The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-30

those of Great Britain Is one OF hiHoss
attachment and love"
No Feeling Against Great Britain.
Hoar said that II Great Britain were
wrong in the present contest she was re-
garded by patriotic Americans precisely
as they would regard their own govern
ment II 1t were wrong. He did not be-
lieve, he said, in the doctrine MY coun-
try, right or wrong" and did not think
the people believed in 1t.
Lodge. In a brief speech, also criticised
the British consuPs remarks as highly
improper.
PIatt Rebukes Mason.
Mason replied briefly. but so vehemently
to the points made by Hoar that Piatt
(Connecticut said:
III do not want to let this occasion pass
without entering my protest against the
abuse OF free speech in the United States
senate"
The matter was then referred to the
committee on foreign relations.
other Business Taken Up.
The resolution of Pettigrew, declaring
food products not to be contraband OF war,
was referred to the committee on foreign
relations after brief speech by Petit
grew.
Carter presented a conference report on
the census administration bill. and 1t was
agreed to.
A joint resolution granting permission
for the erection In Washington, ID. O., or
monument in honor of Samuel Hahne-
mann was passed.
TiIIman Speaks ON Philippines.
In accordance with a previous announce
ment, Ti.lman delivered an address upon
the Philippine question His discussion
of the subject took wide range Re-
ferring to the speech of Beveridge, in
which the Indiana senator charged that
American opposition to the war In the
Philippines was the chief factor In pro-
longing It, Tiilman said:
''If senators on this floor and patriotic
Americans throughout the country-thou-
sands of them belonging to the party
which elected Mr.. Mckinley president have
felt 1t their duty to protest against the in
human and dishonorable conduct of our
governmental they have believed that
the Stars and Stripes were being disgraced,
and that the United States was wagtng
war of conquest upon a liverty-loving
people. I ask that senator in Gods name
would he have us remain silent?
II repel with scorn the charge, coming
from any source whatever, that am not
as loyal to the flag as any man on this
floor, and IL 1t is sought to locate the
responsibility for the blood that has been
spilled, i am ready in this presence to
speak what / believe and to declare the
truth as l see 1t. impugn no mans mo-
tives but whether the president be most to
blame, or whether the crime rests on his
dupes and subservient party depends. ]
say with all the emphasis of my nature,
that 1 and none of those who voted against
the treaty are responsible for the spill
Ing OF one drop of this innocent blood that
has been shed. and will not endure patti
entity and without resentment any such
accusation
Discusses the Race Question.
Tillman then discussed at length the
race question, as it relates to the Philip
pines, in the course of which he expressed
strong dissent from the statement made
recently 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 as
sertions that the F1lipinos were not eapa-
BILE of self-government, he asked If men
alarmed and without artillery, who could
not be subdued by 10000 American troops
in year, were not capable of sef-gov-
ernment, how dared the Republican party
give the control of the Southern states
into the hands of negroes as being At not
only to govern themselves but also to
govern white men? If the Fill mos re
children, what were and are the sla, IS of
peal to the Northern masses to compel
the South to grant the negro free vote
and q fair count when 1t involved negro
rule, pure and simple?
Were the fruits of the war mere Sodom
apples, to be turned to ashes in such
brief span? Are the thirteenth, fourteen
tn and fifteenth amendments to be nuli-
fed in their very essence because they
failed of their purpose in the South? Are
they for home use only? Did this nation
offer up its best and bravest upon the
altar of liberty, the blood of 100000 men,
and spend and destroy five billions of
treasure that we might have a govern
ment of 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?''
Proposed Government.
Mr.. Tillman discussed at length the
scheme of government proposed for the
Philippines by Beveridge, saying in this
connection that ''the Indiana senator's
heart was as hard as flint and that he
was without mercy and charity, because
he really proposed to govern the Fflipinos
with the bayonet. Such a policy would
come back to curse us as surely as there
is a God in heaven
Protests Against the War.
Tillman said there was no doubt that
the United States could suppress and MUIR
der the Filipinos, but he protested against
the continuance of this unholy war
THE president" he said in conclusion.
has declared that upon congress rests
the responsibility. He shirks the burden
of his mistake and crime and endeavors
to shift 1t to our shoulders. Let us give
these people government of their own.
the only self-government. in whatever
form they may select, and be rid of the
burden as well az 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
The senate then passed twenty-three
pension bills and two other minor bills.
and after a brief executive session, at
y. M, adjourned.