The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-01
Takes TilIman and His PitchfOrkings
for His Topic and Delivers
Warm Political Address.
HEMENWAY :. ALSO SPEAK
AND REPLIES TO MEsSRs. RICHARD
son, FITZGERALD AND JET.
House Passes the FOrtifcatiOns Bill
Without Amendment After
Three Hours of Talk.

WASHINGTON, March 31.-The House
to-day finished up hard weeks work by
passing the fortifcations appropriation
bill. Not single amendment was offered
and the bill passed as it came from the
committee. 1t carries s7093, ASS. three
hours political debate was precpitated by
general political speech, made by Mr.
Shattuc. of Ohio. many members on both
sides being drawn into it. A resolution
was adopted to re-elect the present board
of managers of the National Soldiers
Home.
In the course of his remarks, Mr.. Shat
tue denounced the inconsistency of South
ern statesmen in demanding that the ma
tives in our insular possessions be given all
the immunities of American citizenship
while. they were using all their ingenuity
TO rob the Southern negroes of the consti-
tutional rights conferred upon them. He
took as his text an extract from a recent
speech of Senator Tillman, of South Caro-
lima. This distinguished Southern sena-
tor" said he. while pleading for the peo-
pie in the Philippines, who are, by COM
parison, so per cent. less capable of self
government than are any of our people. so.
while claiming for them alleged constitu-
have no right to be governed without
their consent, is at the same time admit
ting, and Boosting of it, too in the face of
the government itself. that he sanctions
the oppression of our own people, who, un-
der our Constitution, have the same right
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 i'm the
Philippine Islands should petition to be-
come citizens. if they were to receive the
same inhuman treatment, after submitting
and after becoming citizens of the United
States that millions of our people, who are
citizens now, receive i'm the South. at the
hands OF the Democratic party, in shooting
submission into them, forcing them to give
up their (politicaD citizenship. Applause
on the Republican side.l If you want to
learn how the consent of the governed is
obtained in larger field, right here at
home, just read the reports of the con-
tested 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 bulldoze and they adopt any
measure and go to every extreme to ac-
complish their purpose. So, Mr.. Speaker,
knowing all these facts. as l know them.
do not attach any Importance whichever to
the consistent arguments of these Con-
stitutional expOunders or TO the sympathy
racket of the opposition
Mr. Richardson, the minority leader,
challenged some of Mr.. Shattuc's state
ments relative to the advantage which the
latter claimed accrued to the country from
the passage of the Dingley law. Mr.. Rich
ardson contrasted the appropriations i'm
mediately preceding the Spanish war with
those during and subsequent TO it, contend
ing that the latter exceeded the former by
$500. 100000 annually: THAT sum-" said he,
represents the cost of the empire over
the cost of the republic"
Does not the gentleman concede that
much of the expense for the coming year
grows out of the instruction in the Philip
pines?" asked Hr. Hemenway
II do" replied Mr.. Richardson, but the
insurrection grows out of the empire"
Mr.. Hemenway replied to Mr.. Richard
son. He said he was surprised to hear the
Democratic leader denOuncing excessive ex-
penditures. The Democrats had shouted
for war, he said. before it was declared;
now they were denouncing the expenses the
war entailed Mr. Hemenway challenged
the other side to point out single item
of extravaganza in any of the appropriation
bills
In reply to this challenge Mr.. Fitzgerald.
of Massachusetts, and Mr. Jett. OF Illinois,
cited the promotion and immediate retire
ment of high officers i'm the army
n.r. Hemenway offered the record of the
soldiers so retired in justification. Reply
ing to Mr.. Richardson's assertion that the
interests of the wool growers has been
disastrously affected by the Dingley law.
Mr. Hemenway said no one ever had to
explain why anything went up under the
Wilson law.
William Alden Smith. of Michigan. pro-
duced figures TO show that the price of
sheep had doubled under the Dingley law.
Mr n Colorado. declared
extravagance of the present administration
was without parallel in the history of the
country.
Mr. Fitzgerald. of Massachusetts. de-
nounced the Republican party for not be-
ing able to repreSs trusts, which, he said,
were enjoying the principal prosperity ex-
listing in the country to-day and declaring
great dividends on the capital invested.
Mr.. Lowering. of Massachusetts, revert
ing to Mr.. Richardson's statement con-
corning the price of wool, admitted that
wool had been higher abroad since the
passage of the Dingey act. But, he said,
the reason was manifest to those who I'M
derstood the conditions. Between the cleo
enormous quantities of wool had been i'm
ported in anticipation of a higher tariff.
That stock was now exhausted and the
wool growers from now on would receive
the benefits of the tariff while the heavy
anticipatory importations prevailed.
A resolution was adopted re-electing the
present board of managers of the National
Soldiers Home. The minority of the COM
mittee on merchant marine and fisheries
were given until April 20 to file their views
oil the ship subsidy bill. AT 3:O5 p. m. the