Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-05

Washington, Feb 26-The formal
discussion of the right of former Sen
ator Quay to his seat in the senate as
a member from Pennsylvania was be-
gun by Senator Turley (dem., Tenn
His protracted constitutional argument
against the seating of Quay was given
close attention by his colleagues Con-
sideration of the Hawaiian government
bill brought out a lively discussion be-
tween Senators Tillman (dem., S. c.
and Spooner (rep., Wis.,. In the
formers speech it was admitted that
ballot boxes had been stuffed and ne
groes shot in the south to maintain
white domination. Mr.. Tillman argued
that his amendment substituting the
suffrage provisions of the constitution
of South Carolina in the bill was in all
senses a better provision than that Of
fered by the committee presenting the
measure In brief and temperate
speech, Senator Spooner deprecated the
discussion at this time of the racial
question which had been precipitated
by Senator Tillman Adverting to the
pending amendment of Senator Cullom,
Senator Spooner said 81 don't like
property qualification for voters. There
is something of reason in educational
qualification, but manhood suffrage is
one thing and dollar suffrage quite an
other. I will not vote for the propo-
SifjOn To nyc111do Tho vote of ounr yoar,
because he has not a property qualifi-
cation He then appealed to Senator
Tiliman to lay aside the bloody shirt
Mr.. Tillman replied that his only rea-
son for reha bilitating the bloody shirt
before it was finally and irrevocably
laid to rest was that he wanted the po-
sition of the southern people to be I'M
derstood. He was tired of the taunts
and sneers at the southern states. eve
are charged with fraud, corruption and
ballot boxes, we bulldozed the mig
bayonetS had come to us again in '76
we rose in Righteousness and might. We
took the government, we stuffed the
ballot boxes, the bulldozed the mig
SO1os WC 0AOL CIClu. Anu We dIG NOT
ashamed of it." The amendment Of
fered by Senator Cullom was finally
adopted So, too, was the amendment
of Senator Platt (rep., Conn., which
had been pending for several days, re-
lating to the appointment and tenure
of offices of judges of the Hawaiian
courts. After the bill had been further
amended, Senator Butler (dem, N. CO.
offered an amendment restoring the Ha-
waiian postal savings bank system. The
amendment was supported by Senator
Mason (rep., Ill.) who declared that
this was the only civilized country in
the world which did not receive loans
from the poor people of the country
the only government which was abso-
lutely dominated by banks Without
concluding the discussion of the amend
ment, a brief secret session was held
before adjournment. Senator Clark
(rep., Wyo) introduced bill for the
admission of Arizona as state
Washington, Feb. 26-The general
debate upon the Porto Rican tariff bill
was continued. Interest centered in the
conferences which were going on
among republican leaders and dissent
ing republicans in their efforts to COM
promise their differences upon the bill.
Mr.. Williams (dem., ILL., spoke in OPP
position to the bill. He said the presi-
dent and Mr. Littlefield were in accord
with each other on the Porto Rican
tariff bill, and he suggested the gentle
man from Maine as a good running
mate on the ticket with Mckinley Mr.
Brown (rep., Ohio supported the bill
He believed our home industries should
be protected against the competition of