The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-21
WHAT ROOT OMITTED
MENTIONED MILLIONS, But NOT
COST IN BLOOD.
WARM PHILIPPINE DEBATE.
JONES OF VIRGINIA DISCUSSES THE
CASE.

ed and Probably 10000 American
Lives Have Been Lost or wrecked.
Why COurtmartinI SchIey and Let
Perpetrators of Philippine Out
rRGes Go Free-I<nh of California
Says United states Has UpIifted n
DOwntrOddcn and Oppressed Peo-
pie.
Washington, June 20.-Debate upon
the Philippine tciwl government bill
continued to-day in the House from IL
a. m. to p. M. and at session held
tonight. The speakers were given
close attention, each side enthusiastic
cally applauding its respective orators.
Mr.. Jones of Virginia. the ranking mi
nority member of the Insular Affairs
Committee, concluded his speech be-
gun yesterday. The other speakers
were Messrs. Hamilton of Michigan;
Kahn of California, for the bill. and
Mr. Patterson of Tennessee against it,
Mr. Kahn's speech was largely an in
teresting personal narrative of his ex-
periences in the Philippines last sum-
mer.
Mr. Jones, discussing the Philippine
bill said that under the provisions of
the bill the friars' lands which the
government was to purchase, would
md their way into the hands of cor
porations. In his opinion 1t would be
better for the Filipino people to live
under the present hybrid rule than TO
have imposed upon them the civil gov
eminent proposed by the pending
measure. which would enable that
| civil government to dispose of all the
| valuable franchises in the islands, to
strip the forests of their timber and
| to sell the agricultural lands to cor
porations and syndicates.
Mr. Jones devoted considerable time
to the discussion of the question of the
ability of the Filipino for self govern
ment. He quoted Prof. Schurman,
president of the first commission, To
the effect that the Filipino people de-
| sired independence, were entitled to tt,
were capable of governing themselves.
and were entitled to self government.
Does the gentleman think Buen-
canine capable Of self-government7
asked Mr.. Crumpa cker of Indiana.
Il think II Buencamino's moral char
acter were as strong as his intellectual
power he would be a very great man,
replied Mr. Jones. 8H
Secretary Roots Omission.
Mr.. Jones referred to the statement
| issued by Secretary Root yesterday
| giving $1I0000,G0 COO as the total cost TO
| the United States Of our control Of the
| Philippines. He said that IN making
| up the account he had no ioubt the
| Secretary Of War, the rankest parti-
| san of them all, had excluded every
| possible item in order to reduce tile
amount to a minimum. But even the
| astute Secretary of War, he
said, had furnished no es-
/
| possession of the islands had cost. He
believed that fully 100000 Filipinos had
persisted directly or indirectly as a re-
suit of the, war waged against them
and that 10000 American lives had
been lost or wrecked
Mr.. Jones took up charges made
against Gen. Smith and Maj. Waller
| Of cruelty in Samar
why is it, he asked, addressing
the other side of the chamber, that
you criticise and court-martial Schley,
but you will not touch a hair in the
head of those who have confessed TO
participating in these diabolical out
| RACES? Why criticise an officer of the
navy and refuse to listen to criticism
of an officer of the army?"
1T is the indiscrinlinate criticism of
| the army that we protest against
| interjected Mr.. Steele of Indiana.
There has been no such indiscrini-
! mate criticism" answered Mr.. Will
| liams of Illinois. 1T has been re-
| cital of specific cases"
1T is not the soldiers who should
be held up to execration," Mr.. Jones.
continued. but those who ordered
such outrages and those towards who
| seek TO smother them"
Mr.. Jones was warmly congratulated
| by his party colleagues as he closed
his speech.
The Republican side of 1t.
At the evening session Mr.. Kahn
| described in detail some of the cruel
| ties inflicted by Filipinos on American
troops. He said it was a mistake to
assert that the insurrection would end
should the Filipinos be given their in
! dependence.
ut would only give the irreconcila-
bles," he asserted, IAN incentive for
| renewed activity"
Mr. Kahn said the United States had
lifted up a down-trodden and OPP
pressed people and placed them on a
higher plane of civilization than they
ever dreamed of.
Mr. Kern of Illinois denied the right
of the United States to frame laws for
the Philippines. because the Filipinos
are an alien people. He criticised Pres
ident Roosevelt and said that he has
acted in the matter without the au-
Khority of Congress, except such as
conferred on him by a meager resolu-
ton. The vital question, he said. was
not so much one of good government
as 1t is one of self-government.
One Man who Can stop the War.
There is only one man. he said. in
all the world who can stop the war and
that man is Theodore Roosevelt.
81 say to you. Theodore Roosevelt"
he exclaimed with emphasis. that II
you are earnest in your loud declara-
tions, and want these people to have
their liberty and their Independence.
then say the word. and the Congress
and the people will back you up and
hostilities will cease"
Mr. Robinson OF Nebraska and Mr.
Small of North Carolina both opposed
the Philippine bill.
The House adjourned until II o'clock
tomorrow morning.
House stiIl Refuses 90 Concur.
The House reiterated the position Il
had taken upon the army appropriation
bill by ignoring the action OF the Sem
ato and sending the bin back 70 the up
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