The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-12
THE ELECTION
 OF SENATOR'S Lively Debate in the $
 per Chamber
 --S|' |' MIR. DEPEW Is $ss.aAIGNED
 z Simmons, Money and Black burn Answer His Speech. They Charge the New Yorker With Making Statements Concerning Affairs About Which He Had Absolutely No Information.

l Washington. April 11.-Some remarks | which MT. Depew tN. Y) made yesterday regarding the proposed amendment to the 1 constitution, providing for the election of Senators by popular vote. in the course l of which he referred to Southern election
 me thods, prccipitated a lively discussion | in the Senate today.
 MT. Money CMiss.), to whose State rel crcnce had been made by the New fork Senator, replied tartly to some of the statements of Mir Depew and defended | the suffrage clauses in the Mississippi | constitution. Mir. Dcpew made warm reply and at- 1 tackled the election methods not only or l Mississippi. but of several other Southern l States He intimated that if fair meth ods were employed in those States. Re- publican Senators would be here as their | representatives.
 | His remarks drew sharp fire from sev-
 eral Senator's MT. Money and his col | league, Mir. McLaurln, explained Missis- 1 sippi election methods. and Mir Simmons tN. @ pointed out that Mir. Depew had | been entirely mistaken about the opera
 tion of the constitution of that State, and
 his statements were erroneous.
 Blackburn Takes a Hand. | Mir Blackburn (Ky.) warmly arraigned 1 the New York Senator for his comments | on Kentucky elections. defended what is | known as the GoebeI election law. and asserted that the New York Senator was not informed as to the fact of Kentucky l politics
 When the Chinese exclusion bill was l taken up. ar agreement was reached that
 a vote shoud be taken on 1t next We'd | nesday at 10 o'clock. Mir. Teller tColoC l supported the measure in brief speech, 1 maintaining that it was necessary and 1 that it was not in contravention of our | treaty obligations with China. + 1 Replying to one of Mir. Depcw's argu- ] ments Mr. Money said he could not un- l derstand how the sovereignty of State | would he invaded by the adoption of an | amendment to the constitution providing l for the election of Senators by the peo- pie, but he could see that efforts of, | corporations and trusts to crowd the Sem
 ate chamber with their agents would be
 involved. MT. Money said Mississippi | had a registered vote of 125.000. but many l did not vote because of the poll tax of S2. | And he believed the body polite was the | purcr because of the self-cxclusion of
 such people.
 | MT. Money declared that it was not tho
 
 with the present method of eecting | United States Senators, but Republican | States which evidently were dissatisfied | with their representation in this cham | Der.
 Depew Defends Himself | MT. Dcpew said he had proposed his | amendment because he desired to get an | important question before the Senate and l before the country. Some Legislatures in faU nf efe rf- l ing United States Senators by the people. l but evidently there had been no proper 1 consideration of the question. The pro- posed amendment had passed the House | without amendments. consideration or l discussion, the effort seemingly being to l unload the whole question on the Senate. 1 Mir Depew insisted that if Senators were to be elected by popular vote, the whole | question of their election would be called up whenever their credentials were pre- | scented.
 When the Senator from Mississippi | shall come here. said Mir Depew, and
 I hope he may continue to come. the | Senate will want to know whether citi- | zens of Mississippi have had the right, under the constitution of the United States. to vote for against him. If
 any of them have been deprived of that right the Senator will have hard road | to travel when he takes his seat"
 Mir. Depew said he had no disposition | 10 interfere with local affairs of any | Southern State, and he would not favor l so-called force bilI.' but when the men
 of New York had cast votes In accord
 anco with manhood suffrage. they had l right to demand to know that similar
 votes had been cast in Mississippi. He | declared that the registration boards in Mississippi were selected practically from | one party and for one particular purpose
  l negroes. he asserted. never could satisfy 1 the registra ton bCal Is that they were qualified to vote.
 Would Cause Agitation. | That was the kind of popular vote said he. by which United States Senators | would be sent here from Mississippi. and | those methods would serve only to preci- pitate agitation in the Senate chamber | He suggt sted that if a change was to be | made in the method of electing Senators then the electorate must be kept entirely | pure and free from any suggestion of un- | fairness.
 l He declared that If there were man | hood suffrage in Virginia Kentucky and North Carolina there would be Republi- can Senators in this chamber from those States He said there had been no fear ! of negro domination in North Carolina, yet for the purpose of keeping Senator Pritchard (Rep) out of the Senate and | to secure a Democratic Senator in the place of Mir. Butler Pop) and for no other reason. the grandfather clause was
 inserted in the new constitution of that
 State.
 He sharply criticized the Goebel elec- tion law in Kentucky. by which ne sald' | MT Tavlor was deprived of the Govern | shin. He asserted that the boards of
 registration in Mississippi determined the result of any election before any vote was | cast Personally he did not believe and
 other Republican Senators did not be.
 Uc,.c that 55. 600 votes in Mississippi should
 rount for as much as l.5Oo'o0 votes III | New York.
 l At the conclusion 'i MT ''ePcM rH .,.rk. Mir. Money corrected what he | termed some of the misstatsmepts of 1 the NoM York Senator" rcEardinG the