Evening star., 1902-04-30
NOT TO Be SENT FOR
Action Regarding Lopez and
Aguinaldo.
VOTE ON PARTY LINES
RULING OF SENATE PHILIPPINES
COMMITTEE.
Gen. Macarthur Resumes his Testi-
mony-Warm Exchange With
Mr. Patterson.
VOTE ON PARTY LINES

By a strict party vote the Senate COM
mittee on the Philippines today refused TO
subpoena Maj. Cornelius Gardner. Agui-
naldo, Sixto Lopez and Mabini. The ques-
tion of sending a subcommittee TO the Phil
ippines to continue the investigation was
passed over.
Gen. Macarthur Resumes.
Maj. Gen. Macarthur today gave further
testimony before the committee. He ex-
piained his statement made yesterday that
absolute chaos would result should inde-
pendence be given the Filipinos and the
United States forces be Withdrawn. by say
ing that the people of the Philippines be-
ing less prepared for self-government and
administration than any of the Latin
American republics at the time OF their
emancipation from Spain, their own un-
aided efforts to accomplish self-regenera-
ton would in all probability prove abortive.
The people Of the Philippines he said,
have rudimentary ideas and aspirations,
and are therefore in an essentially plastic
condition, which, under the tuitionary con-
troll of the United States, would, in his
opinion, admit OF a rapid molding Of the
body polite into a consistent, self-support-
ing commonwealth. Even the best thinkers,
he said, among the Filipinos have no con-
ception whatever of the practical mechan-
ical efforts whereby the results they are all
anxious to attain can be successfully ac-
complished. American withdrawal from
the islands would, in his opinion. result in
the permanent failure of republican insti-
tutions in the east and a fratricidal war
which would continue until suppressed by
some exterior force. The broad generaliza-
ton, he said, is reached that the United
States must retain the archipelago a
tuitionary annex; that We must plant our
institutions there, that We must contend
for commercial supremacy and perhaps
combat for political supremacy to over
come the inherent difficulties of the stua-
ton, which will require the most profound
efforts of constructive statesmanship.
Efforts for Peace.
General Macarthur referred to his many
efforts to bring about cessation OF hos
tilities and stop the bloodshed. These ef-
forts, he said, were directed to Aguinaldo
/. through one of his friends. because. In his
opinion, Aguinaldo was the incarnation OF
the revolution"
General Macarthur described the dis
parity between the killed and wounded of
the Filipino and American forces as being
due ito the fact that the Filipinos know
nothing of the double sight on their rifles.
Senator Patterson wanted TO know If, as
a matter of fact, the contacts between
our troops and the Filipinos were not SIM
ply assaults and pursuits.
General Macarthur disclaimed that this
was so, stating that since the affair has
reached the guerrilla state, the United
States troops have had the greatest diff
Guilty in finding the Filipinos so that when
ever the Filipinos attacked Ii was in the
nature OF a surprise, the Filipino posting
himself in thick mountain gorges and fir
ing first. Under these circumstances our
officers and men would go in after them
and then the natural supremacy Of the
American showed Itself, and every man
that could be reached was killed.
Aguinaldo's Capture.
Responding to question by Senator Car
bpr Safd hat har
he assumed responsibility for the methods
adopted in capturing Aguinaldo he did so
without comforting with the authorities at
Washington The plan was General Fun
ston's he said, and he (MacArthur) as
sumed the responsibility of approving II.
At no time said General Macarthur, re-
plying to an inquiry from Senator Patter-
son, did he violate the rules of civilized
warfare. His position on this subject, he
said, was emphatic.
General Macarthur was then excused un-
til tomorrow and the committee went into
executive session and decided not TO cali
Lopez Aguinaldo and others.
Benefit to the Natives.
Senator Patterson asked IL he would ap-
ply the same views with respect to Japan,
and General Macarthur said that If Japan
should come into our hands in a clean man.
ner with a clean conscience, pure morals
and with the same pulptSe VIC baNO
in the Philippines We should by all means
keep it. He gave 1t as his conscientious be-
lief that the presence of the United States
in the Philippines is an unmitigated bene-
faction to the Filipino people.
DO YOU mean the Filipino people that
are left alive after they have been subJu-
gated?" inquired Senator Patterson.
General Macarthur declared that he did
not mean that there has been any un-
usual destruction of life in the islands.
1.-The destruction" said he, lis simply incl
dent to war, and, of course, embraces
very small percentage of the total popula-
ton, which is dense.
..Thirty-three and third per cent In one
province" remarked Senator Patterson.
Replying to this statement, General Mac
Arthur informed Senator Patterson that IL
he preferred to believe that he (MacArthur)
could not help it.
I'VE have as much right to believe that
from an American officer. who is the civil
governor and who is there in the province
as we have to believe you," replied Senator
Patterson, which brought the retort from
General Macarthur: You can believe what
YOU wish and l will believe what i wish"