The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-27

had omitted editorials Wntcn prescutS~ the qusction In It's true light.
 Mir. Foraker said he had presented only .uch editoriais from Democratic news- pa pers as had deaIt ably and inteliigentiy with the question and. of course, he had 10 intention of redscting upon the sena- tor from C6loeado.i Mir. Patterson declar- d that additional light had been thrown upon the subject and editorials had ap- peared in his paper which presented q different phase Of the matter, These had not been read. In justice, he read them himself. declaring that they were . re Iiex of the csnsoeed teleGraphic dfs- patches from the Philippines
 , In answer to an Inquiry of Mr. Bever- idge. MT. Pattersort said he never since December, 1898. had advocated the reten- ton of the Philippines Dy the United States. From that tlme he had hoped for the Independence oA the Philippies. Re- ferring to the opening of hostilities be- tween the Americar{s and the Nltpiuos on February<, le90, t6r. Patterson declAr- ed that somebody wsta dictatlng the tenor of the news sent from the islands to the United gtatss by the Associated Fress and other sources ffe intimated that t was the purpose to conceal the facts re- earding the situaticnt
 : Mr. Pattcrson quoteh from a speech of Mir. Foraker made il 1see to the effect that he had no sympathy with tlsose-who talked of 'smakine war on AguinaIdo and his followers in the struggle for liberty and independepce.'s Mr. Foraker ex- plained that the wsr he referred to vas not . var between fkes United States and the Fifipfnoe but the war between Spain and he FilipinoS MT. PAtter10u held that that could not be the case. as Nanile had fallen to the. Ameri{ans and the Spanish had been sent to their homes.
 .. Sympathy for ooldiers.
 Mir. Foraker said his sympathies al- ways had been, with the American troops and would be until the last gun had been fired in the pending conh3ct.
 Mir. Hoar asked Mir. ,EorAker to read the sentence in President 'McKinley's procia- General otis, lest it should bring on war. He said General Otis had assumed ex- authority to, himself to sup press . part of the proclamation and to substitute statement that would indi- cate to the Filipinos itisat they were to be granted full meaeure Of liberty Mir. Hoar said he would rather lose his right ar mthan take the position he had taken. but he was % constructed by his Creator. that he could mot help 1t. fAp- plause.)
 Mir. Patterson. paid notable tribute to Governor Taft. saying, that a better seIec- tion for his position could not have been made. A sharp coiloquy arose between Mir. McComas and MT. < Carmack, the former asserting that iabuse Of, the army oJcers and men. was to be- found in every speech almost on the Democratic eide.
 Mir. Carmack insisted that not a single Democrat had abused. the army. The question of veracity was handed back and forward by the Senators. but did not get beyond the parliamentary stage Mir. Dubois interrupted to say that not q Democratic Senator had abused the army as much as General Chaffee had in an Associated Press dispatch from Manila. published today. The statement about the Waller court martial by General bIackest pages in the history of the army. He did not think any Senator whe had called attention to outrages.' could be accused of vilifyinG the army.
 Mr. McComas satd General chaffee had made hie comn3eat pimpiy&of the facts of one br6Ss man wlneKI her was i'll, and scarcely respbnsihis tor what he did.
 V 1EcKinley,s Proclamation.
 Mir. Forak<r referred to the proclarnA- tiofi of President Mckinley to the Fiiipi- nos. and to the change made in 1t by General Otis.
 Mir. Hoar interrupted to refer to the as- surances of President Mckinley to An drew Carnegie that in thirty days resist ance In the Philippines would cease
 General Otis knew the Filipinos would not submit and that the only way to keep the peace was to tell them they were to have their independence.
 80" said Mir. Hoar. General Otis sup pressed 1t. but General Miller. who notori- ously did want an attack, produced 1t and Aguinaldo met it with an instant speedy defiance"
 MT. Foraker urged that the -proclama- tion was not issued as a declaration of war upon the Filipinos.
 Mir. Hoar declared that If such a procla- nation had been issued to the people of Ohio they would have regarded it as a declaration of war.
 MT. McLaufn (MIss.) read two letters, one from the editor of The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, saying that that paper was independent in politics and the other from the editor of The nhi!adelphia North American stating that that news paper was republican in politics. This was in view of the coiloquy in the Senate during Mir McLaurin's speech.
 sixty-two' private pension bills were passed and the Senate at 5:S5 adjourned