The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-24
THE TASK GROSVtN0R'S
rags Grant, Jackson and Sheridan
Out of Their Graves.
DE ARXoND SHOWS THE DIFFERENCE
Expansion One Thing, Colonial Empire Quite
Another. No Assault Upon the Army by
the Democratic Party. Bartlett
Answers Grosyenor.
sRy the AssocIated Press }

bf3y the Associated Press
washington, June 23-Debate upon the
Philippine Civil Government bill warm
forth promises to be of a much liveliey
character. The increased interest is due
to the injection into the debate of COM
parison of the cruelties charged to have
been practiced in the Philippines with
those which occurred during the Civil
War The subject has been lightly
touched upon once or twice before but
attracted little attention until Mr.. Gros-
venor. (Ohio). today revived the men,
ory of the extremeties to which Grant
and Jackson were put during the Civil
War This was followed late in the day
by a speech from Mr.. Mahon, Pa), in
which he paraded the horrors of Ander-
sonville and Libby prisons. He pre-
dicted that in the coming elections the
American people would stand by the
"boys in blue
Mr.. Grosvenor in his speech also de-
rended the rules of the House against
the criticism passed upon them and paid
a high tribute to Speaker Hendersons
impartiality Mr. DeArmond, (Mo1,
sspokc at considerable length in opposi-
tion 10 the Administrations Philippine
policy. The other speakers today were:
Mr.. Olmstead (Pa.); Williams, Ulls):
Corliss, Mish.). and w. w. Kitchin.
IN. c.
MIR. Kitchin opposed the Philippine
bill and the Philippines policy of the
administration.
No ArrnorJ ranradfafad utterly tho
charge that the opposition to the pres
ent Philippine policy in criticsing some
Of the acts of army officers in the Phil
ippines was slandering and assailirg the
army. The Democratic party, he de-
clared. was not opposed to expansion
founded upon Americas principles EX-
pansion was one th.ag, colonial empire
was another The Democratic party
was anxious to see tho country expand
as expansion was understood by the
fathers. Expansion upon the American
continent North or South. he said. was
the Democratic idea of expansion. not
holding by sunbiugation 10000 GOO people
1000 miles beyond our continent.
Mr.. Grosvenor said that if everything
that had been said of General Jacob
Smith We're true if he had issued the
order TO make Samar ''howling wilder
ness" and 70 kill all over ten years of
age. he could find its counterpart on both
sides during the Civil War. He then
proceeded to rear a report from General
Grant TO the government at Washing
ton telling of the arrangements he had
made to carry desolation everywhere
through the Shenandoah Valley 10 seize
all men under fifty years of age as pris-
oners of war. destroy crops and make
the valley barren waste
Before Phil Sheridan got through he
ruAie it a barren waste" said Mr.. Gros
venors. He then read from 'the letter of
Stonewall Jackson, edited by his wife.
statement that Jackson believed that
the black flag should be raised and no
quarter given as the best means of re-
sisting invasion and saying that he had
urged this policy upon Lee. He also
read a telegram from General Reaurc-
gard urging the passage of bill for
the execution of prisoners. BY this
means. the telegram read: England
viii be stirred to action
when tho bill was introduced in the
Confederate Congress-" interrupted Mr..
Bartlett, (Ga). had not Lincoln issued
proclamation TO seize the citizens of the
valley of Virginia and try them by
court martial and had they not been
seized2"
Il do not know" replied Mr.. Grosvc-
Ecr
That is history. declared Mr.. Bart
lett
IF that is true, responded Mr.. Grosve-
ror. 1t furnishes Only another reason to
excuse those cf our soldiers who retail
lated when the natives in the Philip
pines snsaked up and cowardly murdered
the.r comrades"
Nr. Mahon fPao. speaking of The cruel
ties charged against some OF our officers
and rien in the Philippines. declared
thas they were not to be compared with
The harharities of the Civil War. He
read from official reports tales of the
horrors suffered by the Union prisoners
at Andorsonville.
DO not the official figures SHOW in
toTruptei Mr. Richardson. ethe Demo-
cratic leader" that greater percentage
of Confederate prisoners died in North
cra than Union prisoners in Southern
prisonse''
II have tho official figures here re-
spopded Mr.. Mahon. 4 will put them in
The Record
re read an order to shoot the pris-