The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-01
10! THE PILGRIM FATHERS
First Fell on their Knees, Then on the
Indians.
THE StNATE HOLDS A NIGHT SESSION
Hoar and Spooner Have a Hot Passage ol
Words Over the Philippine Question.
A Remark by Carmack Greeted
With Kisses.
(By the Associated Press }

(By the Associated Press)
Washington, d. c., May 31.-Hissing in
the Senate is so unusual that when it
occurred in the course of the Philippine
debate today it created a sensation Mr..
Spooner, of Wisconsin, was speaking and
referred, incidentally, to the story that
thousand Filipinos had been put to
death by American troops in trenches
Lodge, of Massachusetts, said the story
had been denied by the father of the SOL
dier who had started it, and that the
War Department had cabled to General
Chaffee to ascertain the facts. Mr.. Car
mack, of Tennessee, interrupted to say
that no doubt the soldier would deny the
story as all soldiers in the Philippines
had been required to do. His remark
was greeted with Kisses from the CALLER
les, the demonstration of disapprobaton
calling out a sharp rapping of the gavel
from the chair.
Mr.. Spooner occupied nearly five hours
of today's session in concluding his
speech begun on Thursday. His eloquence
and earnestness attracted the attention
of all Senators and of hundreds OF occu-
pants of the crowded galleries. He did
not believe in the admission of the Phil
ippines to the Union as States, but in
the conduct of the islands nothing SAVIOR
ing of Imperialism had been suggested
except Tor party purposes.
Il have not been in favor of perma-
nent dominion over the Philippines, said
MIR. Spooner, but l do not mean by that
that / have been in favor of the United
States running away like a coward or
abandoning people who have come un-
der our protection or surrendering them
to tyranny, anarchy and chaos"
Mr.. Spooner declared that there was
little or no similarity between the condi-
tions IN Cuba and those in the Philip
zines.
"Those Senator's" he insisted 'who
cannot see the difference between the
mental strabismus.
''If Congress had recognized the inde-
pendence of the Filipinos,' said he, Gin
stead of being there, as we are now.
with title which the Supreme Court of
the United States says is complete, which
the Senate has accepted as complete,
which Congress paid for as complete,
which the world recognizes as complete,
which gives us the power to do what is
generous and noble and right and uplifht-
ing to that people, we would be there
on the shifting sands of contact with
former tyrant. l think that God has
saved us from that unutterable folly.
Later Mr.. Hoar inquired if the inhabi-
tants of the Philippines were not peo-
pie where there were millions OF men,
acting together, who raised an army,
selected a general, turned Spain out OF
all territory except only the city of Ma
Mia and who had agreed upon a consti-
tuition, Republican in form.
They would be a people replied Mr.
Spconer, eff that were true"
"It is true" said Mr.. Hoar.
81 deny it," insisted Mr.. Spooner. Il
deny that there is any more than super
fetal truth in it,
He referred to the Filipinos army as a
collection of miscellaneous persons who
now constituted bands of bandis and cut
throats.
Mr. Spooner said that Aguinaldo was
"a government of proclamation, of con-
fiscations, and asSa sSinations, and the
evidence all shows it."
Mr.. Spooner quoted from a diary to
show that Aguinaldo had said that once
the independence of the Philippines was
declared, he (Aguinaldo) and his friends
would take a trip to Europe with an
allowance of 81 900, 900 For expenses Mr..
Spooner regerred to the last Presiden-
tial campaign and the candidacy of Mr..
Bryan and to the assertions of the Fill
pino leaders that the success of the De-
mccracy meant the Independence of the
Philippine, and then. after saying that
the American people had passed upon
the Philippine question at the polls
added:
''ou cannot charge upon the ratification
of the treaty nor upon the sending of our
army to the Philippines, all the blood
shed or all the cruelties that came to
that army"
Referring to General Smiths order,
fer the killing of all inha bitants of Sa-
mar above ten years of age, Mr. Spooner
quoted the witticism that the Pilgrims,
on landing first fell upon their knees and
then upon the Indians. He read from
a statue of Massachusetts, of 1922, Of
fering regard of 100 pounds sterling
for every male Indian scalp, twelve
years and upward, and of fifty pounds
for the scalp of those killed in battle.
Mr.. Hoar Interrupted to say that the