The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-29
BITTER WORDS IN SENATE
PHILIPPLNE TARIFF DEBATE AL-
 MOST CAUSES BLOWS.
Senator Lodge Rashes Over to Senator Teller and Depiands Retraction of an Irritating Taunt-Sharp Passage of Words Between Senators spooner and TiIlman-Vote to Investigate Entire Philippine Question.
Philippine Question.


 Washington, Jan. 2S--A Philippine storm was central in the senate cham Der, to-day, for nearly three hours, dur ing the debate regarding the tariff, but it was void of definite results. At times it looked very serious and the specta- tors who thronged the galleries watch ed it with breathless interest. 1 Acrlmony in senate debates is not infrequent but old senators say that it has been years since there has been such a hurricane of bitter vituperation. of personal taunt, of ugly charges and of unmodified criticismoas was wit messed to-day. Not since the discus sion of the resolutions leading up to the Hispano-American war have any scenes occurred in the senate comparable with those of to-day. Even that debate lacked the personal bitterness mani fested at times to-day. Irritation was aroused on both sides of the chamber and once or twice personal encounters between senators seemed imminent. Once when Senator Teller taunted the republican senators by declaring that they knew that the statements made in a recent despatch from Manila in which General Wheaton was represent ed as having criticised the opponents of the government policy in the Philip pines were true, half dozen republi- cans were on their feet in an instant Senator Lodge, at whom the taunt seemed to be aimed particularly, hur- riedly crossed from his seat in the cen ter of the republican side to the main aisle of the senate and, white to the lips, passionately challenged the state ment of the Colorado senator and de- manded that he withdraw it. Senator Teller so modified his statement that further hostilities were averted.
 One of the sharpest colloquies of the session was between Senators Spooner of Wisconsin and Tillmanof South Caro- lima. The race problem involving the lynching of negroes was interjected into the controversy and much feeling was manifested by both senators. Tn the course of the colloquy, MT, Spooner de- cIared that if the same rules were to be applied to the colored people in the Philippines as MT Tillman referred to
  man in the Philippines"
 "God help him in the Philippines now,'' shouted the South Carolina sen ator, passionately. You have already butchered in three years, three times as many as the Spaniards did in three cen- turies."
 "It is one thing" retorted MT Spoon- er Ito kill men with arms in their hands against the government and against the flag. It is another to burn them'
 In their excitement the senators seemed for the moment to have forgot ten the subject of debate. The chair (Mr. Frye) was able to maintain order only with difficulty. When the discus sion was ended for the day the chair 1 felt called upon seriously to admonish senators that the rules of the body had not been observed, After reading the l rule which had been violated he ex- pressed the hope that in the future sen ators would have a care to observe it. | Such an admoniton has not been made | by the presiding officer of the senate in 1 many years.
 The resolution introduced yesterday by MT. Lodge, rep, of Massachusetts, the committee on the Phil ippines to make an investigation of the entire Philippine question, and for that purpose to sit during the sessions of the was reported favorably to-day, and was adopted by the senate soon af- ter it convened.