The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-26
NEGRO QUESTION UP AGAIN.
SOUTH IS JUSTIFIED DECLARED
SENATOR MONEY.

| Passed by the Senate-R es oil utiOns
Asking for correspondence.
Washington, Jan. 25.-Another discussion
of the race question mainly occupied the
Senate to-day.
| In accordance with previous notice Mr..
Money of Mississippi spoke in reply 90
the recent speech of MIR. Pritchard of
North Carolina on the proposed amend
ment to the North Carolina constitution.
There was a spirited colloquy between Mr..
Money and Mr. Chandler of New Hamp-
| shire.
Mr.. Cockrell of Missouri, from the Mil
itary Affairs Committee, reported sub
stitute for Mr.. Pettigrew's resolution re-
! garding the Occur d Alene mining trou-
bles last year. The substitute calls upon
the Secretary of War to submit to the
Senate copies of all orders given to Gen.
II. c. Merriam and to all officers under
him, and especially any proclamation of
Gen. Merriam and the orders concerning
the treatment of civilian prisoners The
resolution was passed
The resolution of Mr.. Allen of Nebraska,
calling on the Secretary of War for all
orders and information concerning the col
lection of customs and revenues in the
islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico and che Phil
lippines was passed, with as light modifi-
cation.
The urgent deficiency bill was then called
up. MIR. Hale of Maine, in response to in
quiries from Mr.. Pettigrew said the bill
carried about 100000; that it contained
no provision for the payment of the rental
of the cd Custom House in New York
| lie could not say. however. how much was
devoted TO the Philippine war.
Mr.. Pettigrew maintained that before
any further approval of the expenditure
| OF money was made Congress ought to
determined the right or wrong of the Phil
| ippine war, which was being conducted
without authority of Congress. He said
he would not refuse to vote supplies, but
| he desired to enter his protest against the
| Philippine war
The bill. with its Senate amendments,
was passed.
As to the Financial BiU.
Mr.. Allen of Nebraska said he wanted
the Republicans distinctly to understand
that he and those who believed with him
| were hostile to the pending financial bill
and would be to the end. The Republi-
| cans, he declared, had violated every
| pledge they had ever made on the hnan-
cial question
Replying to a suggestion that RepubI-
| CANS were not utIenQHlS IDG DILL MI. Al
| lson said that he believed there would
be full and free debate on the bill by men,
| bers on both sides of the chamber
| Mr.. Allison said he should undertake
| later to show that the Senate amendments
are so made that it will not be possible
! for any secretary of the treasury to i'm
| pound the greenbacks, silver certificates
or silver dollars
| Money on Negro Questions.
Mr.. Money of Mississippi replied to the
| speech of Mr.. Prtchard of North Carolina
| relating to the proposed amendments TO
| the Constitution of North Carolina He
| maintained that the proposed amendment
| was constitutional. because many other
| states had embodied in their constitutions
| an educational qualification for suffrage
! aud further because Mr.. Pritchard had ad.
| mitted there were 80, 600 negroes in North
| Carolina who could read, and consequently
| the amendment did not discriminate
| against the negroes.
Mr.. Money held that the entire consti-
tutional amendment on suffrage would
| stand or fall as a whole and in response to
| an inquiry of Mr.. Davis of Minnesota
| said that in his opinion If one section of
| the amendment were declared TO be I'M
| constitutional the decision would carry
down the entire ameudment. This opin-
| ion was controverted by both Mr.. Davis
and Mr.. Pritchard of North Carolina.
Mr.. Money said he did not believe the
! negro cOQlQ De tQuCdIeQ 10 Sucn a COlQl-
| ton as would enable him 10 carry on such
a government as ours. The ability to gov
| ern-to dominate-was born in the white
| race and had been in its blood for hum
| dreds of years.
DemOraIizinE Element.
He argued that there was a great strug-
| gle in progress for the maintenance of self
| government There was "a disposition to
| yield here in Congress too much to the
! nd ~ ba wi xrhfC
was the price of liberty. He insisted that
| the demoralizipg element of negro suf-
frage should not be injected as an obsta-
Gle to the onward course of liberty.
If" he declared, ANY state can relieve
itself of this incubus nobody here ought
to place an obstacle in its way"
| Mr.. Money stated that in no colony of
! Great Britain, except in New Zealand, did
the blacks participate in the government.
| The plan has been tried, but the white
race had found it impossible to share in
the government with the black.
THE people of the South" said Mr..
| Money, ARE justified, and it would be in
cxcusable if they did not take every means
permitted to them by the constitution to
retain in their hands the power of gov
eminent in the interests of justice, of right
and of civilization"
! Mr.. Money anticipated there was no dan
ger TO the South of losing votes in the
electoral college or representatives in Con-
gress by the restrictions placed on suf-
frage.
Mr.. Chandler inquired how he would de-
| fend Hae South's retention of its present
representatives In the electoral college in
case the negro population should not be
permitted to vote.
Mr.. Money replied that the basis of
states representa- ton in Congress and in
the electoral college was population, and
not the votes cast
The War Question Again
In the colloquy between Mr.. Money and
Mr. Chandler, the latter alleged that the |
passage of che fifteenth amendment to the |
constitution was due to the rejection by !
the Southern states of the fourteenth |
amendment.
Mr.. Money said this whole question had
been opened by Mr.. Pritchards resolu- |
ton. Mr.. Chandler retorted with much
vehemence that the whole Southern ques>
| ton he'd been opened by the rema rka bic |