The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-01-29
"A COLD
BL0ODED
MURDER
Sharp Debate in I United
States Senate.
CONDUCT OF5WAR
i'm THE PHILIPPINES.
Senator Beveridge Lets His
Passions Rise.
5CARMACK ENTERED
DEBATE WITH SPIRIT.
.CARlMACK ENTERED
DEBATE WITH SPIRIT
He Characterized Charge That Demo
Gratis Were Arraigning Army and
Denouncedi It las slnfamous-Jake
Smith No More the Army
Than Beveridge Wasthe
Senate Other Notes.
sBy Associated P-ess.)

BY 6S5oCldteQ fEcSS.)
) WASHINGTON. d. c., Jan. 2s---A sharp
to-day when Sir. Rawlins called up his
resolution offered yesterday directing
the Secretary OF War TO furnish the Sem
ate the proceedings OF number OF court
martials IN the Philippines.
In the course Of his remarks. Mr.. Raw
lins referred to the death Of Father Au-
sustin. and said he was murdered IN
cold blood This aroused the Ire Of Mr..
Baveridge, who demanded specifically to
know who had committed the cold blood
ed murder. Mr.. Carinack entered the
debate, and characterized the charge.
which, he said. repeatedly had been made.
that the Democrats wers assaiiing the
army as the '.meanest and dirtiest" Of
any that had been made against that
party.
Mr.. Proctor defended Captain Cornelius
". Browneil, who had been mentioned
in the Rawlins resolution as being re-
sponsible for Father Augustin's death.
FALSE AND INFAMOUS.
Mr.. Rawlins said he had not specitl-
cally charged any person with having
committed cold-blooded murder. but his
statement was based on afldavits on
fiie In tho War Department.
st Is the old charge" said he that
we have called attention to tortures and
thereby have been araigning the Amer
ican army. It is a false and infamous
charge, and Will cram 1t down the
teeth OF the men who have falsely given
1t utterance. 1 brand the statement as
Infamous, II not cowardly. It is sim
ply an attempt to put me in false
position which viii not occupy"
III that Is the best explanation the
Senator can give, remarked Mr. Beyer-
idgs '-for his remarkable language here.
think the best friend the Senator has
would advise him TO accept the alterna.
tive OF silence.
Mr.. Hoar interrupted and asked II It
was fair to impute to anybody an attack
upon the American army. when the gov
ernment OF the United States itself
through It's military authority has made
such charges.
Mr.. Carmack charac acterized the charge
that Democrats were asatling the army
as the t.nsaniest and dirtiest" OF all
that had been made
Jake Smith Is no more the American
army than the Senator from Indiana
Is the American Senate, and not half az
much as he thinks ne Is
POLICY OF SUPPRESSION.
Whoever made the charge. he said, con-
sciously took falsehood upon his lips
when he spoke 1t. The Senate Commits
tee on the Philippines has refused to
Investigate the facts OF the murder Of
Father Augustin. There had been a
policy of suppression. he asserted, and
in the case of one witness who. he SAL,
had testified falsely before the commit
tee. he had heen allowed to go unpun-
ished. He insisted that whatever ac-
ton had bcen taken by the President and
War Department had been because they
were driven to it. by the minority OF the
Senate. and that eve nthen no single fact
was brought to light
Replying. Mr., Beveridge said Mr.. Car
mack had made his charge because the
investigation did not result as he Car
mackl had hoped 1t would.
Mr.. Carmack, again reyerting to the in
vastigation by the Committee on the Phil
t!ppines. as to the conduct or the army
In the Philippines, said that it occupied
but four days of seven hours each "ai-
though tho Secretary OF War with his
usual loose and lavish rniverallty, had
said that 1t occupied five months" 81
Mr.. Proctor defended Captain Cornelius
Prownel. who is charged in the Rawlins
resolution with being responsible for the
death OF Father Augustin Mr., Proctor
Declared that Father Augustin was the