The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-02-05
7ILLMAN BADGERS BEVERIDGE.
Hot Debate in Senate Over Phil
ippine Policy.

Washington, Feb. 3.-Another spir-
tied debate withsthe Philippine tariff
bill as the text. was precipitated in
the senate today as the result of some
statements made by Mr.. Carmack of
Tennessee in the course of an extend
ed speech on the general Philippine
question. It was the Tennessee sena-
tors first speech in the senate, and he
was given notably good attention on
both sides of the chamber. He spoke
without manuscript. with earnestness,
force and eloquence.
Prior to the taking up of the Philip
pine bill the measure providing for
an increase in the salaries of United
States judges was under discussion
for an hour.
Senator Stewart's amendment in
creasing the salaries of members of
the house of representatives to
ST., 800 annually beginning on March
4, 1903, was rejected, Is to A.
At O'Clock the Philippine tariff
bill was laid before the senate and
Mr.. Carmack of Tennessee, a member
of the Philippine committee, delivered
speech in opposition to the pending
measure.
"This bill,'' Mr.. Carmack declared,
sis framed on the theory that the
Philippine islands are deadly
menace to our own trade, and that
the less we trade with those Islands
and the less we have to do with them
the better it will be for us. The only
trade that will flourish under such
conditions is that Of the exploiters,
and it is proposed to turn the islands
over to them. It is for the benefit of
the carpetbaggers and not for the
benefit of the American people that a
war of criminal aggression is being
waged in the PHILIPPINE islands.
"We of the minority cannot support
this bill or the policy of which it is a
part. We are opposed to the bill, be-
cause we are opposed to the whole
policy of colonial empire
Mr.. Carmack discussed briefly the
subject of the censorship of press dis
paches in Manila. He declared that
it was no censorship for military pur-
poses but had been established by,
for, and in the interest of the Repub-
lican party.' Important information
had been suppressed by the censor, he
declared, and the people of this coun-
try had been kept in ignorance Of mat
ters to a knowledge of which they
were entitled.
Referring to the Republican supper
ters of the present Philippine policy,
Mr.. Carmack said: "You lift your
hands in holy horror at the lynching
of a colored man in the south, and yet
you are engaged in lynching 10000, 600
of people who recently were your allies
and your brothers in arms and who
have committed no crime except the
crime upon which this government was
founded. p"
Mr.. Beveridge, a Republican mem
Der of the Philippine committee,
sharply challenged a statement by the
Tennesse senator that the Philippine
tariff had not been well or carefully
considered.
"Did the Philippine committee
make an investigation Of the Philip
pine tariff scale?" inquired Mr.. Car
mack.
"No," replied Mr.. Beveridge, "but
the Philippine commission has been
considering that scale for two years. :"
Mr.. Beveridge asserted that the
Philippine question has been passed
upon and settled four times in con-
gress and twice had been beofre the
American people and by them twice
settled.
Mr.. Beveridge declared that the
reason why ex-President Cleveland, ex-
President Harrison and ex-senator
Edmunds, all of whom had not been
in sympathy with the Philippine policy
of the administration, declined to fol-
low the Democratic party was because
that party would not accept the deci-
sions of the supreme court and a YER
dict of the American people as final.
He asserted that the reasons why
the moderate, thoughtful and con-
structive people of the country had
not followed the Democratic party in
it's opposition. to the proper control OF
the Philippines and in others matters
Of national secrecy was that they fear
ed that party would "pull the dragons
teeth from which would spring har-
vest of anarchy
''They will not follow you'' be de-
clared, shaking his finger at the Dem
ocratic side, "because you are calling
our soldiers 'murderers' and charity
boys and doors of dirty work.
AS he was proceeding to discuss
some of the conditions in the Philip
pine Islands Mr.. Tillman of South
Carolina interrupted with the in
quiry:
"Will the senator be explicit and
give us the benefit Of his personal OBJ
servations or any official information
be has in regard to the dispatch from
Gen. Bell that he proposed to make
war so terrible that they would want
peace and want it badly. Is that true
or is it not?"
"That was not done while I was
there: replied Mr.. Beveridge. [
will ask the senator whether, when
he is making war, he would not make
war so terrible that the enemy would
want peace?"
THAT would depend,'' said Mr..
Tillman, whether was honestly en-
gagged in war that thought was de-
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