Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-05-15
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~ RESUME OF rHH
WEEKS PROCEEDINGS.
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In the Senate.

yya shInpton. May Elm vindicatloh
of the administrations policy In the
-phiIinnines Mr.. Lodge of Massacnu-
satte chairman of the Philippine COM
rittaa addressed the senate yester-
dav Long before he began to speak
| The galleries were thronged with peo-
40 and the Itendance on the floor or
the senate WIS unusually large. HIS
,a,,ieu, Of the situation in the islands
and of the utterances Of the minority IN
criticism of the conditions tnere was
notably interesting, forcefui u el-
fective. He spoke with deep earnest
ness, and at times became
Mr.. Lodge warmly resented the impu-
tations cast on the president, the secte-
tary of war and the army Tor the al
legged cruelties and atrocities SAID 10
have been praCticed in the Philippines.
Ho said every effort had been employed
nv the officials in authority to prevent
such crueIties as had been referred TO-
and measures had been taake to pun
ish those guilty of them. Such things,
however, we're incidents of every war
and could not be prevented absolutely.
He had no defense TO make OF the cases
of torture which had been cited, but the
men of the Am arican army had been
provoked almost
Beyond Human Endurance.
He recited scores of instances OF cruel
ties and fortunes rracticed by the Fill
ipino insurgents On American prisoners.
Men had had their ears cut on, had
been disemboweled; had been driven
into streams, n while drowning, shot
TO death: had oeen tied to trees and
stoned to death by women and children.
and buried alive, others had been shot
and bcloed treacherously while succor-
ing the. wounded. In the face OF these
horrible atrocities. some of the Ameri-
can troops had been guilty OF admins
tering the water cure but the in
stances Of this kin were isolated and
no part of the general policy of the
Philippines. He warmly defended Gen.
Chaffee for his conduct Of military az
fairs in the islands and paid a brilliant
tribute 10 his heroism and patriotism.
AS he concluded his defense of the
American army and the American ad-
ministration he drew cordial applause
from the galleries.
In a brief reply Mr.. Rawlins of Utah
declared that the charges which had
been made were not made against Gen.
Chaffee or the american army, but
against the senator from Massachusetts,
(Mr. Lodge) ana others who were re-
sponsible for the present Philippine pol
icy.
Both the sundry civil appropriation
bill and the bin for the purchase of the
Rosebud Indian reservation were
passed.
In the House.
Two desks ware draped in black and
covered with flowers when the house
met yesterday. One was the old ia
milia' place occupied by Representative
Amos J.. Cummings, whose public
funeral was held In the house Sunday,
and the other was that of Representa-
tive Peter J.. otey Of Virginia. whose
death occurred at Lynchburg Sunday.
DR.. CoCde n. the chaplain, in his invo-
cation, dwelt upon the double affliction
that had come upon the house and
prayed for the family and friends of
Mr.. Otey.
The hous adjourned out Of respect
to tho memory of Mr.. Otey.
Washington, May For almost four
hours yesterday a fierce discussion of
the Philippine situation ragged in the
senate. 1t was started by Mr.. Bev-
eridge OF Indiana, who made some
sharp structures on the members of the
opposition, because. as he said, they
persisted in telling in their speeches
only n side of tire story. White IN
admitted that some outrages had been
committed by American soldiers In the
Philippines, 1t was true, too, that un-
paralleled kindness had been shown by
the American troops to Filipino pris-
oners and Filipino wounded. Food and
medicine. he said. had been shared with
them. and they had been succored on
the battlefield and cared for tenderly
In the hospitals. While saying that the
omission to tell this side of the story by
n Democrats was un~intentional, he
suggested that Ii was unfair to make
an arraignment of the American soldier
and not tell both sides.
Mr.. Carmack and Mr.. Rawlins warm
~ resented n imputation of unfair
ness. Mr.. Rawlins declared that no
partisan spirit ever had actuated the
opponents of the present Philippine poll
Icy, but that they were moved only by
patriotism and love of country.
Mr.. Turner of Washington delivered a
scathing criticism OF the methods prac-
tired by the military authorities i'm III
Philippines, dwelling particularly upon
the alleged order Of Gen. Smith, whom
ne as a monster in human
form.
In the House.
The house yesterday adjourned Inn
mediately after he reading OF the
journal, out of respect to the memory
OF Representative j. d. Salmon of New
Jersey, who yesterday died suddenly of
aroplexy at his home in Boonton. This
is the third consecutive legislative day
on which the house has paid a similar
trib1te OF respect to one of its deceased
me,nhers.