Show WARM DEBATE I IV V V IN THE HOUSE V 4 j t Mahon I l bon Accuses Southerners of Cruelty to Union Prisons Prisoners on rs NORTH HORTH AGAINST THE SOUTH 4 I V SELL ILL MEING WITH WITE WI R STRONG O t III U ASHINGTON June Te 23 Debate on OD w YV V V the Philippine civil government V bill II warmed up VI in the th house t day and Id henceforth promises to be o J oa IIa a a much livelier character The in increased increased creased Ift interest is b due to the on into the tile debate of ot a of the tile cruelties charged to have hate bet ben n practiced letl Pl ed in the Philippines with wit h those which w occurred during the civil cuil war The TIM subject has baa II been lightly touch td d UNa once or twice before but attract ed little attention until Mr Grosvenor of Ohio today a revived the t memory o othe 01 tile the extremities to which wJ cb Grant an nut 1 Jackson were pot pat during the th rebellion This TIt was followed to lowed late in the day bj by b d i from Mr Mahon ahon of oC Mia In which be he paraded the s of ot and LIbby prisons s H il j predicted that in the oming election tile the thern American people would stand by bj the beys bey In fn blue Mr Gro in iii his isis speech als al a defended tie rules of the house t the criticism passed pa ed upon them an ant i paM paid a high tribute to tu Speaker Hende sons Impartiality Mr U DeArmond De of or Missouri spoke at considerable length in m opposition to the administrations Philippine policy Th The other speakers today were Olmstead of Pennsylvania Williams of or Illinois Cod Corliss IB of or Michigan an and nd W V W A V of or North Carolina Great P Palls Pails a Port of Entry Some routine business buet preceded ti t h resumption today of the tb debate on th Philippine civil government got nt bill hill Ril were passed pu to t mak make Great Fails Mont font the port of v Lot for the tron tion district comprising ing Montana ai and i Idaho to extend th thi privileges o or transportation of dutiable without appraisement ment to the i of Tacoma and Seattle Wash to au a the secretary of the treasury to bestow medals upon First Lieuten Lieutenant ant David S Garvis Second Lieutenant E B B B Bertholf Berthoff and Surgeon S J ta Ca Call l lof 1 of the tAe revenue cutter sert service ice iceA A resolution re o was vas adopted calling upon the secretary of or war for information as to any payments made mad by Governor G G vernO General Wood to F B D Thurber an anft I any ny other persons or c u tr gether with the dates and ad amounts of such b pay pa menu for tor advocating red reci reciprocity with Cuba CUE V The of the Philippine civil government go enn at bill was U then n r sum dand and Mr DeArmond of Missouri i imade made a general spee 5 h in hi opposition oPp t ti tithe the policy of retaining the islands inlands Tl ll repudiated utterly the charge c arge that the t h hoppo opposition to the present Philippine policy polley in criticising some of th the acts of arm army officers 1 in the Philippines w was as ass slandering s and assailing the tb arm army Expansion an American Principle The m Democratic party he declared rJ was not DOt opposed to expansion founded upon American principles Expansion was one ODe thing colonial empire was an another another another other The Democratic party was an bus to see the country count expand as an c x Jon paon pan was wu understood by the s Expansion upon the American A conti continent neat Dent north or south he said was tl the e Democratic idea of expansion not rot hold hobi holding holding ing by subjugation people 70 miles beyond our borders In Iii conclusion CO Mr DeArmond told 1 f his hili presence in Havana May ro 20 0 h i ithe the American Amican nag hag was lowered and th the thO flag of the republic of Cuba hoist 1 J To him as an American citizen 1 IH h said the sight was inspiring Far F r more inspiring he be continued than if f I Ithe the Amerl American n flag 11 had remained remain d pu puT r rin in the tM faith of the American America people violated Mr Grosvenor spoke briefly in d dr fen fet e of the army tn in the Philippine i 1 In no war ar in modern times he be declared bad had there been less of brutality an ant I retaliation than in la the war in m the tho Ph P That he said aid would be the verdict of history If everything that had bad been said Of f General eral Ge Jacob Smith Smita h re true tru he could ibid find its counterpart on both sides aides during daring the civil war He then proceeded to read rend a report from General eral Grant to the government at Washington telling t of or the arrange arrango arrangements meat ments he had made e to carry desolation everywhere ev through gh the Shenandoah valley vahey to seize all men under 50 W O years ears of age e as prisoners ners ers of war to destroy crops and make ake the valley a barren waste waite Stonewall Jacks ra Ja Cruel Before Before Phil t through he made a barren waster waste ute saul said al Mr Grosvenor He then read ad from uThe Th The Letters rett of Stonewall Jackson edit edited edite a aby by his Jd wife a statement tat ment that Jackson believed that the tire black flag should hould be raised and no quarter given n as Ute the best means of resisting in aston and saying that he had bad urged this policy upon L Lee LeeHe e eHe He also aJ o read a telegram from General n ral Beauregard ard urging the passage of the mil bbl for the execution of prisoners By this means the telegram read Tog Eng England land will be he stirred to action Mr 1 Grosvenor Gro venor said he itt did not read r ad these tIte telegrams to rekindle the embers ember of sectionalism but to show how how de deplorable deplorable war always was wan When that bill was 1 introduced in inthe I Inthe the confederate rate congress interrupted interrupt Hl Mr Bartlett of Georgia had not Lin LID Lincoln COIn coln issued a proclamation to seize the of the Shenandoah valley of ot Virginia VI aud and try them therm by Ual End and had they not been seined seised t L t know replied Mr lr Grosve Grosvenor Gros Grosvenor nor norV V That rut is Ie history declared Mr Bart Barb Bartlett iett lett If that t is true responded M 31 Mf f Continued oa OR Page Pap 3 3 WARM DEBATE IN THE HOUSE CORt II Page 1 Gr Grosvenor lt ft furnishes hes onlY another reason to excuse those of our soldiers who to when the natives In the Philippines tsp It and c murdered fd their comra comrades Mr Mahon Pennsylvania of main tamed that t the were not nt fit for independence S of the charged omo me or of our an l men In the Philippines lie be declared tb that t hey were not to be corn com compared pared with ith the of the chU war He read from reports tales or of horrors spread by the Union prisoners At Andersonville Po Do not the figures show In interrupted M on that a greater eater pereen Jit f confederate te p prig GoneI died In than Union prisoners In southern thern prisons 61 ha bate the ft figures ures lucre bere In Interrupted Mr M bon 1 I win put them In the Order to S1 Shoot Prisoners ri ners I He toad read tu order to t the prison prisoners ers iii at t Andersonville If the tRe Union army got ot within seven u ilet of the prison rion 11 the north was justly u lt cv r th the atrocities at l Mr of Nebraska e wily IY should not the American peOple now non be Indignant nt over the brutalities I in t the Philippines Why parade the chU WAr aft a sit an excuse i I the prisoners ere sUffering at interposed AIr Mr Richardson olt did the at ate government hare hae up p A standing of offer ofer fer er to exchange those prisoners onen and aad mai far man And was as not that proposition r rejected Yes Ye hUt But the men ill 1 Ander were wen elated many y of them I The orth mOIled to 10 I r nina IetI who could not DOt I perform mm serve replied Mr Mahon ahoo Tries ti South You want aDt the south rt the verD lent la In the war r in inthe inthe the interposed Mr Ir Nee No why dEe you now MW seek to be smIrch the Democratic p ap 1 dont desire to besmirch the south responded Xi on I 1 only df desire to show as Ge General Sherman tie de I dared that war Is hell lIelL tt 1 o the he bce took a recess i until S 0 At the night session OIa Mr Bartlett I f Lm Ga replied to the remarks at the Oft by Grim Cen I ral raI Grosvenor D and JId Mr Mahon Maho at as to i iI I at of Union pria tie de in te prisons He rend read from m a report port ma made by 7 Charles A AI AS S Dana Dan assistant tant 8 secretary or of war upon up n the in the southern them prisons I saying that the condition of the prisoners in the south OlIth was aa no DO worse orse than that of tb the confederate soldiers rs i Li th the fiell To prove his I madE iii the ar a tr percentage or of r soldiers died i In prisons on than did t Union guI eol diers In nt prisons he be pro JIIn 1 fl 1 the figures from r tons report tf of Jan W 16 l that of conf atc n rs in ii J Union prisons 46 i 6 or over oer 1 12 Per PerI I a or I 9 Iper per ce of the lcm who died In confederate prisons The Theother other olber speakers a at the evening session were Gibson Rep Ten Tenn N yule Neb B ett Dent Dem Gaines alnes Dem Teun Tenn anti and Mr Zenor Dern Dem md Ind AL l m in the house adjourned until U |