Show TILLMAN FRANKLY OWNS TO SOUTHERN OUTRAGES WASHINGTON May S Discussion S. of the Philippines bill In the Senate took tooka a sensational turn yesterday Mr McComas McComas McComas Mc Mc- Comas of M Maryland referring to the alleged alleged al al- alJ cruelties of American soldiers Inthe inthe In the Philippines Philippines cruelties cruelties which he deeply deplored told deplored told of some souse of the cruelties which had occurred on both sides during the Civil war In this connection connection con con- he suggested that Senators from South Carolina and Mississippi where there is less less' popular liberty than In an any other States were shouting loudest for constitutional liberty In ire the Philippines These remarks drew a sensational re reply reply reply re- re ply from Mr Tillman Tiliman o of South Carolina who declared that it was no longer pos longer pbs pos possible sible to sneer away the responsibility for the infamies committed committe t b by the Americans Americans' in the Philippines He said that If it It had b beth been n know n in the South t that at the reins of government were weke were to tobe tobe tobe be given to the negroes the Civil war would have been prolonged indefinitely I He insisted that in order order to maintain their self respect the white people of the South had been beth obliged to subdue the negro by whatever r means n eans ans they could using th the shotgun as ah one ode o of the means s R He frankly de described now how the negroes negroes' h had d been det defeated lt at t the p polls admitting that the whites had gotten just such majorities as were necessary When we get read ready to put a s fa face e In the sand he shouted we put I his body there too Mr B Burton of ot Kansas vigorously arraigned ar ar arraigned 1 Mr Tillman for his utterances He He asserted that the Senator who could defend slavery and government by the shotgun could not be expected to think well of Senators who were trying to carry good government to the Filipinos Mr Burton followed with a warm de defence defence defence de- de fence of the Governments Government's s policy in the Philippines and became involved in a ah h heated colloquy with Mr Rawlins of Utah because he had denounced some of ot Mr Rawlins's s statements as false |