The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-09
moRGAN'S SPEECH IN SENATE.
oppoSED PRITCHARD's NEGRO SUI
FRAGE RESOLUTION.

ress-It Is Looked ON as "A Political
Sreech-senate Calls on Cabinet
oRcers for InfOrmatiOn-Wants TO
know About Defense Fund ana
Dewey's Statement.
Washington, Jan. S.-Senator Morgan's
sosech on the subject of suffrage restric-
lions in the Southern states, was the fea-
ture Of to-days session of the Senate.
His speech was a lengthy and able
s,arenent of the legal questions involved
IN me Fourteenth and Fifteenth amend
rronts TO the Constitution, and full ex-
rression of his views on the race ques-
ton.
senator Morgan expects the race ques-
ZION to come prominently to the front in
the near future as the result of the new
census. and the agitation at the North
If nlsns to cut down the representation
of ne South in Congress.
II & expected that Senator Morgan's
speech will cut considerable figure in the
Alabama campaign, where the race ques-
zion has become to be a decided issue be-
cause of the fight over the constitutional
convention.
I, is the general belief here that the
sneech was made particularly for effect in
that campaign.
Information Called for.
In the Senate to-day a resolution offered
nv Mr. Allen of Nebraska calling upon
each cabinet officer for an itemized state
ment of the amount of the S500O0CO0 de-
f.nse fund expended was adopted.
A resolution calling upon the Secretary
of The Navy for Admiral Dewey's report,
in which he made the statement that he
could take Manila at any time, offered by
Of wa
adopted
resolution offered some time ago by
Mr. Petugrew, calling upon the Secretary
of war for information as to an alleged
interview between Cen Torres of the Fill
pjno army and Gen. Otis, was called up.
Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts offered a
substitute for the pending resolution, call
inc upon the President, if not incompati-
Bile with public interests, to furnish gen.
eral Information regarding the Philippine
Instruction contained in official docu-
ments and dispatches.
Mr. Pettigrew said he thought Congress
was entitled to all information regarding
the action of our forces in the Philip
pines.
IF we have attacked an ally" said Mr..
Petugrew, lit is important that the repre-
sentatives of the people in Congress
should know the facts and at once. / be-
Heve we have attacked an ally 1 believe
we have been guilty of gross treachery. l
believe we have gone further in dishonor
toward an ally fighting with us than any
other nation ever went"
Il do not believe we attacked an ally
replied Mr. Lodge. 81 am sure we never
recognized the Filipino government. They
Rad no government, except the government
Of q dictator set up by himself to impose
his authority upon other tribes. The Pres
dent has acted thoroughly in conformity
to the law and the facts will uphold mis-
course. These facts 1 am in favor of hav
ing placed in the hands of all senators.
They will strengthen the hands of the adj
nnistration."
At Mr. Pettigrew's request the resou-
ton went over until Wednesday.
Morgan on Negro Suffrage.
The resolution heretofore offered by Mr.
Prtchard of North Carolina. concerning
radical restrictions of suffrage, was mod
fled by him so as to provide that any
state enactment comforting the right to
vote on those descendants from certain
persons or classes of persons, is in viola
ZION of the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the constitution and re-
pugnant to Republican institutions
Mr.. Morgan of Alabama spoke against
tn resolution He referred to the far
reaching Importance of the issue on suff
rage as related to the coming presidential
ana congressional elections, and said it
was imperative that some course be
ADOPTED which would prevent a repetition
OF the Hayes-Tilden controversy. He dis
cussed at length the legal aspect of the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments as
affecting negro suffrage.
AT = o'clock the financial bill became the
regular order, but finally went over until
Thursday.
MI Morgan, continuing, discussed the
negro question in general maintaining that
mere IS a natural supremacy in the whites
aud natural deficiency in the blacks,
morally, socially and intellectually. To
lO.ce ms low stratum into a position OF
pohQeal equality with the highest is only
10 closing progress of all mankind in its
march toward the highest planes of hu-
nIaH aspirations Mr.. Morgan said that
no great body of white people in the
world could be expected to quietly accept
situation SO distressing and demoraliz-
irs as Is created by negro suffrage in the
ooulh. II is thorn in the flesh and will
miItate and rankle in the body polite I'M
~ ]. IS removed from the body polite.
re declared that negro suffrage in Lou
isIaha and other Southern states had been
a" 'ooroken line of obstruction to prog
i,ss Mr. Morgan declared that in many
Plates IN the South thousands of negro
votes in doubtful counties, with little
'0'eediment, were bought for 81 each.
Acted in Self Defense.
IF Southern white men," said he, have
.aflhed election returns, they have the
stronger if not the better, reason that
uvy are acting upon the same law of
fH-defense that insulted and outraged
mNHah nature resorts to, for the protec
Yea OF homes and families from a race
,l"i sets at defiance all moral restraints
upon their brutal desires"
MS evil he thought, would end only
Snen the United States had provided a
no'ne for the negro race suited to their
s.o.ls. He pointed out some Of the eff
LOTS that had been made to force the
nero into political and social equality
WIN Inc white man, and had failed
nature is against it," he declared, land
we sentiments of the white people are
AGAINST g."
I'D conclusion Mr.. Morgan said: THE
1eHocratic party has always been a white
'l'1 party, and when the appeal OF the
r,ope of Louisiana and North Carolina,
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