Senate hammering at the war defends the powers that be
In Washington on May 7 a Senate session raged over the Philippine situation with Beveridge leading sharp charges against opponents. Chaffee wired a Manila report of a Moros clash where prisoners were shot as they fled, prompting debate over military conduct and policy while a District Court ruling on a postage case revealed limits on postmaster general authority.
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Chaffee Charges Cruelty in Philippine Warfare
General Chaffee sent the text of Major Cornelius Gardener's charges against the Philippine military administration to the Senate Philippines committee. The charges include patrolling failures and brutal acts such as burning villages torturing natives water cure looting beating imprisoning for days and rapes with dated caveats from complaints. Lodge presented lists of more than 800 officers and enlisted men court martialed for crimes against natives and natives tried by military commissions for mistreatment of U S soldiers. R W Hughes, formerly a private in Company
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R. W. Hughes
Philadelphia
Testimony On Water Cure And Beatings By U S Forces
The witness described a water cure given to a native and observed a native struck down twice by order of Lieutenant Merchant. Another native was beaten to extract information. The insurgents were said to have engaged in similar violence, including an American soldier reportedly cut to pieces with bolos.
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K. Eighth Infantry
Ealeo
Merchant
Tie
Concentration Camps Abolished in Philippines Provinces
General Chaf feetine cabled the war department that he has rescinded the order for the establishment of concentration camps in Laguna and Batangas provinces, the only areas in the Philippines where the system had been practiced.
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Chaffeetine
War Department
Laguna
Batangas
One-Sided Refusal to Restrain Players in Baseball Dispute
In St. Louis yesterday judges denied petitions to restrain Wallace, Harper, and Heidrick from playing with rival teams. Court rulings fault contracts as one sided and not mutual, citing lack of mutuality and exclusive power to cancel obligations.
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Heidrick
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Taity
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Lajoie
Contract Clarity in Equity Refused Over Public Policy
Courts reject enforcing a contract when either party can revoke it and the agreement ties in league rules to fix salaries and game prices. The case argues the arrangement breaches public policy and restrains personal liberty, blocking equitable relief.
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Courts of Equity
League
Court of Equity
Legal notice on local welfare and citizen rights wording
The text expresses a principle that stricting or enforcing measures should serve the welfare of other citizens. It frames public good as the basis for necessary restrictions and regulatory actions.
Deaths Of Sampson Bret Harte Shift News Across Ocean
Rear Admiral William T. Sampson dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at his Washington home with family present. Bret Harte dies suddenly in Camberley England from throat hemorrhage after years in England. Congress notes three member deaths in two days and a linked funeral committee coincidence.
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Tillman and McComas clash over Philippine policy in senate
Washington May discussions on the Philippine bill in the senate turned sensational as Senator McComas of Maryland denounced cruelties by both sides in the Philippines and Tillman fired back. Tillman warned that the south faced negro domination and white supremacy would be violently defended, invoking crude references to a “sand cure” and violence to resist change.
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Philippines
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Mississippi
Tillman
Appomattox
South
Plain Words from Truthful Men Made His Fame East
In 1871 he rose to prominence with popular poems, moving east to New York then Boston. He was appointed United States consul at Creffield in 1878, later transferred to Giscrew in June, and in 1885 moved to London to reside.
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Posten
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Bgut
Giscrew
London
Tillman Sparks Controversy Over Philippines and Southern Race Policy
The discussion centers on Tillman's charge that Republicans favor new governance in the Philippines while ignoring a "negro problem" at home. Burton and Clapp criticize Tillman for linking U S policy abroad with domestic racial violence and accuse the senator of inflaming brutality claims tied to the Paris Treaty.
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United States
South
Tillman
Clapp
Minnesota
Williar Bryan
Philippines Policy Debate Sparks Senate Clash
The exchange features Rawlins and Burton challenging each other over alleged barbarity in the Philippines. Burton defends his remarks, while Carmack weighs in on General Punten’s Omaha Military Building proposal tied to a $0,000 army quartermaster facility.
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House
Doers and Lot of Damage to Property in the South of Michigan
A May wind and heavy rain swept southern Michigan causing extensive damage. At Solvay Process works in Clinton county two large traveling cranes fell, with losses estimated from 10 000 to 15 40. Five buildings in Maple Rapids collapsed, burying Charles Barnhart and his son in a barn with the elder thought fatally injured. Owosso reports lightning injuries including Mrs. C. Wilkinson of Corunna.
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Corunna
Apnening
Hermann's Wife Arrives in Lincoln Amid Death Probe
Mrs Euge nia Hermann wife of Bruno Hermann Austrian editor who died from sulphenal overdose arrives in Lincoln coming from Chicago en route to Denver She learns of her husband's death at the train and notes their marriage by a New York court A life policy of 10000 was taken out on Hermann payable to his estate.
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Market Summary From Chicago and East Buffalo Livestock Listings
Estimated receipts across Chicago and East Buffalo show mixed livestock pricing with heavy packing and shipping lots mainly at 6.55 to 7.05 for pies. Cattle quotations include choice to extra steers at 6.90 and up, and hogs near 7.15 to 7.30. Sheep and lambs receipts reach 14 000 with western and native lambs around 5.00 to 6.90. Milwaukee grain shows wheat declines to 4.60 for No 2 northern and oats near 44 to 44 1/2.
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Irreconcilable Clash Over Speaker Vote Sparks Irish Row
Nationalists in the house of representatives attempted to force a vote to censure the speaker after John Dillon’s speech. Mooney and Redmond led the drive amid protests from Conservative and Liberal benches, while the Irish members cheered after the division, the motion failing to pass.
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