Evening star., 1902-02-04
DEBATE LIVELY FOR AWHILE
PHILIPPINE TARIFF BILL DISCUS
SION IN THE SENATE.
Mr.. Carmack Charges Measure With
Being in Carpet Baggers' interest
Tillman and Beveridge Engage.
Mr.. Carnnack C

| Mr. Carmack continued his remarks on
the Philippine tariff bill in the Senate yes
terday afternoon after The Stars report
| OF the proceedings was closed. At the
| conclusion of Mr.. CarmaclA's address Mr..
Beveridge Qnd) changed some of his state
mehts. The debate which ensued was very
| hVely for few minutes, taking po-
iltical phase, which proved particularly
| interesting to the auditors. who crowded
| the floor as well as the galleries. Mr..
Beveridge and Mr. Tillman Is. c. became
| involved in heated colloquy, in which the
| exchanges were as hot as both senators
| well could make them
Mr.. Carmaclx's Charges.
This bill,' said Mr.. Carmack, referring
to the pending Philippine tariff measure,
rs framed on the theory that the Philip
pine Islands are a deadly menace to our
own trade, and that the less we trade
with those islands and the less we have to
DO with them the better it will be for US.
Inc only trade that will flourish under such
conditions is that of the exploiters, and it
Is is proposed to turn the islands over to
them. 1t is for the benefit Of the carpet
pagsers and not for the benefit of the
american people that a war Of criminal
aggression is being Waged in the Philip
pine 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
pre-
Mr.. Carmack discussed briefly the sub
ject Of the censorship of press dispatches
IN Manila. He declared that it was not
censorship for military purposes, but had
oeen established by, for and in the inter-
est of the republican party" Important in
formation had been suppressed by the CEN
sor ne declared, and the people Of this
country had been kept in ignorance of
were entitled.
referring to the republican supporters of
the present Philippine policy Mr.. Carmack
SAID: You lift your hands in holy horror
at the lynching of colored man in the
south. and vet you are engaged in lynch
ing loOo,00O of people who recently were
your allies and your brothers in arms and
VINO nave committed no crime except the
founded"
Mr. Carmack. with great earnestness de-
clared that If the President of the United
states mad properly characterized Aguinal-
40 ana his associates as bloodthirsty
Apaches he could not see how Admiral
dewey and those who secured Aguinaldo's
help and assistance can escape the charge
OF dellberately violating the laws Of civil
against Admiral Dewey would be investi-
gated.
He would. he said haul down the Ameri-
can nag wherever it waved as emblem
OF force and despotism. He charged that
the United States had been holding a false.
fraudulent and delusive hope to the Fill
plnos. He vehemently denounced the war
In the Philippines and charged that we are
Killing those people for the salvation of
their souls and building up the church of
God out of human bones
Mr. Carmack maintained that by follow
ing out the policy of conquest formulated
6y the majority In power the United
states was pressing itself into all the bick-
erings and quarrels of the world. Under
government. The position of the govern-
ment would be simply one of armed neu-
tralty. N
Charge of Carelessness Denied.
AT the conclusion of Mr. Carmack's
speech Mr.. Beveridge, republican mem
Der of the Philippine committee, sharply
challenged statement by the Tennessee
senator that the Philippine tariff had not
been well or carefully considered He de-
clared that Mr.. Carmack had designed to
convey to the country the impression that
the philippine commission had not carefully
or thoughtfully considered the tariff scale |
AS a~matter of fact, he said that scale was |
.Neo a1ter months OF consideration and af-
ter consulting with every interest in the |
Philippines. |
Did the Philippine committee make an |
investigation of the philippine tariff scale?'
inquired Mr.. CaFmack.
No replied Mr.. Beveridee 'but the |
Philippine commission has been considering |
that scale for two years"
Mr.. Beveridge insisted that If the state |
ments of M Carmack meant anything |
they meant that the Philippine tariff scale |
had been made ignorantly and without
proper consideration. He denied this. He
asserted further that the Philipnine nuac
ton had been passed upon and settled four
times in Congress and twice had been he
lore the American people and by them
sested nartv bdG He that if the demo
the same care which had been given The
Philippine tariff scale this countrv's nros
perity would not have withered as II had
under the tariff it had enacted. 1A"u
Further along Mr.. Beveridge declared +b.+
the reason why ex-President Cleveland ex
President Harrison and ex-senator Ed sd
munds, all of whom had not been in svm-
pathy with the Philippine policy of the ad.
ninstration, declined to follow the demo
ocratic party was because that partv would
not accept the decisions of the Sunreme
Court and the verdict Of the American neo-
pie as final NV
He asserted that the reasons whv tho
moderate, thoughtful and constrnctiue
people of the country" had not folIoweS
the democratic party in it's opposition to
the proper control Of the Phiiippines anS
in other matters Of national policy. was
that they feared that party would sow ..the
dragons teeth from which would sprine
harvest OF anarchy. Another reason. he
said was that that party was soundinp -
note of retreat, ard never in the histor,-
Of the country had the American peonIe re.
treated from any proposition fairly nresent
ed to them, and they never would. y
''They will not follow you" he declared
shaking his finger at the Democratic si6a
because you are calling our soldiers .rn"r,
derers' and charity boys and 'doers Of
dirty work. !"
Tnk1 10