Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-09
Conduct of Army in the
Philippines.
FEDERAL JUDGES PAY
CONFERENCE REPORT ON THE
MEASURE AGREED TO.
House overrules the Speaker on a
Point of Order Regarding
Yesterdays Session.

The Littlefield antitrust bill was received
by the Senate today from the House and
referred to the committee on judiciary.
The army appropriation bill was sent to
conference Messrs.. Proctor Vt). Quarles
CWis) and Cockreu (Mo), being named as
conferees.
The following bills were passed: To extend
the time granted to the Muscle Shoals Pow
or Company in Alabama, within which to
commence and complete work previously au-
thorized: House bill fixing time Of holding
terms of courts in Colorado; Senate bill es-
tablishing a nfe-saving station at Cape
Nome Alaska. also extending the thirteenth
lfe-saving district to Alaska.
Mr.. Carmack Crenn.) then addressed the
Senate on the Rawlins resolution calling Tor
the records of courtS-martlal Oh oHlcerS
serving in the Philippines.
The best army that ever trod the earth.
Mr. Carmack declared, could be sent to
distant tropical land but When II necane
known that crimes will go unpublished, aW-
full consequences will eusue. Just these con-
sequences have existed. he said. ana the
charges have been met with stoical and Gym
ical indifference.
He asserted that there Was an organized
system of torture in the Philippines.
1T is a further fact" said Mr.. Carmack.
that though this was notorious throughout
the whole army, ii was continued Tor
months and years. No effort was made to
suppress 1t, and no single torturer was ever
punished for the crime. 1t was fact that
men of high character and standing, the
representa- tMeS of leading republican ad-
ministration papers. went in person to the
commanding general and told him that
they had not only seen perfect orgy OF
looting and plumber, but that they had seen
wounded prisoners butchered before their
very eyes; and though he did not deny 1t
he ignored IT.
cit Is further true, that this fact was
brought to the attention Of the Secretary
of Nor in, lott thp ions tJIra nf
Robert NJ. Collins, the chief agent and
representative of the Associated Press in
the Philippine Islands, and it did not sug-
gest the propriety Of any inquiry or any
Investigation
Murders by American soldiers In the Phil
ippfnes had become too common, he said, to
bear investigation, which answer seems en-
tirely satisfactory ito our noble and gener-
Gus and humane Secretary Of, War"
Courts martial in the Philippines had been
a travesty on justice he said, and he cited
the case of Lieut. Preston Brown, whom he
charged with numbering an unarmed and
unresisting native Filipino. and whose SEN
tence of five years had been mitigated by
the President to a nominal fine and a slight
reduction In rank.
To every wicked vicious and depraved
rufflan In the army, he said, the order Of
Gen. Jacob Smith to kill and burn in Samar
meant that there was no law, no restraint
and no punishment, and yet the President
calmly surveys the ruin he has wrought.
astonished at his own moderation"
He inquired how 1t happened that the
President, who had declared his intention
to probe crimes in the Philippines, never
heard of the Capt. Brownell case. when
Father Augustin was tortured until he
died.
The President In a speech while governor
OF New York had said that our indifference
to the welfare Of the people of Alaska had
made them prefer annexation to Great Brit
ain. and the same condition would result
II We showed like Indifference in the Philip
pines. Mr.. Carmack declared that the Fill
pinos were starving. The same vigilance
that enables the President to discover them
"as enjoying the greater prosperity he
said, should cause him to see that they
are starving"
Time" he said In conclusion. will DEM
onstrate the folly of this business" and he
hoped it would find some cure for the
blunder we have made"
Mr.. Kean Resumes.
The resolution then went over and the
statehood bill was taken UP, Mr.. Kean
IN. j. continuing his remarks in opposi-
ton to the measure.