The age-herald., 1900-01-26
SENATORS CLASH OVER RAGE QUESTION Chandler Severely Criticised Senator
 Morgan. A ISLANDER ON THE NORTH" Accused SOuthern6rS of ReOpeninS
 Dead Issue. MR. MONEY DEFENDS HIS STATE Morgan's Statement That Civil War Was Brought on By Designing Pol-
 itioians Was Vehement
 ly Denied
aR. MONEY DEFENDS HIS STATE

speech uellVeTSU ny NIL 4doHSy Ol NhANS9' sippi on the race question in the south pre- eipitated a heated colloquy between him and MT. Chandler in which the latter al- legged that the southern senators by in temperate statements were reopening the whole southern question fin the senate after
 it was supposed to be dead. The charge which MT. Chandler particu- larly criticised was made by MT. Morgan of Alabama who is absent at present, but as it had been reiterated substantially in MT Chandler's opinion by other senators, he declared he did not purpose to permit it to go unrefuted. The charge was that the civil war had been precipitated by de- signing politicians of the north for the purpose of putting the slaves political and social equality with the southern whites MT. Chandler's refutation of the statement was made with his characteris tic vehemenence and aggressiveness. The urgent deficiency htll carrying about 80, 900 was passed without division and practically without debate.
 After the adoption of the committee amendments. MT. Hale, in response to i'm quires from Mir Pettigrew said the bill carried about $9000,0O0; that it contained no provision for the payment of the rental of the old custom house in New York. He could not say, however, how much was de- voted to the Philippine war. The bill, with its senate amendments, was passed. The senate decided to adjourn from today until Monday next.
 MT. Chandler, chairman of the committee on priveleges and elections, said that ow- ing to the absence of MT. Turley of Ten
 nessee, a member of the committee, the Quay case would not be called up this
 week.
 Republicans Should Defend 1t
 The financial bill, coming up in response to statement by MT. Teller ta the effect
 that the pending bill was the product of
 caucus and represented the views only of those who constituted the caucus and that it was remarkable the republicans should not defend the measure. MT. Ali son replied that he believed that there would be full and free debate on the bill by members on both sides of the chamber. Referring to MT. Teller's speech on the bill, Mr. Allison said he had understood the Colorado senator to say that the re- suits of the bills passage would be the withdrawal of the greenbacks, the silver certificates, and the silver dollars. q deny this statement" said MT. Ali son.
 MT. Allen-The house bill does that. MT. Allison--I am referring now to the senate substitute. That may be true of the house bill. I shall undertake later to show that these senate amendments are so made 1t will not be possible for any secretary or the treasury to impound the greenbacks, silver certificates or silver dollars. Mr. Money, of Mississippi, then replied to the speech of MT. Pritchard, of North Carolina, relating to the proposed amend ment to the constitution of North Carolina. He maintained that the proposed amend anent was constitutional, because many other states had embodied in their consti- tutions an educational qualification for suffrage, and further because MT. Prich- ard had admitted there were 5000 negroes | in North Carolina who could read and con- seouently the amendment did not discrimi-
 nate against the negro.
 l MT. Money Discusses the Negro
 MT. Money said he did mot believe the
 negro could be educated to such a sondi-
 tion as would enable him to carry on such
 | a government as ours. The ability to
 scvern-to dominate-twas born in the white
 race and had been in it's blood for hundreds
 of years He argued that there was a
 great struggle in progress for the mainte-
 nance of self-government. There was a
 disposition to yield here in congress too
 much to the executive, and to relax that
 vigilance which was the price of liberty. He insisted that the demoralizing element of negro suffrage should not be injected as an obstacle to the onward course Of time. ..f." he said, "any state can relieve itself of this incumbrance, nobody here ought to place an obstacle in it's way"
 MT Money stated that in no colony of Great Britain, except in New Zealand, did the blacks participate in the government.
 the plan had been tried, but the white race had found it impossible to share the gov ernment with blacks.
 "The people of the south,' said MT. Money, "are justified and would be inex-
 cusaible if they did not take every means
 permitted to them Iby the constitution to retain in their hands the power of govern ment, in the interest of justice, of right and of civilization
 Some controversy arose over responsible ity for bringing up race and sectional ques-
 tions, and MT. Chandler said with much
 vehemence that the whole south question had been opened by the remarkable speech of MT. Morgan, in which he had mistakenly
 maligned the people of the entire north and was being followed by other southern senators in the same vein. Mr. Chandler
 read that paragraph of MT. Morgan's speech, in which the Alabama senator
 charged that the civil war had been pre-
 cipitated by designing politicians of the
 north with the idea of thrusting upon the
 people of the south the negro in social and
 political equality.
 "I denounce that" shouted MT. Chandler,
 ''as a islander upon the north and"
 MT. Pettus, of Alabama: If the senator