Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1902-04-23
MORE RIGID ARMY INQUIRY
General ChaTee Ordered to investi-
gate Charges Of Cruelty.
COURTS-MARTlAL IN PHILIPPINES
Trial For General Smith, It His AL
legged Orders Are Verified - Action
Taken After Cabinet Meeting ut
Which the Recent Disclosures Were
Considered-Secretnry Roots Dispatch

Taken After Cabinet Meeting ut
whIcl, the Recon, Disclosures Were
Considered-Secretnry Roots Dispatch
Washington. u. C-Secretary Root
has ordered General Chaffec, ut
Manila. to investigate the newspaper
reports OF the Waller trial, and If they
are correct to court-martial General
Jacob II. Smith. Also, il the facts are
established rs testified to before the
Senate Committee on the Philippines.
to court-martial the officers who ad
ministered the water cure" To the
Presidentc OF Igbarras. These officers
are Major Glenn. Lieutenant Corger
and Assistant Surgeon Lyon.
This action was the result of the
consideration of the Cabinet OF the
charges of cruel treatment of FilipinoS
by United States soldiers. President
Roosevelt is determined to sift the
matter to the bottom.
The following cablegram was sent
to General Chaffee:
"On February 10 last n letter was
sent TO YOU enclosing for investigation
a copy of charges made by Governor
Gardener of Tayabas Province. which
contained general allegations of cruel
dies practSed by troops on natives.
press dispatches state that upon the
trial of Major Waller. of the Marine
Corps, testimony was given by Waller.
corroborated by other witnesses, that
General Jacob II. Smith instructed
him to kill and burn; that the more
he killed and burned the better pleased
General Smith would be: that it was
no time to take prisoners. and that
when Major Waller asked General
Smith TO define the age limit for kill
Ing he replied. everything over ten.
IF such testimony was given, and
the facts can he established, you will
place General Smith on trial by court
martial.
Yesterday. before the Senate Com
mittee, Sergeant Charles S. Riley and
Private William Lewis Smith. of the
Twenty-sixth Volunteer Infantry, tes-
ified that the form OF torture known
as the water cure was administered
to the Presidente of Igbarras, noilo
Province. b. detachment OF the
Eighteenth Infantry, commanded by
Lieutenant Arthur i. Conger. under
orders OF Major Edwin +. Glenn. then
Captain OF the Twenty-fifth Infantry,
ind that Captain and Assistant Sur
seon Palmer Lyon was present to as
siSt them.
THE officers named will be tried
therefor by court-martial
"Conger and Lyon are in this conn
ry, and most of the witnesses being
presumptively here. the Secretary of
War directs that Major Glenn shall
proceed to San Francisco. with n view
% his trial by court-martial
LAS the two years allowed for the
prosecution by the statute of limita-
tons is nearly at an end, no time is
20 he lost.
THE fact that such acts of cruelty
and barbarity appear to have been
lone indicates the necessity of n most
thorough. searching and exhaustive in
veStigation under the general charges
preferred by Governor Gardener and
you Will spare no effort in the invcsti-
cation ordered under these charges to
uncover every such case which may
nave occurred and bring the offenders
to justice.
THE President desires to know in
The fullest and most circumstantial
manner all the facts. nothing being
concealed. and no man being for any
'eason favored or shielded. Nothing
'an Justify or will be held to Justify
he use of torture or inhuman conduct
)f any Kind on the part of the Amcri-
,an army. ELIHU ROOT
Secretary of War"