The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-21

matters. He saw no reason why the Senate should hesitate for live minutes to pass the pending bill. In concluSaQn he said:
 T have an utter ahhorreuce of anarchy and would give thousand dollars to get . good shot at an anarchist"
 Mir. Nelson (Afinn.) vigorously support ed the pending bill. In defense of the provision for the protection not only of the President. but of all those who by law are in line of succession to the Presi- spiracy to assassinate every one of those men.
 MT. Mccumber tN. D. while he had no doubt of the authority of Congress to enact the proposed legislation. did not believe that an attempt for instance to take the life of the Secretary of the In- terior ought to be punished with death merely because of his ofiicial position. He hoped a bill would be offered to pro- tect the President and the government against anarchy and anarchists. As the bill stood. he could not support tt. Mir. Carmack (Tenn.) said his obtections to the bill did not apply to the question of its constitutionality. But, believe, :" he said. that 1t is bad in principle and utterly and absolutely unnecessary. No more futile. no more unnecessary law ever encumbered the statute books of this country"
 He declared that such an act would not have prevented the assassination of any President, and he was certain the measure never would accomplish one of the results hoped for from ies enactment, He was willing to go to almost any ex- tent to safeguard the president, or to stamp out anarchy, but he did not believe 1t just for Congress to Iegislste on the assumption that the several States were either unwilling or Incompetent to pro tect the President or any other ofacial who might be within her borders. He declared that a President would not en- dure military guard for a moment. 'To escape such a guard when he wanted to go out for a quiet stroll" said he. ~'the President would climb out back window, get out of the grounds by the back gate and go up back alley. !" Gaughter.)
 MT. Money (Miss.) in opposing the bill. suggested that 1t was the product of the hysteria produced by President McKin- iey's assassination. He objected to it because its effect would be to establish the inequality of men before the law. The bill was simply another tendency toward an imperial government. Mir. Money de- nounced anarchy and anarchists. saying that if a measure could be devised that would rid the country of anarchists he would support 1t. They ought to be stamped out as are vermin. but Congress, actuated by hysteria, ought not put upon the statute books q law that could not and would not be enforced.
 Mir. McLaurin (Miss.). after express ing his own and his peoples adherence of anarchy, said that he could not support the pending measure. In its present shape, he believed the bill to be uncon- stitutional and entirely Ineffective. Another objection he had to the measure was that it attached the death penalty not only to mere manslaughter. but even to an attemut to commit nianslaushter. The State laws were amply sufficient to protect the President.
 The Senate agreed at the suggestion of Mfr. Hoar to begin voting on the bilf at D. m. tomorrow.
 Mr. Bacon and MT. Patterson withdrew amendments which they had offered previously and each offered a substi- tute for the pending bill in line with their views.
 The Senate then, at 5:20 D. r1., went into executive session, and shortly after ward adjourned.