The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-06
LODGE SPEAKS FOR
 THE ADMINSTRATI0
DeprecateS CrucltieS Practiccd Americans and Scores the Flll'
 pinOS for Their BarbaritieS.

He paid high tribute to the A1noF Army in the Philippines, all Of tn4 bers of which. he pointed out. wW4 unteers They represented th0ro<1t American communities which gaNe birth. They were not safnts-tN4 not devils The atrocities Nh1c0 been committed in isolated inst1ncQ3 { which all regretted lad srown oM warfare. ' E K
 MT. Lodge quoted from the rocc( 7 many instances of atrocities coMW by the Filipino insurgents on the At can troops. Men had been cap<uf~ prisoners of war and had their enr1 41 l on their intestines cut out and bodies otherwise horribly uutll4x4 IS EOthers had been driven into stre1xdo 1 W while drowning hac been shot <ut 4< CTS had been buried alive.
 Reading from statistics furnished: " authorities in the Philippines, he 11oN1 that AZ natives had been assaulted mutilated because they sympathi1od u<( the Americans. Sixty-seven munic1puf 1 ficers friendly to the Americans h41 te< assassinated and forty had been assoul1 and mutilated. He closed his speech te> ing:
 Friends Among Eilipinoss We are told that we had no frie414 among the F'ilipinos. Apparently the 11s
  friends to make up that awful roll 6f assassinations have heard torreFf4 o1 sympathy for the insurgents n9h1lER against the flag and the authority of tn9 United States, but not one word of uym< pathy for the Fflipinos. men of the sa{I@et race. who are friendly, to us and who asked only to live in peace beneath our flag
 Their lives were as dear to them n those Filipinos who were aiding the il5~ surgents and they were our friends. Thcfn are more of them there and say that whatever else may be true or false. ff we get out of those islands and leave theze friendly Filipinos to fates like this. we { are unworthy of the name of a Ereet nation.'
 Mir. Lodge declared he did not wirh ts beyond measure at the attack made upon the army. He added:
 "When we condemn Waller for shoft~ ing treacherous guides. when we think ek that little band of his that strugE1ed through the wilderness of Sanlar where no spaniard had ever zone and came out oil the other sida delffious with suN1rin4s' SO that he was reported when hc first reached Manila to be out of his mind- let us remember the circumstances are we condemn. Think of those five or six hundred posts scattered all over thuse islands, little squads of fifteen or twenty men under the command. very often. 9f sergeant or a. young lieutenant. there among people apparently friendly. The first thing this boy in command has been assassinated in the night
 "Ah, MT. President, these are thinsA that have hardened their hearts and made them feel that there is treaehery among them. There is but one testimony as to their treatment of the friendi{ natives. Soldiers and officers at1ke treated them as we should expect Ameri- cans to treat people of that kind, scner~ ously and humanely.
 Not Defender of Cruelties 'tI do not wish to be put in the position of a defender of crueIties. If must make my choice then. I am for the against the men in arms against her. and am for the American army against tho insurgents.
 "The scheme has been to raise this cry of cruelty in the Philippines in order to make 1t react upon the party in power. The American army ought not to be- subject to experiments like that. It is not made to be the foot stool of politics and what it does or does not do ought not to be used to raise up or pull down any political party. When justice is done; when the guilty have been pun ished of proved offenses; when the whole story has been made up I believe that after all that has been said and all the denunciation that has been heaped upon our troops and our officers have fallen into silence. we shall find that in the history of the country the record of that army gleaming with victories from Trenton to Manila, will shine brightly in the annals of the republic, when those who viilify 1t are but noteless blots of a remembered name."
 When Mir. Lodge had concluded his speech he was warmly congratulated by many of his colleagues. Twice in sha course of his speech the galleries burst into spontaneous applause.
 The conference report on the omnibus claims bill was agreed to without com- ment-
 Mir. Rawlins then made a brief reply to MT. Lodge He disclaimed any effort by his criticism to besmirch the Ameri- can army. The responsibility for the conditions in the Philippines and for the atrocities the Philippines, did not. he said. rest upon the army. He exonoreated General Chaffee and all other American officers from responsibility for the re- suits of the administra tion's policy in the islands. They and the men under them, he declared, were the victims 0f that policy. The responsibility for ths policy being pursued, he asserted. iay at the door of the Senator from Massa- chusetts CMr. Lodge) and at the door Of the Senators who were supporting and endeavoring to vindicate that policy.
 The death of Representatives 'otey tvir- ginia) was announced and Senator's Daniels, Martin, Bate, Clay Gallinser. Clarke (Wyo.) and Willard appointed 2 committee to attend the funeral.
 As an additional mark of respect the Senate. at 4:55 p. m., adjourned.
 DENIED BY GATES.