Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-04
57th CONGRESS-.
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| At 2 o'clock the Philippine tariff bill
was laid before the Senate and Car
mack, Tenn, Il member of the Philip
pine commission delivered a speech to
the pending measure. This bill'' said
Carnack, lis framed on the theory that
the Philippine islands are deadly
menace to our own trade; and that the
less we trade with these islands 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 it is pro-
posed to turn the islands over to them.
1t is for the benefit of the carpet bag
gers and not for the benefit of the
American people that war of criminal
aggressiveness is being waged in the
Philippine islands. We of the minority
cannot support this bill or the policy
of which it 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 for military purposes
but had been established by, for, and
in the interest of the Republican
party" I present information for this
suppression suppressed by the censor,
he declared and the people of this coun-
try had been kept in ignorance of mat
ters to a knowledge of which they were
entitled.
Referring to the Republican support
ers of the present Philippine policy. he
said: You lift your hands in holy hor-
ror at the lynching of a colored man in
the South, and yet you are engaged in
| lynching 100000 of people who re-
Gently We're your allies and your BROTH
ers in arms and who have committed
no crime except the crime upon which
| this government was founded
He declared that if the President of
| the United States had properly charac-
terized Aguinaldo and his associates as
bloodthirsty Apaches, then Admiral
| Dewey and those who secured Aguinal-
dos help and assistance could not es-
cape the charge of deliberately violat-
| ing the laws of civilized warfare and he
hoped the charge against Admiral
Dewey would be Investigated.
At the conclusion of Carmack's
speech, Beveridge. a Republican men,
Der Of the Philippine commission sharp
| ly challenged a statement by the Ten
| nessee senator that the Philippine tar
| if had not been we'll or carefully con-
sidered. He declared that Carmack
| has designed to convey to the country
| the impression that the Philippine COM
mission had not carefully or thought
fully considered the tariff scale. 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 commission make
an investigation of the Philippine tariff
scale?" inquired Carmack.
| No replied Beveridge, but the
Philippine commission has been con-
sdering that scale for two years.
| Beveridge declared that if the Demo-
cratic party had given to it's last tar
| if bill the same care which had been
| given the Philippine tariff scale, this
countrys prosperity would not have
withered as it had under the tariff it
had enacted.
| Beveridge declared that the reason why
ey-President Cleveland ex-President
Harrison and ex-senator 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 party would not accept
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| the verdict of the American people as
| final.
''They will not follow YOU" he declared
shaking his finger at the Democratic SIDE
| because you are calling our soldiers
murderers' and charity boys and doors
of dirty work
| As he was proceeding to discuss some
of the conditions in the Philippine islands
Mr. Tillman Interrupted with the inquiry:
'Will the senator be explicit and give us
the benefit of his personal observation or
any official Information he has in regard
to the dispatch from Gen. Bell that 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 done while / was there,
| replied Beverage. 81 will ask the SEN
ator whether when he is making war he
would not make war so terrible that the
enemy would want peace?'
THAT would depend sail Tillman.
| whether L was honestly engaged in a
war that / thought was decent and re-
Ispectable or of subjugation and infamy.
"And does the senator charge" de-
manded Beveridge that Gen. Bell does
not believe he is engaged in an honest
war;"
Il know that there are plenty of Off
GERS there who feel they are doing dirty
work" shouted Tillman, land they have
told me they We're ashamed of it,.
Has Gen. Bell told you so?' insisted
Beveridge."
Il don't know about Gen. Bell" said
lTillman. II have not seen him."
Then why do you drag in Gen. Bell.
Gen. Wheaton and others?" sharply in
lquired Beveridge.
Tillman-"I will drag into this an AS
ISOLATED Press representative from Ma
lnila."
| Beveridge-"Now it is an Associated
Press man
Tillman-"Then you either have a CEN
lsorship there or you have not. You swear
you have not, and then when the reports
come YOU say those are not ours
Beverdge-"It is hopeless. When they
begin to discuss the constitution and We
take them up on that. they come to CEN
sorship When We say that none exists.
then the go to war, bloodshed, pillage and
murder"
After some sharp personal colloquy In
which the Indiana and South Carolina
senator's ridiculed each other. Beveridee
proceeded to relate an incident of the
burning of a village. and said tht upon
investigation il proved that 1t was the act
of the insurgents. his purpose being to
ldisprove some reports against the Ameri-
can soldiers. Tillman asked Beveridge:
From whom to wo get the statements
that the insurgents. or rebels or what
lever they are, did all this burning?"
THE American authorities" replied
Beveridge.