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Show DECENCY AND COURTESY OF DEBATE." Senator earmark Is nf tho sort of gentleman that claims the utmost freedom free-dom of debate for himself, but objects to others taking the Hime privilege. The scandalous license of speech he in-dulces in-dulces in and that the Senate allows, l exemplified In hi virulent denunciation denuncia-tion of liin. smith when he nld Poor old Smith the scoundrel the murderer, mur-derer, thi butcher I am glil to eay that the Sennlor from Iowa Is the onl man thus lur thai ha risen In his place to defend that bloody old scoundrel And then he proceeded to read Senator Sena-tor Dolllver a lecture upon tho proprlo. ties of gentlemanly speech thus I did not call the Senator from lown to order if he had been any other Senator ni ihat side 1 would have done so 1 did not call him to order bnatisc I knew that to require htm io spiak the language of dereno and courte In debate would hve been to rondtmn him to absolute sllenco (or th lest of his life. It I evident that Senator earmark understands "th language of decency and courtesy in debate' to a nicety, hla speech is full pi oof of that. Hut he wa than called to order by Senator Hoar, on what? on hi billlngsgal. blackguard attack upon General Smith an olllcer of dltlngulhed gallantry, who haa grown gray In th service of native land, who has scores of times faced death against the foe of hi country? Not at all, but for his comparatively com-paratively mild leference to the .Senator .Sena-tor from Iowa It s to he remembered all the time that th Senator from Iowa Is tree to retaliate, he is fully able to Uk care of himself in debate, and needs no rules of the Senate to protect him, o upon being called to order he withdrew hi aeuault upon Mr Dolll-ver. Dolll-ver. But General Smith I prohibited by Presidential order from maklrw re-ply. re-ply. Therefor the contemptible, craven cra-ven meanness of the Senator from Ten-nessee. Ten-nessee. In that rase ha dor not withdraw with-draw hi vll assault. During th mm debate. .Senator I'oraker referred to the severity shown by Col Chlvlnfton against n band of Indian murderei and torturern at the battle of Santa re he wiped th whole band from th earth benator Patter-on Patter-on InUriupied Now thl Pattron hi been one of the foul-mouthed ang that in thu eenate has been heaping abuse upon th American troop In the Philippine Hut he couldn't tand th citation of the Ihlvlngton Incident He went on tn explcln thut the act of Clilvlngton and hla 'men were Juwtlfled by the Inhuman iitiocltlc committed by th it bund or In I in Exactly so, but when p i t i os of rucl- ty ma lit i , t mer ran c " f 1 1 if rhilipjinr. thl-i came, Patterson utterly refuse to -onslder like explanattors of Inhuman In-human a'rorltles ommlttel by I"lll-plno I"lll-plno bands of outlaws such as tvlng soldiers to treiea and roasting them to death, burning prisoners alive, gross and terrible tortures by mutilation, and the like. That Is, while American troops may be excused for allowing In-human In-human atrocities by Indians to arouse them to frenzy In campaign In our own country, he wont for a minute listen to any Idea that inhuman atrocities atroci-ties by nilplnos should or could have nny Luch effect In the Philippine Inland. Inl-and. Senator Patterson I a tearful sympathizer for political purports only. |