The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-01-16
WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING.

OF the work or talking done by
Congress last weak that which relates
to Senator Pritchard's resolution for an
expression of Congress as to the euf-
frage amendment to the constitution of
this State is of most interest to North
Carolinians. The resolution was amen.
ded by Senator Pritchard before it was
called up for discussion 80 as to read
as follows:
Resolved, That an enactment bv
cons tuition or otherwise by any State
which coDfers the right to vote upon
any of its citizens because Of their de
scent from certain persons or classes
OF persons and excludes other citizens
because they are not descended from
such persons or classes Of persons.
having all other qualifications pre-.
scri0ed by law, in the opini ion Of the
Senate is in violation OF the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments to the CON
stltUtion of the United States and OF a
fundamental principle of our Rapub-
lican form Of government"
Senator Morgan, Of Alabama, on
Monday a addressed the Senate il oppo.
sition to the resolution. The Asso.
ciated Press report of Mr.. Morgan's
speech il as follows:
"Mr. Morgan discussed the negro
question in general, maintaining that
there is q natural supremacy in the
whites AMI a natural deficiency in the
blacks, morally, socially and intellec.
tuaIly. To force this lower stratum into
a position of political equality with
the highest, is only to clog the prog.
ress of ei mankind in is march to
ward tue highest planes of human as.
piration. M Morgan said that no
great body Of white people in the
world could be expected to quietly &C.
cspt a aItuA'i7n so distressing and de.
moraEizsng as is created by negro SUIT
frage in the South. Il is a thorn in the
flesh aud will irritate and rRnkle in the
body polite until it is removed. He
declared that negro suffrage in Louis.
4dId a1O HGIOE OOuS4CEA OgRbC6 uAO
been an unbroken line of obstruction
to progress. Mr. Morgan declared that
in many places in the South thousands
of negro votes, in doubtful counties,
with little conceaIment, we're bought
for 81 each.
"'If Southern white men, said he,
have falsIf1ed election returns, they
ha We the stronger, if not better reason,
that they are acting upon the same
law of S 3lf defense that inf ulted and
outraged human nature resorts to for
the protection of homes and families
from a race that sets at defiance all
moral restraints upon their brutal de-
siTes.'
This evil, be thought, would end
only when the United States had pro.
vided a home for the negro race Euited
to their traits"
At the conclusion of Mr.. Morgan's
speech, Mr. Pritchard gave notice that
he would address he Senate on the res
olution on January 22ld.
The House Committee on Elections
No. 8 has set Wedn stay 241h as the
date for hearing the Pearson Crawford
case from the Ninth North Carolina
district.
Senator Butler has introduced a bill
for a pu 0lic building in Durham, car.
rying an appropriation Of 1925 600.
The bill has been reed twice and 9
ferred to the Committee u Public
Buildings and Grounds.
Senator Butler has introduced a res
olution declaring it the 6uty, power and
purpose to destroy truets by REMOVING
the causes that produce them. 1t goes
near the root Of the matter. The plan
proposed is to contro' the issuance Of
money and TO control the railroads and
telegraph and telephone lines By the
government when the resolutions seb
forth, 1.-The three great trusts for evil
known to civilization viii have been
destroyed, and at the same time the
causes which have logically and inc
vitality produced the aggre cation of
great industE ial trusts will be forever
removed and the reign of monopoly
will be at an end"
We regret that We have not space
to print the resolution in full.
Senator Pettjgrew On Thursday
made a sensational attack on the ad-
ministration and it's Philippine policy.
''The trouble with the imperiaIists,"
saip Mr.. P%ettigrew, "is that they have
COMPOUNDED the interests Of the people
the United States with the political
desires and ambitions of their puny
President ana regarded him and his
s11ccess ea more important than a