Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-10
Senator Carmack Declares MUIR
ders by American Soldiers
Common In Philippines
ROOT AND ROOSEVELT BLAMED
Lively Debate on the Rawlins Resolu-
ton Brings Out Fierce Attack on
the Administration for Its Alleged
Indifference Regarding the Conduct
of Army in Philippines.

| Monday Carmack of Tennessee address
sed the senate on the Rawlins resolution
calling for the records of court martial
of officers serving in the Philippines.
The best army that ever trod the
earth, Mr.. Carmack declared, could
be sent to a distant tropical land but
when it became known that crimes will
go UNPUBLISHED, awful consequences will
ensue. Just these consequences have
existed, he said, and the charges have
been met with stoical and cynical in
difference.
| He asserted that there was an organ
lied system of torture in the Philip
pines. 1T is a further fact" said Mr..
Carmack, that tho this was notorious
turnout the whole ARM, 1t was contin-
ued for months and years. No effort
was made to suppress 1t and no single
torturer was ever punished for the
crime. 1t is fact that men OF high
character and standing. the representa-
tives of leading republican administra-
| ton newspapers, went in person to the
commanding general and told him that
| they had not only seen a perfect orgy
| of footing and plunder, but that they
had seen wounded prisoners butchered
before their very eyes, and that he
could not deny it, 1t is further true
| tention of the secretary in letter over
the signature of Robert NJ. Collins, the
chief agent and representative of the
1 A t,N.a ,ae-
and it did not suggest the propriety of
any inquiry or any investigation.
Murders by Americans in the Philip
pines had become too common, he said,
to bear investigation. which answer
seems entirely satisfactory ito our
noble and generous and humane secre-
| tary of war"
| Court martials in the Philippines had
| been a travesty on justice, he declared.
and he cited the case of Lieutenant
Preston Brown, whom he charged with
numbering an unarmed and unresist-
| ing native of the islands and whose
sentence of five years had been miti-
gated by the president to a nominal fine
and a slight reduction in rank.
To every wicked, vicious and de-
PRAYED ruffiian of the army, he said, the
order of General Jacob Smith to kill
and burn in Samar meant that there
was no law. no restraint and no punish
ment and yet the president calmly sur
veys the ruin he has wrought, land like
other great imperialists, he is aston
| ished at his own moderation"
He inquired how 1t happened that the
president who had declared his inten-
| ton to probe crimes in the Philippines,
never heard of the Captain Brownell
case when Father Augustin was tor
tured until he died.
The president in speech while gov
ernor of New York. had said that our
Indifference to the welfare of the people
of Alaska had made them prefer an an
nexation to Great Britain and the same
/ condition would result If we showed
| like indifference in the Philippines. He
| declared the Filipinos were starving.
The same vigilance that enables the
president to discover them "as enjoying
1.-THE greatest prosperity" he said,
should cause him to see that they are
starving
/ Time" he said in conclusion, will
demonstrate the folly Of this business,
and he hoped 1t would find some cure
for the blunder we have made"
/ The resolution then went over and
| the statehood bill was taken up, Mr..
/ Kean, of New Jersey continuing his
remarks in opposition to the measure.
/ Mr. Rawlins, answering some refer
ences of Mr. Kean to the Mormons,
said that in Salt Lake City the nom
NIormons, are glad to aid in electing
Mormons to important political office
because of their desire to give the mu-
nicipality good government.
1T is not to be denied that their
influence is very considerable" said
he, but there was still a large ele
nlent among the Mormons who resent
the idea of such interference"
Mr.. Kean said the people of the Uni
ted States are opposed to polygamy and
mean in every ay to stamp it out. An
swering Mr.. Nelson, Mr.. kean said the
Mormons who fled from Idaho to Mex
leo undoubtedly would return to the
! United States and mix in the politics
of Arizona and attempt to usurp the
public authority of that state should
it be admitted. Mr.. Hale interrupted to
/ remark that every time this phase of
the subject is reached it presents some
new information and before anything
further is done he thought somebody
| should submit amendments in order
/ to have an expression of the feeling of
the senate on this subject and bring
1t deter1ninately before the senate for
Its action. Mr.. Kean said he would
offer an amendment of this kind.
In the course of Mr. Kean's remarks,
Mr.. Patterson, of Colorado, interrupted
to read from speech made by the
president at Las Vegas, New Mexico,
on the occasion of the Rough riders
reunion, in which he is said to have
favored the admission of New Mexico
as q state, and that he would go to
Washington and work for such bill.
Mr.. Kean declared that this did not
put him on record as favorng the ON
nibus bill. Mr.. Patterson thought the
president, being then a distinguished
republican leader, having enthusiastic
cally pledged himself in favor of New
Mexico's admission, opposition to the
omnibus bill should vanish.
| MI El<ins read the republican and
democratic platforms, praised the DEM
ocrats for trying to keep their pledges
while the republicans, he said, had
not been able to keep faith or discharge
their obligations with respect to state
hood.
| Mr.. Elkins declared that the national
conventions interpret the wishes OF
political parties and not those of in
diyidual senators. Thirty three demo-
Gratis and seventeen or eighteen re-
publicans he said, favored the omnibus