Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-02-27

sired to vote for Representatives and
Senators in the Hawaiian Legislature
Mr. Tillman argued that his amend
ment, substituting the suffrage provi-
Sions OF the constitution OF South Caro-
ilna, was In all senses Il better provi-
sion than that offered by the committee
reporting the bill. Mr.. Tilman said:
The people of South Carolina, in
their constitution, have done their level
pest to prevent the 'niggers' from vot-
ing. What now ask you to do Is to
give the kanakaS and Portuguese Of
the Hawaiian Islands the same power
OF suffrage as we III South Carolina
have given the 'niggers.' s
IN reply to Il question of MIR.
Spooner, Mr.. Tillman said that the
S2oo property qualification had bees, put
into the South Carolina constitution
for the benefit of the negro.
No provision was needed for the
whites" said MIR. Tillman, because the
whites would set through anyhow. We
nave some conscience In the South as
10 treatment OF the niger You have
been sueering at us a long time and
l don't like It,"
Mr.. Spooner deprecated n discussion
OF the racial question and added:
NEGRO VOTD EXCLUDED.
The Senator has said that the peo-
pie of South Carolina have sedulously
excluded the negro vote. They are
now accomplishing their purpose
through the State constitution. hut they
did not always do it by constitutional
amendment"
AdvertinE to the nending amend
rnent OF Mr.. Cullom, Mr. Spooner
said:
II don't like n property qualification
Tor voters. There is something of rea-
son in an educational qualification, but
manhood suffrage Is one thing and
dollar suffrage Is quite another"
lie then appealed to Mr.. Fiiimun to
lay aside the bloody shirt.
Mr.. Tillmai, replied that his only rea
son for rehabllitating the bloody shirt
before 1t was finally and irrevocably
laid at rest was that he wanted the
position OF the Southern people to be
understood.
I'm getting tired OF these taunts
and sneers." said he. ''Tou WON'T let
us alorc.
The senator won't le, us lot him
alone" suggested AIR. spooner amid
laughter. 49,.
TN every state where the whites
have divided politics between the Dem
ocrats and Populists-nnd It is so in
every Southern State except South
Carolina the 'niggers' held the balance
a menace TO pure suffrage and to
good government because they arc a
purchasable quantity, educated or un,
educated.
ADMITS ELECTION FRAUDS.
I'VE are charged with fraud and cor
runtion and ballot-boN stuffing. FL
nally. after the bayonets had come to
us again i'm 1876, we rose in righteous
ness and might We took the govern,
ment. We stuffed ballot boxes, we
bulldozed the 'nIggers' and we shot
EN- And we nrc not ashamed Of It."
Leaning over toward Mr.. Spooner and
shaking his finger at the Wisconsin
Senator. Mr. Tlllman said:
What would you have done? You
would have done the same thing; see
1t in Your eye" Laughter).
The amendment offered by Mr. Gull
lom was finally adopted. So. too, was
the amendment of Mr.. Platt (Connecti-
cuO, which has been pending for sew
cral days relating to the appointment
and tenure of Office of the judges of the
Hawaiian courts.
Mr.. Butler (North Carolina) offered
an amendment restoring to Hawaii the
Postal Savings Bank system. Without
concluding the discussion of the amend
ment the Senate at'5:l5 p. m. adjourned