The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-07
HOT TIME IN SENATE.
.,scrssIoN OF OUTRAGEs WARNS
UP DAILY.
FOUR HOURS OF FIERY TALK.
,,RocITIEs ON BOTH SIDES COME
TO LIGHT.

piIiuinOs officers Responsible,
aid Carmnck-Severe Denuncia-
40 of GEN. Smith-A Monster I'm HUI
"a, Form, said Turner of Colo
.,doYRepOrted Massacre of 1000
rtipino Prisoners by Troops Is
pointed.
3 Washington, May 6.-For almost four
,,urs to-day a fiery discussion of the
p1tlippine situation ragged in the SEN
.,e II was started by Mr.. Beveridge
!, Indiana. who made some sharp
,trictures on the members of the oppo-
alton. because, he said, they persist
"a in telling in their speeches only one
.ide of the story" While he admitted
hat some outrages had been COM
ritted by American soldiers in the
phjlippines, it was true, too, he said,
mat UNPARALLELED kindness had been
sbovn by the American troops to Fill
pno prisoners 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, hospital. While
saving that the omission to tell this
h side OF the story by the Democratic
senator's was unintentional, he sug-
& gested that it was unfair to make an
+ arraignment of the American soldier
4 and not tell both sides.
Mr.. Carmack and Mr.. Rawlins
A warmly resented any imputation of
unfairness. Senator Rawlins said that
no partisan motives had actuated the
opponents of the present Philippine
policy, but that they were moved only
BY patriotism and love of country.
Mr. Turner of Washington delivered
4 scathing criticism of the methods
wacticed by the military authorities
in the Philippines, dwelling particularly
upon the order of Gen. Smith, whom he
/ denounced as a monster in human
form. He urged the Philippine Com
mittee to turn all the light possible
on the Philippine question to the end
that the people might be fully in
formed of the situation.
Senator Hoar briefly defended the
action of the Philippine Committee,
saying that it had already furnished
much valuable information. He urged
that the committee, in all Justice.
should calf some prominent. Filipinos
to testify in their own behalf.
During Mr.. Beveridge's remarks Mr..
Hoar inquired if it was fact, proved
by testimony that American soldiers
had tortured Filipinos until they had
confessed to the commission of crime.
O'Hearne's Fearful Death.
Mr. Beveridge said it had been
proved that the water cure had been
administered in the dreadful O'Hearne
case. By the confession of the Fill
pnos to whom the water cure had been
given, if was learned that O'Hearne
had been burned to death over a slow
fire. a.S
Was this murder proved by any
other testimony than that given in the
testimony of the tortured Filipinos?"
inquired Mr.. Hoar.
Not that 1 know of" replied Mr..
Beveridge. But that evidence was
conclusive"
The Officers Responsible.
THE conduct of American soldiers in
the Philippines suggested Mr.. Car
mack, was uniformly kind, wherever
1t was permitted to be so. In cases
where it was otherwise they were
driven to the cruelties by their supe-
rior officers"
Nj. Beveridge said he was glad at
this late date to hear an apology for
attacks made upon the American SOL
diers.
Mr.. Carmack said that he made no
apology for any statement he had
made.
Mr. Beveridge inquired if Mr.. Car
mack could mention more than a sin
gle instance where an officer had or
deTe1 the nf torture RI
Filipino.
Mr.. Carmack replied that he had not
referred to any special order, but that
the general orders of Gems. Bell and
Chattee indicated that in the opinion
Of those officers the American troops
We're treating the Filipinos too kindly.
Mr.. Beveridge ridiculed this answer
Of Mr.. Carmack, declaring that when
nc asked him a direct question he re-
pied in diaphanous way of the or
GERS of Bell and Chaffee.
IN the course of a reply to some of
me comments made by Mr. Beveridge,
Ar. Rawlins discussed at length the
case Of the murder of Sergt. O'Hearne
ana said that the impression he had
gotten from the testimony was that
u'e FlIlpinOS had been induced to make
me confession suggested to them by
we administration of the water cure.
outraSes in the Philippines were due,
NOT to the soldiers themselves, but to
.Ie highest military authorities in the
SANDS The responsibility for them
!nueed was to be placed properly at
we we door Of the administration officials
mere IN Washington.
senator Rawlins said one victim was
neu down by American troops and
.usaf was placed upon his head to at
stipSe Islands. and forced to give in
eo.I ION He said women and limo
~ children had been put to death
T.iileSsly by American troops.
Drive Home Lodges Speech.
senator Turner of Washington re-
i w. TO the speech of Mr.. Lodge, say
ne ms purpose would be to supple
,1.e'l mat speech and to drive home
- inclusion that 1t is unwise, unpa-
'oli'' cruel and inhuman to attempt
~. lieW of the facts, to make the
rlllpplnes permanent part of the
.1ory of the United States.
,f i''lor Turner referred to the order
zen. Jacob II. Smith and said that
remaned for the American soldier.
highest type of civilization,
I,.' quarrel not having the
I element of religious difference,
''uted upon professedly humani-
grounds, to raise his name to the
f,, o. bloody infamy. He character
zen Smith as a monster in human
i9l"' who had devoted an entire prov
10 merciless determination.
\ reported Massacre.
NJ. III Turner referred to a special dis
~. y which appeared in the Washing
NJ st Of to-day under date of Lynn.
-'sS' and which on the authority OF