Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-15
HOAR WANTS FACTS  Senator From Massachusetts
 on the Philippines.
HE FAVORS 4 FULL INVESTIGATION.
Senator Lodge Says His Committee Ks Perfectly Able to Handle the Subject-The House Dfs-
 cusses Pensions.

l CuSSeS PenBlOnS.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.--For the
 first time this session the Philippine
 question was touched on in the senate
 The interest taken indicates that il
 will occupy the attention of the upper
 branch of congress for some time when
 the tariff bill is reported. The Philip
 pines were the subject of an address
 by MT. Hoar of Massachusetts, who
 spoke on his resolution introduced 1 Monday providing for the appointment
 of senate committee to investigate
 the administration of those islands.
 MT. Hoar spoke at some length regard ing the unreliability of statements
 which have been made from time to time regarding the situation in the Philippines and the causes which led to the outbreak.
 lie urged that there should be a i place where any senator in his official capacity could go and ask for two wit i nesses to prove the correctness or in- correctness of any question upon i which light is desired.
 Among other things Senator Hoar ! said
 l " AAOt AlAOW VI dAy O1C etpAC " l give statement of the truth as to the differences between Governor Taft and General Chaffee. I get some dread I full stories from brave soldiers and off, cers of high rank about the manner in which the war is conducted. I have heard of an investigation now going | on i'll regard to one transaction which, l if true, has covered with foul blot ! the flag which we all love and honor. 1 I think there should be place where ] any senator who makes such sug- 1 gestion in his official responsibility can 1 go and say, I want two witnesses on that subject brought here,' and then we shall know.''
 He said he had been taunted by newspapers for three or four years with statement attributed to General Lawton to the effect that if certain people at home would hold their tongues there would not be any diff. culty with the islands. But what the general is understood to have said was that we should "stop this accursed war. It is time for diplomacy, time for mutual understandings
 There is no one, Mir. Hoar declared, who can tell whether General Lawton said that or whether it is a forgery or whether he said the other or it is forgery
 General Otis had shocked the coun- try by saying we should keep 10000 troops in the Philippines for a consid- erable time, but instead of that num- Der we have 10000, and Mir Hoar ask ed how long we're we going to keep them there. "If General Chaffee is right" he said, '.there is not a man in these islands who is not conspiring against the government and eager for his liberty. Now, give us little light. Take the most Jealous men in this body and giveIus committee that will hear the evidence, put questions, heur both sides and let us know what is the truth. We are engaged in the unholy office of crushing out a republic, the first great republic ever established in the eastern hemisphere. If we had dealt with this people as we dealt with Cuba, we should have had today civi. lized, happy, peaceful republic sending their youths to our schools, studyin.: our laws, initiating our examples, anil mated by love and affection and n gratitude such as no one people on earth ever yet felt for another.''
 One of the great events of history, he said, was the civilization of Japan. Another was the adoption of the Dee laration of Independence Japan has just celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of taking her place among free nations, at which the declaration had been made that everything that Japan was she owed to the United States, and yet ill half a century she had encountered China as superior and Russia as an equal
 That came, MT. Hoar said, from tEe application of a world power that he should like to have his country exer- else; that came from the application to the affairs of modern life Cf the great doctrine of the immortal declara- ton.
 MT. Lodge, Mir. Hoar's colleague, said he regarded the resolution as refec- ton on the Philippine committee. of which he was chairman, and the neces- sity for the latter would cease were this resolution to be adopted His com mittee, he said was perfectly able to Ai01StAC oAly lllN NCStlSCtlOll- WHICH sHlguJ be conducted. MT. Carmack Dem agreed with him. The discussion was leading rapidly to an opening up of the whole Philippine question, when it was agreed that the resolution should go over until today. Mir. Mason of Illinois made a speech in favor of reciprocity with Cuba.
 The house continued the debate OH the pension appropriation bill and de. voted much time to the proposition ads vanced by MT. Rixey of Virginia tt. cqen the doors of the soldiers homes to ex-COnfederate veterans. Two nota ble speeches were made in support of the proposition, one by MT. Gardner. a Michigan Republican, and the other by Mr. Dearmond, a Missouri Democrat.
 MT. Dearmond's eloquence aroused both sides of the house. The Republic ans, with the exception of MT. Gard ner, took no part in the discussion of the Rixey suggestion, which met with much opposition on the Democratic side on the ground that it was utterly impracticable MT. Lamb of Virginia read number of telegrams from prom inent ex-Confederates of Richmond protesting against it.