Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1900-04-06

It Passes the Fertilization Apprepria.
tion Bill After q Three Hours Po-
Ittical Debate Mr.. shatsuc De-
nouncea Southern Statesmen

Washington, March 31-The House
to-day finished up a hard weeks work
by passing the Fortifcations APP
preparation bill. Not a single amend
ment was offered and the bill passed as
1t came from the committee. A three
hours political debate was pCecipi-
tated, many members on both sides
being drawn into it.
Mr.. Hemenway, of Indiana, in charge
of the bill explained that the measure
| carried $7.093.4 .4SS, being $4,695, 450 less
than the estimates. He said the reduc-
ton in the estimates had been made
because 1t had been demonstrated that
the government could manufacture its
own guns cheaper than 1t could buy
them and the appropriations would be
sufficient to keep our gun factories at
work eight hours a day for the en-
suing year. The government, he said
manufactured 12-inch guns cheaper by
$4,000 than they could be purchased
| and 10-inch guns $500 cheaper.
Mr.. Shattuc, of Ohio, under the lati-
tude allowed in general debate. follow
ed with an hours speech on general
political topics, the tariff, expansion
and Southern election laws.
In the course of his remarks Mr.
Shattuc denounced the Inconsistency of
Southern statesmen in demanding that
the natives in our insular possessions
be given all the immunitieS of Ameri-
can citizenship while they were using
all their ingenuity 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.
This distinguished Southern Sena-
| tor" said he, while pleading for the
people in the Philippines, who are by
comparison so per cent. less capable Of
| self-government than are any Of our
| people; while claiming for them alleged
| constitutional rights; while claiming
| that they h; ve no right to be governed
without the consent, is at the same
| time admitting and boasting of it, too,
| in the face Of the government itself.
that he sanctions the oppression OF
our own people, who, under our Consl-
| tuition, have the same rights exactly
as they have themselves.
would you shoot a poor Filipino into
| submissiOn?" he asks. Would you
| force them to become citizens OF the
| United States?" he queries. NO! Not
| if every person in the Philippine ISL
Zens, if they were to receive the same
| inhuman treatment, after submitting
and after becoming citizens of the
| United States, that millions of our
people, who are citizens now, receive
| in the South at the hands of the Demo-
cratic party, in shooting submission
| into them, and forcing them to give up
| their (politicaD citizenship. (Applause
| on the Republican side).
To
sent of the governed is obtained in
| larger field, right here al home, just
read the reports of the contested eleC-
| tion cases which come up here annual
| ly from the Southern States. Why, sir.
| they vote men down there who have
| been dead for five years. They stuff bal
| lot boxes. They bulldose and they
| adopt any measure and go to every eX-
| treme to accomplish their purpose.
$50, Mr.. Speaker, knowing all these
| facts as I know them, l do not attach
any importance whatever to the incOn-
| sistent arguments of these cOnstitu-
| tional expOunders or to the sympathy
racket of the opposition.
Mr. Richardson, the minority leader,
challenged some of Mr.. Shattucs state
| bents relative to the advantage which
| the latter claimed accrued to the coun-
| try from the passage of the Dingley
| law.
Proceeding, Mr.. Richardson contrast
| ed the appropriations Immediately pre-
ceding the Spanish war with those dur
| ing and subsequent to it, contending
| that the latter exceeded the former by
| $500 0OO 900 annually. THAT sum" said
| he, represents the cost of the empire
| over the cost of the republic"
| After further debate the bill was
| passed without amendment.
| A resolution was adopted re-electing
! the present board Of managers OF the
| National Soldiers Home. The minority
| of the committee on Merchant Marine
| and Fisheries were given until April
| goth to file their view on the Ship
! Subsidy bill.
At 1905 p. m. the House adjourned.