The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-07
AND WON'T FOOL VOTERS
HE ALSO SAYS THAT IT IS TN
NECESSARY.
PUTS THE SOUTH NAFAL;E POSITION
This in Reply to the Speeches of Morgan, Nc
Emery and Money. An Amendment to
the Financial Bill by Sen
ator AIdrich.

Washington, Feb. 6.-Until the finan-
cial measure now pending before the
Senate shall have been disposed of finally
it will be considered by the Senate every
legislative day to the exclusion of all OK
cept purely routine business This agree
ment will have the effect of cutting off all
deOate on the Philippine question or
other matters except by unanimous con-
sent of the Senate, unless Senators choose
to discuss other questions in the time
they devote to the Financial Bill.
Mr.. Aldrich, Chairman Of the Finalfce
Committee offered an amendment to the
pending Financial Bill, providing that
nothing in the bill shall Interfere with
efforts to secure International bi-metalsm
with the concurrence of the leading ma
tons of the world
Mr.. Pettus, (Ala.), offered another
amendment providing that the bill shall
not be construed to affect the present
legal tender quality of silver dollars
coined by the United States
To the same bill Mr.. Chandler propos-
ed an amendment providing that the gold
dollar of 2J.S grains and the silver dol
lar of 41215 grains shall be the unit of
or coined by the United States shall be
maintained at that parity of value; and
that the United States notes and Treas
airy notes when presented to the Treasury
for redemption shall be redeemed in gold
or silver coin of such standard.
Mr.. Jones, ark also gave notice of
an amendment to the same bib providing
for an emergency fund.-" of $50,000,000
in Treasury notes.
4 joint resolution authorizing the Presi-
dent to appoint one woman commissioner
to represented the United States and the
National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution at the unwilling of
the statue of Lafayette at the exposition
at Paris was passed.
A bill was passed to erect public
building at Selma, Ala, at Il cost OF
100000.
Mr.. Gallery, Ga). then resumed his
speech ON the Philippine question.
''Can the Constitution of the United
States he asked, embrace within its
holy arms such people-head hunters and
savages-and make them forever citizens
of the United States? The American
people do not want them.
'Of course there are certain reSponSi
bilities resting up us. We must see that
peace is restored in the islands and that
some government is established there.
When once the status quo is restored,
however, we should let them go their
way and not innocuate our citizenship
with the poison Of theirs"
BUTLER ON THE AMENDMENT.
Mr.. Butler, On. ca, replied to speeches
of Messrs. Morgan, McEnery and Money
on the proposed amendment to the Con
stitution of North Carolina. He MAIN
tanned that the proposed amendment was
clearly unconstitutional.
In conclusion he said:
THE section attempting to instruct the
court how to c0nstrue the amendment will
not fool the voters of the State into sup
porting such dangerous scheme. The
voters of North Carolina are intelligent
enough to know that there is not only
grave, if not certain danger, to sixty
thousand white voters i'll this amend
ment, but they also know that If this
amendment We're adopted and section five
eliminated. no power under heaven could
restore to those voters their ballot except
by again amending the Constitution.
These 10000 ilEterate white voters are
intelligent enough to know that when
once DISTINGUISHED they would have no
vote to help change the amendment and
help wipe out the wrong. They know
that the average politician only fears the
people so long as they have a vote.
This whole scheme is not only fraught
with danger but it is unnecessary It
puts the South i'm false and nnenvlabe
position TO attempt to Jeal with suffrage
i'll this uncandid manner
An agreement was reached that fram
the present time until after the final vote
on the Financial Bill that measure be