The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-28
HOT WORDS.
Beveridge Has a Tilt With Raw
Inns and Carmack
Over Resolution Calling for Inc
vestigation of Courts Martial.

Washington, Jan. 2S.-In the senate
the resolution offered yesterday by Mr.
Rawlins calling upon the secretary Of
war for information regarding certain
trials by court martial in the Philippines
was called up.
Mr.. Lodge protested that the resolu-
ton called for the printing of proceed
ings of a volumnious nature
Mr. Rawlins urged that the resolution
be adopted because neighbors and rela-
tives of the persons concerned had de-
manded the facts He referred to the
death of Father Augustine who he said,
had been murdered in cold blood.
we have reason to infer. said he
that a foul crime has been committed
and that the criminal is within our bor-
ders and under the present conditions
of the law can not be reached"
Mr.. ReVeridge said he had hoped an
end had been reached of the policy Of
insinuation and badger about American
soldiers
Replying, Mr.. Rawlns said he had not
specifically charged any person with
having committed cold blooded murder.
but his statement was based on affida-
Wits on file in the war department.
1t is the old charge" said he, that
we have called attention to tortures and
thereby have been arraigning the
American army. It is a false and in
famous charge and I will cram it down
the teeth of the men who have falsely
given it utterance. I brand the state
ment as infamous if not cowardly. It
is simply an ATTEMPT TO put me in q
false position which I will not occupy -
If this is the best explanation the
senator can give, remarked Mr.. BeV-
eridge, for his remarkable language
here, I think the best friend the senator
has would advise him to accept the al
tentative of silence"
He then entered upon a defense of the
army, and said that Mr. Rawlins had
given the best argument why the reso-
i'm -h H1 a
Mr. Hoar interrupted and asked if it
was fair to impute to anybody a de-
sire to attack the American army when
the government Of the United States
itself. through its military authority
had made such charges.
Mr.. Reveridge reverted to the use of
the words cold blooded murder" ana
said that Mr. Rawlins would not un~
dertake the responsibility of saying It
Mr. Carmack characterized the charge
that the Democrats were assailing the
army as the ''meanest and dirtiest" OF
all that had been made.
1T has been the very vermin.' he said.
of this debate. and am a little sur.
prised to find it crawling in the hair Of
the honorable senator from Indiana"
Whoever made the charge. he said.
consciously took a falsehOod upon his
lips when he spoke it. He declared
that the senate committee on the Phil
ippines had refused to investigate the
facts Of the murder of Father Angus
preston. he asserted. and in the case
of one witness, who he said had testified
falsely before the committee. he had
been allowed to 90 unpunished. He in
sisted that whatever action had been
taken by the president and war depart
ment had been because they were
driven to it by the minority of the SEN
ate and that even then no single fact
was brought to light
Replying Mr. Beveridge said Mr.. Car
mack has made his charge because the
investigation did not result as he Gar
mack) had hoped it would.
1T did not result in putting on the
American army the brand which the
senator had thought would be put there,
but resulted in a complete and brilliant
vindication."
IN THE HOUSE.
Washington, Jan. 2S.-Socn after the
house convened today motion was
made to concur in the senate amend
ments to the bankruptcy bill and after
some debate was agreed to. 124 to g.
The house then resumed consideration
of the Indian appropriation bill