The age-herald., 1902-03-21
PETTUS FAyORS
 MILITARY GUARD Will Vote on BaF| to Protect
 President Today MANY OBJECTIONS OFFERED carmach Makes Amusing Speech, Ia Which He Says President Would
 Climb Back Fence to Es-
 cape Guard of Soldiers. .>.
MANY OBJECTIONS OFFERED

Washington. March 2o.-Throughout to. days session of the Senate the bill pro. viding for the protection of the President or the United States was under discus- sion, and just before adjournment an agreement was reached to vote on inc measure and pending amendments at { o'clock tomorrow. The speakers today were Messrs. Pettus of Alabama. Hawlev of Connecticut and Nelson of Minnesota in support of the bill, and Messrs Raw lins of Utah. McCunber of North Da- kota. Mallory of Florida, Carmack of Tennessee and Money and McLaurin of Mississippi in opposition to it. | The speeches in the main were A re- inforcement of arguments that have been advanced heretofore few new points be- ing raised. The principal point made by the opponents of the measure was thai Federal officials ought to be treated bv the courts precisely as are other citi- zens.
 MT. Pettus of Alabama thought ft was | beneath the dignity of the President to be guarded by secret service officials.
 In his opinion if President Mckinley had had proper military guard he would | not have been assassinated Such a nron- | CT guard could be furnished only bv tha army.
 MT Carmack of Tennessee said his ob- Jections to the bill did not apply to the question of it's constitutionality
 But l believe" he said, that it is bad In principle and utterly and absolutely unnecessary. No more futile, no more unnecessary law ever encumbered inc statute books of this country"
 would Not Prevent Assassination,
 He declared that such an act would no. have prevented the assassination of any president, and he was certain the meas ure never would accomplish one of the results hoped for from it's enactment He
 was willing to go to almost any extent
 to safeguard the President or to stamp
 out anarchy, but he did not believe it
 just for Congress to legislate on the as-
 sumption that the several states were either unwilling or incompetent to pro- tect the President or any other official who might be within the borders. He declared that President Roosevelt would not endure a military guard for a mos ment. 'To escape such a guard when he wanted to go out for a quiet stroll" said he. the President would climb out a back window, get out of the grounds by the back gate and go up back al- ley" Oaughter)
 Denounced Anarchists. | MT. Money denounced anarchy and an- archists, saying that if a measure could be devised that would rid the country of | anarchists he would support 1t, as they | ought to be stamped out as are vermin, but Congress, actuated by hyst eria, ought | not to put upon the statute books a law | that could not and would not be enforced.
 The Senate agreed to the suggestion of MT. Hoar to begin voting on the bill at 4 D. m tomorrow.
 MT. Bacon and MT. Patterson withdrew amendments which they had offered pre- viously and each offered a substitute for the pending bill in line with their views. The Senate then, at 420 D. m., went | into executive session and shortly after wards adjourned.
 SLOW PROGRESS ON
 RIVERS AND HARBoRS BILL. | Washington, March 20.-The House to- day made very slow progress on the rivers and harbors bill, disposing of only thirty pages and leaving fifty pages still | to be considered The rivers and har- bors committee again today succeeded in | defeating every amendment offered. Mr. Belamy of North Carolina during | the day took occasion to denounce the | Crumpacker proposition to investigate 1 Southern election laws as designed to stir up sectional strife. He appealed to the conservative Republicans to defeat the resolution.
 Several minor committee amendments to the bill were adopted.
 Mir Robertson of Louisiana offered an amendment to appropriate 2,5OO,0OO for the improvement of Havana harbor.
 Mr. Burton, in charge of the bill, im- mediately made a point of order against the amendment. MT. Robertson contend ed that such an appropriation would re- ( tlad da,, ion Gai fn oyi in and in addition would do much toward freeing our Southern coast from the danger of yellow fever infection from | Cuban ports. He thought the expendi- | ture of this sum wuld help Cuba much more at this time than 20 per cent re- duction on the products entering United | States ports.
 The amendment was ruled out on the point of order
 Mir Candler, Mississippi. made fer vent but unsuccessful appeal for the im- ] provement of the Tombigbee in his state. | His speech established him as not un- | worthy successor of Private" John AL len, who long enjoyed the reputation of the wit of the House.
 Refers to crumpacker's Resolution.
 Mir Bellamy of North Carolina offered an amendment to appropriate S250,000 for the Cape Fear river above Wilmington. 1t was lost--31 to 61. In speaking of the amendment, Mir Bellamy referred briefly to the prospective investigation of south- ern election laws, deprecating it as an at- tempt to revive sectional strife and ill., feeling. The south, he said had reached solution of its difficulties after many years when this proposition was ad- vanced which would undo all that had been accomplished toward establishing peace and prosperity. The south, he said, was sick and tired of sectional strife. Her people loved the Union and were proud of its honor and achievements. He asserted that for sinister purposes, some members of the other side were again sowing the seeds of discord. and he appealed to the conservative. fair-minded men of the Re- publican party to vote down proposition fraught with so much evil to the south. Several other ann ondmerts for appropri- ations for rivers in Tenne essee and Ken lucky were voted down. After completing thirty additional pages of the bill. the House at b.15 D. m. adjourned.