The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
WORKOF CONGRESS
SUNDAY c1vrL DrLI IN THE
little Of the spssch-makins Was Pertinent to the Measure Under Consideration-oleomarea-
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Washington. March 5i.--The House .to- day began consideration Of the sundry civil appropriation bill. completing the general debate before the close or tne session. Little of the speech-making to' day was pertinent to the biil. Messrs. Williams (afiss.), Pou (N. O and Spight ,Miss.) spoke on the proposed investiga- ton of the southern franchise question. Mir. Bell tCoio.) discussed the financial bills before the House. MT. Payne. chair man of the Ways and Means Committee reported the Cuban reciprocity bill. and save notice that he would call 1t up week from tomorrow. @-9
 Speaker Henderson called the House to order today with a gavel made from Phil- ippine hard wood. It was presented to ttie Speaker by Amos W. Brandt. [ citi- xsn of Des Mones. Immediately after the approval of the journal. the House went into committee ofSthe whole and entered upv,. consideration of the sundry civil appropriations bill. MT. Cannon. chair man of the Appropriations Committse. who was in charge of the measure, in 2 brief preliminary statement explained that the bill carried @4s ,S95, being y2,- AS5, ,542 less than the estimates and n2,t12sA U12 less than the current law.
 Mir. Bell declared that as . deiibefative body the House of Representatives hao ceased to exist. It was absolutely con truiied now, he said. by few men, ano the greatest trust In the country tooas was the legislative trust.
 Mir. Bell then brAnched oil into | dfs' cussion of the financial bills before tho House. He was especially severe In his criticisms of the banking bill, which ns said. proved that the national banks art fair weather institutions and could mol stand the stress of financial storms.
 Mfr. Spight (Miss.) and Mir. Pou tN. C.I spoke on the question of the disfranchise' ment of the negro in the South. Int former appealed to the Republicans no' to disturb the era of good feeling In ausurated by the late President McKin. ley, and the latter after describing the manner in which se0 negroes had beer inducted into office in North Carolina be: tween 1894 and 1899, through coalition between the Republicans and Popuiists said that the Democrats. again having secured control. proceeded to disfranchist as many negroes as possible.
 "If our representation is to be reduced for that" said he, I've are willing tt submit to 1t. There Is not member from North Carolina who would not perfer tt sacrifice his seat here than % back .tt the conditions that existed prior to fsoo
 Mir. Pou called attention to the reso1u' ton he had introduced to investigate tht alleged campaign corruption funds raised in the north. If election laws were to b' investigated in the South, he said. he seei no req son why the corruption of the bal Aot in the North also should not be in. fvestigated.
 Mir Williams (1diss.) discussed tht question of Chinese exclusion from { philosophical standpoint. He insisted that the Chinese problem on the Pacific coast was insignificant compared witf the negro problem in the South. The South had always -stood with the people of the Pacific coast against the invasion of the Mongolians, but when the Soutf