The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-16

Into the mouth OF hell,
All told. six hundred.
Flashed all the sabres there,
Flashed as they turned In air.
Sabring the women there.
Charging the children. while
All the world wondered.
StIhed by caunons' smoke.
Men, women, children choke.
Women and children
Feel from the bay'nets stroke,
n death not Bundered;
Families Blau ghtered there,
All OF six hundred.
Cannon to right OF them,
Cannon to left OF them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and Numbered.
stormed at with shot and she'll.
While child and mother fell.
They that had loved so well,
Thrust into jaws of death.
Trapped into mouth OF hell.
Not q babe left OF them
Left Of six hundred.
What shall such blood thirst slak,;
Go ask He'll Roaring Jake
Whether Wood blundered.
Honor the charge they made;
Honor the Wood Brigade,
For that six hundred.
Mr.. Jones (Dem. Va strongly condemned
what he called the ma sa Gre of Moro women
and children In the fight at Mount DaJo,
Jolo, declaring that It had shocked the
country. He said he was greatly shocked
when he read a despatch which announced
the horrible massacre.
Making every allowance possible he
said, sfor the intimate personal relation
-lIl II. L.. - n cha Draailauf a nd (,an-
Wood, I am utterly unable to understand
how the Chief Executive Of this great ooun-
try could indorse this horrible occurrence.
A few years ago, when Gen. Smith, known
TO fame as He'll Roaring Jake Smith
issued An order directing that all Moros or
Filipinos over the age Of 10 years should be
treated as enemies and should be shot down,
the people Of this country were terribly
shocked; but that performance. in my esti-
nation, does not ompare to that winch
We have just heard about In the Moro coun-
try. What Gen. Smith ordered should be
done, and which his defenders declared
had never been actually carried into effect,
Gen. Wood, as the commanding general OF
the United States troops in the Philippine
Islands, has seen fit, If he did not direct, to
oondone, when he declared in a despatch to
the Secretary Of War that he accepts all
responsibility for IL. In my judgment
this conduct OF the commanding general
of our forces in the Moro province and of
the American troops engaged in this horrl-
Bile massacre cannot be excused and can
not be condoned by the President OF the
Unlted States.
necessary that the United States troops,
after they had gained the top OF this noun.
tain, after these men, women and children
were cooped up in this orater-what rea-
sonable being In the United States be-
I-.-- It., - go sfnnn1u rU' hl 4 auARu Gin
gle woman and every single child in that
crater should be assasslnated2 The children
NAV have stood o their parents, and
they may nave chung to them; but ! do not
believe that the Moros deliberately took
those children in their arms and charged
the American forces with them as shields,
and / do not believe that any reasonable
man In the United States believes such an
improbable story as that"
Many other interesting topics came up In
the course Of the session.
Mr.. Mann (Rep., llO echoed the declara-
ton Of Mr.. Tillman a few days ago, that
President Roosevelt had been badly In
formed when he wrote his message charao-
terizinR as ineffective and useless the Gill
lespie-f illman resolution directing the
Interstate Commerce Commission TO in
vestigate the relations between railroad
corporations, OF their officers and the coal
and oil interests coterminous with their
lines Of road, and the question OF the trans
portation OF these articles, because IT con-
tanned no specific authority TO administer
witnesses and the production of papers.
These provisions, Mr., Mann declared, were
unnecessary. and, anyhow, the commission
ought to be engaged In other business,
that the Department OF Commerce and
Labor was organized 10 make such hVestl-
cations.
specting witnesses that the President urged
Was passed, but the matter Of an appropria-
ton was postponed. 1t was stated that 1t
would require at least 2l6o' 600 to make the
adopted by the Senate. -,
The Committee on Post Offices and Post
Roads was discharged from further con-
alteration OF the resolution directing it to
investigate the charges OF abuse of the
Thanking privilege 6y nnS,noes 90 81 tS Eo1%g asSs
inQton Post. The committee reported that
the charge was unfounded n that the
editor Of the paper had testified that the
editorial was written In a purely humorous
vain, with no idea that its statements would
be taken for facts.
The article said that Congressman load
the postal cars with all sorts Of freight"
and that they frank a COW, a washtub or a
churn as glibly as they do a letter, or a
speech which no one ever heard" and that
something ought to be done for the relief
Of the Post Office Department.
In commenting upon the article the
committee read a long lecture to the press
of the country upon the r~eprehensible
practice OF basing criticisms Of public men
Upon fancy instead OF fact. Like John g.
SAKE, after his unfortunate experience with
the messenger boy who read one Of his
poems and fell into a fit. the editor Of the
Post doubtless will never again dare to
be as funny as he IAN.
Gen. Keller Rep.. Ohio occupied an
hour in the reading Of a speech, which was
not concluded, in support OF hisSbill to re-
duce the Congressional representation OF
eleven Southern States by cutting of thirty
six members Of the House because Of the
denial Of the right Of suffrage to negroes.