The Washington times., 1902-02-21
ELEVEN O'CLOCK SESSIONS HELD
Senator Patterson Attacks
Gov. Taft'S Testimony.
SEDlTION LAW TYRANNiC
Declares Bill of Rights Is Unconsti-
tutionnIIy Withheld From Our Ori-
entail observation-disclosures of
FIIipinos LibeIed by Gov. Taft.

to facilitate the conclusion of the speech
making on the Philippine tariff bill, which
is to be voted on at o'clock on Monday.
1t is thought probable that session will
be held tomorrow for the same reason.
number of speeches were delivered
yesterday. Senator Patterson made long
address, principally devoted to the Philip
pine treason and sedition laws, which he
characterized as most tyrannical and en-
iirely different from the statutes of the
United States, which ii has been asserted
they were taken from almost wholly. He
stated further that the United States laws
on treason and sedition are so harsh that |
they caused the overthrow of the party |
which enacted them.
A Travesty on Justice.
He asserted that, administered as the |
more drastic Philippine laws are, with |
out juries, in provinces far from Manila |
and in higher courts. and by native judges |
who are appointed because of their parti |
sanship for the United States Govern |
meut. in time of hot hatred between |
peoples, they must be a frightful travesty |
on justice
He asserted that the treason and sedi- |
tion laws should be abrogated at once by |
act of Congress, alluding to the "devilish |
malignity" of the commission in framing |
them.
In quoting from Supreme Court deci- |
sions to uphold his contention that the |
Bill Of Rights has been unconstitutionally
withheld from the Philippines. he chal-
lenged the right of the Philippine Com
mission to enact such laws as abridged
the rights of free speech and free press.
The operation of that commission he
characterized as "a new and metaphysical
sovereignty"
The FiIipinos Libeled
Mr. Patterson read from number Of
War Department and other documents in
the attempt to prove that Governor Taft
has libeled the Filipinos in calling them
cruel, ignorant, dishonest, and corrrpt.
Some Of the authorities quoted were to
the effect that the Tagalogs are docile
cleanly, intelligent, honest, loving. peace
full, well advanced in education and am
bilious personally and for the race and
the Philippines.
Mr.. Patterson declared that the infor-
w
was absolutely in opposition TO the state
ments made by Governor Taft. II was, in
effect. the War Department against Coy
ernor Taft
In response TO an enquiry by Mr. Fora
ker, Mr.. Patterson stated it as his iudg-
ment that Governor Taft had motives for
misrepresenting the situation in the
Philippines that the War Department did
not have.
Branded as SANDER.
"The statements of the War Depart
ment." he asserted. after reading from
some documents, brand as Islander most
Of those made by Governor Taft about
the Filipinos' character and Abilities
brand as ISLANDERS his charges that they
are cruel. idle. shiftless. and as unfit for
governmental self-control"
In response to another enquiry by Mr..
Foraker, who said he wanted clearly to
understand the statement, Mr.. Patterson
reiterated his statement that Governor
Taft had motives for Misrepresentation
and that he had misrepresented the stu
alton in the archipelago
Referring tc the Federal party in the
.
bers of the commission belonged-and &
commencing its efforts to restore peace,
Mr.. Patterson iEaplored the Senate to lend !
an ear to what that rarity said in its ad- c
dress. He quoted from the address these S
words: G
THE Federal party has made an ex- .
haustire study of the sentiment of the
Filipino people. and it has clearly deduced
that the intention of Americans and Fill
pinos is to constitutiCnally join the Fill e,
Pine TO the American in such way that
the former may never be separated from
the latter. nor the latter separated from '
the former [
Governor Taft's Position. b
But Governor Taft. he said, is himself Il
opposed to territorial government for v
he Philippines, and consequently was op- ?
posed 10 the Federal party. which was
known as the party of peace. Referring ;
10 the Christianity of the Filipinos Mr. I
exclaimed:
The trouble is that there Christians I
ire not ProIestants. | have il in NV I
mind that IL the six million of Filipinos
lad learned their Christianity in the
'anctuaries of the Methodist Presbyte-
ian, or Baptist Churches, and were as a
we'll grounded in the cardinal principles q
n Christianity as they are today. there ;
would be such an uprising by the Metho-
lists, and Presbyterians, and Baptists, and
'ther Protestant denominations of the
Jnited states against the cruel unconsti- II
utional. and relentless policy of the Ad- u
in dealing with these people
hat there would be few members of Com
'ress supporting that policy who would
ace their anger. But the Filipinos are -
ot Protestant Christians" I
Mr. Nelson rep, Mimi condemned
ir. Patterson's appeal TO religious preju-
ice, and then proceeded to defend and d.
Justify the policy OF the Government in e
he philippine archipelago. !,
Talk about mili:arism," Mr. Nelson | "
reclaimed, after he had got through his OF
egal argument, Senators do not know III
ow our poor soldiers feel when away bs
ghting the battles of their country, and II
men, sitting around their campiires they
ull letters from home out OF their pock- re
is, read them and compare them with tn
ne another, and then they begin to sing pr
nc good old songs of the civil war. 81
Our Oriental Prosecutions.
Senators talk of our possessions in
lie Orient as thougA they were of no
,nseGuence. Why, they rise in the very >,
entire Of the great beehive of huma atty -
18th Japan on the east, China on the ~,
'rth, British India on the northwest, Sc
Id the Dutch East INDIA islands lBor- I'D