The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-01
Were Discussed by Mr.. Shattuck in
No Kindly Spirit.
THE FoRTI.F .FlCATl0Ns BILL
Was Passed Without Amendment just
as it Came From the Committee.
Government Can Make Guns
for Less Than They Can be
Bought for at Outside
Manufuctorics.

WASHINGTON, March 31.-The House
to-day finished up a. hard weeks work
by passing the fortifcations appropria-
ton bill. Not a single amendment was
offered and the bill passed as it came
from the committee. A three hours
political debate was precipita ted, lnany
members on both sides being drawn into
it.
Mr.. Hemingway, of Indiana, in charge
of the bill. explained that the measure
carried s7O93,4SS, being s4,695.45O less than
the estimates. He said the reductions In.
the estimate tes had been made because 1t
had been demonstrated that the govern
ment could manufacture its own guns
cheaper than it could buy them. and the
appropriations would be sufficient to keep
our gun factories at work. eight hours
day for the ensuing year. The govern
ment he said, manufactured Pinch guns
cheaper by $4,000 than they could be
nurci,a sed. and 10-inch guns $500
cheaper.
Mr.. Shattuck of Ohio. under the lati-
tude allowed in general debate, followed
with an hours speech on general political
topics, the tariff, expansion and Southern
election laws. In the course of his re-
marks. Mr.. Shattuck denounced the m
consistency of Southern statesmen in de-
manding that the natives, in our lnSular
possessions be given all the immunltles
of American citizenship, while they were
using all their ingenuity to rob the south
ern negroes Of the constitutional rights
conferred upon them.
HIS TEXT.
He took as his text an extract from a
recent speech of Senator Tillman, OF
South Carolina.
This distinguished Southern Senator,
said he. .'while pleading for the people
in the Philippines, who are by compaTl-
scn eighty psr cent. less capable of self
government than are any OF our people,
while claiming for them alleged conStitu-
tional rights: while claiming that they
have no right to be governed without
their consent: is at the same time ad-
hitting. and boasting of il. too, in the
face of the government itself, that he
sanctions The oppression of our own peo-
pie, who. under cur constitution. have
the same rights exactly as they have
themselves.
...Would you shoot 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 Islands should
petition 10 become citizens, if they were
to receive the same inhuman treatment
after submitting and after becoming
citizens of the United States. that MIL
lions 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 (I,oliticaD citizenship. CApplause on
the Republican side.)
VOTE DEAD MEN.
eff you want TO learn how the consent
of the governed is obtained in n larger
field. right here at 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