The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-30
A RINGING CRY
FOR THE FILIPINO
Which is Better Fitted for
Self Rule?
lSiT NEGRO OR FILIPINO?
MR.. TILLMAN PICTURES THE
LATTER'S STRUGGLE.
POINTS TO THE NEGRO IN The SOUTH
How Dared the Republicans Put Him tn Con-
troll Here? He Asks. Have the Fruits Of
III eCiYiIWar Crumbled to Ashes
50 Soon?

w dSHlugtoli, JdH oO.--[A ueNSpttptN
interview with the British Vice COusGi
at New Orleans aSsailing Senator Ma
son Rep., Ill.l, for his pro-Transyaa| st
titude was made the text today in The
Senate for i question of privilege by
Mr.. Mason, who not only attacked the
consul but the British policy in levy
ing war upon an inferior nation. The
consufs course was severely denounced
in several speeches. a feature u The
days proceedings was Il fcrref II pro-
Filipino speech by Mr.. Tillman (Denl..
IS. CO
Mr.. Pctticrew IS. d.. presented ,cs-
olution calling upon the President, if
not incompatible with public interests,
TO inform the Senate If the people Of
Samoa had been consulted wI,n Ierer-
ence TO the recent treaty regarding the
Samoan Islands. The resolution cat
over.
Under a special order resolutions pro
sentcd by Mr.. Allison Ga), for the cleo
ton Of Charles G. Bennett, OF New
York, as Secretary Of the Senate. and
Daniel NJ. Rau#dell, of Indiana, Scar
yea nt-at-Arms were adopted without
AiNiSAuH- IlltS VIII fudhl9 dDout Sp~
ruary 1st
MIR Mason Qlls.). rose to a question
of personal privilege. He had raad 4
newspaper ciipling Of an interview with
the British Consul at New Orleans who
was quoted as saying that the British
p,,!it vas &is 4l,s ,ed with the position
taken by the American people and some
Of the Senators in Congress on he sub
.iect of the British -Transvaal war. That
position was assumed. the consul was
quoted as saying, simply bccIuse the
American people were mercalary. Today
they were favorable 10 the Boers. be-
cause they had achieved a little sue
cess; tomorrow they would be just as
favorable to the British when they had
achieved victory. The Consul considered
as particularly hombastic the utterances
Of certain Senator's Of the United States
and declared. according to the interview.
that when Senator Mason adortrd the
role OF mountebank and encouraged
the half civilized" people he did SO SIM
ply for "show and for votes"
MR.. MASON'S HOT SPEECH. /
Mr.. Mason said the consul's utterancc
was scarcely worth attention ;xcept
that he was one Of the accredited repre-
sentativeS of great nation % this coun-
try. 1T is not the first time" Gcciared
Mr. Mason. that a British diplomat haa
attempted to run this country. 81 far
as his personal attacks upon me are
concerned. | have no concern. The, Go
NE honor. The more venomnaas attacks
by the British upon me and those who
think like ne; the more we are made the
subjects Of British stupidity and as-
sininity, the sooner will all the Amcri-
can people get Oh the right 81 l2 { tie
controversy
Further along Mr.. Mason sad thar
according to the best information Obtain
able the people OF Scotland. those ut
Ireland and ninetyfve per cent of the
people of America were IN sympathy
with the Beers in their contest viii
Great Britain. After suggesting tina: he
needed no special defense from taA State
Department in this matter. he wan'cf
to know what has become Of the .;lfb,-
tration treaty that was submitted to this
Senate?
II am told" he said, that the I'1i-
ted States Government cannot mediate
i'll this war until that tral'y has teen
ratified. IF that is so, want Il 1t treaty
discovered and ratified so that that ha~.
rier aCHinS.t mediation shall he removed"
Mr.. Mason then adver'ted to the resolu-
ton Of sympathy with the Beers which
he had offered early in the session. He
urged the committee on Foreign Rela-
tons to which the resolution had beeN
referred 10 make a report upon it, in
order that vote might be had upon il.
FOAR DECLARES TT SERIOUS.
Mr. Hoar (Mass). regarded the utter
ance Of the British Consul as very seri-
oUs. "an attack. in fact. upon the char
acter of United States Senator and
uIfcn the American people"
IT seemed 10 him that inasmuch as the
matter had been brought officially TO the
attention Of the Senate it ought to he
offered to the Committee on Foreign Re
latiOnS so that that committee might
bring it TO the attention of the President.
He thought it might be a proper grourd
for the revocation Of the Rritish Consul
cxequatur and perhaps it might properly
he made n subject of representations 20
the Government of Great Britain.
Mr.. Hoar then moved that the matter
he referred to the Committee on Foreign
Relations
Continuing, Mr.. Hoar expressed his re-
gret that Mr.. Mason had made his inn
raSsioned attack upon friendly nation.
The Senate was part of the diplomatic
e II,