Show mm i TIE 1 E PHIUrPINES SAYS SENATOR N MBBURN oJ Secretary Taft Is Directly Charged With Having Knowledge of Slavery in tHe Islands Washington Greatly to the surprise sur-prise of overy one the subject of slavery was introduced In the senate on Monday Secretary Taft was directly di-rectly charged with having a knowledge knowl-edge of slavery In the Islands The dcbato was made pertinently on the sections of the bill revising the criminal crimi-nal code of thQ United States which provide penalties for dealing In slaves Nr Halo asserted that such provisions provis-ions should be stricken out as he regarded re-garded slavery as obsolete In the United States and ho could see no reason for referring to it Senator Heyburn In charge of the bill declared de-clared that not only Is there Immoral traffic in white slaves but that coollo labor in the form of practical Wvery does exist and added that actual human hu-man slavery is still maintained in the Philippine Islands Mr Lodge made a statement to dIsprove dis-prove the charges of slavery in the Philippines |