The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-03
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OFF AMY NORTH CAROLINA DAILY


and education.
Mr.. Sayers (Dem., Texas) also sup
ported the amendment.
Mr.. Hepburn (Rep., Iowa) asked
why members of the Appropriations
committee were now supporting this
amendment, which had been unani-
mously rejected in secret session of the
committee.
1T was not rejected by my vote,
replied Mr.. Sayers. 81 am not afraid
to say on the floor how | voted in COM
mittee." (Applause.)
'The amendment was rejected by
bare majority" interjected Mr. Grout
(Rep., Vermont), also member of the
Appropriations committee.
Continuing, Mr.. Sayers drifted into
sharp political discussion with re-
| gard to the respective claims of the
two parties to the friendship of the
colored people. Mr.. Sayers called at
tention to the fact that in the South
colored and white men worked side by
side. The Democratic party in the
South had been the real friend of the
colored people They stood ready now
to vote this money. He had no doubt
that in every political speech by the
zen II0Il IGnIdShd liz lldNi bOltA
his eolored friends that the Democratic
party was not in favor of giving the
colored people fair chance. "Are you
now in favor of giving them d fair
chance?" he asked.
II denounced the Democratic party, :"
replied Mr.. Hainer, "as / do now, be-
cause it denied to the colored people
their rights as men, and now you seek
to degrade them further by offering
them charity"
Mr.. Sayers Indignantly denied that
the colored people in the South We're
deprived of their rights. He called att
tention to the fact that white people
of the South who paid nine-tenths of
the taxes, maintained schools for the
colored people as good as those for the
white. Again he reiterated the state
ment made that in the South colored
and white men worked side by side
at the various trades; thing not true
at the North. He recalled q conyersa-
ton in which Frederick Douglass had
said the refusal Of trades unions in
the North to take colored apprentices
had been a great drawback to the col
oFed race.
Can they get into the Unions?" ask
eel Mr.. Sayers.
They are on an equal footing with
the whites" replied Mar. Hainer.
WAS any colored boy ever nominat-
ed as cadet to West Point or Anna
polls 2"
u don't know"
tDid you ever nominate one?''
"The cadets I'D my district are select
ed by competitive examination, re-
piled Mr.. Hainer.
"0h yes, we know about the compete
tive examinations" said Mr. Sayers,
amid Democratic laughter.
Have you ever nominated colored
boy?" asked Mr.. Hainer.
No." promptly responded Mr.. Say
ers, "as now constituted / believe the
white race is the superior race and
should dominate"
And you are the boasted friend of
the colored man.
Yes, and a better friend than the
gentleman from Nebraska
Mr.. Sayers concluded with pro-
test against turning this institution
out to starve
Mr.. Hepburn, rep, La, ridicuIed
the new champion Of the colored race
and asked If the University of Texas
devoted to the higher education admit
ted colored youth.
Frankly, no." replied Mr. Sayers,
but the State supports other schools
for colored people"
Mr.. Hepburn ridiculed the idea that
the Democrats were the better friends
OF the colored race. Where were the
proof? We're they to be found in the
fact in the South that where the Dem
ocrats were in control, the colored peo-
pie were not only deprived of higher
education but were robbed of their
civil rights. The records In the cleo
tion cases showed that that stolen
power was used in the House Of Repre-
sentatives. (Republican applause As
illustrating the solicitude of Southern
Democrats for the colored race he drew
attention to the fact that the new
constitution OF South Carolina provid-
ed for separate schools and that ''no
child Of either race should ever be per-
mftted to attend the school Of the other
race"
Mr.. Johnson, rep, CALI, made
humorous speech against the appro-
priation in which he convulsed the
House by declaring that If Mr.. Sayers
was TO be believed black face was
the open sesame to the best society of
the South.