Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-25
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7 onAHosIA We. sncorx.
Mr.. Perkins, of Kansas, endeayorsd to
get action in committee of the whole upon
the Oklahoma townsite measure, but was
voted down, the house deciding TO consider
| the Silcott steal instead. Il was not dis
posed of.
RKcoGETTIoN OF BRAZIL.
| Senator Turple made a speech in favor
I of the resolution for the recognition of the
! new government of Brazil. He attacked
/ the administration with charges of selfshly
delaying such action
gLcorT.
In the house a vote was reached on the
bill appropriating $4,000 to reimburse
members for their lost salaries; lost By the
: theft OF Sllcott, late cashier In the office OF
/ the sergeant at arms. The bill was de-
! feated, 136 to 142.
DEPORTATION OF BLACKS.
| Senator Butler, of South Carolina, spoke
upon his bill to provide for the emigration
| of persons of color from the southern
! states.
i He said the granting of suffrage to the
colored people was a craze, which had come
! through battle. But the act was done: they
are citizens with the ballot and with polit-
! ical rights.
/ He said that their absence from high po-
sitlons in the country Is proof of unrelent-
! ing, unforgiving, incurable race prejudice.
| His bill contemplated gradual, orderly,
voluntary movement of the people out OF
! the country. and provided government aid
/ to enable them to go.
! AS to the effect on the southern states OF
/ an emigration of colored people, he said
! that if the south could be thus relieved OF
! part at least, of its superabundance OF cheap
! labor, there would be such an immigration
of white, intelligent, progressive citzens,
! that the prosperity of the south during the
| last decade would Aale into insignitcance
as compared with its future progr- S.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, replied:
From all climes under the sun, he said, the
laborers were thronglng, all the one way;
| in their e1ger desire TO share In the harvest
of national prosperity and national glory
and yet in the senate of the United states g
proposition was made thit by the force OF
| the nstion, assisted by its treasury 5000 900
of la orers, born on the american soil,
| (erery one of them) entitled to every right,
were to be deported.
L it be true that the two races can never
live in harmony in this country, then the
declaration of independence is a lie; then
the constitution of the nIted States, and
the constitution of every state rests in rot
tenness; then the Christian religion which
teaches that ''God made of one blood all the
nations of the ca tn, ~ is solemn mockery, a
solemn falsehood.
Senator Blair thought that if instead of
exp orting 100000 colored people, there
we're 10000 white people exported to Africa
and kept there, the whole difficulty would
be settled The difficulties of the race prob
lem exist in the excited imaginatiOns of a
few white men, not between the races them
selves.
THE WORLDS FAIR.
Mr.. Mckinley, of { io, from the COM
mittee on rules, reported a resolution for
the appointment of committee on the
worlds fair to consist of thirteen members,
which committee shall within three days re-
port plan by which the house can deter
mine the site OF the prOpo ed fair and sub
sequently report a bill pro 'idlng for the
fair.
Mr.. Cannon, of Illinois, as a minority of
the committee, reported a substitu which
proposed to leave the question IN the hands
of the committee on foreign relations.
This wss defeated. 140 to 142, as an
nounced, but the tally was challenged and
another vote taken which did not change
the result, the second vote standing 133 to
135.
WORLDS FAIR COMMITTEE AGAIN.
The house finally adoped the following by
q vote of 141 to 136.
Re :olyed that a select committee of thir-
teen members be appointed by the speaker
to be called ''the worlds fair committee"
to which shall be referred all matters relat-
ing to the proposed celebration of the four
hundredth anniversary of the discovery OF
America, or the worlds fair of 1892
The house at a previous session had
amended this resolution by substitute, but
immediately refused to substitute the reso-
luton so amended for the above as reported
by the committee on rules. And so the
matter goes to a select committee, the Chi
cago interest acQuiesing.
ACTION on TCwNsITEs.
The committee of the whole house agreed
to Ak the Oklahoma townsite bill so as to
provide for not more than five boards of
three members each, appointed by the sec
rotary of the interior, whose duty it shall
be whenever called upon by any of the
occupants of such townsite, and the money
for the entrance of such townsi.e furnished
to enter at the proper land Office at the
minimum price, the land so settled and
occupied not exceeding one-hr If section for
each townslte for the use and benefits of
the occupants thereof according to their re-
spectivs interests.
These boards to be governed by rules
and regulations under which they shall have
to determine all controversies arising be-
tween claimants.
Pending action on further amendment,
which proposes to bar al 'sooners'' from
the icht to prove up or purchase any town
site or lot, tie committee arose. This
amendment particular y specifies that any
deputy marshal, or United States officer or
agent, or any person representing himself
to be such officer, who YVES in { kiahoma
before the hour fixed for opening that
country by the presidents proclamation,
shall not have the right to prove up or pur-
chase any town site or let.
DoCKIR RVS AMENDMENT.
After long discussion, an amendment
proposed by Mr.. Dockery, of Missouri. was
adopted, prohibiting any United States
ma, shall, deputy or agent to prove title or
hold any lot in Oklahoma.