The evening Republican., 1902-04-16
ROOT 0RDERsACTIoN
Prompt Inquiry Regarding Al
legged Oruelties to Filipinos.
COURTS MARTIAL FOR OFFENDERS.
General Chnfree Cabled to Proceed
ut Once Against General Smith
and O6icers Who Adminis-
tered the "Water Cure,

also, If the facts are established as tcs
titled to before the senate Philippine
committee, to court martial the officers
who administered the water cure" t.
the presidente of Igbarras. These ofli
GERS are Major Glenn, Lieutenant Con
ger and Assistant Surgeon Lyon,
Following is the memorandum fol
the adjutant general as cabled to Gen.
eral Chaffee by order of the war de.
partment:
"On Feb. 10 a letter was sent you in.
closing for investigation copy of
charges made by Governor Gardener
of Tayabas province, which contained
general allegations of crueIties prac-
ticed by troops on natives and general
ly of an insolent and brutal attitude of
the army toward natives.
"On April > a cable dispatch was sent
you urging action with all speed con-
sistent with thorough and searching in
vestigation.
| "On the 4th of March a cable dis.
patch was sent you directing discipline
hry measures to produce obedience to
the presidents instructions, subordinat-
Ing military officers to civil government
In pacitied provinces and instructing
you to relieve Major Edwin +. Glenn
and Captain James A. Ryan from duty
and order them to Manila to await in
vestigation into their conduct in ac.
cordance with instructions to follow by
mail.
"On the 9th of March instructions
were mailed you containing statement
Df charges against these officers and
General Jacob II. Smith as the basis Of
the investigation ordered by the cable
Of March 4.
Further instructions in both matters
are required by the following facts:
Press dispatches state that upon the
trial of Major Waller of the marine
.orps testimony was given by Waller,
,OrrOborated by other witnesses, that
General Jacob II. Smith instructed him
TO kill and burn, that the more he kill
ed and burned the better pleased Gen
tral Smith would be, that it was no
time to take prisoners and that when
Major Waller asked General Smith TO
define the age limit for killing he re-
piled, Everything over ten
"lf such testimony was given and the
facts can be established, you will place
General Smith on trial by court mar
tial.
yesterday before the senate COM
miftee on Philippine affairs Sergeant
Charles 8. Riley and Private William
Lewis Smith of the Twenty y-siXth vol
anteer infantry testified that form Of
torture known as the water cure was
administered to the presidente wf the
town of Igbarras, IloilO province, is
and of Panay. by a detachment of the
Eighteenth United States infantry
commanded by Lieutenant Arthur l..
COngcr under orders of Ma,jO Edwin
T. Glenn, then captain of the Twenty
ifth infantry, and that Captain and
Assistant Surgeon Palmer Lyon, at
that time contract surgeon was pres.
Int to assist them.
"The officers named or such of them
As are found to be responsible for the
act will be tried therefor by court mar
hal. Conger and Lyon are in this coull-
Try. Both the Twenty sixth volunteer
infantry and Eighteenth infantry hav-
ing returned TO the United States and
most of the witnesses being prcsump-
lively here, the secretary of war d.
:ccts that Major l.. f. Glenn, Twenty
fifth infantry, he directed to proceed to
San Francisco and report to the 2cncr-
ll commanding the department of Cal.
lfOmia with Il view to his trial by
court martial under charges alleging
The crueltics prartic"d by him upon
aative of the Philippine Islands at Ig-
barras on the 27th of June, 1900.
"You will take such course in adj
rancng or postponing the investiga-
lions previously ordered into the con-
duct Of General Smith and Major
Glenn as shall be required to enable
you to execute these instl uctions
ut is believed that the violations of
law and humanity Of which these
cases il true are examples will prove
10 be few and occasional and not to
characterize the conduct of the army
generally in the Philippines. but the
fact that any such acts of cruelty and
Garbarity appear TO have been done in.
dicatcs the necessity of a most thor
Dugh, searching and exhaustive invcs-
tigation under the general charges pre-
ferred by Governor Gardener, and YOU
will spare 10 effort in the investigation
already ordered under these charges to
uncover every such case which may
have occurred and bring the offenders
to justice.
"The president desires to know in
the fullest and most circumstantial
all the facts, nothing being
and no man being for any
reason favored or sheltered. For the
very reason that the president intends
TO back up the army in the hcartiest
fashion in every lawful and legitimate |
method Of doing its work he also in
tends to see that the most rigorous
care is exercised 10 detect ard prevent
any cruelty or brutality and that men
who are guilty thereof are punished.
Great asrthe prOvocation has been in
dealing with foes who habitualIy re-
sort to treachcry, murder and torture
against our men. nothing can justify
or will be held to justify the use Of
torture or inhuman conduct of any
kind on the part Of the American
army"