The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24
LET'S SEE BOOKER
IN THE CABINET
Carry Out Negro Policy to
Logical Conclusion.
rLL VOTE FOR BOOKER
Tilman Stirred Up Over The ndianoIa Affair."
Omnibus Public Building Bill Passed
---General Deficiency Bill Passes
the Hous,.
(By the Associated Press.)

Washington, Feb. ga large crowd
was attracted to the Senate today most
of them visiting Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution. Washington's Farewell
address was read by Mr.. Dubois, of
Idaho The Omnibus Public building bill
was passed and the Postoffice Appropria
tion Bill was considered without final
action.
Mr. Tillman spoke for nearly two hours,
principally in reply to Mr.. Spooner on the
Indianola, Miss, postoffice case. He
said that if the policy of the admins
tration in regard to the equality of the
negro was carried on and Booker Wash
ington should be appointed to the Cabi
net he would vote for his confirmation.
He did not conclude his remarks.
During the reading of the Washington
address Reed Smoot, Senator elect from
Utah. entered the chamber and took a
seat beside Mr.. Kerns.
The Rawlins resolution calling on the
Secretary of War for information con
cerning court martial cases in the Phil
ippines was favorably reported by Mr..
limiting the reply to summaries of the
records and testimony Another amend
ment, which was adopted, excludes the
case of Major L. w. T. Waller.
Mr. Kerns. of Utah. presented the ere
dentials of Senator elect Reed Smoot,
of Utah, which were read. Mr.. Smoot
was sitting in the rear of the chamber
when the document was read.
Mr., Burrows, of Michigan, stated that
protest mad been filed with his r~~,
mittee against Mr.. Shoots admission
The credentials and protest were filed
A House resolution was agreed to-
providing for the erection in Washing
ton, d. c., of bronze equestrian statues
of Count Pulaski and Baron Steuben of
the Continental army, and appropriating
$4,000 for each.
Mr. Mason then called up the Postoffice
Appropriation Bill. Its formal reaSiing
was dispensed with and the bill was read
| for amendment. The Statehood amend
ment was passed over for the time beirg
Mr.. Mason yielded to Mr. Fairbanks, who
presented an omnibus public building bill
Mcssrs. Daniel and Martin, of Virginia.
| made an earnest plea for an increased
appropriation for a building at Ports
mouth, Va. Mr.. Martin explained that
the amendment was directly in line with
the purpose of the bill, and asked Mr.,
Fairbanks why he objected to it. Mr..
Fairbanks declared that his reason was
that the committee had information that
there was real estate dealer combina-
! ton to run up the price. This Mr.
Martin emphatically denied
! On yea and nay vote the amendment
was lost, 20 to 34. All other amendments
| were voted down and the bill was passed
Consideration of the Postoffice Appro-
priation bill was then resumed.
The president pro TEN. appointed
Messrs. Alger and Bacon visitors to the
| Military Academy. He also appointed
Messrs. McComas and Daniel visitors to
| the Naval Academy
| Mr.. Tillman, who had been standing in
the aisle endeavoring to get recognition
| to speak regarding the Indianola. Miss
postoftce case, inquired what was up if
| the Postoffice Appropriation bill went
over. Injecting some humor into the
| proceedings the president pro TEN. re-
4 piled that he understood the Senator
| from South Carolina was coming up on
| his feet" at which the Senate was con-
vulsed.
Mr.. Tillman then said he proposed TO
surprise his friends and astonish his enc
mics if he has any. by being very mild
and temperate in what he would say
IF We had known at the beginning of
the Civil War" said he. what we know
now, there would have been no war"
He inquired why the large majority of
law-abiding people of Indianola should
| no nIlO 1o6 II
| lawless and brutal element. 1t was con-
trary, he said, to the fundamental prin-
ciples of Anglo-Sa Jurisprudence.
Replying to some remarks made by Mr..
Spooner in his speech, Mr.. Tillman said,
1T is not in the dream of the widest
ass that roams over the Southern States
with wax skin on him that the Federal
government is not supreme, but he said
there were some cognate propositions
which have been ignored
He said that in the South the people
have constant reminder that their an
cestors thirty five years ago were con
quered. I'VE are perpetually reminded.
he said, accentuating his words that
we are in the Union but not of it except
to pay taxes"
The poison in the race condition in The
South, he declared, lay in the referee
system which had been adopted. The
balance of power, he said. in National
Republican conventions was held by the
machine of the South and that machine
was composed of negroes. When the
people of the South, said he. lose pa
ticnee and do "cruel, bitter. fearful,
hendish and savage things there is
thowl from men who know nothing and