The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-09
SENATE DEBATE
 STILL 5 SULIRY
DolliverRidiculeS shOleric Carmack. Vest Makes a Contribution to
 Nations History.

bitter denunciation of General Funston. He said he did not question his physical courage, but few acts of daredeviltry in the Philippines did not make a hero. When Funston had stated that Aguinaldo had burned sO0 people alive at one time, said Mir. Carmack. he told a deliberate and premeditated lie. In his opinion, he said. Funston is not to be believed upon any question whatever. The sudden waking up of the Republicans. he said. was for the deliberate purpose of reviving sectional hate in order to divert this debate and the attention of the people from the atrocities which have been per- mitted in the Philippines. T suppose it is lin obedience to instructions from theWhite House," said he. that the effort Is being made to reopen the wounds of the coun- | try that have been healed" Facing the Republican side and speak, ing with evident emotion MT. Carmack | said: "I shall be ready to meet every slanderer of the South and every defamer of its honor whether the assailant comes from some part of the country beyond the borders of the South or whether 1t be some recreant and degenerate son who has proved traitor to the womb and bosom of his mother"
 l After stating that he would not. be | | Senate by the falsehoods brought into the the charges of lynching, etc.. in the South:
 You cannot help us by denunciation. The best thing you can do is to keep your mouths shut and let us alone" Mir. Carmack declared that MT. Lodge was dishonoring the American army and
 Senate by defending orders that looked | to the murder of women and children. Such an order could not be justified by I anybody; yet these were the orders which Senators had the "devilish impudence" to justify.
 | Docs the Senator think" inquired MT. Spooner, that the phrase, 'deviiish inn
 pudence,' Is proper under the rules of the Senate?"
 | Withdrew His Remarks. I No. I do not" said Mir. Carmack, land withdraw the expression" T He maintained that the soldiers of the American army were driven on to com init the outrages cited by their officers. He quoted General Chaffee as saying that the Amercians had not friend in the ! Islands. Il Mir. Deliver and Mir. Beyeridge immedi- ately called attention to the fact that General Chaffee actually had said was that extreme vigilance should be exer-
 cisod without giving offence to the na- lives. MT. Foraker called attention. too. to the fact that 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 vigi- | lant against surprise and ereachery.
 Mir. Carmack declared that the evident | purpose of the Government was to force brutal and inhuman warfare upon peo- pie whether combatants or non-combat- ants together.
 Interrupting, Mir. Foraker insisted that
 what had been shown by Republican Sem ators was that the cruelties in the Phil ippines were not the first cruelties that | had been perpetrated in warfare. They | had not justified the alleged order of General Smith. although they realized
 there might have been extenuating cir cumstances.
 There are not and cannot be-" declared Mir. Carmack. ''any extenuating circum-
 stances for the murder of a whole people, including women and children"
 As an instance of the awful result of warfare, MT. Foraker interrupted to re-
 late briefly the story of the battle of Santa Fe, which occurred some time in the CO.'S A regiment of volunteers. under command of Colonel Chivington, wiped from the face of the earth band of ln- dians. men, women and children.
 Mir. Patterson interrupted to say that the battle of Santa Fe followed the most inhuman atrocities on the whites com
 mittce by the Indians. The Indians had attacked the whites where the latter had | a right to, be.
 "In this Philippines case" said he i've are shooting an unwilling people into | submission to government in which they have no voice and which they do
 not want"
 A Century of Conflict.
 Mir. Carmack declared that the United States was entering on century of con- stant warfare, for no other result than
 that few carpet-bag thieves might have
 opportunity to rob the people of the Phil ippine Islands as they used to rob the people of the South.
 Mir. Foraker inquired if Mir. Carmack
 thought it was the purpose of President Mckinley in taking over the Philippine
 Islands to provide q theatre of scoun- drelism; was 1t the purposes of the Sen ate in confirming the Paris treaty to
 provide a scene of villainy and outrage? i Where did the purpose referred to by the Senator from Tennessee originate? Mir Carmack replied that Mckinley purpose was that of "benevoIent assimil-
 istion;" the purpose of the Republican
 party now Is malevoient dissimulation.' '
 CLaughter).
 Following MT. Carmack, MT. Deliver
 Qa) deplored the tone and character not
 to speak of the purpose of the pending
 debate upon the Democratic side He
 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 son with Major Waller, and that son had gone through all of the horrors of Walters march across the island. He proposed. he said : to raise his voice in defense of those brave boys. He declared that the South crn part of Samar had been burned by order of General Chaffee because of the Balangiga massacre. The massacre was before poor old 1 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 mack's recent speech on the Philippine question, in which that paper took sharr issue with the Tennessee Senator as to his conclusions. Mir. Delivers comments upon the editorial as Ee' read 1t were highly amusing. He said he had heard MT. Carmacks speech three times before
 when both were members of the House.
 Carmack Boasts Deliver.