BENTILLMAN CALLS A HAL Southern Senators Protest Against Annexation Anexaton SILENCE OF SENATORS MEANS BEDEVILMENT Wants a White Mans Government Wherever Our Flag Floats I Annexation Senators Warned Against Taking In the Mongrel ace That Are Not Capable of Sslfgovern ment We Already Have One Race Problem That the Wisest Statesmanship States-manship Cannot Solve Influence of the Sugar Trust Washington June 30Late this afternoon ternoon the senate cleared the legislative legis-lative decks for what may be the final action upon the Hawaiian annexation resolutions Through its action today the last of the appropriation bills that has been pending In conference was disposed of and was a law before midnight mid-night After a debate lasting three hours the senate finally receded from its amendments to the sundry civil bland bl-and adopted the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill When the Hawaiian resolutions were taken up Mr Bate Dem Tenn and taen Mr Tillman Dem S C addressed I the senate Mr Tillman discussed the race problem from the standpoint ota ot-a southern man and was characteristically characteris-tically vigorous in his remarks tcalj Jacob Vorsanger rabbi of Temple Tem-ple Emanuel and professor of Semitic languages and literature at the University Univer-sity of California San Francisco pronounced nounced the invocation at the opening I of the session He prayed that the flag under which we live that for which our fathers fought be forever the sacred emblem of liberty until time shall be no more The Hawaiian annexation resoultlons were taken up and Mr Batef Tennessee Ten-nessee spoke In opposition to them I said all was an innovation he upon al precedent that a resolution from the house should be sent to the senate while a treaty upon the same subject whie was still pending He declared that the treaty could not secure the necessary neces-sary twothirds vote in the senate and that the political machinery had been poltcal set in motion in order that the senti I ment In the senate might be overridden over-ridden Mr Bate declared that the vote that would be cast for the Joint resolutions would b the knell of Republicanism but it would be cast War times would cause the majority to adopt the resolutions reso-lutions The fever was In the brains lutons people and those of the senators and it would force such action In his opinion that would prove disastrous DEVILMENT AFOOT Mr Tillman of South Carolina followed follow-ed Mr Timan Thus far he said the discussion of the resolutions hrs been entirely onesided Whenever tne majority ma-jority of the senate sits In sullen silence this I on so important a question as am impressed with the idea that there is devilment afoot Senators like total to-tal they like to hear themselves speak to get their names In the newspapers news-papers and to see their remarks In the Record When therefore they a silent there is depend upon ij i something some-thing rotten In Denmark Mr Tillman in opening his argument argu-ment which was a comparatively brief general statement in opposition to the resolutions said the whole question had been fully discussed last winter in executive session a nd it is therefore natural there should be a lack of interest in-terest and an unwillingness to listen to a delivered then a repetition of speches delvered He religiously believed he said that I it was unconstitutional to acquire territory ter-ritory by joint resolution but a arrogant gant majority was however pressing I forward its purpose without regard to forwar is constitutional obligations or to their I consttutonal oblgtons oath of office SUGAR TRUST INFLUENCE I As to the sugar interests he said When I consider the mastery of the American sugar trust over the senate and the house a shown in the passage I of the Dingley tariff law I am forced I Into the belief that this trust Is not I opposed to annexation and that Its I influence is already working among I the ranks of those favoring annexation I annexa-tion tionDiscussing I Discussing the race problem presented I pre-sented Mr Tillman said The PhilIppines ippines are already densely populated with races for which we have no affinity af-finity or liking I Is the same with Porto Rico and in some degree with Cuba but we have already one perplexing per-plexing and harassing problem right i here at home and that must give us pause I mean the negro question I The wisest statesmanship is unable to foresee the final result of the presence in the same commonwealth of two distinct I dis-tinct races each possessing the same tnct rights under the law but one of which superior to the other If we are not to witness a blocking of the wheels of progress and a condition ot mongrel ism demoralization and retrogression such as Is appalling to every lover of the AngloSaxon race we must settle this question quickly and justly I is impossible for me familiar a I am with its perplexities and dangers not to call a halt and beg senators to pause and take care what they do With 8000000 negroes already among us the adding of more colored people presents to us a study of sociological and political politi-cal questions a grave problem a solemn sol-emn responsibility Can we afford to enter upon a scheme of colonial expansion ex-pansion by conquest with the Inevitable result that we will incorporate anther million and a half of negroes 10000000 Malays Nigerots Japanese and Chinese Chi-nese to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of mongrels of Spanish blood imbued with Spanish action WHITE MANS GOVERNMENT But lest I be misunderstood I wish to say that I sympathize with the white men who live In Hawaii that I I would not leave them to the tender mercies of the colored race who outnumber out-number them that I am ready to vote for a treaty annexing these Islands and even under protest to vote for this resolution with the Pettigrew amendment added though I prefer the other a the legal and constitutional mjthod of annexation If I can get this senate to incorporate an amendment which will declare in words what is here declared in effect towit that the colored races the negroes kanakas and Chinese are Incapable of self government and that In future In dealing with these Islands and all the islands which we may conquer i we islfnds chbose to hold them i will be the policy ot the Unite States to have only those participate in government who have white blood in their veins jfFor my part I declare that the races are not equal and never were God never made them so and while I subscribe sub-scribe to the doctrine that among the inalienable rights of man is the right oflife liberty and the pursuit of happiness hap-piness I declare my unalterable faith inline doctrine that the white race is superior to the colored TELLER CRITICISED In the course of his remarks Mr Tillman criticised a declaration of Mr Teller made a few days ago that wherever wher-ever the American Hag was raised In this war there it must stay He held that that statement was In direct contradiction I con-tradiction of Mr Tellers amendment to the war resolutions that the war was not to be waged for the acquisition of I territory Mr Teller replied that he had not been inconsistent as If the people ot Cuba were capable of governing themselves them-selves he wanted them to do so Then why offer an Impossible condition condi-tion demanded Mr Tillman No combination of Spaniards and half ne grces capable of selfgovernment exists ex-ists on the face of the parth air Teller in response said the people ple of Cuba were he believed capable of selfgovernment but If it should be demonstrated that they were not it would be the duty of this Government to maintain a proper government on the island Mr Teller said that while it was ot course necessary yet to have a demonstration I demon-stration of the ability of the Cubans to govern themselves it was not and never would be the policy of this government gov-ernment to abandon the people of Cuba of Porte Rico or of the Philippines Philip-pines to the tender mercies of Spain AMERICAN LAND GRABBERS Mr Tillman maintained that in view 2Ir Tima of the declaration of congress in the war resolutions this government in seizing upon Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines with the purpose of holdIng hold-Ing them was acting in bad faith with the world The American people were becoming land grabbers under the guise of humanitarians This bad faith had he > said already excited the distrust dis-trust 5f European nations and Germany Ger-many with her warships at Manila and perhaps other foreign nations would demand their share of the booty I a In favor he declared vehem ently at giving Germany and all the restj ot the European nations to un daf tS fot derKSnd that this government will i tolerate I tol-erate no Interference with Its policy or action I agree with the senator interjected interject-ed Mr Teller I I European nations are given to understand that we will brook no interference in-terference there will be no Interfer C = CP YIELDED TO THE HOUSE At the conclusion of Mr Tlllmans speech Mr Aldrich reported a disagreement dis-agreement between the conferees of the two branches of congress on the sundry civil bill Mr Allison said that five items still remained in disagreement One of these was purely legislative in character relating to fees of district attorneys This one the senate conferees con-ferees were willing to yield as it had been covered by a bill The other of the items in disagreement all of which the house Insisted should go out of the bill were provisions for a public buildIng build-Ing at Annapolis Md a public building build-ing at Butte Mont an appropriation to improve Yaquina bay Oregon and one for the construction of a soldiers home at Hot Springs S DAs D-As this was the last day I f the fiscal year Mr Allison said it had become necessary for the senate to recede from the amendment In order that the bill might become a law before midnight mid-night Mr Gorman of Maryland entered a I strong protest to what he regarded a unfair and unwarranted demands of the I house Mr Mantle of Montana spoke in a similar vein regretting that the west seemed to be singled out by the house and refused even meager appropriations appropria-tions tons After a discussion which lasted nearly near-ly two hours during which the action of the house was sharply criticised the senate voted without division to recede re-cede from the senate amendments This vote passed the bill At the request of Mr Allison the conference report on the Indian appropriation ap-propriation bill was submitted to the senate FREE HOMES KNOCKED OUT Mr Pettigrew of South Dakota vigorously vig-orously criticised the committee for yielding the free homes provision which he took considerable time to point out had been endorsed by the Republican national platform of 1S9C He declared that the Republican party I had been corrupted by the money power and should be consigned to everlasting oblivion A long discussion ensued upon the free homes question at the end of which the conference report was adopted adop-ted At 630 p m the senate went Into executive ex-ecutive session and at 637 adjourned