The age-herald., 1902-05-16
HOUSE ENGAGES
 IN HOT DEBATE
HILL DESCRIBES HORRIBLE OUT. RACES PENETRATED ON THE AMERIcEN SOLDIERS IN PHIL lPPINES.

| Washington, May 15.-The House today was plunged into an exciting debate on the Philippine affairs. The naval bill re- ceived only scant attention after the a- legations of Philippine outrages were presented. A speech by MT. Vandveer of Missouri, reciting instances of alleged outrages, brought on the discussion Per sonalities and recriminations were freely passed out. Mir. Vandiveer was sup ported in his criticism by MT. Wheeler of Kentucky. while vehement defeItses of the American soldiers were made by MT. Hepburn of Iowa, MT. Grow of Pennsyl- vania, MT. Hill of Connecticut, MT. w. A. Smith and MT. Lessler of New York.
 In the course of his remarks MT. Hill said:
 'I came into the hall while the gentle outrages that had been perpetrated by the American soldiers upon the Filipinos and I regretted very much to hear 1t" MT. Hill detailed visit he had paid to 1 General Smiths headquarters in the Phil | ippines and added: q found the depart ment of General Jacob H. Smith in peace and quietness and yet while that condition existed this incident actually occurred A company of Tagalogs, Filipinos, the Filipino army If you choose to have 1t, descended on a village of peaceable Fili- pinos who chose to carry on their regular pursuits in peace and quietness and de- stroyed that village, murdering men, wo- men and children: and if the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Vandiver) desires a specimen of barbarity I want to tell you what they did to loyal Filipinos and Am ercans They took men out, tied them to ant hills. six or eight or ten feet high, and six feet in diameter filled with ants that are absolutely ravenous and eat up everything that they come in contact with. They tied these men to ant hills and allowed them to be eaten to death by ants
 They buried them In the ground up to their necks and allowed them to be peck ed to death by the birds and eaten by the ants. They took loyal Filipinos and loyal Americans and cut them open in the ab domen, taking out a portion of the bow els and mailing it to a tree and driving them around the tree with bolos while they disembowed themselves; and yet you gentlemen stand here and condemn Am erican soldiers for standing by the men who are loyal to the American flag and who are suffering such outrages as these" MT Vandiver: For the very same kind of barbarites which you are now charg ing against the Filipinos."
 THE SENATE.
 Washington, May 15.-An extended speech by MT. McLaurn of Mississippi in opposition to the pending Philippine gov ernment bill was a feature of today's ses- sion of the Senate. The Mississippi Sem ator vigorously assailed the administra- tion's policy In the Philippines. He dep | recated the outrases perpetrated in the islands, whether they were committed by l the Filipinos or the Americans. They were, in his judgment, the natural out growth of the governments policy, for which, he maintained, the Republican party was responsible. He urged the abandonment of the policy in the interest I of humanity and justice
 The bill providing for the erection of a union railroad station in Washington and the fortification appropriation bill were i passed.