The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-29
BITTER AND PASSIONATE ;
 IS DEBATE IN THE SENA' sE

| the Philippine tariff bill. said the penuins | bill was simply a measure temporarily to provide revenues for the Philippine lsi-
 ands. Referring to the report or the l minority. he said that even that did not | propose immediate withdrawal of tnis | Government from the Philippines as IL | held that we should remain in the islanos until the establishment of stable gov | ernment After a rather breezy colloquy between Mir. Spooner and MT. Tiliman'
 the latter asked Mir. Spooner to say ex- plicitly whether the Philippine lslands | were a part of the United States. | "I recommend" replied MT. Spooner. .that the Senator read the decisions of the Supreme Court" "I have read some of these decisions, MT. Tillman said but with four judges | on one side and four on the other and
 the fifth wabbling. I could not make | much out of them"
 1 MT. Spooner-The Supreme Court settled | one thing, and that is, that there is dis l tinction between the United States and l territory belonging to the United States. | While Mir. Spooner was proceeding with 1 his speech he was Interrupted by MT. | Tillman, and, in a moment, sensational colloquy was in progress.
 | Mir. TiIlman inquired: Will the Sena-, l tor allow me to ask him if the Platt l amendment had been defeated by debate |
 side have had courage to have gone for
 ward in it's philanthropic humanity. l Christianity and liberty, and all that kind
 of thing, and to have called an extra ses' | sion?'
 | MT. Spooner-We have courage enough | on this side to do anything on earth. I MT. Tillman-Except to defend the ne> gro 4t
 MT. spooner-we have not courage
 
 | them of their rights.
 Mir Tilman-Does the Senator desire to discuss the race question here? He seems | to have left the proposition which ne started on to throw personal nlng al me. I am ready to meet him anywhere on the race question. . MT. Spooner-Wherever the senator is | willing to meet me on that question or l any other he will find me there, so Tar | as that is concerned. The Senator ad- 1 dressed to me an observation rather or l fensive in it's character. MT. Tillman-It certainly had no allu- | sion to lynching.
 l Mir. Spooner-No.
 MT. Tillman-And the Senator under | stands very well that 1 come from
 section of country where lynchings for a | given crime and for a good many other l crimes are very prevalent. Now, does | the Senator wish to leave the Philip l pine proposition in which he is dealing | with a colored people in most in- l famous and damnable and hypocritical | way and go south and hold them up as 1 examples that we are dealing with in a l similar way; l mean the colored people 1 here at home? Are we to have two rules of conduct in regard to the colored people; one in the Philippines by which l we butcher them and shoot Christianity into them and another in the South
 where we arc not allowed to protect our I wives and children?
 MT. Spooner-If we had the same rule for the colored people in the Philippines l as the Senator refers to in the South. God help the coIored man in the Philip
 pines
 l MT. Tillman-In the Philippines, now l you have already butchered in three l years three times as many as the l Spaniards did in three centuries. | MT. Spooner-It Is one thing to kill men with arms in their hands against the government and against the flag. It l is another thing to burn them. | MT. Tillman-You burned them in Kan | sas. sir. l MT. Spooner-Wherever 1t is done it Is | an outrageous crime.
 l Mir. Tillman-Oh, it is a very easy
 thing for a man who has not come in | contact with them in close quarters to l tneOrlZe ana Sentimental1Ze as to what l other people ought to do.
 MT. Tillman was admonished by the l president pro tempore that he must not 1 interrupt a Senator without first obtain | ing leave. to which he replied he was | "taunted in a way that no white man from South Carolina can submit to-"
 After a little colloquy MT. Tillman
 asked MT. Spooner: When you quoted l the constitution a moment ago in regard kI.-. Il Il 1 territory and other property did you in-
 clude men as other property whose liberty l and lives and all rights are to be
 jeopardized or to be destroyed in this l country? And are they property; are | people property? You bought them at
 $2 a head it is true. but did you intend
 to give them their liberty as we propose, | or hold them under the bayonet, under | carpet bag government more damnable | than you put on us in 186S?'' That is the old question:" replied Mir. | Spooner. The power to occupy inhabited
 territory involves the power l suppose | to change the allegiance. We acquired
 Louisiana. No one ever pretended that
 men and women were bought and sold in | that transaction"
 At the conclusion of MT. Spooner's re-
 marks MT. Teller (Colo.) offered the fol- l lowing amendment to the pending bill: Be 1t further enacted that the consti- l tuition and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicabIe shall | have the same force and effect within | the said Philippine archipelago as else where within the United States"
 MT Teller declared that the outrages | and tortures committed In the Philippines by the Spaniards had been increased since the advent of the Americans into the Islands, as always in the case when the Ango-Sixon succeeded the Anguid Latin in such an undertaking He was satisfied, he said. that if the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Lodge) would | call before the Philippine committee men who knew the facts. he would find in the Philippines condition of absolute insure ctiOn and war. There was not d square mile of territory in tho islands. he said outside of Manila. where an American could walk without the protec- ton of bayonets. The civil branch of
 this Government. he declared insisted that there was no war in the Philippines. while the military authorities were call ing for more troops.
 Mir Teller referred to what he declared was the establishment in the Philippines of recommendation camps and to the re- petition in the Philippines of the horrors introduced into Cuba by Weyler He said that a p-iYate letter from an army officer in the Philippines had been receiv- ed in Washington in which an army of fcer was quoted as saving with respect to the establishment Of concentration camps: If this thing is to continue. I