The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-24
PULLMAN IS VERY MILD Said He Would Surprise His Friends. DISCUSSED RACE QUESTION Replied to SpO0ner's Speech
 on IndianOla. Declared He Would Vote to Connrua Booker T. Washington as .
 Member of Cabinet Dubois
 Reads washington's Fare
 well Address.

Washington, Feb. RIA large crowd was attracted to the Senate today. most of them visiting Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution. Washington's farewell address was read by MT. Dubois of Idaho.
 The omnibus public building bill was passed and the postotiice appropriation bill as considered without final action Mir. Tillman spoke for nearly two hours. principally in reply to Mir. spooner on the IndianoIa postoffice case.
 He said that if the policy of the admin lstration in regard to the equality of the negro was carried on and Booker Wash ington should be appointed to the Cabinet. he would vote for his confirmation. Hs did not conclude his remarks.
 Mir. Tillman, while standing in the aisle and endeavoring to get recognition ta speak regai ding the Indianola, Miss, postofice case, inquired what was up if the passage of the appropriation bill went over. Injecting some hunor into the proceedings. the President pro tempors replied that he understood the Senator from South Carolina was coming up on his feet" at which the Senate was con- vulsed.
 Ttllman's Surprise.
 Mir. Tillman then said he proposed to surprise his friends and astonish his ene- mics, if he had any, by being very mild and temperate in what he would say. If we had known at the beginning Of the civil war" said he, what we know now, there would have been no war; He inquired why the large majority of law-abiding people of Indianola should be punished because there was small lawless and brutal element. 1t was con- trary. he said, to the Fundamental princi- pies of Anglo-saxon jurisprudence.
 Replying to some remarks made by Mr. Spooner in his speech, Mir. Tfiiman said l Tt is not in tho dream of the wildess ass that roams over the Southern States with skin on him that the Federal Gov ernment is not supreme" but he said there were some cognate propositions which have been ignored.
 He said that in the South the people have a constant reminder that their an- cestors thirty-ive years ago were con- quered.
 we are perpetually reminded he said. accenting his words, that we are in ths Union, but not of it. except to pay taxes" Poison in Race Condition. The poison in the race condition in the South law in the referee system which ndu been huOptcu nC UdtAt1Ec ol tHc power, he said, iH national Republican conventions, was held by the machine of the South and that machine was composed of negroes. When the people Of the South, said he. lose patience and do "cruel. bitter fearful, fiendish and saw age things. there is a howl from the men who know nothing and who have never been South of the Potomac. but have theorized."
 Continuing and addressing the Republi- can side. he said that if this policy of negro equality is carried out and some of them could be given places in the Cabinet he would vote for them.
 T will vote to confirm Booker Wash ington as secretary of anything" ha declared. Let us have a negro. gen. uine negro. not a mulatto or hybrid. Then let us give him ITO rata share of all the good jobs wherever they exist. without regard to local conditions"
 He added that nothing of the sort will be done.
 After speaking for nearly two hours, and not concluding, he yielded for an ex- ecutive session,