Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-27
MOVE TO STOP LlNCHING
Gallinger of New Hampshire Wants Senate
to Investigate the Practices,
CALLS FOR A COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY
Although the Resolution Goes over
without Action, senate shows
Disposition TO Deal with
the Matter.


New Hampshire offered a resolution pro-
viding that the judiciary committee Of the
senate should make an Investigation into
the subject OF lynchings in the United
States. with view to ascertalning whether
there is any remedy for them.
Mr.. GalliDger said be introduced the
resolution In view Of the fact that
be might be charged with participating in
a sectional controversy. but that nothing
was further from his thoughts
He said lynchings were not confined to
the south. Horrible cases had occurred
in the north and white men as we'll as
black men had been the victims. During
the last ten years 1855 lyuchings had oc-
CURED in the United States. II the strong
arm OF the law could reach out to pre-
vent such occurrences, he deemed It de-
sirable that It do So
He had read the Associated Press &C.
count OF the burning OF a negro in Texas
few days ago. He said history did not
furnish a more hendish instance Of mob
wrath, and Fox Book Of Martyrs" was
tame in comparison. The whole wretched
business, he said was a disgrace to
American manhood. and. in comparison. the
alleged atrocities in the Philippines were
Insignificant.
After No Sectional Fight.
Mr.. Bailey of Texas said he had 10 idea
OF being drawn into auy sectional coptro-
versy by the senator from New Hampshire
and he would be willing 10 have the people
Judge the mon who pe-petrated such out
RACES He desired. however, to discuss the
question whether the government had the
right to go into the several states and take
charge OF the peace and good order. He
asked, therefore, that the resolution go
over.
There can be no objection" said Mr..
Bailey, Ito report from the judiciary COM
mittee on the subject. because I arI sure
there can only be one conclusion reached
by that committee. But II In the course
Of its investigation it would undertake to
parade before the country all the lynch
ngs and burnings that have occurred in
any section OF the country over a name
less offenso and the murders of women and
children aud all the abductions which have
occurred in other sections OF the country,
the only result, it seems to me, would be
TO make us think less OF ourselves as a
people and as a nation, and have little
disposition to indulge in that pastime N.Y.
self"
Resolution Goes over.
After remarks by Mr. Hoar the resolu-
tion went over and the Philippine bill was
taken up. Mr.. Patterson OF Colorado made
speech in opposition to it.
/ In beginning Mr.. Patterson read extracts
from a report OF a minister's meeting held
recently in Boston, in the course OF which
In addresses, the ministers stated that the
American flag had been disgraced in the
Philippines by the commission OF TRACE
dies and horrors in the islands, although
mo special attack was made upon the
president and secretary of war.
Mr.. Patterson referred to the editorials
from the Denver News, which Mr.. Foraker
had read in the course OF his speech
These editorials strongly urged the reten-
tton of the Philippines and advocated the
governments policy as to the islands. Mr..
Patterson said he was responsible for the
utterances OF the Denve:. News then and
now. He said he was type Of hundreds
OF thousands Of American people who had
held views similar TO those expressed In
the Denver News editorials and subse-
Quently had changed those views. Just
prior TO the ratification OF the Paris treaty
he had changed his opinion and since that
time had advocated strenuously the inde-
pendence of the Filipino people.
Mr.. Patterson declared that after the
capture of Manila "a censored press, de-
liberately guided by the powers in Wash
ington. had misrepresented the situation in
the Philippine islands
QuOtes FOraker's speech.
In his argument Mr.. Patterson quoted
from a speech OF Mr.. Foraker. made in
January, 1S99 to the effeot that he had no
sympathy with those who talked OF max
ing war on Aguinaldo and his followers in
their struggle for liberty and independ-
ence."
Mr. Foraker explained that the war be
referred to was not a war between the
United States and the Filipinos but the
war between Spain and the Filipinos.
Mr. Patterson held that that could not be
the case as Manila had fallen to the
Americans and the Spanish had been sent
to their homes
Mr.. Hosr asked Mr.. Foraker TO read the
sentence in President McKinley's procla-
nation which had been eliminated by Gen
ersl Otis, lest 1t should bring on war. He
said General Otis had assumed extraordin-
airy authority to himself to suppress a part
OF the proclamation and to substitute a
statement that would indicate to the Fill
pinos that they were TO be granted a full
measure OF liberty. Mr.. Hoar said be
realized the purity of purpose aud intel
lectual superiority OF the republicans with
whom he differed on this question. He
would rather lose his right arm than take
the position he had taken, but he was so
constructed by his Creator that he could not