The age-herald., 1902-02-04
Fires Burning Shafts of Sar- Casm at Administrations s
 PhiippinePo|icY
BUILDING UP CHURCH
 OUT .OF HUMAN BONES
Dewey's Conduct in Accepting Agui- naldo's Aid Should Be lnvest- gated Unless We Give the
 FiIipinos Independence.

Washington, February 3-Another spr- ited debate with the Philippine tariff bill as the text was precpitated in the Sem ate today as the result of some state ments made by MT. Carmack, Democrat, Tennessee, In the course of an extended speech on the general Philippine question. It was the Tennessee Senator's first speech in the Senate, and he was given notable good attention on both sides of the chamber. He spoke without manu- script, with earnestness force and elo- quence.
 At the conclusion of his address, which had been listened to by many of his for mer colleagues in the House of Represen- tatives, MT. Beveridge, Indiana, chal- lenged some of his statements. The debate which ensued was very lively for a few minutes, taking on a political phase which proved particularly interesting to the auditors who crowded the floor as we'll as the galleries. MT. Beveridge and MT. Tillman, South Carolina, became in- volved in heated colloquy, in which the exchanges were as hot as both Senators could well make them.
 Prior to the taking up of the Philip pine bill, the measure providing for an in- crease in the salaries of United States judges was under discussion for an hour. In the course of the debate the case of Judge Arthur H. Moves, of the District Court of Alaska, was drawn upon to show why some judges should not be given the increase.
 Wants Correspondence.
 At the conclusion of the routine business MT. Culberson inquired whether a reply had been received from the secretary of war to his resolution passed ten days ago for certain correspondence relating to the Philippine tariff When informed that no reply had been received he declared that in view of the fact that the matter was under investigation in the Senate the de- lay was unseemly.
 At o'clock the Philippine tariff bill was laid before the Senate, and MT. Car mack, a Tennessee member of the Philip pine commission, delivered a speech in opposition to the pending measure. tIOpSr COHSiueFdllOn Ol the Dlll ne Sa1d, | involved the whole Philippine question:
 He contended that Congress was not pre- pared to deal understandingly with the i Philippine situation in any of its phases because it was not familiar with the | facts. The bill he said had been framed l by the Philippine commission, an auto cratic body 10000 miles away. and not a change had been made in it by Congress. 1 Framed on Hostile Grounds. 1 This bil." said MT. Carmack, Ifs l framed on the theory that the Philippine
 islands a deadly menace to our own
 trade, and that the less we trade with l those islands and the less we have to do | with them the better it will be for us. l The only trade that will flourish under
 such conditions Is that of the exploiters, | and 1t is proposed to turn the islands ! over to them It is for the benefit of the 1 Carpetbaggers, and not for the benefit of
 the American people. that war of crim-
 inal aggression is being waged in the | Philippine islands.
 "We of the minority cannot support
 this bill or the policy of which it is a
 part We are opposed to the bill because
 we are opposed to the whole policy of CO., | lonial empire
 | He next discussed briefly the subject
 of the censorship of press dispatches in l Manila. He declared that it was not a | censorship for military purposes, but
 should be established by, for and in the
 interest of the Republican party" Im-
 portant information had been suppressed
 by the censor. he declared and the peo- pie of this country should not be kept in l ignorance of matters to a knowledge Of I which they were entitled.
 | Flags the Republicans. 1 Referring to the Republican supporters
 of the present Philippine policy, MT. Car
 mack said:
 You lift your hands in holy horror at | the lynching of a colored man in the
 South, and yet you are engaged in the
 lynching of 100000 of people who re-
 gently were your allies and your brothers | ln arms and who have committed no crime except the crime upon which this I government was founded
 with great earnestness ke declared that | 1T the President of the United States had
 properly characterized Aguinaldo and his | associates as bloodthirsty Apaches. then | Admiral Dewey and those who secured Aguinaldo's help and assistance could not | escape the charge of deliberately volat- | ing the laws of civilized warrare. and he
 hoped the charge against Admiral Dewey 1 would be investigated.
 From the beginning" said MT. Car mack, we knew that Aguinaldo was 1 fighting not for a change of masters but for absolute freedom" and he said Gen eral Anderson had assured Aguinaldo
 that the American people never estab- lished colonies, and he could trust the American people.
 These facts he said, "constltute a binding obligation upon us to give them their Independence He would, he said
 haul down the American flag everywhere it rested as an emblem of despotism. We are killing those people for the salvation of their souls and building us the church of God out of human bones.
 Mr. Carmack maintained that by fol- lowing out the policy of conquest formu- lat ed by the majority in power, the United States was pressing itself into all the bickerings and quarrels of the world. Under such a policy no peace was in view for this government The position of the government would be simply one of armed neutrality.
 Beveridge Puts In. MT. Beveridge sharply challenged statement by the Tennessee Senator that