Show DOT TIME IN SENATE Most Bitter Debate in Years Occurs in the Upper House Irritation Was Aroused on Both Sides of the Chairjr and Once or Twice Personal Encounters Between Senators Seemed Imminent Chair Compelled to Abmonish Senators Regarding Rules Washington Jan 2SA Philippine torm was central In l the Senate chamber cham-ber today for nearly three hours but was void of definite results At times It looked very serious and the spectators specta-tors who thronged the galleries watched It with breathless interest Acrimony in Senate debates is not Infrequent but It has been years since there has been such a hurricane of bitter bit-ter vituperation of personal ta ntof ugly charges and of unmodified criticism criti-cism as was witnessed today MUCH BITTERNESS SHOWN Not since the discussion of the resolutions reso-lutions leading up to the Spanish American war has any scene occurred In the Senate chamber comparable with todays Even that debate lacked the personal bitterness manifested at times today Irritation was aroused on both sides of the chamber and once I or twice personal encqunters between Senators seemed Imminent REPUBLICANS AROUSED Once when Senator Teller taunted the Republican Senators by declaring that they knew the statements made In a recent dispatch from Manila in which Gen Wlveaton was represented as criticising the opponents of the Governments policy In the Philippines Philip-pines were true half a dozen Republicans Republi-cans were on their feet In an Instant SENATOR LODGE ANGERED Senator Lodge at whom the taunts seemed to be aimed particularly hurriedly hur-riedly crossed from his seat in the center cen-ter of the Republican side to the main aisle of the Senate and white to the lips passionately challenged the statement state-ment of the Colorado Senator and demanded de-manded that he withdraw It Senator Teller so modified the statement that further hostilities at that time were averted RACE PROBLEM UPOn UP-On of the sharpest colloquies the slonwas between Senators Spooner rIJfit I l raceitp o J 1 J1 ln volvlng the lynching of negroes was interjected Into the controversy and much feeling was manifested by both Senators DIFFICULT TO MAINTAX ORDER Senators in their excitement for the moment seemed to have forgotten the subject of debate The chair Mr Frye was able with difficulty to maintain main-tain order When discussion finally was ended for the day the chair felt called upon seriously to admonish Senators Sen-ators that the rules of the body had not been observed Such an admonition admoni-tion has not been made by the presiding presid-ing officer of the Senate in many years PHILIPPINE INQUIRY A resolution introduced yesterday by Mr Lodge of Massachusetts authpriz Inir the Committee on Philippines to make an Investigation of the Philippine Philip-pine question and for thatpurpose to sit during the sessions of the day was reported favorably and adopted by the Senate soon after convened today SPECIAL EDITION RECORD Mr Bacon of Georgia offered a resolution reso-lution providing that the Committee on Printing consider the expediency of printing a special edition of the Congressional Con-gressional Record for sale to the general gen-eral public at S 2 for the long sessions and 51 for the short sessions He said that some action ought tobo taken by Congress to Insure to the general public more complete information as to the doings In Congress REASON TOO MUCH TALK Under tho present system he said it was impossible for the public to bo kept Informed upon the work of Congress Con-gress It was no reflection he said upon the newspapers of the country to say that they did not publish full reports re-ports of Congressional proceedings No newspaper could afford to present to Its readers more than a brief synopsis synop-sis of tho proceedings In the two branches of Congress WELL HARDLY Mr Hawley remarked that his newspaper news-paper experience extended back between be-tween forty and fifty years When he was younger the newspapers of the country devoted considerable attention to the proceedings of Congress and In a measure at least he thought they might return with interest to their old practice The resolution was adopted DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Consideration of the bill to establish a Department of Commerce was then resumed and after several amendments amend-ments had been voted on was passed that of Mr Pettus providing that the Department of Labor should not be made a part of the proposed new department de-partment I INOT NOT A CHARITY BOY The Philippine tariff bill was taken up Mr McCumbcr of North Dakota referring to the statement of Mr Dubois Du-bois yesterday regarding Gen Wheaton Whea-ton having been a charity boy educated edu-cated at the Military academy said Gen Whcaton never had been at West Point but rose from the ranks DUBOIS GLAD TO KNOW THIS Mr Dubois said he was glad to know It Senators had been quibbling over the dispatch from Manila but so far as he had observed none of them had ventured to suggest that army oMlcers should not be reprimanded for their criticism of Senators RESTRICTING TRANSPORTATION Mr Bacon presented a joint resolution resolu-tion which went over providing that the law restricting to vessels of the United States the transportation of passengers and merchandise directly or Indirectly from one port of tho United States to another port of the United Statei shall not be applicable to foreign vessels engaging In trade between the Philippine archipelago and the United States or between ports in the Philippine atjchlpclago NO FORMAL ORDER ISSUED Mr Spooner adverted to a statement made by the Georgia Senator a few days 050 Indicating that a formal or dr had l been Issued by the Secretary of War practically suspending the navigation laws In respect to the participation par-ticipation of foreign vessels In the trade between the United States and the Philippines He sold an investigation investi-gation of the subject showed that no such order had been Issued The fact was he said that after the decision of the Supreme court defining the Philippines as domestic territory the Secretary of War was confronted with an obstruction In the law in getting necessary supplies to United States troops in the hillpplnes J A ship containing con-taining a cargo of vegetables for the troops In tho Islands had been permitted per-mitted to clear from San because be-cause It was most Important that those supplies should go forward promptly MERRITT DENIES STORY Referring to the recent criticism of Gen Merrill former commander of the Department of the East for some statements he was reported to have made in a public speech Mr Foraker presented a letter from Gen Merritt denying emphatically that he ever had said the Constitution was an antiquated anti-quated document and ought to be abolishedBREEZY BREEZY COLLOQUY Mr Spooner then resumed his remarks re-marks on the Philippine tariff bill After a rather breezy colloquy between Mr Spooner and Mr Tlllman the latter lat-ter asked iIr Spooner to say explicitly whether the Philippine slands were apart a-part of the United States I recommend replied Mr Spooner that the Senator read the decision of the supreme court I have read some of those decisions Mr Tillman said but with four Judges on one side and four on the other and the fifth wabbling I could not make much out of them SPOONER AGAIN INTERRUPTED Mr Spooner The cupreme court settled one thing and that Is that there Is a distinction between the United States and territories belonging to the United States While Mr Spooner was proceeding vlth his speech he was interrupted in-terrupted by Mr Tlllman and In a moment a sensational colloquy was In progress Mr Tlllman Inquired Will the Senator Sen-ator allowme to ask hlrhJ the Platt rnYal ndrntn tlihatl b2enllldolMud 4 J bate until the end of Ihe session would that side have had the courage to have gone forward in its philanthropic humanity hu-manity Christianity and liberty and all that kind of thing and have call dan d-an extra session HAS COURAGE ENOUGH Mr Spooner We have courage enough on this side to do anything on earth Mr Tlllman Except to defend the negro Mr Spooner We have not courtrge enough to lynch colored men or deprive them of their rights Mr Tillmai Does the Senator desire to discuss the race question here He seems to have left the proposition which he started on to throw a personal fling at mo I am ready to meet him anywhere any-where on the race question SPOONER ALWAYS READY Mr Spooner Wherever the Senator is willing to meet me on that question oran or-an other he will find me there so far as that Is concerned The Senator addressed ad-dressed to me an observation rathec offensive In Its character Mr Tlllman It certainly had no allusion al-lusion to lynching l Mr Spooner NoWHERE No-WHERE LYNCHING PREVAILS Mr Tlllman And the Senator understands under-stands very well that I come from a section of the country where lynching for a given crime and for a good many other crimes Is very prevalent Now does the Senator wish to leave the Philippine proposition In which he Is dealing with colored people in a most infamous and damnable and hypocritical hypocrit-ical way and go South and hold the negroes up as examples that we are dealing with In a similar way I mean the colored people here at home Are we to have two rules of conduct in regard re-gard to the colored people one in tho Philippines by which we butcher them and shoot Christianity Into them and another in the South where we are allowed al-lowed to protect our wives and children chil-dren SENSATIONAL COLLOQUY Mr Spooner If we had the same rule for the colored people inthe Philippines Philip-pines as the Senator refers to In the South God help the colored man in the Philippines Mr Tlllman God help men in the Philippines now You have already butchered in three years three times as many as the Spaniards did in three centuries AN OUTRAGEOUS CRIME Mr SpoonerIt is one thing to kill men with arms In their hands against a government and against the Hag It Is I another thing to burn them Mr Tlllman You burned them In Kansas sir Mr Spooner Wherever it is dono it Is an outrageous crime Mr Tlllman Oh it is a very easy thing for a man who has not come in contact with them In close quarters to theorize and sentimentalize us to what other people ought to do TILLMAN ADMONISHED Mr Tlllman was admonished by the President pro tern that he must not interrupt In-terrupt a Senator without first obtaining obtain-ing leave to which he replied that he was taunted in a way that no white man from South Carolina can submit to SOUTH CAROLINAN AGAIN After a little colloquy Mr Tlllman naked Mr Spooner when he quoted the Constitution a mcment ago In regard re-gard to the power of Congress In dealing deal-ing with territory and other property did he include men as other property whose liberty and lives and all rights are to be jeopardized or to be destroyed in this country and whether they aro property whether people are property You bought them at 2 a head It la true but did you Intend to give thorn their liberty as wo propose or do you propose to hold them under the bayonet bayo-net under carpetbag government more damnable than you put on us In 1868 AN OLD QUESTION That Is the old question replied Mr Spooner The power to ocbupyIn habited territory Involves the power I suppose to change the allegiance Wn acquired Louisiana No one eveDrl were and women w tended that men bought amisold In that transaction TELLERS AMENDMENT At the conchullon of Mr Spoolers remarlcs Air Teller Cola offered the following amendment to the bill u a spparaic sect Jon srparat bill further cnaclcd that tho Constitution und all the laws of the United States which fire not locally Inapplicable In-applicable Ehnll have the Hare force and effect within the Philippine archipelago archi-pelago States us elsewhere within the United COLORADOANS OPINION Mr Teller declared that the outrages and tortures committed In the Philippines Philip-pines by the Spaniards had been Increased In-creased since the advent of the Americans Amer-icans Into the Islands aa was also the case when the AngloSaxons succeeded succeed-ed the languid Latin In such an undertaking under-taking He asserted that war was rife today In the Philippines as It hud been slnco our forces opened flru on the Jblll nlnos I pinos I WAR IN ISLANDS Jic was satisfied he said that If the Senator from Massachusetts Mr Lodge would call before the Philippine Philip-pine committee men who know the facts he would tlnd In tho Philippines l condition of absolute Insurrection and wan There was not n square mile of territory lu tho islands he said outside of Manila where an American could walk without the protection of bayonets The civil branch of this government hu declared Insisted that there was no war In tho Philippines while thu military authorities were calling for more troops I Is Incumbent Incum-bent upon this administration said Mr Teller to tell us when It Is going to brlnp about peace and order In tho Islands I this administration has not got a L pollby except to drift we ought to know It CONCENTRATION CAMPS CONCNTRATION Mr Toiler further along referred 10 what ho declared was the establishment establish-ment In the Philippines of reconcentra tlon camps and to the repetition In the Philippines o tho horrors Introduced In Cuba by Veyler Bo said that a i private letter from an army officer In tho Philippines had been received In Washington In which an army officer wa quoted as saying with respect to tho establishment of concentration camps tl this thing Is continue I Will have to apologize to Wcyler Another An-other officer was quoted a adding The time has come when I ajn ready to apologize to him now Mr Teller in response to a volley of question replied that he did not know tho name of the wrIer of the letter and would not mention Itlr he did know ItNO NO CENSORSHIP As he was proceeding to discuss the censorship on press dispatches sent from Manila he was interrupted by Mr Foraker who quoted from an Interview In-terview with President Tnt of tho Philippine commission under yesterday yester-day date stating that there was no Censorship of press dispatches now NO CONCENTRATION CAMPS Further along Judge Taft with reference refer-ence to the alleged establishment of concentration camps explained that only an incurrectlonary cordon had been established with a view to crushInG crush-InG out what remained of rebellion Mr Foraker sold that If there was anything more barbaric than another It n tho establishment of concentration concentra-tion camps In Cuba by Gen Weyler and for any Senator to say that this Government had established anything ot the kind In the Philippines was for him to make a mOt serious charge BEVERIDGE CONFIRMS TAFT Mr Teller was Insisting that he had good authority for the statement that press dispatches were censored In Manila Ma-nila when he was interrupted by Mr Beveridge Indiana who said that It had been stated by authority on the floor of the Senate that press dispatches dis-patches wore not censored In Manila Ho was prepared1 to make tho same statement from personal observation in the Philippines He was well acquainted ac-quainted he said with the Associated Press correspondent In Manila and knew from him that tho censorship l had been suspended TELLER IS IRRITATED Manifesting much Irritation Mr Teller declared he would let the Senate consider the Impertinence of Mr Beveridge In interrupting1 him for a qujcstlon and then proceeding to lecture lec-ture him He said there had been somo rules of decency and courtesy which had been recognized In the Senate for twenty flv elf This Ilthc first time In my experience said he that a Senator has gained the floor to ask a question and then charged the Senator who yielded to him with being aliar BEVERIDGE EXPLAINS EXPLAILS Mr Boverldgo promptly disclaimed any Intention of discourtesy toward I Teller but insisted that ho would now and at all other times correct misstatements mis-statements when they wore persisted in by other Senators Well I consider that tho Senator was very very discourteous said Mr TellerMAKES MAKES ERIOUS CHARGE IJIOUS CAnGE Soon riftcr ilr Teller referring to tho Associated Press dispatch from Manila quoting Gen Wheaton as criti cising some utterances OH Dr Schur man in hla Boston speech said There IB not a Senator on that side of the chamber pointing to the Republican sldo who did not know that the statements In that dispatch wore true TELLER CALLED TO TIME Instantly n half dozen Republican Senators including Mr Lodge Mr I Hawley and Mi Platt sprang to their feet entering protests against the Colorado Senators statements That la not truo and I will not permit It togo to-go unchallenged declared Mr Lodge CHANGES HIS STATEMENT Then I will change it aol Mr Teller and say that there Is not a Senator on that side who ought not to pOe known that the statements in that dispatch were true Mr Foraker Interrupted Teller to Inquire If hu had any Information ad dltlonal to that which he had ester day upon the accuracy of the dispatch I said I had satisfactory evidence evidence satisfactory to my mind said Mr Teller that tho statements in that dispatch were correct Then the Senator correct no further in formation that he had in yesterday persisted Mr Foraker I NO MORE INFORMATION No I had tho same information yes terday responded Mr Teller Without further interruption Mr Teller concluded con-cluded his remarks declaring that he proposed to discuss the whole Philip pine question during the pcndancy of this measure and did not propose to o bullyragged by anybody or deterred from doing what he conaidcre to be his duty as an American Senator RULES MUST BE OBSERVED At the conclusion ot the debate the president pro tern Mr Frye called at tention to the rule requiring that when I Senator desired to speak he shall ad dress the President and shall not shal proceed pro-ceed untlLhc is recognized and that no Senator shall interrupt another Senator Sen-ator In debate without his consent Mr Tyro hoped tho rule would be observed In future The Senate at 505 p m went Into executive adjourned sessloa and soon afterward |