Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-01-30
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PHILIPPINE STORM RACES Fos
NEARLY THREE HOURS.
Senators in Angry Humor Utter Bitter
Taunts and Jeers That Almost Re.
suit in Fistic Encounters-com
merce Bill is Passed.


suit in Fistic Encounters-com-
merce Bill is Passed.
Washington, Jan. pa Philippine
storm was central in the senate cham
ber yesterday for nearly three hours,
but was devoid of definite results. At
times it looked very serious and the
spectators, who thronged the galleries,
watched it with breathless interest.
Acrimony in senate debates is not
infrequent, but it has been years since
there has been sach hurricane of bit
ter yituperation, of nersonal taunt, of
ugly charges and of unmodified criti-
.cism as was witnessed yesterday. Not
since the discussion of the resolutions
leading up TO the Hispano-American
war las such occurrences occurred
In the chamber comparable with yes
terday. Even that debate lacked the
personal bitterness manifested at
times yesterday. Irritation was
aroused on both sides of the chamber,
and once or twice personal encounters
between senators seemed imminent.
Once, when Senator Teller taunted
the Republican senators by declaring
that they knew the statements made,
In a recent dispatch from Manila in
which General Wheaton was repre-
sented as criticising the opponents of
the governments policy in the Philip
pines, were true, a half dozen Repub-
licans were on their feet in an instant
Senator Lodge, to whom the taunt
seemed aimed particularly, hurriedly
crossed from his seat in the center
of the Republican side to the center of
the main aisle of the senate, and white
to the lips, challenged the statement
of the Colorado senator and demanded
that he withdraw it. Senator Teller
modified the statement and further
hostilities at that time were averted.
One of the shS : colloquies was be-
tween Senators Spooner and Tillman.
The race problem, involving the lynch
ing of negroes. was interjected into the
controversy and much feeling was
manifested by both senator's. In the
course of the colloquy Spooner de-
applied to the colored people in the
Philippines as Tillman referred to in
the south then God help the colored
man in the Philippines God help
him in the Philippines now shouted
the South Carolina senator passionate
ly. You have already butchered In
three years three times as many as
the Spaniards did in three centuries"
1T is one thing" retorted Spooner,
| s'to kill men with arms in their hands
against the government and against
the flag, it is another thing to burn
them"
| Senators in the excitement seemed
to have forgotten the subject of debate.
The chair (Mr. Frye) was able with
difficulty to maintain order When
the discussion was ended for the day
the chair felt called on seriously to
admonish senators that the rules of
the body had not been observed and
after reading the rule which had been
violated he expressed the hope that in
the future senators would have care
to observe it. Such admonition has
not been made by the presiding officer
OF the senate in many years.
Prior to the outbreak on the Phil
fppine question the senate concluded
the consideration Of the bill establish
ing department of commerce and
passed 1t. The name of the new de-
partment was changed to that of the
! department of commerce and labor.
Just before the adjournment of the
senate Spooner introduced substi-
tute for the Nicaragua canal bill The
new bill is a practical authorization
to the president of the United States
to choose between the Panama and
the Nicaragua routes.