The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-27
QUAY DEBATE IN the SENATE
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electfng a legislature that will do its
duty"
At o'clock, by unanimous consent
the Quay case was postponed and the
Hawaiian bill was taken up. Mr.. Gull
ION offered several minor amendments
and one striking out the property quail
ifications clause of those who desired
to vote for representatives and sena-
tors in the Hawaiian legislature.
Mr.. Tillman argued that his amend
ment substituting the suffrage p1OVI-
sions Of the constitution of South Caro-
lima was in all sense a better provision
than that offered by the committee re-
porting the bill. Mr.. Tillman said:
The people OF South Carolina in their
constitution have done their level best
to prevent the niggers from voting.
What I now ask you TO do, is to give
the Kanakas and Portuguese Of the
Hawaiian islands the same power of
suffrage as we in South Carolina have
given the niggers."
In reply to a question of Mr.. SpOOner,
Mr. Tillman said, that the $500 prop
erty qualification had been put into the
South Carolina constitution for the
/ benefit Of the negro.
NO provision was needed for the
whites" said Mr.. Tillman, because the
whites would get through anyhow. We
have some conscience in the south as
to treatment Of the niggers.
Deprecates Racial Discussion.
In a brief, temperate speech, Mr..
| Spooner deprecated a discussion at this
| time of the racial question, which had
been precipitated by Mr. Tillman.
/ Averting to the pending amendment
of Mr.. Cullon, Ma. SpOoner said;
Il don't like a property qualification
/ for voters. There is something OF rea-
/ son in an educational qualification, but
manhood suffrage is one thing and dol
/ lar suffrage is quite another. l do not
/ know what may be done by congress
/ for the islands acquired. but as to the
/ islands of Hawaii, there are men there
who can read and write, and / viii not
vote for a proposition to exclude the
vote of any man because he has not a
property qualification"
/ He then appealed TO Mr.. Tiilman to
/ lay aside the bloody shirt
! Mr. Tilman replied that his only rea-
son for rehabiltatng the bloody shirt
/ before ii was finally and irrevocably
( laid to rest. was that he wanted the
position of the southern people to be
/ understood. He was tired of the taunts
! and sneers at the southern people At
/ ter declaring that in every southern
/ state except South Carolina the mig
! gers" held the balance Of power, he
added:
Negroes a Menace.
"As such they stand there as a me
mace to a pure suffrage and to good
| government because they are purchas-
/ able quantity. educated or uneducated.
I'VE are charged with fraud and cor
| ruptiOn and ballot box stufting- Final
I ly. after the bayonets mad come 10 US
/ again in 1876 we rose in Righteousness
I and might We took the government,
we stuffed ballot boxes, we bulldozed
the 'niggers' and we shot 'em. And we
are not ashamed of it.
/ Leaning over toward Mr.. Spooner and
shaking his finger at him, Mr.. Iillman
/ said.
What would you have done? You
would have done the same thing. 1 see
il in your eye" (Laughter)
! The amendment offered by Mr. Gull
| Ion was finally adopted. so, too, was
the amendment of Mr.. Platt Comm
which has been pending for several
days, relating 10 the appointment and
tenure Of the offices Of the Hawaiian
| courts.
Bank System Amendment.
After the bill had been further
amended, Mr.. Butler IN. CD offered an
amendment restoring to Hawaii the
postal savings bank system.
The amendment was supported by