The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-22
FIELD DAY
 IN SENATE Tillman Makes Profuse
 Apologies. ATTEMPT AT BEING FUNNY Given Severe Rebuke by Spooner
 and Carmack. Democrats and Republicans Have Prac- ticalIy Agreed on Brownsville ResoIution, but More Speeches Are to Be Made.


 Washington, Jan. 2l.-Few features of the spectacular were missing from the proceedings of the Senate today.
 The Brownsville affair was the sub ject of controversy, and the day be- gan with the announcement of com- promise resolution which brought Re- publican and Democratic Senators to- gether on the basis of ordering an in- vestigation of the facts of the affray without bringing into question the au- thority of the President to dismiss the negro troops. The resolution was sub- mitted to and approved by the Presi- dent at q conference yesterday. When the harmony" testimonials were all in. Senator Tillman took the floor and delivered @ speech in reply to the recent criticism of himself by Senator spooner. This speech began with satirica1 picture of the Senate as a minstrel show, which Mir. Till man later said was his first and last attempt to be funny" an attempt which. at its conclusion. brought a stinging denunciation from Senator Cammack in resentment of ailusions to him.
 This was preceded by a serious re- ply from Senator Spooner on the atti- tude taken by MT. Tilfman on the race problem, all finally resulting in ses- sion of nearly two hours behind closed oOOkE. 1ne SbCTGt bcccIOH WAS IOi- lowed by brief open one in which MT. Tillman made a profuse apology to Mir. Cammack. to all Senators whom he had brought into his first essay. in the line of humor" and finally to tho entire Senate. T very much regret that I ever undertook to be funny, and I will never do so any more" Mir Tillmap then withdrew all he had said in his funny essay" and said 1t would not appear in the Record.
 This apology was at once accepted by Mir. Carmack, who regretted he had | questioned the motives of his friend, and he. too. withdrew the words he had uttered in protest.
 Mir. Foraker made final attempt to l get vote on his resolution, but ob- I jection was made and the matter will be taken up tomorrow immediately af- l ter morning hnsiness- has been disposed | Of Mir. Carruack remarked jocularly 1 that there were not more than fifteen or twenty Senators desiring to talk, and Mir Foral1er, feigning seriousness, retorted hotly that the Senator need l not think the Democratic side of the chamber could monopolize the talking. MT. Carmack explained that he was only trying to be funny: that 1t was his first attempt. and he could never make another. As Senators were, laughing heartily over this parting sally, adjournment was taken at 6:15 D. m.
 During the entire day the galleries of the Senate were crowded to their capacity and the debate was also lis- tened to by seemingly a majority of the members of the House of Repre- senratives, who occupied all available seats and standing room in the cham Der. Have I ever advocated lynch law at any time or any place? I answer on my honor, Never. have Justified 1t for one crime and one only, and have consistently and consistently maintained that attitude for the last fourteen years. As Governor of South Carolina, I proclaimed that. although I had taken the oath of office to sup port the law and enforce 1t, l would lead a mob to lynch any man. black or white, who had ravished any woman, black or white. This Is my attitude, calmly and deliberately taken and jus tihed my conscience in the sight of God.
 MT. President. the Senator from Wisconsin speaks of Lynching bees As far as lynehing for rape Is con cerned, the word is a misnomer. When stern and sad-faced white men put to death a creature in human form who has def1owered a white woman, there is nothing of the bee about it. There is more of the feeling of participating as mourner at d funeral They have avenged the greatest wrong. the black est crime in all the category of crimes, and they have done 1t not so much as an act of retribution in behalf of tho victim as warning as to what any man may expect who shall repeat the offense. They are looking to the pro- toctfop of their loved
 "The Senator from Wisconsin prates about the law. He erects tho law into a deity which must be worshiped re- sardless of justice. He has studied law books until his mind has become sat- urated with the bigotry which ignores the fundamental principle in this Coy ernment, Law is nothing more than the will of the people There are written laws and unwritten laws and the unwritten laws are always the very embodiment of savage justice, The Senator from Wisconsin is incapable of understanding conditions in the South or else he has lost those natural i'm pulses which, for centuries have been the characteristics of the race to which we belong. That trinity of words, the noblest and holiest in our language. womanhood. wifehood moth erhood. have Saxon origin. And a man who speaks with lightness or fiippancy or discusses cold-bloodediy matter so vital as the purity and chastity of wo- manhood, is disgrace to his own mother and unworthy the love of good wife.
 Idle to Reason or Preach.
 "It Is idle to reason about 1t; IL Ia idle to preach about it. Cur brains reel under the staggering blow and hot blood surges to the heart. Civi- lization peels off us. any and all of us who are men, and we revert to the orig inal savage type whose impulses under any and all such circumstances have always been to Kill, kill, kill
 T do not know what the Senator from Wisconsin would do under these circumstances; neither do I care. have three daughters; so help me God. I had rather find either one of them killed by R tiger or by a bear and gather up their bones and bury them, conscious that she had died in the purity of her maidenhood than have her crawl to nc and tell mo the hor- rid story that she had lost the jewel of