Whole to the Senate.
 Mir. ouarles demanded separate vote on the amendment by which the Census Bureau was stricken from the bill as a part of the new department.
 Rv vote of , to 52, the Census Bureau was retained in the measure as one of
 
 hill was then passed.
 MT. McCumber (N. D.. referring to the statement of MT. Dubois yesterday re- garding General Wheg tons having been a charity boy educated at the military academy. said General Wheaton never had been at West Point. but rose from the ranks.
 Mir. Dubois said he was glad to know it
 Mir. Spooner CWis). advertng to a statement made by Mir. Bacon a few days ago, said the only order issued by inc Secretary cf War practically sus- nanding the navigation laws in respect to tbs participation of foreign vessels in inc trade between the United States and the Philippines. was in the case of a ship containing a cargo of vegetables for the troops in the islands which had permit tod to steer from San Francisco. MT. Racon expressed his qualification that no 1..neral order suspending the navigation