Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-04-29
DENOUNCES GENERAL SMITH
Representative sibley Wants President to
Give Him a Dishonorable Discharge.
CALLS SMITH A DISGRACE TO THE ARgY
PennsyIvaninn VehementIy Condemns
the Methods EmpIeySd and the
Departure from the Reg
uIar Rules of Army.

WASHINGTON, April 2S.-Representative
Sibley of Pennsylvania created something
of a sensation in the house today during
the general debate on the agricultural bill
by denouncing General Jacob H. Smith for
the orders he issued in the Samar cam
paign. He declared General Smith was a
disgrace to the uniform be wore, and he ex-
pressed the hope that the president would
strip him Of his uniform within forty eight
hours.
Mr.. sibley's speech was enthusiastically
applauded by the democrats and was re-
ceived with some evidences OF approval on
the republican side. The speech was con
sidered the more remarkable In that it
came from a republican who left the DEM
ocratic party on the issues raised by the
Spanish war and who since has been an
ardent expansionist Mr.. Williams, demo-
crat OF Mississippi, indorsed what Mr.. SID
ley said
Curtis Defends Funston.
Mr.. Curtis OF Kansas made brief but fer
vent defense OF General Funston against the
criticism to which he had been subjected.
THE people of Kansas" he began, ARE
proud of the brave and daring record OF gal
liant Fred Funston. applause on the re-
publican sideJ He has been criticised here
Aol GU dINt Nuifu lOI udTlllE duu COuCepliOu
and execution, ranks with the greatest
feats of arms-he captured the new George
Washington-Aguinaldo.
"If another had accomplished what Cen
eral Funston did," he said, the democrats
would have made him their candidate for
president" He called attention to the fact
that his promotion had been recommended
| by General Wheaton and General Macarthur,
both soldiers Of the civil war, soldiers who
knew more of war and rules Of war than all
the politicians in this country combined"
| And his commission" he added was
signed by, the greatest president we have
ever had-the soldier. statesman and mar
tyr, William Mckinley" (Applause)
| Mr. sibley. republican, of Pennsylvania,
| said he had been an expansionst and de-
Tended the policy OF the administration in
the acquisition OF the Philippines. Duty
and honor he said, justified our position
there. The commercial welfare Of the
nation demanded that we should control
that archipelago. which stands as the gate
way to the oriental world.
Sees Vision of HerOd.
He then continued:
When 1 have heard the statements made
| that we were cruel in the conduct OF that
war war ! ha have thought perhaps the partisan
| l have within the past forty-eight hours
that a general wearing the uniform OF
| the army of the United States, one who
| stands under the shadow of our flag is.
sues orders not to conciliate a province
but TO leave II bowling wilderness and
1 to kill all above 10 years of age, then II
| seems to me that humanity must have
| marched backward for eighteen centuries
| and that Herod again appears. / have
| read of Timour the Tartar; | have read
of Achilles. l have read of the Saracer
| tragic scene on Calvary IL has taken
! eighteen centuries to produce a Smith.
have read of the water cure. 1 believed
| that II exaggerated.
| Can any man whose blood pounds in his
| pulses, any man who has read his Bible
| or who has been reared at the knee of a
| Christian woman, Justify the preparation
| of such cruelties upon another man who
| wears the guise and the image of his
| Creator? And yet we hear this man at.
| tempting to justify acts by which mer
! are pumped so full of water as nearly tC
| drown them and brought back to life by
| humping them over the stomach witt
! butts of muskets. That is not civiliza
| ton; that is not Chrlstianizing the world
Wants Smith Discharged.
hope the president of the United State.
| will have the courage, upon what the mar
| admits, to discharge him dishonoraby from
| the service that he has disgraced. CAP.
| plause.)
The conference report on the Chinese
exclusion bill was adopted without debate
This sends It to the president.