The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-05-29
TO STOP LYNCHING
Is Import Of a Resolution Intro
duced in Senate by Gallinger.
SAYS THERE MUST BE REMEDY
New Hampshire Man Declares Crime
is More Horrible Than the Span
ish Observation-Disclosures
Went Over.

A Washington special says: Soon
after the senate convened Monday, MT
Gallinger, of New Hampshire, offered a
resolution providing that the judiciary
committee of the senate should make
an investigation into the subject OF
lynching in the United States with q
view of ascertaining whether there is
any remedy for them.
Mr.. Gallinger said he introduced the
resolution in full view of the fact
that he might be charged with preclpi'
tating a sectional controversy, though
nothing was further from his thoughts.
He said lynchings were not confined to
the south Horrible cases had occur
red in the north and white men as
well as black had been the victims.
Throughout the country intense inter
est was manifested in the subject. He
thought it imperative that the judi
ciary committee should take some ac'
tion upon the subject.
During the past ten years 2,6oS
lynchings had occurred in the United
States. Of these 121 had occurred in
the south and IA in the north, the re-
mainder in other parts of the coun-
try. If the strong arm of the law
could reach out to prevent such oc-
currences, he deemed it desirable that
it do so.
He read the Associated Press account
of the burning of a negro in Texas a
few days ago. He said history did not
furnish a more fiendish instance OF
mob wrath, and Fox's Book Of Mar
tyrs was tame in comparison. The
whole wretched business, he said, was
a disgrace to American manhood and
in the light of which the alleged atroc-
tiles in the Philippines paled into in
significance. The Spanish inquisitlon
did not furnish a case exceeding that
one in inhumanity. He epprehended
that it would be said that the Federal
government was powerless and that
the states had exclusive jurisdiction.
If so, the American people desired to
know it. Public sentiment should be
aroused to prevent such lnhuman
atrocities.
Mr.. Culberson, of Texas, presented
and had read an account Of lynching
in Kansas, saying that he wanted it
shown that the crime of lynching was
confined to no state or section. He
said he hoped the New Hampshire
senator would not single out his state
when he wanted to bring such cases
before the senate.
After remarks by Mr.. Hoar upon
the constitutional feature of the case,
the resolution went over.
The Philippine bill was then taken
up, and Mr.. Patterson, OF Colorado,
made a speech in opposition to it.
In beginning, Mr. Patterson read ex'
tracts from a report of ministers
meeting held recently in Boston in the
course of which the minister stated
that the American flag had been dis
graced in the Philippines by the com
mission of tragedies and horrors in
the island, although no special attack
was made upon the president and sec
retary of war.
Mr.. Patterson referred to the edito
ais from the Denver News, which Mr.
Foraker had read in the course OF his
speech. These editorials strongly
urged the retention of the Philippine
islands and advocated the govern
ment's policy as to the islands. Mr.
Patterson, said he, was responsible
for the utterances of the Denver News
then and now. He said he was tpye
of hundreds Of thousands of American
people who had held views similar to
those expressed in the Denver News
editorials and subsequently had
changed those views.
Mr.. Patterson declared that after
the capture of Manila, "a censored
press, deliberately guided by the pow
ers in Washington, had misrepresent
ed the situation in the Philippines"