The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-26
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1Thoso Conditions Prope Ones
for Funst ton, Says.a Senato r.
CAR MACK MAKES. SEN A u Q \!
His Speech in Senate Sharply Critics
3 ing President Afforded Much Amuse-
ment to His Auditors--Was
Witty and Sarcastic
.(By Associated Press.

(Bys Associated Press
sWASHINGTON, April 25.-Two extend
ed speeches occupied the attention Of the
Senate to-day during its entire session.
Mr. Nc Cumber, or North Dakota, dis
cussed bill introduced by him to prevent
the misbranding and misrepresenta ton, of
food products which enter, into Interstate
commerce. The intent Of the trainers Of
the measure was to prevent, SO far as
possible these impositions upon the pub
lie.
Mr.. Carmack Of Tennessee one Of the
minority members of the Philippine Com
mission, spoke in opposition to the Phil
5ippine governm ent bill now pending. His
address attracted to the Chamber not on
sly many Senator'S, but WORCESTERSHIRE
number Of his former colleagues In the
House. He sharply criticised the Presi-
dent.
Mr.. Carmack said that this bill, like
the Philippine tariff bill, simply pre-
sented an aspect Of imperialism. t was
not a question~onl Of framing just laws
for the Filipinos. but q question of right
to make any laws whatever for that
people.
.The claim Of the Republicans said
he, .is that they had burned enough
towns, wasted enough country and killed
enough people to make good their right.
The land is ours, because we have streWn
1T with the ashes Of its homes and
drenched it with the blood Of its PEG
pie. It was now claimed the Americans
were supreme throughout the Philippines,
and it was treason for a Democrat to
express an opinion.
The idea that you can transform the
character of a race by teaching them to
read,'' said he sis the widest. craziest,
the most fantastic dream that ever Tit.
ted through a lunatic's brain.
Do0cE,vET,C Fi3s5
He quoted utterances from Mr. Roose-
welt, charging that 'treasonable Ut
terances had melted the Filipinos to in
surrection, and said that we must not
judge the President in his moments OF
oratorica1 ferocity, or when the frenzy
Of battle was in his blood. The Presi-
dent was not vindictiye, but simply
Strenuous and resembled in his habits
of speech certain Tennesseean's horse,
of which it was said that running away
was his natural gait. Mr.. Roosevelt had
habitually spoken Of the Fillpinos as
.tsayages'' and sbarbarians' and
s.Apaches, 2 and these denunciations had
been scattered broadcast throughout the
islands to inflame the people against
the United States. The effect Of the
Presidents language had been to harden
and intensity Filipino opposition to
American rule.
5s.s FUNSTON "A JAY t1AV kEtt.
He referred to a recent speech of Cen
eral Funston, whom he described as the
..Jayhawker brigadier from the wind
swept plains, the mghtiest Sampson that
ever welded the jaWbone Of an ass as
a weapon of war
Mr.. Carmick said death had cheated
Funston of some illustrious victims like
ex-senator Sherman and eX-President
Harrison, but there were still enough to
De- ~ M al MN
ston as saying that the President entirely
approved his speech and wanted him to
accent an invitation from the Junior SEN
ator from Massachusetts to go to Boston
and talk to the people there about hang
ing the Senior Senator from Nlassachu-
sets but the plain truth was that Fun
ston could not hang anybody Funston
should go back to the philippines, a land
where there was plenty of hemp and no
constitution.
"If men are to be hanged without re-
gard to law for speaking words calculated.
TO incite instruction he said. the first
reel; to feel the strangling clutch of the
sonped rope should be the heroic Gullet
Of Funston.
CARPET-BAG HORROR.
s.The dominant idea of the bill now be-
fore the Senate" continued the. Senator,
..was to exploit the Philippines. The
whole bill is a pitiful evasion of a plain
duty. We had a right to demand and the
administration shall at last define its poll
icy in the Philippines.
! upon what fact or experience" he
asked, .6Tid they base their belief in the
purity of carpet-bag government lie
spoke Of the horrors of carpet-bag gov
| crnment in the South and said that the
Republicans gave no heed to the cry OF
an oppressed and plundered people.
though they were their own people, OF
their own blood. He declared that from
the very first outbreak there had been
conspiracy to suppress the truth and
whitewash every outrage in the Philip
pines.
In the House.
{By Associated Press.} s5s.
| WASHINGTON, April 25.-The House
! to-day passed 145 private pension bills,
| which included bills to pension the widow
/ Of the late General William Ludlow at