The age-herald., 1900-04-01
SOUTH ABUSED
 BY MR. SHATTUC Scathing Denunciation of SOuth- ern Election Methods, DISCUSSED TH' gINGLEY LAW
 
 Richardson Css genged His State ment ass ylmprovement. PREclpITA A HOT DEBATE
PREcIPITN A HOT DEBATE
Bemenway Said the Democrats Who Were Shouting for War Before the Declaration Now Denounce
 Excessive Expenditures

washington, March 3l.-Ihe house today finished up hard weeks work by passing the Notifications appropriation bfl Not a single amendment was offered and the bill passed as it came from the committee. It carries s7093,4SS three hours political debate was precipitated by general political speech made by Mr. Shattuc, of Ohio, many members on both sides being drawn into it. A resolution was adopted to re-elect the present board of managers of the national soldiers home.
 MT. Heminway, of Indiana, in charge of the bill, explained it's provisions. It carries $7 ,4Ss, being ,45O less than the esti- mates. He said the reduction of the
 inmates had been made because it had been demonstrated that the government could manufacture its own guns cheaper than ie could buy them, and the appropriation would be sufficient ito keep our gun fac tories at work eight hours a day for the ensuing year. The government, he said, manufactured twelve-inch guns cheaper by $10,OOO than they could be purchased, and
 ten-inch guns $7500 cheaper. MT. Shattuc, of Ohio, under the latitude allowed in general debate, followed with | an hours speech on general political topics, 1 the tariff expansion and southern election l laws.
 Denounced the South In the course of his remarks. Mr. Shat
 tue deounced the inconsistency of south- ern statesmen in demanding that the na-- tives in our insular possessions be given all the immunities of American citizenship, while they were using all their ingenuity to rob the southern negroes of the constitu- tional rights conferred upon them. He took as his text extract from recent speech of Senator Tillman of South Carolina.
 This distinguished southern senator" said he, "while pleading for the people In the Philippines, who are by comparison 80 per cent. less capable of self-government than any of our people; while claiming for them constitutional rights; while claiming that they have no right to be governed without their consent, is at the same time admitting and boosting of it, too, in the face of the government itself, that he sanc- tions the prescription of our own people, who under our constitution have the same | rights exactly as they have themselves. l Who could shoot poor Filipino into sub- | mission,' he asks Would you force them 1 to be citizens of the United States? he cueried.
 NO, not if every person in the Philippines should petition to become citizens, if they should receive the same inhuman treatment after submitting, and after becoming citi- zens of the United States that millions of our people who are citizens now receive in the south at the hands of the democratic party, in shooting submission into them, forcing them to give up their (politicaD ct- izenship. Applause on the republican | side.)
 1 southern ElectionCases 'If you want to learn how the consent l of the governed is obtained in a larger i field, right here at home, just read the reports of the contested election cases which come up here annually from Inc 1 southern states. Why, sir, they vote men ] down there who have been dead for five years. They stuff ballot boxes They bull doze and adopt every measure and go to every extreme to accomplish their pur- pose.
 50, MT. Speaker, knowing all these facts as l know them, l do not attach any im- portance whatever to the persistent argu- | ments of these constitutional expounders, or to the sympathy racket of the opposi- tion.'
 Mir. Richardson, the minority leader, chal- lenged MT. Shattual's statements relative to the advantage which the latter claimed acrued to the country from the passage | Of the Dingley law
 Mir Richardson compared the appropria- I tions for the time of the Spanish war to those during and subsequent to it, contend ing that the latter exceeded the former by $3OO,OOO,000 annually.
 "1hat sum-" said he, represents the costs of the empire over the cost of the republics"
 DoeS not the gentleman concede that much of the expense fer the coming year grows out of the insurrection in the Tnil- ippines?' asked MT. ,Hemenway
 T do,' replied MT. Richardson. "but tha instruction grows out of the empre.'
 Democrats Wanted War
 MT Hemenway replied to Mir. Richa rdson. He said he was surprised to hear the demo- cratic leader denouncing excessive expen- ditures. The democrats had shouted for war, he said, before it was declared: now they were denouncing the expenses the war entailed.
 MT. Hemenway challenged the other side to point out single item of extravaganza in any of the appropriation bills In reply to this challenge MT. Fitzgerald, of Massa- chusetts, and Mr. Jett. of Illinois, cited the promotion and immediate retirement oe high officers in the army.
 MT. Bell, of Colorado declared that tho extravaganza of the present administration was without parallel in the history of the country,
 MT. Fitzgerald denounced the republican party for not being able to repress trusts,
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