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Show SENATOR TELLER ON THE "WAR IN THE ISLANDS The, debate on the Philippine bill in the senate the other day brought out these statements made by Senator Teller: Mr. Teller declared that the outrages and tortures committed in the Philippines by the Spaniards had been increased since the advent of the Americans into the islands, as was also the ease when the Anglo-Saxons surceeded the languid Latin in such an undertaking. He asserted as-serted that war was rife todav In the Philippines as it had been since our forces opened fire on the Filipinos c I He was satisfied, he said, that if the senator from Massachusetts (Air. Lodge) would call before the Philippine commit- tee men who knew the tacts, ho wounl I firtd in tho Philippines a eontiiUon of I absolute insurrection and war. There was not a square mile of territory in the islands, he said, outside of .Manila, where an American could walk without the protection of bayonets. The civil branch of this government, he declared, insisted that thpre was no war in the Philippines, while the military authorities were calling call-ing for more troops. "It is incumbent upon this administration." administra-tion." said Mr. Teller, "to tell ns when it is going to bring a!nut peace and order or-der in the islands. If this administration has not got a policy except to drift, we otiicht to know it." Mr. Teller further along referred to what he declared was the establishment in the Philippines of reconeentration camps and the repetition in the Philippines Philip-pines of the horrors introduced in Cuba by VVeyler. He said that a private letter from an army officer in the Philippines had been received in Washington in which an army officer was quoted as saying with respect to the establishment of concentration camps: "If this thing is to continue I will have to apologize to ! Weyler." Another officer was quoted as adding: "The time has come when f am ready to apologize to him now." Mr. Teller, in response to a volley of questions, replied that he did not know the name of the writer of the letter and would nt mention it if he did know i!. As he was proceeding to Oiseuss the censorship cen-sorship on press dispatches sent from Manila, he was interrupted by Mr. For-aker For-aker who quoted from an interview with President Taft of the Philippine commission commis-sion under yesterday's date, stating that there was no censorship of press dispatches dis-patches now. Further along Judge Taft with reference lo the alleged establishment establish-ment of concentration camps explained that only an insurrectionary cordon had been established with a view to crushing out what remained of rebellion. Mr. Kor-aker Kor-aker said that if there was anything more barbaric than another it was the establishment of concentration camps in Cuba by Ceneral Weyler. ami for any senator to say that this government had established anything of the kind in the Philippines was for him to make a most serious charge. Mr. Teller was insisting that he had good authority for the statement that press dispatches were censored in Manila Man-ila when he was interrupted by Mr. Bev-eridge Bev-eridge (Indiana) who said that it had been stated by authority on the floor of the senate that press dispatches were not censored in Manila, lie was prepared to make the same statement from personal per-sonal observation in the Philippines. He was well acquainted, he said, with the Associated Press correspondent in Manila Man-ila and knew from him that the censorship censor-ship had been suspended. Manifesting mtn-h irritation. Mr. Teller declared he would let the senate consider the "imppj-tinence" of Mr. Beveridge in interrupting him for a question and then proceeding to lecture him. He said there bad been some rules of decency and cour-tesv cour-tesv which had been recognized in the senate for twenty-five years. "This is the first time in my experience." said he. "that a senator has pained the. floor to ask a question and then charged the senator who vlelded to him wdth being a liar." Mr. Bevcrirlste promptly disclaimed anv intention of discourtesy toward Mr. Teller, Tel-ler, but insisted that he would now and at all other times correct misstatements when they were persisted in by other senators. "Well. I consider that the senator was verv verv discourteous," said Mr. Teller.' Tel-ler.' Soon after. Mr. Teller, referring to the Associated Press dispatch from Manila quoting General Wheaton as criticising some utterances of Dr. Schurmann In his Boston speech, said: "There is not a senator on that side or the chamber." pointing to the Republican side, "who did not know that the statements state-ments in that dispatch were true." Instantlv a half dozen Republican senators. Including Mr. Lodge, Mr. Haw-ley Haw-ley and Mr. Piatt, sprang to their feet, entering protests' against the Colorado senator's statements. "That is not true and I will not permit it to go unchallenged," declared Mr. Lodare. . "Then I will change it. said Mr. Teller, Tel-ler, "and sav that there is not a senator sena-tor on that side who ought not to have known that the statements in that dispatch dis-patch were true." |