The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-04
FIGHTING
EVERY STEP
REPUBLICAN MAJORITY IN SENATE
MUST ANSWER PUZZLING
QUESTIONS
CYCLoNIC DEBATE YESTERDAY
Senator Carmack Arraigns Philip
pine Tariff Proposition in
an Incisive Speech That
Stings the Majority.
TILLMAN GOES FOR BEvERIDGE

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-Another spr-
ited debate with the Philippine bill as the
text was precipitated in the senate today
as the result of some statements made
by Mr.. Carmack (Dem., TENN in the
course of an extended speech on the gen.
eral Philippine question. 1t was the Ten
nessee senator's first speech in the SEN
ate, and he was given notably good at
tention on both sides of the chamber.
He spoke without manuscript, with earn
estness, force and eloquence.
At the conclusion of Carmack's address.
which had been listened to by many of
his former colleagues in the house Of
representatives, Mr. Beveridge Qnd)
challenged some of his statements
The debate which ensued was very
lively for a few minutes, taking on a
political phase which proved particularly
interesting to the auditors who crowded
the floor as we'll as the galleries. Mr..
Beveridge and Mr.. Tillman IS. Co. be-
came involved in a heated colloquy in
which the exchanges were as hot as both
senators well could make them.
Framed by IN Autocratfc Body.
In his speech Mr. Carmack said proper
consideration of the bill involved the
whole Philippine question. He contend
ed that congress was not prepared to
deal Understandings with the Philippine
situation, in any of it's phases, because
1t was not familiar with the facts. The
bill, he said, had been framed by the
Philippine commission, an autocratic
body thousands Of miles away, and not
q change had been made in it by con-
gress. 1t is, he said, framed on the
theory that the Philippine islands are
a deadly menace to our own trade; and
that the less we trade with these ISL
ands, and the less we have to do with
them, the better it will be for us. The
only trade that will flourish under such
conditions is that of the exploiters and
1t is proposed to turn the islands over to
them. 1t is for the benefit Of the carpet
baggers, and not for the benefit of the
American people, that a war of criminal
aggression is being waged in the Phil
ippine islands.
Minority Doesn't Like Bill.
I'VE of the minority cannot support
this bill or the policy of which 1t is a
part. We are opposed to the bill because
we are opposed to the whole policy of
colonial empire"
He next discussed briefly the subject
of the censorship of press dispatches in
Manila. He declared it was not a cen
sorshp for military purposes, but had
been established by, for and in the in
terest of the Republican party"
Important information had been sup
pressed by the censor, he declared and
the people of this counry had been kept
In ignorance of matters to knowledge
of which they We're entitled.
Referring to the Republican supporters
of the present Philippine policy Mr. Car
mack said:
You lift your hands in holy horror at
the lynching of a colored man in the
South, and yet you are engaged in lynch
ing 100000 Of people who recently were
your allies and your brothers in arms
and who have committed no crime eX-
cept the crime upon which this govern
ment was founded
With great earnestness he declared that
If the president of the United States had
properly characterized Aguinaldo and his
associates as bloodthirsty Apaches, then
Admiral Dewey and those who secured
Aguinaldo's help and assistance could not
escape the charge of deliberately violat-
ing the laws of civilized warfare, and he
hoped the charge against Admiral Dewey
would be Investigated.
Prom the beginning said Mr.. Car
mack, 1--WE knew that Aguinaldo was
fighting, not for change Of masters, Uut
for absolute freedom, and Gen. Anderson
had assured Aguinaldo that the American
people never have established colonies
and he could trust in the honor Of the
American people. These facts" he said.
constitute binding obligation upon us
to give them their independence
Beveridge Chips In.
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Carmack' 8
speech MI. BeVeridge, Republican mem
Der of the Philippine committee. sharply
challenged statement by the Tennes-
see senator that the Philippine tariff had
not been We'll or carefully considered. As
a matter of fact, he said, that scale was
fixed after months of consideration and
after consulting every interest In the
Philippines.
Did the Philippine committee make
an investigation of the Philippine tariff
scale?' inquired Mr.. Carmack.
No" replied Mr.. Beveridge, but the
Philippine committee has been consider
ing that scale for two years.
Mr.. Beveridge declared that if the Dem
ccratic party had given to its last tariff
bill the same care which had been given
the Philippine tariff scale this country $
prosperity would not have withered as it
had under the tariff it had enacted.
Further along Mr. Beveridge declared
that the reason why ex-President Cleve-
land, ex-President Harrison and ex-Sena-
tor Edmunds, all of whom had not been
in sympathy with the Philippine policy OF
the administration, declined to follow the
Democratic party, was because that par
ty would not accept the decision of the
supreme court and the verdict of the
American people as final
The people VIII not follow YOU" he
declared, shaking his finger at the Demo-
cratic side, because you are calling our
soldiers 'murderers' and 'doers of dirty
work %
Now Comes TiIIman.
AS he was proceeding to discuss some
of the conditions in the Philippine ISL
ands, Mr.. TilIman interrupted with the
inquiry:
"Wiil the senator be explicit and give
us the benefit of his personal observations
or any official information he has in re-
gard TO the dispatch from Gen. Bell thai
he proposed TO make war SO terrible that
they would want peace and want it bad
Is that true or is it not?''
That was not 1cne while was there. u
replied Mr.. Beveridge. 81 will ask the
senator whether, when he Is making wa>
nc would not make war so terrible that
the enemy would want peace?''
That would depend" said Mr.. Till
man, whether I was honestly engaged
In war that 1 thought was decent and