The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-23
A DAY OF ORATORY
IN THE SENATE
Pritchard and Turner's Ad-
dresses the Features.
Mr., TlLLMAN labs JETER
Mr.. TlLLMAN JABS JETER
TURNER POINTS OUT DANGER TO
OUR WORKINGMEN.
ANNEXlNG LUZ0N WILL PAUPERlZE LABOR
Mr.. Turner Says The Ghost Of Liberty Murdered
in the Philippines Bars the Way to
Expressions of Sympathy For
The Beers.
The Beers.

The Beers.
other day of oratory in the Senate. Mr..
pritchard (N. Co, delivered a long and
carefully prepared address upon the race
question in the South, his remarks being
addressed particularly against the pro-
posed amendment to the constitution OF
North Carolina, which if enacted, he said,
would disfranchise a large class OF voters
both white and black. He was followed
by Mr. Turner, Washington, in It
speech ON the Philippine question, IN
which he arraigned the Administrations
policy.
soon after the Senate convened today
a joint resolution was offered by Mn.
Platt, On. ", authorizing the President
To invite the Government of Great Brl-
tain to join lin the promotion OF an inter-
national commission 10 examine and re-
port on the diversion of the waters thar
are The boundaries of the two countries.
1t was referred to the committee on for
eign relations.
Mr. iH0ar Chairman of the judiciary
Committee reported back the resolution
of Mr.. Rawlins, Utah, fer an inquiry MP
on polygamy with recommendations that
rhc first and last paragraphs of the reso-
tuition be adopted and the resolution as.
amended adopted. AS passed the reso-
lutiollS read:
ITO what extent polygamy Is practiced
pOygamous marriages entered into i'll
the United States or in places over which
they have jurisdiction.
bnt 4 gtn1 oh IN ~
or measures enacted for the prevention Of
pOlygamy in the United States or in
places over which they have jurisdiction. :"
Mr.. Allen. (NFb), offered resolution
calling upon the Secretary of the Treas
ury to furnish the Senate with all infor
nation consisting of correspondence and
verbal communications he may have had
with y. II. Hepburn and other officials
Of the National City Bank Of New York
concerning the transmission of the Gus
tom house9of New York 10 the National
CitY bank Ii went over under objcc-
tom
Mr.. Prtchard, On. c., called mp HIS
resolution His address was in the ma
ture of a reply to that delivered several
days ago by Senator Morgan. Whom he
remarked that the cry Of Negro donina-
tiCn' was the answer given to every
opposition made by the Republicans, Mr..
Tfllman, S. c.. interrupted to say that
little else was to he expected when the
Administration continually thrust negro
poAimasters on the people of the South.
Mr.. pritchard: There you have it.
If / should read the Ten Commandments
to The Senator he would cry Negro back
at me-
Mr.. TiIman: I'VE say nigger in the
South not negro. Let us stick to facts
Mr.. Pritchald: THE Senator may use
whatever expression he likes I'm salts
fled to use mime.
Mr.. Pritchard then discussed his rcso-N
luton at length.
He was several times interrupted by
Ncssrs. Money and Tillnran. Mr.. Till
man said there was only a little coterie
uf Republicans in South Carolina. They
kept up the show of a party organization
and lived on the money they got for their
votes in Republican, conventions.
BREACH OF NATIONAL FAITH.
Mr.. Turner then took the floor He
described the Administration course OF
action. ''already partly accomplished, as
involving a shocking. perfidious breach OF
national faith which could not be meta
morphOsed into an act of policy defensI-
BILE on the grounds of Justice, morality
and national duty.
Mr.. Turner expressed the opinion that
had our army been delayed for II few
weeks the 11ilipinos themselves would
have captured the city. He declared that
the FilipinoS believed that they were
fighting for their own independence, yet
the President $ message set up the claim
that independence was an after thought
founded ON the sinister ambition of GER
tain Filipino headers. The assertion, Mr..
Turner said. was unfounded and he quot
cl extensively from official documents III
maintenance of his declaration.
''Our action has no parallel in the his
tory of all the world from the beginning
of time down to the present moment
said Mr.. Turner Il venture to say that
there is not one American voter i'll Il hum
dred who with full knowledge of the facts
would not have rejudiated the preten-
sions of the administration, as pciiidiGns
and diShonorable."
If the United States had any rights at
all in the Philippines they were gained
purely by purchase and could not in his
opinion be fixed by law by the treaty Of
Paris as the Flipinos were not n party
to that treaty.
There is primitive people in South
Africa" said he,-"A mere handful
pious and simple, brave and heroic. but
careless of the great wealth lying under
their hands indifferent to its civilizing
influence and disposed to live their own
simple lives in their own simple way
They are the last link that connected us
with one of the great heroic epochs in the
worlds history. A great nation having
racial tendencies similar to our own. has
seen the present deplorable condition of
affairs among This South African people
and has determined to improve and civil
iZe them in the same way we are inn
proving and civilizing the simple but
brave Filininos. They are not succeed