Show ROOT ORDERS INQUIRY ON CR CRUELTY VEL IY CHAR CHARGES Gen Smith and Others May Have to Face Court- Court Martial Martal in inthe the Philippines WASHINGTON April 16 A Ar As a result resul of the consideration by the Cabinet yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- of the charges of cruel treatment of Filipinos by United States soldiers Secretary Root has ha made public the following correspondence War Department Washington April Apri 15 1902 1002 My Dear Senator Senator- beg to acknowledge acknowledge ac ac- ac knowledge the receipt of your copy of the testimony of Sergt Riley nley and Private Leads Smith late of ot the Twenty sixth infantry in in- infantry fantry taken take before your committee yes yes- I a copy of or a dispatch which has been sent today to Gen Chafee Chaffee commanding the division of the Philippines Directions Js have been given to the tile judge advocate general of the army to take proper steps in accordance with wih the dispatch The War department will be glad to re receive receive re- re ee the re earliest practicable i t I elg information of any further evidence which may be elicited by the committee tending to fix fx on anyone In the military service of the United States for any violation vio yb- lation laton of ot any laws or of the regulations or orders governing the operations of or the army of the United States State in the Held field feld Very respectfully ROOT Secretary of War Hon H. H C. C Lodge United States Senator Sena Sena- Sena tor tor Washington n. n D. D C. C Instructions to ChalIce Chaffee Chafee War Var Department Washington April Api 15 IS 1902 Memorandum Memorandum Memorandum for the gen I eral Cable Gen ChalIce Chaffee Chafee as follows On February a letter was sent you inclosing for tor investigation a copy of I charges made by Gov Gardener of Taya- Taya bas baa province which contained o general e al ai- ai legations of c cruelties me meo W d gg by troops o on natives and generally of an insolent and brutal attitude of the army toward natives s. s On April Apri 2nd a cable dispatch was sent you OU urging action acton with wih all al speed Consistent Consist Consist- ent with thorough and searching Invest Invest- I gation gaton On the of March a cable dispatch I was wa sent you directing disciplinary measures meas mess urea ures to produce obedience to the Presidents President's Presidents President's I dents dent's Instruction elton subordinating military officers to the civil Government in paci pact I fled fied fed provinces and Instructing you vou to re re lieve leve Ma Maj Ma Edwin E. E Glenn and Capt James A A. A R Ryan Itan an from duty and order then them then to Manila Mania to await investigation Into their conduct In accordance with In Instructions instructions In- In to follow by mall mail mai On the 2 th of March instructions were mailed you containing statements of charges against these officers and Gen Can Jacob Jalob H. H Smith as the basis of the in investigation In- In ordered by cable of March Further instructions in both matters maters are required by the following facts Press dispatches state that upon tile tie trial of Maj Wailer Waller Valer of ot th the marine corps cors testimony testimony test test- mony was given by Wailer Waller Valer corroborated by other witnesses that Gen Jacob H. H Smith Instructed him to kill ki and burn that the more he killed and burned the better pleased Gen Smith would be and that It was no time to t take tice ke prisoners and that when Maj Waller Valier Valer asked Gen Smith to define the age ape limit for killing killing kill kill- kl- kl ing ng he replied Even Everything thing over 10 If I such testimony was wa given and the thee facts can be established e you will place Gen e Smith hb on ne trial 7 f by eoJ court oJ Yesterday before the Senate Committee on Philippine Affairs Sergt Serg Charles Riley and Private William Lewis Smith of the Twenty-sixth Twenty volunteer Infantry testified that the form for of torture known as the water cure was administered to the presidents of the town of Hollo Iloilo 1010 province island of Panay Pansy by detachments detachments detachments' detach detach- ments merits of the Eighteenth United States Infantry in infantry In- In fantry antry under command of Arthur I. I L. L Conger under orders of Maj Edwin r F. F Glenn then captain a and Assistant S S Surgeon r al Palmer L Lyon at th that dt time a contract contract con con- tract surgeon was present to a assist them The officers named or such of them asare as asare asare are found to be he responsible for tor the act will be tried b by court martial court Conger Confer and Lyon are In this country both h the Twenty sixth volunteer Infantry i and Eighteenth rh infantry having returned to the United States and most of the witnesses being presumptively here The Secretary of War Yar directs that Maj E E. F. F Glenn Twenty fifth TwentY infantry be directed to proceed to San Francisco and report to the general commanding the Department Department Depart Depart- ment merit of California with a view of his f trial by martial court court martal under charges al aS- aS the cruelties practiced by him hini upon a native of the Philippine Islands at Ig Ig- Ig- Ig barras harras on the of June 1900 1000 10 Great as the provocation has ha be been n in dealing with foe foes who habitually resort to treachery murder and torture against our pur men nothing I can j Justify or W will I be h fd te Ct ej held to nj justify f the use e of torture e eW or I in inhuman in- in tuman human conduct of Cf any kind on the part of the American army ELIHU ROOT Secretary of War |