The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-06-01

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red in the course of the Philippine debate
today it created sensation. Mr.. Spooner
(Wis.) was speaking and referred Incl
dentally to the story that thousand
Filipinos had been put to death by Amer
lean troops in trenches which they were
compelled to dig. Mr.. Lodge (Mass) said
the story had been denied by the father
of the soldier who had started it. and that
the War Department had cabled to Cen
eral Chaffee to ascertain the facts.
Mr.. Carmack tTenn.) interrupted to say
that no doubt the soldiers would deny
the story as all soldiers in the Philip
pines had been required to do. His re-
mark was greeted with Kisses from the
galleries, the demonstration of disappro-
baton calling out sharp rapping of the
gavel from the chair.
Mr.. Spooner occupied nearly five hours
Of todays session in concluding his
speech begun on Thursday. He main
tanned that the United States could not
leave the Philippines like coward and
abandon people who had come under our
protection, thus surrendering them to
tyranny and chaos He did not be-
iicve in the admission of the Philippines
to the Union as States. but in the con-
duct of the islands. nothing savoring of
imperialism had been suggested except
for party purposes. He charged that an
incessant effort had been made by the
minority to put this country in the wrong
and to stain the country with dishonor.
Colloquy With Hoar.
In the course of his speech. Mr. Spooner
became involved in spirited colloauy
with Mr.. Hoar Mass, during which
Mr.. Spooner read statute of the State
of Massachusetts which offered a reward
of f100 for the scalps of male Indians
over the age of IL years. Mr.. Hoar de-
clared that II was a cruel and barbarous
law. and Mr.. Spooner himself did not at
tempt to justify it. simply citing it as an
instance of cruelty in the fighting of saw
age natives.
Mr.. Pettus tAfa.) discussed some of the
legal phases of the Philippine question
and Mr.. McLaurin Miss insisted that
the Democrats in the Senate had moi
slsndered the army as had been charged
Mi - Spaonsrs. In his speech. referred to
The Filipines army as collection oi
miscellaneous persons who now consti-
tuted bands of bandits and cut-throats
Mr. Carmack tTenn) interrupted to in.
quire If Admiral Dewey had dealt with
that kind of people.
Il suppose" Mr.. Spooner said. "that
the Senator from Tennessee will claim
liberty-loving, patriotic and law-abiding
citizens?"
Mr.. Carmack said he did not assume
that it was an army made up of outlaws
and rrffians.
Mr.. Spooner said that one of the leading
generals of the Filipino army-Pio del
Pilar--was VIGOROUSLY the leader of a
band of cut-throats and outlaws.
Mr.. Carmack declared that IL the
charge" of Mr.. Spooner was accurate.
Admiral Dewey ought to be branded and
turned out of the navy.
Mr.. Spooner retorted that that was only
one of the Democratic charges against
the army and navy. He declared Agui-
naldo's army was an army which had de-
manded to enter Manila for loot and ra-
pine; which had violated the rules of
civilized warfare; which had perpetrated
atrocities, not only upon American pris-
oners. but upon countless thousands of
Filipinos, and who had respected neither
sex.
Government Of Proclamations.
Mr.. Spooner referred to the diary of
one of the officers of Aguinaldo. who de-
scribed the peregrinations of Aguinaldo.
Mr.. Spooner said Aguinaldo had "a gov
eminent of proclamations, or confisca-
tons and assassina tons: and the evil
dence shows it,"
Referring to General Smiths order for
the killing of all Inhabitants of Samar
above 10 years of age, Mr. Spooner quoted
the witticism that the pilgrims. on land
ing, first fell upon their knees and then
upon the Indians. He read from a stat
ute of Massachusetts of 1722 offering a
reward of G100 for every scalp of a male
Indian II years old and upward. and of
ESQ for the scalp of those killed in bat
tie. Mr.. Hoar interrupted to say that
the Puritans had bought and paid for
every foot of land taken from the In
dams and that the statute of 1722 was
cruel and barbarous.
do you approve of it," he demanded.
"when at the beginning of the twentieth
century You make 1t precedent
Il think said Mr.. Spooner. that our
fathers bought the lands of the Indians
in Massachusetts and then proceeded TO
buy their scalps."
Senators" declared Mr.. Spooner, who
denounce our policy in the Philippines in
general language, on ex parte testimony.
ought not to forget that our forbears
(brave men in the war; also found 1t
necessary to resort to in war what in time
of peace no man on earth would approve.
Does the Senator approve of that
order?" demanded Mr.. Hoar. I'm war or
I'm peace"
IF it were necessary" suggested Mr..
Spooner, Ito make the order in Massa-
ohUsctts so that the oilgrim might pro-
tect his home from destruction, mis- wife
from debauchery and his children from
cruelty / would have done what he has
done"
A Base and Wicked Order.
ut never was necessary to do it," Mr..
Hoar declared. 1T was base and wick
ed order and when the Senator talks of
forbears, am happy to say that the man
of that generation who bore my name in
Cured obliquy and indignties through
resisting things then as | do now" Cap
plause.)
You will never find any man, thank
God" declared Mr.. Spooner. who can
properly impeach the American army for
acts that ought not 10 have been COM
mitted-the acts Of a few isolated in
stances-the army as a whole"
our army" replied Mr.. Hoar, sis COM
posed of brave and huralnc men. In a
war of this kind. crueties always have
occurred and the responsibilities for them
rests not upon the army. but upon those
who are responsible for the policy in
augurated."
i stand for the army of Mckinley"
declared Mr.. Spooner ''of the army that
has been charged with the mission by
the American people who supported these
policies at the polls"
Mr.. Spooner said to Mr.. Hoar that If