The age-herald., 1902-04-07
Danish Treaty Investigation Will
 Develop Nothing.

being editor of The Freeman. The letter Is dated Washington. March a and is printed without headline. Crumpacker writes to the Indianapolis negroes:
 Dear Sirs-I have been impressed with the palpable unfairness with which the suffrage laws in the Southern states are administered The constitutional rights of the colored citizens are utterly disre gaTded, and I hope that in the course of a few years conditions will be settled that will materially aid in the advance ment of your race. I am highly grat!- fled to know that such men as you and those associated with you, and the in- fiuental church you represent. are in sympathy with the movement and wili co-opeyee to create a healthy sentiment in favor of Justice and equality through out the United States. Please extend my thanks to your associates and your church congregation for the compliment tary message. E. D. CRUMPACKER."
 The Freeman comments briefly and very mildly upon "Brudder" Crum pack CTS letter.
 But the thing marked in The Freeman for the congressional eye is not "Brud- der" Crumpacker's sickening effusion: 1t is a long-column editorial under what inexperienced newspaper writes would call the caption of Not to The Ann erican Consumers The editorial Is an attack upon Cuban reciprocity, and after referring to the alleged fact that certain Republicans are 'jubiant" over the real fact that "the administration has com pelled the ways and means committee to report a bill for a 20 per cent reduction on Cuban sugar, thereby working injury to two hundred and fifty thousand of the colored race way down South" 'Gr. G. L. Knox and others. dear sirs," pro- ceeds:
 MT. and Ms Halls, who were looking connection that the colored voter at any rate cannot understand. and that is why such men as Speaker Henderson. Chair man Payne and Dalzell. of the Ways and Means Committee, heretofore so thor oughly imbued with protection ideas. should under the influence apparently of the administration now so persistently advocate the reduction of the tariff on Cuban sugars. It is puzzle to the col cred voter, doubtless also to many others, and will surely bear its fruit in coming campaigns"
 Oar you am. Brudder Crumpacker. for you knows dat you favors de 20 per cent. reduction. Oh, the merry war of politicsi
 
 MT. William Halls and Mrs. Halls, of New York, have been spending some days in Washington, being on their homeward journey after a tour of the West Indies and Florida. which they undertook after leaving Birmingham several weeks ago. While In Washington MT Halls and Mrs. Halls were entertained at q theatre box party by Congressman and Mrs. William Gordon Brantley, of Georgia; Mrs. Brant- ley, as Miss Mary George Linn, of Birm- ingham, having known MT. and Nra Halls in that city.
 There Is one thing, however in this remarkably well, were enthusiastic in dis cussing their Southern journey. They de- clare that the climate Of Nassau sur passes any other climate they have ever experienced, and that Palm Beach. Fla. Is wonderfully charming. At Palm Beach they met some Birmingham friends whose presence they greatly enjoyed.
 Congressman and Mrs. Brantley have left the Riggs House. where they had been spending the winter, and now oc- cupy apartments on Mt. Pleasant Heights, which they delightedly declare are Ion a level with the top of the Washington monument They are thus prepared for the hot weather through which Congress will probably sit until July and during which life in the downtown hotels will be far from pleasant.
 MT. Charles E. Thomas. of Birmingham spent a day or two In Washington ca his journey to New York, whither he is gone to attend meeting of hardware mer- chants
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.