The age-herald., 1898-07-01


 professor of Semetic languages at he
 University of California, San Francisco,
 pronounced the invocation at the opening of the senate.
 The Hawaiian annexation resolutions
 were taken up and Mr. Bate spoke in op position to them. It was an innovation,
 he said upon all precedent that resolu ton from the house should be sent to the senate while a treaty upon the same sub jeot was still pending. He declared that the treaty could not secure the necessary two- thirds vote in the senate and that the po- ! litcal machinery had been set in motion
 in order that the sentiment of the senate
 might be over-ridden.
 MT. Bate declared that the vote that
 would be cast for the joint resolutions
 would be the knell of republicanisnl, but it would be cast.
 MT. Tillman followed: Thus far" he
 said, ''the discussion of the resolutions
 has been entirely onessided. When the
 majority of the senate sit in sulen silence
 on so important question as this I am impressed with the idea that there is devil ment afoot. Senators like to talk; they like to hear themselves speak; to get their names in the newspapers and to see their
 
 they are silent, you may depend on it. | .'There is something rotten in Den mark"
 | MT. Tillman, in opening his argument, which was comparatively brief, made a ! general statement in opposition to the | resolutions, said he religiously believed | that it unconstitutional to acquire ter | ritory by joint resolution. An arrogant l majority was, however, pressing forward l it's purpose without regard for constitu- | t!onal obligations or to oath of office. | As to the sugar interests he said: "When l l consider the mastery of the American | sugar trust over the senate and house as l shown in the passage of the Dingley tariff 1 law, am forced into the belief that this l trust is not opposed to annexation and 1 that it's influence is at work among the ranks of those favoring annexation" | Discussing the race problem Mr.. Till man said:
 "The Philippines are already densely l populated with races for which we have ] no affinity or liking. It is the same with | Puerto Rico and in some degree with | Cuba. But we have already one perplex- | ing and harassing problem right here at | home, and that must give us pause. I | mean the negro question. The wisest l statesmanship is unable to foresee the | final result of the presence in the same l commonwealth of two distinct races, each | possessing the same rights under the law, | but one of which is superior to the other. | If we are not to witness blocking of the | wheels of progress and a condition of | mongrelism, demoralzation and fetro- gression such as is appalling to every lover | of the Anglo-Saxon race, we must settle l this question wisely and well.
 | With GOO negroes already among us, | the adding of more colored people to us l presents a grave problem, solemn respon-
 -slbility Can we afford to enter upon a 1 scheme of colonial expansion by conquest | ,-;tt, tba ipo ital VI vyill in- | corporate another million and half of ne groes 10 000, GOO Malays, Japanese and Chin | csc, to say nothing of the hundreds of 1 thousands of mongrels of Spanish blood inn | bued with Spanish thought and action. But | lest be misunderstood, | wish to say 1 that I sympathize with the white men who l live In Hawaii; that I would not leave them | t othe tender mercies of the colored race; l that I am ready to vote for a treaty an- nexing these islands and even under pro-, l test to vote for this resolution with the | Pettigrew amendment added, though I pre- 1 fer the other as the legal and constitutional | method of anneX Xaition, if can get the sen- ! ate to incorporate an amendment that the l colored races, the negroes, the kanakas | and Chinese are unfit for self-government l to participate in government of these ls- l lands and all islands we may conquer, IL 1 will be the policy of the United States to i hold those who participate in government
  1 part I declare that the races are not equal l and never have been. God made them so, l and while I subscribe to the doctrine that | among the s'inalenable rights of man is the | right to life, liberty and the pursuit or nap | piness'' I declare my unaltefable falth III | the doctrine that the white race IS suPerior l to the colored - l Tn the course of his remarks, Mr. Till | man criticised declaration of MT. Teller | made a few days ago that wherever the | American flag was raised in this war there | it must stay. He said that statement was l in direct contradiction to Mr. Teller s | amendment to the assertion that the war | was not to be waged for the acquisition Of | territory.
 | MT. Teller replied that he had not been | inconsistent; as the people of Cuba were in | capable of governing themselves, he wanted | to do so
 "No combination of Spaniards and half | negroes capable of self government said l Mr Tillman "eXists on the face or the | earth
 MT. Teller in response said the people Of l Crha be believed were capable of self-gov- | ernment but if it should be demonstrated | that they were not it would be the duty or l this country to maintain proper govern ! ment on the island.
 1 MT. Tillman maintained that in view of l the declaration of congress in the war res | olutions. this government in seizing upon 1 Cuba. Porto Rico and the Philippines, with | the purpose of holding them was acting in ] bad faith with the world. The American
 people are becoming land grabbers under inc guise of humanitarianism. This bad l faith already excited the distrust or Flu | ropean nations and Germany with her war | ships at Manila and perhaps other foreign I nations would demand their share of the <! booty.
 r sI am in favor," he declared vehement | ly. ssof giving Germany and all the rest of | the European nations to understand that | this government will tolerate no inteffer- l ence with it's policy or action."
 | q agree with the senator" interjected l Mir. Teller. ''If European nations are l given to understand that we will brook | no interference there will be none.' At the conclusion of Mir. Tillman's speech l MT. Allison reported disagreement be-