The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-02
He STANDS BY CRUM
ROOSEVELT WILL PROBABLY RE
APPOINT HIM.
DEMOCRATS PUT 1T UP TO HIM.
THEY INTEND TO LET HIM MAKE
GOOD HIS THREAT.

vent Vote ON the Adverse Re-
port Upon the Nomination of
Crum-ShOuld n Vote be Had. the
Republicans Would Confirm the
Negro - Congressman Fleming
Looking Out for Tobacco Claim
ants-He Gets Consideration.
By R. NJ. Larner.
Washington, March 1.-Senators Till
man and Clay, who have charge of the
senatorial forces opposing the confirm
alton of DR.. w. d. Crum, colored. to
be collector of the port of Charleston.
have decided to prevent vote on the
nomination, which means that the
President will be called upon to make
good his threat that he would reap
point Crum if the Senate failed to act
upon the adverse report of the Com
merce Committee.
The partisan lash has been applied
SO vigorously on the Republican side
of the chamber that a direct vote
would probably result in the confirma-
ton of Crum. Many Republicans pri-
vately express their regret that the
President has made the Crum case a
party issue, but they cannot, from a
political standpoint, afford to antag-
onize the President in this matter.
owing to the large negro vote in nearly
all of the doubtful states.
Senators Tillman and Clay have cam
vassed the situation very carefully and
they have concluded that on direct
vote but few Republicans can be found
who are willing to jump the party
traces.
Under the circumstances, the oppo-
sition proposes to put it up to the
President to disregard an adverse re-
port of the Committee on Commerce
and the personal knowledge derived
from conversation with the Republi-
can leaders of the Senate that the ap-
pointment of Crum is unwise and in
judicious.
TiIImnn's Race Speech.
The recent speech of Senator Till
man on the race problem is, perhaps,
the ablest and most temperate deliv-
a senator. 1t made a decided impress
sion upcn Republican senators, who
were given a view Of the Southern
situation at closer range than ever
before.
Senator Tillman disappointed his en-
emies and COMPOUNDED his timid
friends by his powerful and convinc-
ing review of the race conditions, not
only in the South, but throughout the
North. Within the past few days Sem
ator Tillman's mail has contained over
1000 letters, principally from Northern
and Western correspondents, request
ing a copy of his speech in full. AS
soon as it is revised, hundreds of
thousands of copies will be circulated
all over the North and West, as a
campaign document.
Since the delivery of the -Tillman
speech, several Republican senators
have been to the President and. urged
him to withdraw Crums nomination
The President emphatically refuses to
act upon the suggestion, and demands
that unless senators go on record, for
or against the confirmation of Crum,
he will carry out his declared inten-
ton to re-appoint the negro doctor i'm
medlately upon the adjournment of
Congress.
Tobacco and Snuff Claims.
During the brief Sunday session of
Congress, Representative Fleming re-
ceived assurances from the Senate
Committee on Appropriations that pro-
ct ill l.
deficiency bill to pay rebates on tobac-
co and snuff to the amount of $780,
000 in which several Georgians and
South Carolinians are interested
Under a previous act of Congress, re-
bates on tobacco and snuff were al
lowed on inventories made up to July
1, 1902 Through negligence, or a mis-
understanding of the law, a number
of claims from Georgia and South
Carolina were barred by the statute
of limitations.
Mr. Fleming has a Constituent in
Augusta who failed to get his claim
flor $1,411 filed within the time limit
There is also claim from dealer
in Brunswick for about $500. All the
claims embraced in the Fleming
amendment aggregate about $4,000
They come from various sections of
the country.
The Fleming amendment allows ad-
ditional time for claimants to press
their claims. but they must be based
on inventories made July 1, 1902. 1t
has been shown that misunderstand-
ing of the law, illness of certain
claimants, and other excusable reasons
are given for the concession asked for
Mr.. Fleming explained the situation
to the satisfaction of the Secretary of
the Treasury, and the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, to the extent that
both of these officials made a favor
able recommendation to Congress on
the subject.
The Committee on Appropriations to-
day inserted in the bill a provision to
pay these claims, and the Senate is
expected to confirm the action of the
committee, when the bill comes up for
consideration in the Senate.
Representative Brantley, who was
threatened with an attack of grip,
to the extent that he has been con-
fined to his apartment at the Riggs
House for the past four days, is much
better to day and expects to be pres
ent at the wind-up of the present Con-
press Tomorrow and next day