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A SCATHlNG ATTACK
ON GENERAL SMITH
DENOUNCED FOR HIS WAR Or
DERS IN S.4NIAR.

MIR. Sibiey, Rep, of PennsyIvania Say
Hetsm Blot and Disgrace to tho Army
and to Present tCiviIization-Hopos tn
President Wtu Have the Courage &c
Dishonorably Discharge Him From
the Service Mt Once.
Washington, April 2S-Representative
! Sibley of Pennsylvania created some
| thing of a sensation in the house to-day
during the general debate on the agri-
cultural appropriation bill by severely
denouncing General Jacob H. Smith for
the orders he issued in the Samar cam
paign.
Mr.. Sibley opened his attack by say
ing he had been an expanslonist and de-
Tended the policy Of the administration
in the acquisition of the Philippines.
Duty and honor, he said, justified our
position there. The commercial well
fare of the nation demanded that he
should control that archipelago, which
stands as the gateway to the Oriental
world He then continued:
when I have heard the statements
made that we were cruel in the conduct
of that war, I have thought perhaps
the partisan was speaking. But when
I have read. as I have within the last
forty eight hours, that a general wear
United States, one who stands under
the shelter of our flag, issues orders, not
to conciliate a province but to leave it
a bowling wilderness and to kill all
above ten years Of age then it seems to
me that humanity must have marched
back for eighteen centuries and that
Herod again appears. I have read of
Timour, the Tartar. I have read of
Achilles; have read Of the Saracen
scourge, but I thank God that since the
tragic scene on Calvary it has taken
eighteen centuries to produce a Smith.
i
lieved that was exaggerated. Can any
man whose blood bounds in his pulses,
any man who had read his Bible or who
has been reared at the knee of a Chris
tian woman justify the perpetration of
such cruelties upon another man who
wears the guise and the image of HIS
creator? And vet, we hear this man
attempting to justify acts by which
men are pumped full of water nearly
to drown them and then brought back
to life by humping them over the
stomach with the butts of nnuskets.
That is not civilization; that is not
Christianizing the world. I am thank
full that these are sparodic cases.
Against that, as man who belongs, L
hope not alone to the republican ranks,
but to the whole brotherhood of man
the wide world around, I want the
members of this house. on this side of
the chamber and that, to voice their
protest against all such measures. Cap
plause). A friend of mine said few
minutes ago, 'Oh, you had better wait
and hear his Defense / hope the pres
ident Of the United States will have
the courage, upon Wnat the man ad-
mits, to discharge him dishonorably
from the service he has disgraced.
(Applause) He admits that he issued |
the order to leave the province howl |
ing waste and and wilderness, and to |
kill all above ten years of age, the in |
locent with the guilty. That man new
er ought to be permitted to stay in the |
service of the United States until the
sun goes down. He is disgrace not |
llone to the party, but to every man
Who ever wore the uniform of the Unit
ID States and he Is blot and a dis
grace to our present civilization. Wait
md hear what his justification may
,e? That man does not live who can
Justify such orders. (Applause). 7
are not how adroitly his lawyers may
rame their plea or how subtle he their
easoning, the fact admitted by his own
mouth that he issued such orders is suf-
icient for the hope that there is the
ourage and the patriotism and the hui
nanity and the Christianity at the
ther end of the avenue that will not
ct him wear the federal uniform twen-
y-four hours hence"