The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-04-29
Representative Sibley Scathingly
Denounces Author of Order to
Exterminate Filipinos.
"HER0D HAS APPEARED AGAIN"
Trusts That He VIII Not Be Per
mitted to Wear Federal Uniform
Fortnight Hours Longer
Two Bills Sent to President.

Washington. April IS. Representative
Sibley Of Pennsylvania created something
OF a sensation in the House to-day during
the general debate on the agricultural ap-
| preparation bill by severely denouncing Cen
eral Jacob H. Smith for the orders he is
sued in the Samar campaign.
He declared that General Smith was n
disgrace to the uniform he wore and ex-
pressed the hope that the President would
strip him OF his uniform within forty-eisht
hours. Mr.. Sibley's speech vas enthusi-
a~stically applauded by the Democrats and
was received with some evidences Of APP
prevail on the Republican side.
The speech was considered the more re-
marEable in that it came from a Repub-
iIcan who left the Democratic party on the
issues raised by the Spanish war and who
since has been an ardent expansionist. Mr..
Williams CDemD of Mississippi Endorsed
what Mr.. Sibley had said.
"Herod Again Appears
Mr.. Sibley said he had been an expansion
list and defended the policy of the admin
fstration in the acquisition of the Philip
pines. He then contnued:
When | have heard the statements made
that we were cruel in the conduct of that
war, 1 have thought perhaps the partisan
was speaking. But when / have read, as I
nave within the past forty-eisht hours, that
a General wearing the uniform of the army
OF the United States, one who stands un-
der the shadow of our flag, issues orders
not to conciliate a Province, but to leave it
a bowling wilderness and TO kill all above
10 years old, then it seems to me that iu-
mainly must have marched backward for
eighteen centuries and that Herod again
appears.
Il have read of Tmour, the Tartar: 1
have read of Achilles; l have read of the
Saracen scourse. but Ithank God that since
the tragic scene on Calvary it has taken
eighteen centuries to produce a Smith.
Water Cure Cannot BE Justified.
II have read of the water cure. believe
that was exaggerated. Can any man whose
blood pounds In his pulses, any man who
has read his Bible or who has been reared
at the knee OF a Christian woman, justify
the preparation of sudh cruelties upon an
other man who wears the guise and the
image of his Creator? And yet we hear this
man attempting to justify acts by which
men are pumped so tuIl of water as nearly
to drown them and then brought back to life
by humping them over the stomach with
the butts of muskets. That is not civiiiza-
ton; that is not christianizing the world.
Il am thankful that these are sporadic
cases. Against that as I man who belongs,
! hope not alone to the Republican ranks.
but TO the whole brotherhood of man the
wide world around. l want the members OF
this house. on this side If the chamber and
that. to voice their protest. and against all
suCI measures. lAppiduND
Disgrace TO the Army.
"A friend of mine said q few minutes ago:
oh. l know you had better wait and hear
his defense l hope The President of the
what the man admits, to discharge him dis
honorabiy from the service he has dis
graSed. !Applause)
leave the Province a bowling waste and a
wilderness. and to kill all above 10 years
OF age. the innocent with the guilty. That
n~nn GNrar n1fUht ~ hA nArrr,fffaH ~ CInNg
in the service of the United States until
the sun goes down.
He is a disgrace. not alone to the party.
but % every man who ever wore the uni
foIr1 OF the United States. and he Is a blot
and a disgrace TO our present civilization.
may be. That man does not live who can !
justify such orders. tApp!ause) l care not
how adroitly his lawyers may frame their
fact admitted by his own mouth that he
Issued such orders Is sufficient for the hope
there is. the courage and the patriot
Ism and the humanity and the Christianity |
at the other end of the avenue that will not
let him wear the Federal uniform twenty
four hours hence" |
Chinese Bill Goes to President.
Upon the conclusion of the general de-
bate, slow progress was made with the
bill, only twenty-five of the forty-nine |
pages being disposed of.
The conference report on the Chinese ex-
bill was adopted without debate. |
sends it to the President.
BARBARTTIES DENOUNCED.
Washington, April 2S.-After a brief dis
cussion to-day, the Senate agreed 10 the
House amendments to the oleomargarine biz
as passed by the SeEate. The measure now
goes to the President for his signature. An
effort was made by Mr.. Teller Of Colorado
20 amend the measure so as to levy a tax
of 10 per cent of the capital or assets on
any butter trust that might be formed, bu;
was defeated.
Mr.. Simmons of North Carolina addressed
he Senate in opposition to the Philippine
bill. He urged that the Philip
pines ought to be turned over to the IN
of the islands. He denounced the
and barbarities' alleged to have
been committed on the Filipinos by the
Army. and said that he felt like
calling upon the great. brave and humane
nan now in the White House to probe these
things to the bottom and at least to make
hem odious."
The conference report on the Chinese eX-
fusion bill wcs adopted. |
Consideration Of the sundry civil appro-
bill was begun, but not concluded.