The age-herald., 1902-05-10
May Proves Deaths Harvest Among Noted Men.


 has entirely ceased to be deliberative. because of the despotsm of the speaker. Today I called upon Senator Pettus and showed him the paragraph from the Ala bama newspaper. Upon reading 1t the Senator remarked;
 If this man and this newspaper mean that I voted against the Chinese exclu- sion bill as it passed the House, they are quite right If they mean that I voted against the exclusion Of the Chinese, they are entirely false, and gravely msrepresent me Organized la bor in this country petitioned Congress to re-enact the Geary Chinese Exclusion Law; labor never asked Congress to pass any such bill as that which was rushed through the House and sent to the Sen ate for the Senate's consideration. I voted for the re-enactment of the Geary Law, with certain well-defined and strong restrictions added I voted for what organized labor in Alabama and through out the Union petitioned me to vote for, and something more beside. l proved by my vote, as the Record shows, that I was unalteraby opposed to the immigra- ton of Chinese laborers.
 T repeat, voted not only as organized labor asked me to vote, but even went further than they desired in following my own judgment of the necessities of the issue, that is, the exclusion of Chin ese laborers from our country These facts concerning my attitude have been published in all the newspapers, and are of official record in the Senate.
 Tt amazes me and pains me that any Union labor man, or any newspaper in Alabama, should in this particular or in any particular of record misrepresent me and misinterpret my official action. It is astonishing that in this day of the widest dissemination of the facts of Con- gressional proceedings, any man or any newspaper should place me in a false and hurtful attitude. In respect to the Chin ese Exclusion Bill, and to all other meas ures in which organized labor have been interested, the official Congressional Re- cord shows with perfect clearness, per- feet distinctiveness, that have voted the interests of labor that 1 have ser organized labor as best I could, acco ing to the best of my own judgment
 
 Having reference to recent pleas in correspondence against certain army rages upon the Filipinos, and the rt ence made in this place to Shern March to the Sea, during which he | ed the roofs from over the heads o fenseless women and children, thoug did not cause any of them to be neted, as have been an immense n tude of the Filpinos, one of the most eminent of Southern scholars historians and gentlemen, kindly Undertakes to write me some facts of intense interest to the South and to the country at large, especially in view of the pending debate on the Philippines bill in the Senate, which Is soon to be transferred to the House. This eminent Southerner, who writes from Alabama, sets forth in his personal letter to me, this very potent argument
 Tt is intimated that a certain order from the war office. issued in the period of war, 1867 65, jutifes the utmost sav- agery of our army in the Philippines until formally revoked.
 "The New York Herald of late date published interview with General Wheeler from which quotation follows: "'We had a great many fights, said the general, with the insurgents, but in no instance was there any cruelty by our soldiers or, so far as I know, any killing except according to the rules of war.
 "I never heard of any water cure, or any other inf1ction of torture upon the Filipnos
  mans army, on its march to the sea, was guilty of such acts as have been at tributed to our troops in the Philippnes?' Tt Is true that Sherman's army did burn buildings, but I never heard of it's ever killing or hurting a non-combat- ant replied general Wheeler, thought. fully.
 Tn view of General Wheelers state ments. reference to War of the Rebellion, Series I. Vol. XLVII page B. discovers the order of Halleck at Washington, headquarters of the army, January 1, 1865. This order addressed to Sherman, then at Savannah directs him to march through the interior of South Carolina, and to lay waste the country Thus Columbia was burned. If this order is not yet revoked, of course wherever the army proceeds in subsequent wars to find its enemy, 1t must lay waste the country
 General Wheeler seems to remember indistinctly Governor Clay of Hunts vile was assuredly hurt unto death by the severity of the United States officers at that post during the war.
 Philip J. Weaver a wealthy old man of Selma, who had never borne arms, was cubbed in his own house by a cavalry man of Wilson's command and died im- mediately from the effect.
 "Old MT. Molette, a planter of Dallas County, who had never borne arms was bayoneted to death in his own yard Sy Wilson's men.
 Howell Rose, an old planter of Autau- ga County, for many years in either branch of the Legislature, was swung by the neck from a limb of one of his shade trees until almost dead, by Wilson's men. 'The Volume of War of the Rebellion cited here contains an angry correspond- ence between Wheeler and Fitzpatrick in the South Carolina campaign, indicating that Kilpatrick's men had hurt and also killed a number of non-combatants in that state.'
 It is cause of constant irritation amongst Southerners in Washington that General Wheeler seems to have forgotten his own Southern folk in his devotion t. the Republican element in the North
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.
 
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