The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-30

not wait TO let this occasion pass without
entering my protest against the abuse OF
free sIeech IT. the United States senate.
The matter was then referred to the COM
nittee on foreign relations.
The resolution Of Mr.. Ptttigrew, declar-
mig food products rot TO bc cOntraband Of
var was referred TO the committee on Cor
eign relations. after a briet speech Oy Mr.
Mr.. Carter presented conference report
en- the census administration bull and II
agreed to-
Mr.. Pcttigrew presented n resolution call
Ing upon the President, II not Incompatible
with public interests. to inform the Senate
e the people of Samoa mad been consulted
with reference 10 the recent treaty regard
ing the Samoan islands The resolution
went over.
A joint resolution granting permission for
the erection I'm Washington. ID. c., of 4
monument in honor OF Samuel Hahnema7n.
was Passed
In accordance with previous announce
ment Mr. Tillman. South Carolina, deIiv-
cred an address on the Philippine question.
His discussion of the subject took wide
range. Referring to the speech of Mr.. Bev-
tridse in which the Indiana Senator
charged that American opposition TO the
war In the Philippines was the chief factor
IN prOlOngtng IL, Mr.. Tillman said: IF
Senators on this floor and patriotic Amer
leans throughout the country-thousands
OF them belonging to the party which
elected Mr.. Mckinley President-have felt
human and dishonorable conduct of our
government, IL they have believed that the
stars and stripes were being disgraced and
that the United States was waefng a war
OF conquest upon liberty-loving people,
i ask that Senator In Gods name would
he have us remain silent? 1 repeI with
scorn the charge coming from any source
Whatever that | am not as loyal 10 the flag
as any man on this floor and If il Is sought
To locate the responsibility for the blood
that has been spilled. / am ready in this
presence to speak what l believe and de-
clare the truth as / see IL. / impugn no
mans motives; but whether the President
De most TO blame or whether the crime
rests on his dupes and subservient party
dependents L say, with all the emphasis
OF my nature, that L and none Of these who
voted against the treaty are responsible
for the spiliing of one drop of this innocent
blood that has been shed and | will not
endure patiently and without resentment
any such accusation
THE RACE QUESTION.
Mr. Tillman then discussed at length the
race question as ii related TO the Philip
pines. in thescourse of which he expressed
strong dissent from the statement made re-
Gently by Senator Morgan that the civil
war was precipitated by designing poll
ticians who desired to thrust the negro
with social and political equality upon the
whites of the South.
Regarding the assertions that the Fill
pinos were not capable of self-government,
he asked If men. i'll armed and without ar
tillery. who could not be subdued by &C, OOe
American troops in one year were not cap
able of self-government. how dared the
Republican party give the control of the
Southern States into the hands of negroes
as being Mt not only to govern themselves,
out also to govern white men? If the Fill
plnos are children, what were and are
the slaves OF the South? How dared Re-
publicans appeal to the Northern masses
10 compel the South to grant the negroes
a free vote and fair count when IL in
VOWED negro rule pure and simple? Were
the fruits or the war mere s0dOm apples
to be turned TO ashes in such brief span?
Are the thirteenth. fourteenth and fif-
teenth amendments TO be nullified in their
purpose In the South? Are they for home
use only? Did this Nation offer up of its
best and bravest upon the altar of lib
erty, the blood of 100000 men and spend
and destroy five billions of treasure that
We might have government of the peo-
pie, for the people and by the people to
find that in the brief span of one mans
life the. sacrifice was vain. the civil war
a mistake. and that the colored race has
no rights We are bound to respect at home
or abroad?''
Mr.. Tillman discussed at length the
scheme of government proposed for the
this connection that the Indiana senator's
heart was hard flint and that he
was without mercy and charity because
he really proposed to govern the Filipinos
with the bayonet. Such a policy would
come back to curse us surely there
Is God in heaven.
Mr.. Tillman said there no doubt the
United States could suppress and muir
der the Filipinos. but he protested against
the continuance of this unholy war 1.-The
president. he said in conclusion, has
declared that upon Congress rests the re-
sponsibility. He shirks the burden of his
mistake and crime, and endeavors to shift
II TO our shoulders. Let us give these peo-
pie government of their own, the only
self-government in whatever form they
may select, and be rid of the burden as
we'll the shame which must be ours If
we do not. Let US protect them against
outside interference and in a small part
compensate them for the wrongs We have
done them"
The Senate then passed twenty-three