Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-04-16
BARBARISM DON'T co.
Smiths Alleged Cruelties Il
Philippines Ordered
Investigated.
WATER CURISTs TO Be TRIED
Gen. chaffee Instructed Also to In.
vestieate Charges of Torturing Ma
tives by These Means-Presiden
Determined to Punish Brutality.


States soldiers, Secretary Root has
made public certain correspondence
One was a letter to Senator Lodge
chairman of the senate Philippines
committee, which, in part, acknowl-
edged the receipt of copy of the
testimony OF Sergeant Charles S.
Riley, and Private William Lewis
Smith. late of the Twenty-Sixth in
fantry, taken before the committee
Mondoy. He also endorsed copy
of a dispatch which had been sent
yesterday to Major General Chaffee,
commanding the division of the Phil
ippines, and announced that directions
had been given to the Judge advocate
general of the army to take proper
steps in accordance with the dis
patch.
Also there was made public the fol-
lowing:
War Department, Washington.
Memorandum for the adjutant general.
Cable General Chaffee as follows:
instructions to General chaffee.
On Feb. 19 a letter was sent you,
enclosing, for investigation, copy of
charges made by Governor Gardener
of Tayabas province, which contained
general allegations of cruelties prac-
ticed by troops on natives, and gener-
ally Of an insolent and brutal attitude
OF the army towards natives.
On April 2 a cable dispatch was
sent you urging action with all speed
consistent with thorough and search
ing investigation.
On the 4th of March a cable dis.
patch was sent you directing dis.
ciplinary measures to produce obedi.
enee to the presidents instructions,
subordinating military officers to civil
government in pacified provinces
and instructing you to relieve Major
Edwin f. Glenn and Captain James
A. Ryan from duty and order them to
Manila to await investigation int
their conduct. in accordance with in
struetiens to follow by mail.
On the gath of March instructions
were mailed you containing state.
ment of charges against these Off.
GERS and General Jacob Fl. Smith, as
the basis of the investigation ordered
by the cable of March A.
Further instructions in both mat.
ters are required by the following
facts:
Press dispatches state that upon
the trial of Major Waller, of the ma
rine corps, testimony was given by
Waller, eorroborated by other wit
neses, that General Jacob H. Smith
instructed him to kill and burn; that
the more ne killed and burned the bet
ter pleased General Smith would be;
that it was not time to take prison
ers, and that when Major Waller
asked General Smith to define the ags
limit for killing. he replied "everg.
thing over ten"
If such testimony was given, and
the facts can be established, you will
place General Smith ON trial by cour:
martial.
Water Cure Charges to Be Probed.
I Yesterday, before the senate com
mittee on Philippine affairs, Sergeant
Charles S. Riley and Private William
L
inter infantry, testified that the form
of torture known as 1.-The water cure"
was administered to the president Of
the town of Igbarras, Iloilo province,
island of Panay, by detachment OF
the Eighteenth United States in
fantry, under command of Lieutenant
Arthur l.. Conger under orders Of
81 L l.,
Twenty fifth infantry, and that Cap
tain and Assistant Surgeon Palmer
Lyon, at that time a contract surgeon,
was present to assist them. The Off
GERS named or such of them as are
found to be responsible for the act,
will be tried therefor by court mar
tial Conger and Lyon are in this
country. Both the Twenty-sixth vol
unteer infantry and Eighteenth in
fantry, having returned to the United
States, and most of the witnesses be.
ing presumptively here, the secretary
of war directs that Major E. F. Glenn
Twenty infantry, be directed to
proceed to San Francisco and report
to the general commanding the de-
u
to his trial by court martial, under
charges alleging the eruelties prae
ticed by him upon native Of the
Philippine islands at lgbarras on the
9th of June, 1900 If you can dis.
cover any witnesses still in the ser
vice in the Philippines who can tes-
tify In support of the charges, or If
Major Glenn desires the attendance
OF any persons now serving in the
islands as witnesses for the defense,
You will direct him to proceed to
San Francisco for that purpose. As
the two years allowed for the prose
cution by the statute Of limitations
Is nearly at an end. no time is to be
lost. You will take such course in
advancing or postponing the investi,
cations previously ordered into the
conduct Of General Smith and Major
Glenn as shall be required to enable
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