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The Washington times., 1902-04-26

ed IL with the ashes of its homes and
drenched II with the blood of Its people.
Opponents of this policy deny that we
have derived any just powers of govern
rnent from the subjugation of the govern
ed. That is the real issue of this debate.
A Ridiculous Experiment.
ut is said that we must first instruct
these people. in the art of self-govern-
ment. How much time must be consumed
in this ridiculous experiment? The Pres
ident has said that 1t took our own race
thousand years to master the lesson of
government The implication is that
1t will take the Filipinos great deal
longer. The President has misinterpretei
the lessons of history. Long before our
Teutonic ancestors had attained the cul-
ture OF the Christian Filipinos they were
elf-governing people. and our present
institutions were built on the foundations
laid by them in the German wilderness.
What a vast change IL would have made
in history IL they had fallen under the
benevolent subjugaton and tutelage of
more civilized power. Instead of that,
they trampled out the last vestige o.
Roman law and Roman civilization. and
built up a nobler civilization OF their own.
Freedom is the only schoOlnaster that
can teach the lessons OF freedom. The
idea that you going to transform the
character of n race by teaching them to
read, This is n horse or to parse the
bird flies swiftly or that they would
learn to govern themselves by bearing the
burden OF a foreign government is the
widest, craziest, the most fantastic
dream that ever fitted through a luna
tics brain. We might as well say that
horse could learn to talk by bearing
philosopher upon its back.
Impracticability Of School Work.
Senators have boosted of our educa-
tional work on the islands as though We
were doing 1t all at our own expense. In
fact, we are simply levying tax of 3d.
900, 900 on the Filipinos to provide salaries
for American school teachers and con-
tracts for American book publishers.
1T seems to be assumed that no ray OF
learning ever penetrated those plutonian
shadows until borne there on the SHIN
mering wings of Yankee school teacher.
The fact is that nearly all the people can
read and write their own language. we
are sending there a lot OF school teachers
who cannot speak one word OF the ma
tive language to teach the natives now
to read the language OF the United states
''If you intended 10 hold the Philippine
Islands," he continued. what egregious
folly 1t was to put guns into the hands oil
the very men who had forewarned you OF
their purpose to resist u. The RepuDii-
cans adopted course whose inevitable
result was war. The responsibility IS
with them and the blood will remain on
their hands. though they wash them IN
the bowl of Pontius Plate forever.
Mr.. Carmack spoke two hours or more
and then yielded the floor In n somewhat
exhausted condition. He will resume to-
day. ..---
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SOUTHWEST CITIZENS
OPEN WAR ON CANAL
Coroner Investigates
Deaths in tie Canal

Deputy Coroner Glazcbrook
held an inquest Yesterday into
the death of John Mckenny,
whose body was found in the
james Creek Canal. Many
witnesses were heard. and the
jury visited the scene of the
accident.
The Southwest Citizens AS.
sociation has entered a protest
against the continuance of the
canal. and suggest that il be
arched over and converted into
a sewer. They say they will
fight TO remove the menace.
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legislation On the ground that il would
be blow to the sugar industry Of their
respective States.
When the beet sugar Republicans of the
House Of Representatives adopted the
Morris amendment abolishing the differ
entail on refined sugar, they had no idea
they were wiping out, at the same time.
the countervailing duties enforced by the
United States against sugar from coun-
tries that pay export bounties. The Mich
igan Republicans took particular pride
in the action of the House. and boasted
with great satisfaction of the fact that
they had voted solidly for the Morris
amendment. and cast the entire twelve
votes of the delegation against the bill.
The men in whose interest they fought
the program of the House organization
are the same men who now ask the Michi-
gan Senators to protect them against the
Morris amendment. which, by abolishing
the countervailing duties. puts them at
the mercy of the bounty fed sugars Of
Europe.
A False Hue and Cry.
That there is a great deal of humbug in
the cry that has been raised over the al
legged disastrous effect of the reduction in
the Cuban tariff upon the beet sugar in
an incident that occurred at the White
House short time ago.
Senator Mcmillan, a member OF the
Committee on Relations with Cuba. called
upon the President. accompanied by
George II. Barbour, a very prominent resi-
dent OF Detroit, identified with business
interests throughout the State. The Pres
idcnt was very glad to meet Mr.. Barbour
Before Senator Mcmillan had time to
give him his cue the Detroit man sur
prised the Senator by saying to Mr.. Roose-
welt, as he warmly shook his hand
Mr.. President / want 10 congratulate
you upon the stand you have taken on the
question of the reduction in the Cuban
tariff. Your recommendation to Congress
is sound.
I've just been talking with one of the
most influential men in our State and he
tells me that a reduction of 20 or % per
cent in the Cuban tariff will not hurt the
beet sugar industry of Michigan a bit"
President Roosevelt looked very happy
at this and glanced triumphantly at the
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What, sir. must have been their effect
We know that one of the leaders of the
Filipinos made an indignant protest
against such language on the part of the
President. What must have been the effect
when this language was spread broadcast
before the people at the very time when
the Philippines Commission was seeking
TO conciliate the people; was holding out
to them that alluring promise OF a just
and liberal government in which they
should have large and ever increasing
power?
Driven to Instruction.
"How many thousands and tons of thou
sands Of people were driven by these OPP
probiogs and scornfuI words into insur-
rection against the United States? Why,
Mr.. President, Governor Taft, the other
day, In defending the action Of the Philip
pines Commission in arresting and prose-
cutting Manila editors, said their scornful
and c0ntomptuous words toward the Fill
plnos were destroying the very confidence
in the Philippine government and the
United States. and that IL was necessary
10 stop such talk in order 10 keep them
from stirring VI instruction.
why. If the President OF the United
States should go to Manila and publish
the very words he has uttered again and
again in the United States he would be
guilty of violating the sedition laws as
made and construed by his own Commits
sion. His words would be classed as in
cendiary, as tending to inilame the peo-
pie and stir them up to insurrectio
Mr.. Roosevelt's Responsibility.
"Ah, Mr.. President. assume that We
are responsible 10 the full measure that
you charge, / say the fact will still re-
main that in this matter of responsibility
for bloodshed in the Philippines, Presi-
dent Roosevelt is as much greater than
William J. Bryan as David was greater
than Saul
Another man who came in for the Car
mack vitriol was man named A. Bur-
lingame Johnson, who went to the Phil
ippiHes in the interest OF some company
that wanted rights" OF some kind. The
Senator characterized him as one of the
choicest of the carpetbaggers.
He said:
Il believe IL GenSral Hughes would cx-
crcise some of his arbitrary power by
taking A. Burlingame Johnson and his
like to the utternust end OF the archi-
pelago and kicking them thence into the
midst Of the sea, he would earn a years
salary with every kick"
One Aspect Of Imperialism.
Mr.. Carmack said. that this bill, like
the Philippine tariff bill. simply presented
one aspect of imperialism. He held that
It was not a question only of framing just
laws for the Filipiaos but a question of
right to make any laws whatever for that
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Committee From Their As
ISOLATION Attends In
quest of McKenny.
WILL FIGHT TO A FINISH
Coroner's Jury Hears Many
Witnesses and Visits the
Death Trap"
RESULT OF THE INQUIRY
Suggests That as So Many Deaths Have
Occurred in the Canal Proper Lights
Be Displayed Along the Banks at
Night and Fence Be Built.

Once more the citizens of Southwest
Washington have spoken against the OK
istence of the old James Creek Canal.
which is located in that section OF the
city, and although many fights have been
made against the death trap" II is hoped
that the crusade just started will bring
good results.
The first official move of the Southwest
Citizens Association was taken ten days
ago. when committee called on Engineer
Commissioner Bidd,e, and asked that the
filthy stream either be filed in by the
District government or fenced up TO pre-
vent adding new names to its extensive
death roll.
For more than thirty years the citi-
zens of South Washington have >waged
war on the existence of the filthy James
Creek Canal" said ]. r. Scaggs, presi-
dent of the Southwest Citizens Associa-
tion, last night.
THE Commissioners have been asked on
numerous occasions TO do something to
put stop TO the number of lives lost in
its water. Having failed in our efforts,
however, we are determined that further
loss of life shall stop. Once more the
fight against the canal has been reopened.
and we intend to keep on fighting until
We have accomplished something"
Attended the Inquest.
Yesterday the fight was resumed in earn
est at the Sixth police precinct station.
when Deputy Coroner Glazebrook held an
inquest over the remains of John Mcken-
ny, whose body was recently found in the
canal Owing to the Importance of the
inquest the jury selected was composed Of
some of the city's most influential citi-
zens. They were Cuno H. Rudolph. DR..
George NJ. Kober, W Riley Decide,
Charles Schafer, Charles F. Weller and
Bernard Leonard.
President James F. Scaggs. Of the South
west Citizens Association, attended the
inquest with committee from the South
west Citizens Association
The family Of the drowned man were
represented by the firm of Kimball. Pot
bury & White, and IL is said they will
shortly bring suit against the District
government holding them responsible for
McKenny's death. John C. Rudel, bro
ther-in-law of McKenny. Baltimore po-
liceman, was also in attendance.
The inquest was enc of the longest
ever held in the Sixth precinct of its
character, and after hearing all the evil
dence regarding the condition of the
canal the jury, accompanied by the citi-
zens delegation, went TO the canal in the
Sixth precinct patrol wagon. A careful
examination of the waterway was made,
after which the party proceeded to the
home of Mr. Charles F. Weller, one of
the Jurors. where the following verdict
was rendered.
The Verdict
Whereas it has developed in taking
testimony in the case that not less than |
ten deaths have occurred from drowning |
In the James Creek Canal since July !,
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SICKENING BUNGLING
At JERSEY HANGING
Condemned Mans Head Al
most Severed by Moose.
Henry Sckaub, Who Murdered His Wife
and Babe, Dies Horribly on
the Gallows.

NEWARK. n. j., April 25.-The hang
ing of Henry Schaub, the murderer. at the
Essex county Jail this morning ended in a
CHASTITY scene. When the drop fell
schaub's head was almost torn from the
body. The sight sickened those who wit
messed the death struggles and several
tainted. There was a general rush to
leave the corridor. M
~ Killed Wife and Babe.
schaub was barber. and on June II
last cut the threats of his wife and baby.
He was tried for the murder of the for
:ner and quickly convicted. There was no
direct evidence aside from the fact that
he was the only one in the apartments on
High Street beside the victims on the
afternoon of the murders. Schaub was
discovered trying to cut his own throat in
the rear room.
The condemned man slept well last
night He was given new suit of black
clothes when he arose at O'Clock this
morning. Sheriff Virtue called on Schaub
shortly before 10 o'clock. the hour for
the hanging, and asked If he was ready
The prisoner said he was. In the interim
after breakfast. Schauo was given SplrlIu-
al consolation by his former pastor. the
Rev. Carl Gitanner, OF the Dutch Reform
ed Church.
None of the prisoners relatives called.
Accompanied by Sheriff Virtue and the
clergyman, Schaub walked firmly up the
galIows steps. He then babe good-by to
all.
Words on the Scaffold.
When asked If ne cared to say anything,
he said in a firm voice:
Il am about to meet my God, and wish
to tell all that l am innocent Of the
crimes" AS the black cap was adjusted,
he said:
May God have mercy on my SOUL
At 1910 o'clock the trap was sprung.
From Schaub's neck blood gushed forth
and spattered the stone walls of the cor
ridor. The head was only held to the body
by a shred. Ten minutes later Schaub
was pronounced dead. The body will be
given over to his relatives.
Those who witnessed the hanging say
1t was poorly executed. 1t appears that
there was some disarrangement of the
weights and the strain not accurately COM
nutpi
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ENDLESS CHAIN WHIRLS ON.
Letters Continue to Flood the Postoffice
at Wilkesbarre.

dt WUheSDdIle.
wILKESBARRE. Pa. April 25.-Four-
teen thousand more letters poured into
the postof!ice here today as the days con-
tribution 10 the endless chain business
started by Van Kirk & Robbins and sus-
pended yesterday by order of the postal
authorities. pending an investigation.
This morning the two propTietors left
for Washington to explain their business.
They are confident they will be allowed to
continue. II Is estimated that the mail Of
yesterday and today contains about $4,000
and that II will increase during the next
several days until the news of the sus-
pension overtakes the rapidly whirling
chain.
Meanwhile the postofIice employees here
are stacking the letters in boxes in one
corner OF the postoffice. II the congestion
is not relieved within a week there will
hardly be room for the regular business,
while IL the Office has 10 go on receiving
and distributing the firms mail the force
will he swampcd
1t is estimated that If the business con-
tinues at the present ratio for the next
three or four weeks there would be 10O,-
600 letters received each day.
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Alleged to Have Assaulted
Conductor.
TRIAL SET FOR THURSDAY
Statesman, Railway Employe, and Fire
man Out on Collateral-Mississippi
Files Written Charges Against Dis
trict Truckman.

In Judge Kimball's court yesterday
morning Senator fernando ID. Money
pleaded not guilty to the charge Of as
saulting Conductor o. II. Shaner. who
elected him from one of the Capitol Trac-
ton Company's cars at the corner Of
First and B Streets northwest, Thursday
morning.
Conductor Shaner and Fireman James
E. Hooper. Of Truck A. of the District
Fire Company. who were arraigned on
the charge Of having assaulted Senator
Money, also pleaded not guilty.
Trial Next Thursday.
The conductor and the truckman de-
manded jury trial. Senator Money elect
ed to be tried by the judge, ald the time
set for the hearing Of all the cases was
ator Money gave personal bonds for their
appearance. Conductor Shaner had el-
ready deposited $40 collateral as security.
George T. Dunlop, jr.. counsel of the
Capital Traction Company. appeared for
Shaner and Hooper.
shahSA hhaNN apPiASosAoh W ZIG biSSAANe
Attorney for a warrant for the arrest OF
Senator Money soon after entering the
Police Court. He was advised not to take
this action until after consulting his at
torney. He signed an information or COM
plant charging the Senator with assault
and under the charge presented in that
form Senator Money was arraigned and
pleaded not guilty.
Shaner did not seem in the least i'm
pressed by the fact that his opponent was
a United States Senator. He expressed
himself as confident that his encounter
with Mr.. Money yesterday would not re-
suit in the loss of his job.
Company Wants Investigation.
The Capital Traction Company says it
intends to see the matter through. Mr..
who is defending the men, said this morn
ing:
THE company intends to see thorough
of this case. We want to
get at the rights OF the case"
The continuance of the case will allow
Mr.. Mullowny. the District Attorney, and
the lawyers of the defendants time to get
together their testimony. Owing to the
important bearing of this case on other
similar cases OF ejectment from street
cars the Company dues not care to risk
defeat by going into the matter unpre-
pared.
Mr.. Money Still Angry.
Senator Money, who appears to harbor
more resentment against Fireman Hoop
er than against the conductor, filed writ
ten charges against him with Commits
sioner mcfarland last evening. The
charges were turned over yesterday morn
ing to Chief Dutton. of the Fire Depart
ment, for investigation. II the charges APP
pear to warrant such action. Hooper will
have to go before the trial board.
Senator Money expressed a determine
ton to have Hooper dismissed from the
service OF the District or make trouble in
The attempt He signified his willingness
10 appear against Hooper at the trial
board.
Tells His Story.
Senator Moneys letter to the Commits
sioners is as follows:
This morning at $3.50 o'clock at the
Junction of and First Street northwest.
was violently assaulted by a fireman
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l901-among these being that of a man
driving his horse into the canal. as the
street he was supposedly following led
directly into the canal, with no guard or
protection; IL further developed that prior
to July j, 1901, a blind clergyman living
near the canal walked overheard and was
drowned, which could not have happened
had there been protection of some kind
In view Of the number OF fatalities tes-
| tifed to. all being due to accidental
causes. which could have been prevented
had the canal been properly fenced and
lighted. we recommend:
''First-Thc immediate display of proper
lights such as are used in cases of un.
protected excavations along both sides of
said canal
''Second-That at the earliest possible
moment substantial board fence of not
less than five feet high be erected on
both sides of the canal.
'Thrd-As a permanent relief we rec
ommend either the abandonment and fill
ing of said canal or converting same into
a covered sewer"
The verdict also recited the finding of
the body Of Joseph McKenny, who had lost
his life in the canal. and recommended
that a copy of the verdict be sent TO the
District Commissioners with request
that copies of it be transmitted to the
proper committees of Congress.
Canal a Menace.
The testimony given at the hearing all
tended to show that the canal is a menace
to life in Washington as long as il ex-
lists; that IL was poorly lighted. and that
unless immediate steps were taken the
death score already hanging about ii
would be largely increased.
The first witness called was Policeman
William H. Lester, of the Fourth pre-
cinct, who. together with Policeman
Johnson. found the body of McKenny in
the canal. He stated that they had been
walking along the sea wall about $50
O'Clock "Wednesday morning, when they
discovered the body stuck in the mud
near the NJ Street Bridge. He said he
put rope about the mans neck and made
IT fast TO a stake on shore.
Witness said he had been on duty in
that precinct for eight months. and was
thoroughly familiar with the state of af-
fairs that exists along the canal. Lester
stated that person could easily walk
into the canal from any OF the streets
leading to the waterway. At times. he
the sea wall. The lighting facilities. he
stated, were poor. naphtha lamps being
used. On each bridge. he stated, there
ere two LAMPS. There was no fence erect
cd along the banks of the stream, he
stated, except that put up around the
place occupied by the District govern
ment The policeman was questioned at
some length regarding the number of
bodies found in the canal.
Five Bodies Found
He said there had been FIVE bodies
taken out during the past month that he
knew of. There was no order. he stated.
prohibiting persons from walking along
the sea wall.
Lieut.. J. II. Hollinberger, OF the Fourth
precinct. was the next witness called. He
said he had been in charge of that Sec
ton of the city for four years. and was
perfectly familiar with the canal. He de-
scfihed at some length the Objectionable
features OF the death trap. stating that
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not have got old John and hung him be-
fore he died natural death. There was
cx-President Harrison. His pen was busy
with treason when death claimed him.
"But still there are enough to hold
Funston for a while. There are ex-Sena-
tor Edmunds of Vermont, and ex-Gov-
ernor Boutwell,, and Carl Schurz, and Tom
Reed. ! have seen the time when would
like to have seen Tom hung. Laughter. j
Last, but by no means least. there is
the distinguished senior Senator from
Massachusetts (Mr. Hoare, and II that
Senator is disposed to murmur at his fate
] can tell him that IL will not be the first
time in history that men great as he,
as patriotic as he. az brave and as high
minded as he, have been hung by just
such fellows as Funston.
Lynching Bee Postponed.
81 noticed in the papers the other day
that Funston said the President had en-
tirely approved Of his gallows diatribe.
and was very anxious for him to accept
the Invitation of the junior Senator from
Massachusetts to go TO Boston and help
him orgarize a movement there for hang
ing the senior Senator fro.n Massachu-
sets. Laughter Unfortunately, Funs-
ton was previously engaged elsewhere for
a similar function. and so the Junior SEN
ator from Massachusetts vas not able to
pull of the little lynching bee he had
arranged for his colleague. Laughter
suppose II will come of later, and that
this is Just a reprieye.
But, Mr.. President, the plain truth Of
the matter Is that Funston cannot hang
anybody. The Constitution still stands
and il is by the Language OF that instru-
ment, and not b. the words Of a blather-
skite brigadier general, that the crime
OF treason is defined. Trial by jury is
still the right of every American citizen.
Funston ought to go back to the Philip
pines, TO land where there is plenty OF
hemp and no constitution. ILaughter.l
Question of Responsibility.
Mr.. President, introduced Funston
into this debate in pursuance of my in
uuiry as to who was mcst responsible by
words for the prolongation of the war
In the Philippines. ] say that If we are
going TO hang men without regard to the
Constitution or the law, without judge or
Jury, for provoking the Filipinos TO war
and instruction, then the very first neck
which ought to feel the strangling touch
of the soaped rope should be the heroic
gulIet of Brig Gen. Fred A. Funston
Every word he has uttered since he has
been in the Philippine islands has been
uttered as though with deliberate pur-
nose to inflame, TO incite, and to arouse
the people and drive them to hostility
against the United States.
1.-TWO or three years ago, In letter
written over his own signature, which was
published In the newspapers OF the United
states. he said that as soon as this insur-
rectiop was over he wanted to see the
people over there put and kept under p
Military government, the only kind OF
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FIVE CADETS DROPPED. 4
Fourth Class Men at West Point FUNK
in Their Examinations.

WEST POINT, N. Y, April 25.-The in-
termediate examinations just ended have
resulted in the discharge from the Mill
tary Academy for deficiency of Cadets
Eugene p. Fortson. OF Georgia; David
Hughes of Louisiana; Fred c. Moser. OF
Iowa; Louis A. Peatross, of Virginia, and
T. r. Ridley, OF Texas, all Of the fourth
oils