The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
THE FORTIFICATIONS BILL.
AS PASSED BY THE HOUSE 1T CAR
RIES $7,O93,4SS.

This Is s4,e95,4 5O Less Than the Es-
climates, as the Government VIII
Make Its own Guns-The Debate on
the Measure Furnished Mr.. Shattuc
Chance to Rap MIR. TiIlman on
His stand with Regard to the Ne
gro Vote.
Washington March 31.-The House to-day
finished up a hard weeks work by passing
the Notifications appropriation bill
Not single amendment was offered and
the bill passed as it came from the DOM
Inittee. A three-hours' political debate
was precipitated, many members on both
sides being drawn into it.
Mr.. Hemenway of Indiana, in charge of
the BILL explained that the measure car
ried S7,O93 4SS, being $695,450 less chan the
estimates. He said the reductions in the
estimates had been made because it had
been demonstrated that the government
could manufacture its own guns cheaper
than it could buy them, and the appro-
priations would be sufficient 10 keep our
gun factories at work eight hours a day
for the ensuing year. The government, he
eaid, manufactured 12-inch guns cheaper
by $4,000 than they could be purchased,
and 1O-inch guns $500 cheaper
Mr. Shattuc of Ohio, under the latitude
allowed in general debate, followed with
an hours speech on general political top
ics, the tariff expansion and Southern
election laws
In the course of his remarks Mr.. Shat
tue denounced the Inconsistency of South
erO ST a in 6au1pndip n 10 ne
tives in our insular possessions be given
all the immunities of American citizen
ship, while they were using all their in
genuity to rob the Southern negroes of
the constitutional rights conferred upon
them. He took as his text an extract
from a recent speech of Senator Tillman
of South Carolina.
TiIlman's Inconsistency.
This distinguished Southern senator"
said he, while pleading for the people in
the Philippines, who are by comparison
so per cent. less capable of self-govern-
ment than are any of our people; while
claiming for them alleged constitutional
rights, while claiming that they have no
right 10 be governed without their con-
sent, is at the same time admitting and
boasting of it, too. in the face of the gov
eminent itself, that he sanctions the OPP
preston of our own people, who under
our constitution have the same rights ex-
actly as they nave themselves.
would you shoot a poor Filipino into
submission" he asked. "WQlld you
force them to become citizens of the
United States?" he queried No! not il
every person in the Philippine Islands
should petition to become citizens, If they
were to receive the same inhuman treat
ment. after submitting and after becom-
ing citizens of the United States that mill
ions of our people who are citizens now
receive in the South at the hands of the
Democratic party, in shooting submission
into them, and forcing them to give up
their political citizenship" applause on
the Republican side.)
IF you want to learn how the consent
of the governed is obtained in larger
field right here al home, just read the
reports of the contested election cases
which come up here annually from the
Southern States. Why sir, they vote men
down there who have been dead for five
years. They stuff ballot boxes. They
bulldoze and they adopt any measure and
go to every extreme to accomplish their
purpose.
so, Mr. Speaker, knowing all these
facts as l know them, do not attach any
Importance whatever to the inconsistent
arguments of these constitutional ex-
Founders or to the sympathy racket of
Answered by Richardson.
MT. tlcndrdSOn, the minority leader
challenged some of Mr.. Shattuc's state
ments relative to the advantage which the
latter claimed accrued to the country from
the passage of the Dngley law
Proceeding, Mr.. Richardson contrasted
the appropriations Immediately preceding
the Spanish war with those during and
subsequent to it,. contending that the lat
ter exceeded the former by $500, 900 an
nually.
That sum-" said he represents the
cost of the empire over the cost of the re-
public"
After further debate the bill was pass
ed without amendment
A resolution was adopted re-electing the
present board Of managers Of the National
Soldiers Home. The minority of the Com
mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
were given until April 20 to file their view
on the ship subsidy bill
AT 3:O5 p m. the House adjourned