Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-02-27
SSH CONGRESS
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The amendment striking out the prop
erty qualifications Was agreed to with
out division.
Tillman said: THE people OF South
Carolina In their constitution have done
their level best 20 prevent the 'niggers'
from voting. What | now ask you to do
is to give the kanaks and Portuguese OF
the Hawaii9n islands the same power of
sunrage a,s we in South Carolina have
In reriy to question of Spooner. Till
man laid that the $500 property qualifica-
non mad been put into the South Carolina
coz stitution for the benefit of the negro.
No provision was needed for the
whites said Tillman, because the
whites would get through anyhow. We
treatment of the niger You have been
saneering at US long time and l don't
In a brief. temperate speech. Spooner
deprecated II discussion at this time of
the rarIai question which had been pre-
0pitated by Tillman.
II the senator from South Carolina.
said Spooner. wants debate upon this
question. he can have il. | have respect
Tor the senator and regard for his ability,
but this is not a proper time for "A discus
sion Of the question. The senator has
said that the people of South Carolina
have sedulously excluded the negro vote.
They are now accomplishing their pur-
bose through the state constitution. but
shcy did not always do it by constitu-
donal amendment"
Advertng TO the pending amendment of
Culiom. Spooner said: Il don't like a
property qualification for voters. There.
Is sNmethinG of reason in an educational
tsuAilficatiOh, but manhood suffrage Is one
thinS and dollar suffrage is quite another.
J. do nQt know what may be done by Con-
gress with the islards acquired, but as to
the Islands of Hawaii. there are men
there "ao can read and write and will
not vote for proposition to exclude
Nose of any man because he has not
kAr<N NNar tt.,It i.,VNff
tie then appealed to llllman TO lay
aside the bloody shirt
Tillman replied that his only reason for
rehabiitating the bloody shirt before 1t
was finally and irrcvocably laid TO rest
was that he wanted the position OF the
Southern people to be understood.
sneers," said he. You won't let Us
alone"
alone" suggested Spooner, amid laughter,
Tn every state where the whites have
divided in politics between the Democrats
ana Populists. and it is 50 in every
Southern state except South Carolina.
said Tillman. ''the niggers bold the bal
ance of power. As such they stand there
as a menace to pure suffrage and To
good government, because they are pur-
chasahle quantity, educated or unedu-
Gated. We are charged with fraud ana
corruption and ballot box stuffing. Fin
ally after the bayonets had come to us
and might. We took the government
We stuffed ballot boxes. the buld0Zed the
'nfggers' and we shot them. And We are
not ashamed of it"
Leaning over toward SpOoner and shak-
ing his finger at the Wisconsin senator.
Ti,lman said: What would YOU have
done? You would have done the same
thing. ! see it in your eye. Laughter.
The amendment offered by Cullom was
finally adopted. So. too. was the amend
ment of Piatt. Conn, which has been
pending for several days, relating to the
appointment and tenure of office OF the
judges of the Hawaiian courts.
After the bill had been further amend
ed. Butler. y. c., offered an amendment
restoring to Hawaii the postal savings
bank system. The amendment was sup |
ported by Butler and Mason. Ill, the lat |
ter declaring that this was the only civil |
lized country in the world which did not |
receive loans from the poor pcop.e OF the |
country-thc only government which was |
absolutely dominated by the banks.
Allison submitted that it would be i'm |
possible to extend the postal savings bank |
system over part of the United states |
without making it general in application; |
and even If it were possible, IT would not
he equitable to pay AZ per cent. interest |
to postal savings bank repositories in Ha- !
waii, as the proposed amendment provld- |
ed when a bill was about to be passed by |
Congress refunding the intereSt-bearing |
debt of the United States at per cent
Without concluding the discussion Of |
the amendment the Senate went into eA
ecutive session and later adjourned