The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-01
SEVEN MILLIONS
FOR OUR DEFENCES
House Passes Fertilization
Appropriation Bill.
ilNnFR THE ESTIMATES
UNDER THE ESTIMATES
The Government Will Save S4,695,-
450 by Manufacturing the Guns.
Mr.. sHATTuc CHAMPIONS THE NEGRO
He Says the Democrats Of the South Are Shoot
ing Submission Into Them and Fore
ing Them to Give Up Polit-
cal Citizenship.
cal Citizenship.
(By the Associated press.)

Washington, March 31.-The House to-
day finished up 4 hard weeks work By
passing the Fertilization Appropriation
Bill. Not single amendment was offer
ed, and the bill passed as it came from
the committee. three hours political
debate was precpitated, many members
on 10th sides being drawn into it.
Mr.. Hemenway Qnd.l in charge of the
bill explained that the measure carried
81, O93, 4Se, being S4,695, 450 less than the
estimates. He said the reductions in the
estimates had been made because it had
been demonstrated that the Government
could manufacture it's oWn guns cheaper
than it could buy them and the appro-
priation would be sufficient to keep our
gun factories at work eight hours a day
for the ensuing year. The Government.
he said, manufactured 12inch guns
cheaper by $4,000 than they could be
purchased and 10-inch guns $500
cheaper.
Mr.. Shattuc (Ohio) under the latitude
allowed in general debate, followed with
an hours speech on general political
topics, the tariff expansion and South
ern election laws.
In the course of his remarks Mr.. Shat
tue denounced the inconsistency of South
ern statesmen in demanding that the ma
tiyes in our insular possessions be given
all the immunities of American citizen
ship while they were using all their in
genuity to rob the Southern negroes of
the constitutional rights conferred upon
them. He took as his TEXT an extract
from a recent speech of Senator Tillman,
of South Carolina.
This distinguished Southern Senator :
said he, while pleading for the people In
the Philippines, who are by comparison
eighty per cent. less capable of self gov
eminent than are any of our people !;
while claiming for them alleged constitu-
tional rights; while claiming that they
have no right to be governed without
their consent, is at the same time adj
hitting and boasting of it, too, in the face
of the Government itself that he sane
tions the oppression of our own people
who, under our Constitution, have the
same rights. exactly as hey have them
selves.
would you shoot poor Filipino into
submission he asks. " Would you force
them to become citizens OF the United
States?" he queries. mo! Not if every
person in the Philippine Islands should
petition to become citizens; If they were
to receive the same inhuman treatment
after submitting and after becoming cfti-
zens of the United States. that millions
of our people, who are citizens now re-
ceiye in the South at the hands of the
Democratic party, in shooting submission
into them, and forcing them to give UP
their (political) citizenship (Applause
on the Republican side.)
'If you want to learn how the consent
of the governed is obtained in a larger
field, right here at home, just read the re-
ports of the contested election cases
which come up here annually from the
Southern States. Why, sir, they vote
men down there who have been dead for
five wears. They stuff ballot boxes. They
bulldoze and they adopt any measure
: and go to extremes to accomplish their
purpose.
80, Mr.. Speaker, knowing all these
facts as l know them. / do not attach any
Importance whatever to the inconsistent