The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-09
CARMACK'S ROAST
ONE OF THE wARMEST SPEECHES
EVER HEARD IN SENATE.
CALLED FUNSTON A LIAR
WALKED ON LODGE, PRITCHARD
AND DOLLIVER.

handling of EnGlish-DOlIiVer OF
Iowa Done to Turn and His Sar-
castle Comments on Memphis
Editorial Replied to With Interest.
Every Interference Brought Back
warm RepIy-After Concluding
CarmacIS Pleasantly Shook Hands
With Mon He Had Roasted.
Washington, May S.-Discussion of
the Philippine bill in the Senate to-
day while it scarcely abated in bit
| terness. took on an amusing phase.
In a breezy speech Mr.. Carmack of
| Tennessee made such a good natured,
and yet such a sarcastic arraignment
of Senator Dolliver of Iowa that SEN
ators and occupants of the thronged
galleries were convulsed with laugh
ter. While seemingly considerable
temper was aroused by the debate,
good feeling was shown by the active
participants in the war of words-Sen-
| ator Dolliver and Senator Carmack-
who cordially shook hands and laugh
| ed over the encounter.
Senator Burton of Kansas concluded
the speech which he began yesterday
! He referred as instances of "atrocious
cruelty" to the battle of Wounded
Knee, to the Mountain Meadow mas
| sacre and to the massacre of Union
| soldiers at Fort Pillow, and contended
that the action of the American troops
in the Philippines was, in most in
stances, entirely within the regulations
of civilized warfare.
Continuing, Mr.. Burton referred to
the remarkable speech" delivered in
the Senate yesterday by Senator TIL
man. He paid tribute to the work
being done by Booker Washington for
the negro and suggested that if the
negroes would follow his advice they
would be successful.
The discussion of the Philippine bill
was then resumed and MIR. Carmack
| of Tennessee, replying to Mr.. Burton,
| made a bitter denunciation of Gen.
| Funston. He said he did not question
| his physical courage, but few acts
of dare deviltry in the Philippines
did not make a hero. When Funston
had stated that Aguinaldo had burned
900 people alive at one time. he had
told a deliberate and premeditated lie.
The sudden waking up of the Re-
publicans, Mr. Carmack said, was for
tional hate in order to divert this de-
bate and the attention of the people
from the atrocities which have been
permitted in the Philippines.
Il suppose it is in obedience to in
structions from the White House," con-
tinued the senator, that the effort
is being made to reopen the wounds of
the country that have been healed"
CarmacIS's Telling Words.
|
speaking with evident emotion, Mr..
| Carmack said:
II shall be ready to meet every
slanderer of the South and every de-
| famer of its honor, whether the assail-
ant comes from some part of the coun-
try beyond the borders of the South,
or whether it be. some recreant and
degenerate son who has proved a tria-
tor to the womb and bosom of
his mother
Senator Carmack. referring to the
cahrges of lynchings, etc, in the South,
said
You cannot help us by denuncia-
ticn. The best thing you can do is to
keep your mouths shut and let us
alone.
Mr.. Carmack declared that Mr.. Lodge
was dishonoring the American army
and the American Senate by defend
| ing orders which looked to the murder
of women and children. Such orders of
death, a brutal and inhuman order,
could not be justified by anybody; yet
these were the orders which senators
had the devilish impudence to justify.
Does the Senator think" inquired
Mr.. Spooner. that the phrase, devil
ish impudence' is proper under the
| rules of the Senator"
mo, 1 do not" said Mr.. Carmack,
land l withdraw the expression"
Mr.. Carmack said that Mr.. Lodge had
not suggested any reason why Gen.
Smith should not be hanged as a com
| mon murderer.
Smith has not" said Mr. Carmacls,
burned people at the stake. He has
done nothing but butcher whole peo-
| pie in cold blood. He has dishonored
the whole American army"
Mr.. Foraker inquired If Mr.. Carmack
thought it was the purpose of President
| Mckinley in taking over the Philip
pine, Islands to provide a theater of
scoundrelism.
Cnrmack's Good shots.
Mr. Carmack replied that McKinlcy's
purpose was that of benevolent assim-
ilation;" the purpose of the Republi-
can party now is malevolent dissImd-
latior. Oarghter)
/ Mr. Deliver read an editorial from a
Memphis newspaper upon Mr. Car
nack's recent speech on the Philippine
| question, in which that paper took
sharp ISSUE with the Tennessee SEN
ator as to his conclusions. Mr.. Dolli-
| ver's comments upon the editorial as he
read it were highly amusing and both
senators on the floor and the people in
the gallery laughed at his sarcastic al
| lusit MS
In reply Mr.. Carmack said that he
had no idea of tossing jawbones with
the redoubtable tongue slugger from
| Iowa" He said that where his Ian
| guage was not witty his gestures were
| ridiculous. so far as his argument
is concerned" said Mr.. Carmack, ''he
might just as well have been swinging
by his prehensile tail from a leafy
bough.'
Mr.. Carmack said that the newspa-
per from which Mr.. Dolliver read was
owned largely by Luke f. Wright. a
member of the Philippine Commits
sion Mr. Carmack said Mr.. Dolliver
| in his speech justified murder in the
| Philippines and defended the order of
Gen. Smith.
Poor old Smith" he continued. "the
| scoundrel-the murderer-the butcher.
| / am gald to say that the senator
from Iowa is the only man that has
thus far risen in his place to defend
! that bloody old scoundrel.
ct do not call the senator from Iowa
to order" said Mr.. Carmack. IF he
| l,od hean auv other senator On that