The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-13
Measure introduced 10 Senate.
Will Cause Hostility.
INVESTIGATE |Il.Ii !: HIS CONDITIONS ion
Object OF. Measure Not Apparent, Unless
itsBe 10 Stir Up Old Differences.
"wiIl Not Pass House" Says
Mr.. Flo cd
5fspecta, Dispatch TO The Tines.)

IS
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April 12.-sena-
tor *kean, Of New Jersey, has Introduces
in the Senate a bill creating a comn's-
sion Of five to be known as the Greed
mems Inquiry Commission, to make a
comprehensive investigation OF the cor
idition of the people of the negro race III
Tho United States their educational PRO-
;rress. and the best means of promoting
harmony between the races IN the 5Chlteu
States.
rho term Of the commission shall pc
three Years and each member Shail re-
#ceive as compensation the sum OF sn;ee
Thousand five hundred dollars per antlulll;
together with an allowance tor4 actHsli
travelling expenses
House some days ago by Irwin, CT Ken
lucky, and reported to the Committee on
Labor. a subcommittee has been ap-
pointed to conduct the hearings provld-
ed for in the bill. This subcommittee cons
'sists of Representatives Warnock, OF Olilo,
and Bartholdt, Of Miss ouri tReps.),s ana
Talbot, Of South Carolina (Dem). Owing
to the fact that Judge Talbot, who is a
candidate for the Governorship of South
Carolina, is at home looking after his In
,terests in that direction, there has oeen
no meeting of this committee. Upon MS
return to Washington a meeting Will De
called and the hearings gwen
The failure of the Industrial Commits
sion to make any special report upon the
condition, etc. Of the negroes of this coun-
try is SAID to be the reason for the M
production of this bill, but it is thought
that the real reason is simply desire
to stir up the negro question for polltlca!
purposes. How far the matter Will go
cannot be predicted at present, beyond
the introduction of the bills and the re-
ferring them to the committees and the
appointment of the subcommittee OF the
House Committee on Labor, to- conduct
the hearings.
Representative Flood, who is a member
of the Committee on Labor, said to-daS
that he had not been able to get suttt-
Gent information in regard to the Irwin
bill to give an opinion upon it.
WILL NOT PASS
81 do not Think said Mr.. Flood, 1.-THE
measure will even pass the House, al
though there may be some little stir
about it before we get through. When
Judge Talbot gets back and the hearings
begin I intend to inform myself thor
cughly and accurately on the subject,
ard then. perhaps, 1 will be in a position
to give You some idea of what is back
OF SO ridiculous a proposition"
Other prominent Democrats are Of Drac-
tically the same opinion of Mr.. Flood.
that the bill is introduced for political
purposes, but that it will never so
through. 1t is understood that Booker
Washington WILDE heard in connection
with this matter.
Senator Daniel introduced in the Sen
ate to-day the following bills: Provid-
iLg that the Court of. Claims be. author
lied to adjudicate the claim of the legal
personal representative of Henry IL
Sibley, deceased. growing out of a con-
tract made by Henry H. Sibley with the
Government for the use of a patent In
yention in the manufacture of q tent.
known as the Sibley tent.