Show NING DE DEBATE AIE IN SENATE May a 27 Mr Patter Patter- lorado one of the minority i Irs t f t the Philippine committee r-I r l enat ate it occupied the floor most or ot ora s- s Ii a discussion of ot the Philip- Philip cation ion or Patterson In discussing theby the they I by y Senator Foraker of ot edl edl- from m the Denver News Senator sons son's paper bald Mr Foraker f I een en frank and candid Foraker resented the thc Imputation I Il l tel ick ll of fairness Patterson Insisted that Mr 1111 For- For editorials which pre pre- I the question In Its true light Mr rf said he had presented only from Democratic news- news Ta had dealt ably and intelli- intelli the question and of course o Intention of reflecting Upon I from Colorado I IP Patterson declared that amidi- amidi I liht had been thrown upon the tand editorials had appeared In iper which presented a different l Lof f the matter These had not read In Justice he read them they were wre a reflex telegraph dispatches hes the Philippines s argument Mr Patterson quoted a of f Mr MI Foraker made fluary 1899 to the effect that he sympathy with those who lU ILof t making war on I Is followers In lit their struggle for Band and Independence explained that tha t the war warIc Ic ed to was not a val between States and me the Filipinos FIlipIno h he war between Spain and the nos abs held that that could elthe the case as Manila had fallen Americans and arid the Spanish had sent to their homes Mr Ir 11 II t r ker said his sympathies always had been en with the American troops and would be until the last gun had been I fired In the pending conflict Mr Hoar a asked ked Mr Ir Foraker to read the sentence In lit President McKinley's s pro proclamation which had been heen eliminated eliminated elimina elimina- ted by Gen Otis lest It should bring on war He lIe said Gen Can Otis had as asI assumed assumed as- as Bunted extraordinary authority to himself himself him him- I self to suppress a part of 01 the proclamation proclamation proclamation procla procla- mation and nd to substitute a statement that would Indicate to the I l Filipinos that they were to be granted a a. full tun measure of liberty liberty- Mr Hoar said he hei i realized the purity of purpose and In Intellectual intellectual in- in telle superiority of ot the Republicans Republic Republic- ans tins with whom he ho differed on this question He lie would wo rather lose his right arm than take the position he had taken but he was so constructed by bv his Creator that he could not help ItA It A A sharp colloquy arose between Mr McComas and Mr 1111 Carmack the former former for tor- mer asserting that abuse of ot the arm army officers and men was to be b found In every speech almost on the Democratic side Mr Carmack Insisted that not riot a single Democrat had abused the army The question of veracity was handed backward backWard baek and forward between the Senators but did not get beyond the thc I parliamentary stage Mr Dubois Dubols Interrupted Interrupt to say that tha not a 0 Democratic Senator had abuse the army as much as Germ Gen Chaffee had In Associated Press dispatch from Manila published today The statement statement state state- ment meet about the Waller court martial by Gen Chaffee Mr MI Dubois Dubols said was nn one oC of the blackest pa pages s In the history history his his- tory ory of the arm army He lie did not think would have called attention attention attention atten atten- Senator any tion to outrages could be he accused northerly properly of the army P Mr McComas said Gen Germ Chaffee hamade hamade ha hac made his comments simply on theof the act IUt of nf one brave man when he lie was III and scarcely responsible for what ho he didI did I r I I ii I |