The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-10
STEN0GRAPHER'S NOTES
SHOW THE SPEECH WAS "DOC-
TORED'' BEFORE IT WENT
ON RECORD.
WAS 1T REVISED WITH LlNNEY'S CONSENT
The Remarks Were Interjected in Speech Of
j His and Could No. Have Been Toned
Down" Without His Having
First Agreed to It.

Washington, d. c.. Feb 9.---(Special9
as to what George White, the negro
Congressman from the Second North
Carolina district, said as to the lynch
ing OF negroes for assaults on white
women two members Of Congress FROM
North Carolina have procured from the
notes Of the official stenographer an eX-
act copy of what White really said in
his now notorious interruption of Con-
gresham Linney. The stenographer's
notes show that White said:
Il have invesiti. .ated the facts in
regard to these lynchings, for the last
two and a half years, and | say thar
less than seventy five per cent of the
lynchings which have occurred in the
United States were charseabe to the
cause stated: and If there Were not ont
RACES and assaults committed-not upon
white women by black men. but by
white men upon black women. those
lynchings would be less than they are
now
The Congressional Record does nor
give the same language exactly. 1t
-p4:.lcs -M-hite- -say. -~----.-----
Il have examined this question and 7
am prepared to state that not more than
fifteen per cent of the lyncllings
are traceable to that crime. and there
are many more outrages against coiored
women by white men than there are by
colored men against white women
The Associated Press reported White
as saying:
N have investigated the lynchings in
the South and find that less than ID per
cent. Of them are due to the crime of
rape. And | desire to announce here
that if il were not for the assaults of
white men upon black women, there
would be less OF the other class"
1t is asserted here that in consequence
of the furore raised by Whites asser-
tion that it was ''doctored" before it
appeared in the Congressional Record
Now it was not an Independent speech
of Whites hut merely an interruptions
in the speech of Mr.. Linney and So
could not. under the rules, be changed
before appearing in the Record with
out his consent The dismay that
Whites utterance caused among the
cooler white Republicans from North
Carolina is well known and it is likely
that Mr. Linney gave his consent to the
w
the greatest alacrity. if, indeed, he did
not suggest IT.
An examination of what White says
in the Record and what the stenogra-
piers notes report him as saying shows
that there is quite Il difference. In the
Record he is made to say merely tha,
there are more outrages committed by
white men upon negro women than by
yPhi I'M
stenographers report it appears that he
really asserted that the assaults of ne
groeS on white women are in retaliation
for assaults by white men upon negro
womeJi-in other words that white men
are responsible for the crimes of both
races,
\ few days later in his diatribe against
the News and Observer the colOred
member modified his statements still
further and tried to make il appear that
he had not said whlt he did say. Thus
he declared; 81 did not Justify the
commission of assaults by black men
uron white women on the ground that
white men did the same in regard to
black women The official stenogr;;-
piers notes show that that was exactly
what the Negro member did do, as ap.
pears above.
Judge Linney seems to be bent, not
only on slandeling tlla good name OF
his State but resolved to put q new
Federal election law on the salute hooks
Asked if it were true that he 'hought
| of Introducing Federal alecticn law
judge Iinney said
Partly: that is i intend atro !s'c ns
Il bill which will enforce the enlctiag OF
all election laws within con.tltnil, nal
limits One Tint will do away in the
dangerous laws now in existence or
| about to he enacted. which are dis
grace 10 the country and tend % Us
| franchise a great many vcters. | won
| not favor a bin similar to the Lodge bill.
The machinery of THAT bill is objection
able TO me and to many Republicans.