The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-27
BY Hoping IL Will Turn from the
Bloody Gospel of Strenuous Life"
TO the Paths of Peace.
SAMPLES OF HIS UTTERANCEs
HE ACCUSES AMERICAN SOLDIERS
OF BUTCHERING FILIPINOs,
And Charges the Administration with
Making Places for "RapscaIIions
and CarpetbaEgers.''

WASHINGTON, April 26.-Mr. Carmack,
of Tennessee, in the Senate to-day COM
pleted the speech on the Philippine govern
ment which he began yesterday. He con-
tinued his exceedingly caustic criticism of
the administrations policy and the ultimate
end to which it would lead, concluding by
expressing the hope that the administration
would turn from ''the bloody gospel of the
strenuous life to the paths of peace. He
read Professor Schurman's criticism of the
bill to show that Professor Schurman be-
lieved the Philippine government should be
administered for the Filipinos. By the
terms of the pending bill, he said, the
islands were for the FiIpinos the pasture
was for the sheep-they lived and browsed
there in order TO raise wool for others to
wear and mutton for others to eat. 'If the
carpet bag government you propose to es-
ia blish in the Philippines" he cried. sis not
thousand times better than that which
you established in your own country after
the civil war, Lord God have mercy upon
the people Of those islands"
Mr.. Carmack referred to the cabIed re-
ports from Manila that General Smith had
acknowledged he had given orders to make
Samar bowling wilderness, and to kill all
over ten, as horrible beyond the description
of words. The programme, he said, was to
practice unheard of barbarities in the
slaughter of the inhabitants and to have
the torch complete the work of slaughter
when the land it without home and the
country without a people, the word 'paci-
ned VIII be written upon the tombstone of
the province of Samsr," he said.
From the very outbreak of hostilities in
the Philippines, the senator declared, there
\ mn n a
truth which was now coming out 1t was
now known. he said. that 10000 people had
persisted in a single province containing
100000 inhabitants, and yet the people OF
! the United States knew nothing of il until
recently. The civil government established
| by this bill, he predicted would result in
| ever-recurring instruction to be put down
/ by our blood and treasure. What for? In
! order that a few rapScallionS and carpet
| bagSers might have unlimited license to
| thieve and plumber.
| In the course of his remarks he called at
! tentien TO report that an American cor
| pOration which proposed to raise rubber
| trees in MindanaO had arranged with the
/ dattoS for slave labor, and he read an
] amendment he proposed TO offer prohibiting
/ the grant of any franchise tc persons or
| corporations which proposed to employ
/ slave labor. He asked Mr.. Lodge If the
| amendment would be agreeable to him.
| Il cannot speak for the committee" re-
| piled Mr.. Lodge. For myself 1t is perfect
/ ly agreeable to me-
u -
amendment he would offer to prohibit the
! entry of the Philippines as States in the
/ Union, and asked for Mr.. Lodges opinion,
but the latter declined to reply categorical
/ ly, saying he would answer in his own time,
/ in his own way. But Mr.. Dolliver, of Iowa,
/ asked Mr.. Carmack to define his own posi-
/ ton, having first inveighed against holding
the islands in perpetual despOtism' and
! being now solicitous lest they be admitted
/ as States.
Mr. Carmack responded that his own
| +
| baggers and Adventures were plundering
and getting control of the islands. he said.
| the government provision in this bill would
/ be just what they wanted. When they had
] everything they wanted, he said, they
/ would clamor for American markets and
American statehood. Mr.. Carmack ex-
pressed the earnest wish that the admins
! tration would turn from the bloody gospel
of the strenuous life" to the paths of
peace.
! committee on continent expenses, reported
! favOrably the resolution of the committee
| on relations with Cuba, providing for an
! investigation by that committee of the al
| legged control of the Cuban sugar crop and
sugar lands in Cuba.
Mr.. Teller. who had introduced the reso-
! luton, said 1T was net what he wanted en-
tirely and was not what he thought ought
| TO be passed. Mr.. Teller said he desired to
1 deny that he had ever said that Colorado
/ sugar producers were willing 70 have the
duty taken off sugar and he made this
1
| been attributed to him by a witness be-
| fore the ways and means committee. The
resolution was adopted without further
| comment
A resolution offered by Mr.. Proctor was
| passed directing the secretary of to
| send to the Senate statement OF the num-
] Der of disappearing gun carriages under
| contract, list of the bids for the construc-
ton OF such carriages. the total cost OF the
/ carriages, where they are mounted, and
/ where il is proposed to mount those under
/ construction. The resolution was adopted
Mr.. Platt, of Connecticut, presented a
| conference report on the Chinese exclusion
| bill asking that the Senate disagree to the
/ report and insist upon further conference
/ He explained that the only point of differ
/ and the House was that the House con-
! ferees asked the Senate to eliminate from
/ the substitute passed by the Senate that
/ portion which provides that the present
! Chinese exclusion law be extended through
! the life of the present treaty and remain in
! force until another treaty shall have been
| negotiated. Mr.. Platts motion that the
| Senate insist upon its amendment and agree
| to another conference was agreed to.
| The oleOmargerine bill, agreed to by
| the House, was laid before the Senate, but
| went over until the amendments as agree d
| to could be printed.
| Mr. Prtchard, of North Carolina. adj
| dressed the Senate I'm support of the bill
] for the purchase of "A national forest re-
serve in the southern Appalachian noun