Arizona republican., 1902-04-19

when Major Waller asked General Smith to define the age limit for kill ing. he replied: Everything over 10.' If such testimony was given. and the facts can be established, you will place General Smith on trial by court
 martial.
 Yesterday before the senate commit tee on Philippine affairs, Sergeant Charles Riley and Private William Lewis Smith, of the Twenty-siXth Vol unter infantry, testified that the form of torture known as the water cure' was administered to the presidente of the town Of IgbaTas, Hello province, island of Panay. by attachments of the Eighteenth United States infantry un- der command of Lieutenant Arthur L. Conger, under orders of Major Edwin F. Glenn, then captain Twenty-fifth infantry. and that Captain and As sistant Surgeon Palmer Lyon, at that time contract surgeon, was present to assist them.
 The officers named, or such of them as are found to be responsible for the act, will be tried therefor by court martial. Conger and Lyon are in this country. Both the Twenty-sixth Vol
 unteer infantry and Eighteenth infan- try having returned to the United States and most of the witnesses being
 presumptively here, the secretary of war directs that Major E. F. Glenn. Twenty fifth infantry. be directed to proceed to San Francisco and report
 to the general commanding the depart ment of California, with a view to his trial by court martial under char
 ges alleging the cruelties practised by him upon native of the Philippine islands at 1gbaras on the 2Tth of June, 1900. If you can discover any wit
 nesses still in the service in the Philip
 pines who can testify in support of the charges, or if Major Glenn desires the attendance of any persons now serving in the islands as witnesses for the de- fense, you will direct them to proceed to San Francisco for that purpose. As the two years allowed for the prosecu- tion by the statute of limitations is nearly at an end, no time is to be lost.
 You will take such course in ad- vancing or postporing the investiga- tions previously ordered into the con- duct of General Smith and Majo: Glenn, as shall be required to enable you to execute these instructions. It is believed that the violations of law and humanity. of which these cases. if true, are examples. will prove to be few and occasional and not to char acterize the conduct ot the army Sener- ally in the Philippines.
 But the fact that any such acts of cruelty and barbarity appear to have
 been done indicates the necessity of most thorough, searching and ex- haustive investigation into the general charges preferred by Governor Gard ener and you will spare no effort, in the investigation already ordered under these charges, to uncover every such case which may have occurred, and bring the offenders to justice.
 The president desires to know in the fullest and most circumstantial man ner all the facts, nothing being con-
 cealed and no man being for any req son favored or shielded. For the very
 reason that the president intends to
 back up the army in the heartiest fashion in every lawful and legitimate method of doing it's work, he also in tends to see that the most rigorous care | is exercised to detect and prevent any
 cruelty or brutality and that men who
 are guilty thereof are punished. Great as the provocation has been in
 dealing with foes who habitually resort 1 to treachery, murder and torture
 against our men, nothing can justify, or will be held to justify, the use of torture or inhuman conduct of any
 kind on the part of the American army