The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-10
POLY GAMY OCCUPIES
A PROMINENT PLACE
Fight Upon the Omnibus Statehood Bill Has Re-
solved Itself into an AntiMormon Crusade.
In Amendment Covering the Question will Be Submitted by
Senator Keau of New Jersey

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The Little
w field antitrust bill was received
by the senate today from ehe
house and referred to the committee
on judiciary. The army appropriation
bill was sent to conference. Messrs.
Proctor, Quarles and Cockrell being
named as conferees.
The following bills were passed: Sem
ate bill establishing a life saving sta
ton at Cape Nome, Alaska: also ex-
tending the Thirteenth life saving dis
1rlct to Alaska.
Mr. Carmack then addressed the SEN
ate on the Rawlins resolution. calling
-or the records Of courtsmartiai OF Of
ncers serving in the Philippines.
The best army that ever trod the
earth, Mr.. Carmack declared, could be
sent TO a distant tropical land. bur
when 1t became known that crimes
will go unpublished awful consequences
VIII ensure. Just these consequences
nave existed, he said. The charges have
been met with stoicaI and cynical in
difference. He asserted that there vas
an organized system of torture in the
Philippines.
Continued for Years.
1T is a further fact" said Mr.. Car
mack, that. though this was notorious
throughout the whole army it was con-
tinued for months and years. No ef-
fort was made to suppress il and 10
single torturer was ever punished for
the crime. 1t is a fact that the rep
resentatives of the leading Republican
newspapers went in person to the COM
manding general and told him hat
they had not only seen a perfect orgy
OF looting and plundering. but that they
had seen wounded prisoners butchsred
before their very eyes, and. though ne
did not deny it. he ignored it. 1t is
tlzrav-
to the attention OF the secretary of war
in letter over the signature of Rob
ert NJ Collins. the chief agent and
representative of the Associated Press
in the Philippines. and you did not
suggest the propriety of an inquiry or
an Investigation
Murders by American soldiers in the
field had become too common, he said.
10 bear investigation, which answer
seems entirely satisfactory to 'our
noble and generous and humane secre-
tary of war"
Travesty on Justice.
Courtsmartial in the Philippines had
been a travesty on justice. he said.
and he cited the case OF Lieutenant
Preston Brown, whom he charged with
numbering an unarmed and unresist-
ing native Filipino, and whose. sentenee.
of five years had been mitigated by
the president to a nominal fine and
slight reduction ia rank
To every wicked. vicious and de-
PRAYED ruffian in 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
punishment, and vet the president
calmly surveyed the ruin he has
wrought, land, like another great i'm
perialist. he is astOnished at his own
moderation" He INQUIRED how it hap
pened that the president. who had de-
clared his intention to probe crimes in
the Philippines, never heard Of the Cap
tain BrOwnelI case. when Father Au-
gustin 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 pre-
fer annexation to Great Britain. and
fhe same condition would result if we :
showed like Indifference in the Phil |
ippines. He declared the Filipinos were |
starving. The same vigilance that en- !
ables the president to discover them |
.'as enjoying 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 il would find some cure /
for "the blunder we have made"
Statehood and Mormonism.
The resolution then went over. and !
the statehood bill was taken up. Mr. !