The age-herald., 1902-01-29

Manila January 2S.-General Chaftee, after an inspection of troops, returned here this morning. He says he found the conditions satisfactory everywhere ex- cept Samar, where continuous rain during the past two months has retarded the campaign, and especially against such an elusive enemy.
 The condition of Capt David Porter s marines who took part in the expedition into the interior of Samar, Is much worse than previously described. They suffered fearful hardships and were without food for several days. The natives who ac- companied the marines claimed they were unable to distinguish the edible roots, which the marines did not believe. The anger of the marines against the natives is intense. None of the latter returned with the marines.
 The marines suffered so acutely from starvation that they ate raw the flesh of two dogs.
 When Captain Porter and the first three of his men staggered into camp they were any other he will find me there, so far as that Is concerned. The Senator addressed to me an observation rather offensive In its character"
 MT. Tillman: Ut certainly had no al- fusion to lynching."
 MT. Spooner: No"
 MT. Tillman: And the Senator under stands very well that I come from sec tion of country where lynchings for a given crime and for a good many other Now dnpS the Senator wish to leave the Philippine proposition in which he is dealing with a colored people in a most infamous and damnable and hypocritcal way, and go south and hold them up as examples that we are dealing with in similar way-l mean the colored people here at home? Are we to have two rules of conduct in regard to the colored people, one in the Philippines by which we butcher them and shoot Christianity into them. and an- other in the south where we are not al- lowed to protect our wives and children?
 MT. Spooner: If we had the same rule for the colored people in the Philippines as the senator refers to, in the south, God help the colored man in the Philip pines''
 MT Tillman: God help you. In the Philippines now you have already butch cred in three years three times as many as the Spaniards did in three centuries.
 MT. Spooner: Tt is one thing to kill men with arms in their hands against a government and against the flag. It is an- other thing to burn them" MT. Tillman: You burned them in Kan sas, sir.
 MT. Spooner Wherever it is done it is an outrageous crime.
 MT. Tillman: Oh, it is a very easy thing for a man yho has nOt come in contact with them in close quarters to theorize and sentimentalize as to what other peo- pie ought to do.
 MT. Tillman was admonished by the president pro tenn. that he must not in- terrupt Senator without first obtaining leave, to which he replied that he was 'taunted in a way that no white man from South Carolina can submit to- After a little colloquy MT. Tillman asked MT. Spooner; When you quoted the constitution a moment ago in regard to the power of Congress in dealing with territory and other property did you in- clude men as other property whose lib- erty and lives ard all other rights are to be jcopardized or destroyed in this country? And are they property are people property? You bought them at E. head, it Is true but did you intend to give them their liberty, as we propose,
  carpet-bag government more damnable than you put on us in 1S6S?' An Old Question.
 That is the old question:" replied MT. Spooner 'The power to occupy inhabite ed territory involves the power, I suppose, to change the allegiance We acquired Louisiana. No one ever pretended that men and women were bought and sold in that transaction
 At the conclusion of MT. Spooner's re- marks MT. Teller of Colorado offered the following amendment to the pending bill:
 Be 1t further enacted, That the con- stitution and all the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect with in the said Philippine archipelago as elsewhere within the United States
 MT. Teller declared that the outrages and tortures committed in the Philip pines by the Spanards had been in- creased since the advent of the Ameri- cans into the islands. as always Is the case when the Anglo-Saxon succeeded the languid Latin in such an undertak- ing He was satisfied. he said. that if the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Lodge) would call before the Philippine commission men who knew the facts he would find in the Philippines condition of absolute insurrection and war. There was not square mile of territory in the islands, he said outside of Manila, where an American could walk without the pro- lection of bayonets. The civil branch of this government. he declared insist ed that there was no war in the Philippines, while the military authorities were call ing for more troops.
 MT. Teller referred to what he declared was the establishment in the Philippines of recommendation camps. and to the repe- Atition in the Philippines of the horrors Introduced into Cuba by Weyler. He sAid that private letter from an army officer in the Philippines had been re- ceived in Washington, in which an army officer was quoted as saying with respect to the establishment of concentration campss
 Will Apologize to WeyIer.
 ''If this thing is to keep up I will have to apoligize to Weyler."
 Another officer was quoted as adding ..,rhe time has come when I'm ready to apoIogize to him now"
 Mr. Teller, in response to volley of