The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04
HOT TIME IN SENATE
nv,prBLICAN LEADERS AROUSED
BY DEMOCRATS.
LIVELY DEBATE ENSUED.
GARDENER RESOLUTION CAUSES
MUCH TALK.

4 go Investigated and He Is Wanted
Tbere-Mr. RawIins Said Gardener
81 1Vos in UnfriendIy Hands-Messrs.
Spooner, Lodge and Foraker Make
warm RepIies-AIIeged Suppress
ton of Mai. Gardeners Report
causes Much Talk.
Washington, May 3.-Discussion of
40 philippine question became heated
n the Senate to-day Thus far the
rinoritv has practically had a clear
feld in the debate, the policy of the
majority being to permit the criticism
i of the Democratic senators to proceed
Without interruption.
To-day Mr.. Spooner, Mr.. Lodge and
MIR Foraker became aroused. They
sno1,. in defense of the administration
3 and of the army, and they spoke hotly
almost uLreserN eddy. The result was
one of the most spirited debates that
has vet occurred on the Philippine
4 question. While the debate took a
4 vide range, it revolved around the res
oution calling for Maj. Cornelius
Gardener, in the Philippines, to appear
rs soon as possible before the Philip
nine Committee as a witness. A ca
4 bso-am from Gen. Chaffce was read
4 bs MIR. lodge, saying that it was inn
H nracticable for Gardener to leave the
4 stands q present, as he was an es-
sential figure in the court of inquiry
which is Investigating the conditions
of the province of which he was pro-
4 ynclal governor.
The reading of the cablegram brought
ant sharp attack upon the army
methods by Senator Rawlins of Utah,
who said Gardiner ought to come 10
A Washinston Immediately. In the course
Il nj his remarks, Senator RawlinS made
i some seYere structures upon Gen. Chat
fee.
Gardener in UnfriendIY Hands.
Mr. Rawlins said it was evident that
Mai Gardener thought the investiga-
ion TO be made of his charges was in
unfriendly hands. He said the bias
of Gen. Chaffee, as shown in his cable
gram to the War Department, was
manifest That cablegram to the war
Department indicated that Maj. Car
dener was reluctant to submit himself
to an investigation by officers who had
synpathized with the motives of the
WASHINGTON officials that the charges
should be fully investigated, but he
held that some tribunal ought to pc
selected to make the investigation
without possibility of the charge OF
Partially.
Mr. Spooner said the observations
Of Mr. Rawlins were quite character
istic of the action of the Democrats
i'm, Of This debate He SAID
he had read carefully the telegram
from Cen Chaffee and he had discov-
cred nothing indicating a bias on his
part.
i Trying to Impencb the Army.
The Senator from Utah." continued
Mr. Spooner, seems to be blinded
with suspicion of the army and of al
/ most everybOd charged with any re-
4 spCnsibiity in the Philippines"
1t seemed to him that there was a
! too great willingness, he said, on the
/ part of the majority to impeach the
whole American army. He denid en-
4 practically that the officers constitute
ing the board of inquiry were those
4 who had served in the province OF
4 which Mai. Gardener was governor.
In the Senate of the United States
i of all places, said he, the effort sought
not to be made to besmirch the rcpu-
tatJon and the honor of the army. out
RACES probably had been committed i'll
H isJJGted instances in the Philippines.
h He ccrdOned no outrageS of any Kind.
4 Al charges officially made of such out
4 RACES would be investigated thorough-
4 ly and undoubtedly, he said, the
3 guilty would be punished.
q Was the Report Suppressed!
The complaint of the minority SEEM
4 ell to be- he charged, that the Secre-
4 tary of War had not given Maj.
Gardeners charges Immediately upon
their reception to the Associated Press
q Tor vide dissemination.
He was interrupted by Mr.. Carmack,
4 who said the complaint was that the
q charges had not been furnished to
8 the Philippine Committee.
That is" said Mr.. Spooner, that
n they had not been made public"
4 We had heard nothing from the
minority" declared Mr.. Spooner Eek
eept suppression, suppression, suppress
son, and yet every possible effort IS
oelng made by the department to as
8 certain the facts and to punish the
guilty"
Mr.. Foraker defended Gov. Taft
against the charge that he had with
AeId Maj Gardeners report.
The record" he said, shows con-
Guslvely that such a statement is not
Warranted"
Mr. Lodge said it was perfectly
4 Hohstrous' to bring Maj. Gardener
& mere and allow him to make his ac-
CIsatons in a committee room of the
4 senate when the officers against whom
ne makes them are thousands of miles
away IN the Philippines. He added
slat he considered it incompetent to
dissolve a military board of inquiry by
resolution of the Senate.
WIN this latter remark Mr.. Nor
gan said he agreed.
HaWlins Replies to Lodge.
C replying to the Republican senator's,
senator Rawlins said he did not want
s ~ Dasmirch the army, but he did want
.DH inquiry to develop the guilty and
90 lhem punished while the innocent
10y De eXonerated. He said the mi
10y were met everywhere with OBJ
IONS and obstruction
call the senator from Utah to or
said Mr.. Lodge.
NO senator has a right TO charge
otner senator with obstruction. &"
r,tl' Hawlins referred to the case of
- '1ale Riley and quoted the Secretary
ar as saying in connection with
u'a1 private soldiers are inclined to
cIaW the long bow" in writing home
,,bt currences in the Philippines,
"a ne said was itself a severe
I. - uon on the army. Contrary
t5 ne Secretarys statement. he said
sustained. A4s pfiNa'es hao oeeh
on, mr. Lodge-The Riley case is the
my one that hos 49, -,,...t.os