The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-02-07
CARMACK IN
THE SENATE.
re
Presents His Views In an Eloquent
Speech.
CHAMPIONS REPORT OF THE PHILIPPINE
COMMITTEE PROFOUND ATTENTION BY
HEARERS

Wash ington, Feb. 3. For two hou
this afternoon Senator Carmack occu
pied the floor of the Senate, speakin,
in behalf of the minority report from
the Philippine affairs committee. I'm
dOubtedly this maiden effort created {
profound impression on both sides O.
the chamber and stamped him as one o.
the big men in the upper branch Of
Congress. He held the attention Of
the Senate as few men do.
Senator Carmack said he had moi
studied the elaborate system of rates
and duties which were present, though
invisible to the body of the bill, and
he believed that he was in this respect
in like condition with every other
member of the committee and the
Senate. 1t was proposed by simply
reciting the title to enact the entire
system prepared by the Philippine
Commission.
The act of the Commission had never
been read or discussed by the COM
mittee which proposed to make it the
law OF this country. So far as any
knowledge on the part of the commit
tee was concerned. it might as well
have enacted the contents of sealed
envelope without taking it to the post
Office
Referring to the decisions of the
Supreme Court, he said Jefferson and
Lincoln had refused to accept the
opinion of that high tribunal as bind
ing upon their conduct, and he was not
ready to agree that five Judges were
necessarily right and four Judges
necessarily wrong, simply because five
was greater number than four. He
denied that the result of the last cleo
tion was a conclusive verdict. He said
there were many questions presented
to the people for consideration. and the
one fact that controlled all others was
the fact Of prosperity Ill der the Repub-
LEANS administration.
FULL DINNER PAIL.
The people may have voted for i'm
perialism, but they only intended to
vote for the full dinner pail He did
not think the Republicans were entitled
to the credit of this prosperity, but
the argument prevailed. He referred
to the fact that men like ex-President
Harrison and ex-President Cleveland,
Hoar, Reed and others, We're entirely
in sympathy with the Democrats on
this question, but had refused to sup
port the Democratic candidate
Another reason was the fact that the
war party had complete control Of the
sources of knowledge and gave out only
such information as it desired
He cited a number of Illustrations
from English history, showing how the
people had been deceived as to the vital
f.,ntc xr,h,l 10 tho i,,ti xuur xuao
being waged, and said that the same
thing had been done in the Philippine
Islands. He spoke with great severity
not military censorship, but as the
censor himself confessed was conducted
solely in the interest of the Republican
party. He cited the case of the censor
refusing to transmit message about
cause it would be boost for William
edited with bayonet in order that /
the people might be deceived into vot-
ing the Republican ticket.
The Republicans loved to talk about
lynching negroes in the South, but
they were lynuhing ten million people
in the Philippines As an illustration
tude of the Republican party, he chal
Republican speech during the last four
from Abraham Lincoln or the declara
ton of independence. He said he had
heard distinguished Republican
leader repeat substantially jeff Davis
farewell speech amid thunders Of APP
-~Jc,,so -, Tho Da~1hIs,or o;ln
1t was claimed that the Democratic
The boundary of the republic, but it
public that the Democrats had enlarged.
"You did not enlarge the boundary
)f the republic by holding territory
If the map that marked Democratic
you could write statehood,
and constitution. The
part of the map must be
marked conquered province, 'vassal
mbject, and 'oespotic power.
ut was one thing to put star on
he flag and another thing to put blot
i blood and call ii star.
He quoted from Mr. Roosevels's book
m swimming Of the West" and said
lis distinction between Roman i'm
,erialism and American expansion
xactly described the difference between
and Republican policies.
He denied that we had obtained from I
pain any moral rights to the Philip
ines. She had sold us simply rot
an title and a barren scepter.
Ar TO pulling down the flag, he :
,ould pull it down wherever 1t waved
YER serfs and slaves and he would
OF leave it for a single hour to guard
10 harenl and the slave pen Of the !
nltan of Sulu.
He quoted fvom Macarthur and b
haffee to show that the people were 4
ma lterably opposed to our rule, and b