The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-02
THE WORK 0F CONGRESS-
rH1 srnArz STILL DISCUSSING
 PHLIYY1ME BILL.
Senator Carmack Asserts That News from the Archipelago is Sup
 pressed in the Interests of the Republican Party.

Washington. May l.-Aguinaldo was the special subject of discussion in the Sem ate today. An soon as the Philippines government bll was taken up. Mr. Car mack (Tenn-) resumed his criticism oe the Philippine Committee because of its rsfusni to call Aguinaldo and other Fill pinos as witnesses. He maintained that as reflections by witnesses had been cast on the character of Aguinaldo, he ought to be permitted lin all decency'' to defend himseif.
 Mr. Carmack's contention was sharply combatted by Mir. Foraker (O.). MT. Mc- Comas (Md.). and Mir. Burton (Kas.)
 4r. Culberson (Tex.). In support of statement by MT. Carmack that the War Department suppressed information ami
 cd letter from the Secretary of War which he thought was proof of the Ten
 nessee Senator's assertion. The Secre- tary stated in the letter that 1t was not
 practicable to supply the information re- 0uested because no special account was
 kept of the Philippines war expenses and it would require the service of a large
 force Of clerks to work out the informa-
 ton desired.
 When the Senate resumed considera-
 ton of the Philippine government bill
 MT. Carmack (Tenn.), continued his re-
 marks of yesterday. He said he could see no good reason for the majority's re- fusal to summon Aguinaldo. Mabini and fore the Committee. General Funston had said that Aguinaldo had confessed to him that he (AGuinaldo) had had Luna as- sasstnated because Luna was becoming too popular. Governor Taft had tesifi,d
 that Funston had said that Aguinaido had had Luna killed lest Luna should kill him.
 Mir. Foraker wanted to know what the killing of Luna by another Filipino had
 to do with the Senates action on the pending bill.
 Mir Carmack said 1t had been the pur- nose of the majority of the Philippine Committee to show that Aguinaldo was a thief, bribe-taker and murderer and he urged that, in common fairness, Agui- naldo ought to be heard in his own de- fence.
 MT. Tillman ts. C.) insisted that 'De- cency demands that Aguinaldo be brought here to testify in his own behalf" Mfr. Dubois said 1t seemed strange that after the committee had decided not to summon Aguinaldo as a witness, General Macarthur for the first time, had testi. | fled today that Aguinaldo was man Of MT. Cuiberson lTex.) had read a letter from the Secretary of War in which he gave the expenditures in his last annual
 report in which he said that "ft has not
 been customary for the War Department to arrange accounts and expenditures with reference to the place where the ultimate service depending upon them Is rendered. No separate account has ever been kept of expenditures of the army according to the different localities in which troops might be stationed for car rying on military operations. It Is there
 more impracticable to answer your ques- tions without diverting a large number of clerks from the current work of the department which can be kept up only by their unremitting efforts" Mr. Carmack declared that this letter
 was simply a. part of .'the policy of sup pression and falsifcation." which had been followed ever since the beginning of the Philippine business. He had read a letter sent to the general manager of the Associated Press by Robert M. Col lins its Manila correspondent, and de-
 clared that the letter demonstrated that
 the news in the Philippines was sup
 pressed, not as a military necessity hut to
 protect the interests of the Republican Party.
 MT. Burton (Kas.) replied to some of the remarks of MT. CaImack concerning
 General Funston's statements of the Lu-
 ma killing and declared that the Tennes-
 see Senator's remarks showed that he
 was controlled by feeling and not by dis
 criminating judgment.
 The Philippine bill was then laid aside.
 The Senate at 5:15 D. m. went into ex-
 ecutive session and soon afterward ad-
 journed