The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-05
DOOR OF HOPE FOR THE NEGRO ? Representative MOrrell
 Has Suggestion. DEFENDS THE PRESIDENT LivernaSh of Californian At tackled Labor Policy. Geldfogle of New York Spoke With Caustic Reference to Russia's
 Treatment to American
 Passports.
DEFENDS THE PRESIDENT

under suspension of the rules of the bill appropriating si75.0OO for the Lewis and Clark Exposition to be held in Portland. oregon, in 1sO5 failed as the House had oivided several times and the roll had been called twice
 The Military Academy appropriation Dill was taken up and after MT. Parker, In charge of the bill had explained It's features, briefly. Mir. Geldfogle of New York spoke in behalf of the Jews of the United States, for whom he asked equal treatment and protection while traveling In Russia. Mir. Livernash of California. made an attack on President Roosevelt and Mir. Morrell of Pennsylvania dis cussed the negro question. Consideration of the bill was not concluded when the House adjourned.
 When the House met today an agree ment was reached postponing until wed- nesday next the consideration of bills re- lating to the District of Columbia and bills reported by the Committee on War Claims.
 Under suspension of the rules a bin was passed increasing from SIP to $1oo per month the pension of those who have lost both eyes or have become totally blind from causes occurring in the mili- tary or naval service.
 The House also refused to suspend the rules and pass a resolution offered by Mir. vreeiand (N. Y.) making privileged . bill providing for the allotment of lands fin severalty to the Indians in the State of New York and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and of the State of New York over &lch Indians. When the ,yote was an- nounced Mir. Sulzer who had opposed the resolution inquired of the Speaker what It's status was.
 A Hit at sulzer. The Speaker created much laughter when facing Mir. Sulzsr, he sEid:
 | If the chair understands the gentle man from New York. his soul ought to be f1lied with happiness"
 l The House then on motion of MT. | Parker (N. J) went into committee of | the whole for the consideration of the military academy appropriation bill. An | agreement was reached for two and a | half hours general debate on each side. ! The bill oppropriating $475,0OO for gov
 ernment exhibit at the Lewis and Clarke exposition at Portland, Oregon, was call | ed up by Mir Tawney (Minn) under sus- pension of the rules. MT. Bartlett (Geor- | gia) demanded a second which was or | dered MT. Tawney then urged the pas l sage of the bill as did MT Clark, of Ms | souri, MT. Maddox (Georgia) said he did
 not believe 1t to be the province of the | government to spend the money of the taxpayers in this way. The bill was | then passed.
 Under the license of debate MT. Liver
 nash (California) discussed the labor l question, and attacked President Roose- l welt for having turned the executive arm of the government against the men who work. That arm he said, had arrayed itself on the side of special privilege and despotism and associated itself with the men who hire and against the men who are hired.
 Referring to the Miller case in the gov | ernment printing office, he said that the President had embraced the opportunity | in letter to Secretary Cortelyou on the l subject of the findings of the Anthracite | Coal Strike Commission to express him
 self in language which clearly Identified | him with the "open shop" in private em- ployment. He said that the President | of this country, who goes forth and seeks | to place a barrier in the way of labor | unions by encouraging non-unionism un- l der the guise of an "open shop Is the | deadliest common foe of labor. In a
 personal way, he Qivernash) held the | President in his highest esteem, but he | lrded him today ''as the man of all | Americans, worse than Rockefeller, Car
 negie, and Morgan, as to labor unions" MT. Livernash also attacked the mem-
 bership of the House and said there was | in that body a distinct intolerance of
 laboring men and their acts.
 An Appeal for Jews.
 Mir Goidfogle (N. Y.) spoke on his reso-
 lution introduced January last. in refer
 ence to the United States exercising every
 effort to secure from the Russian gov
 ernment uniform treatment of Americans | travelling in Russia, whether they be Jews | or Christians. He declared that Russia
 continues her restrictive policy against | the Jew, and continues to abuse and dis | honor the American passport whenever | presented at her gates by Jewish citi- | zens. Whether these citizens be native
 born or naturalized, he said, the restric-
 ton equally applies. This, he declared,
 was an affront to the United States.
 The time has come he said, speaking
 with much fervor, when the United
 States should take measures to secure
 by treaty or otherwise uniform treatment
 and equal protection to Americans re-
 gardless of their race or creed.
 MT Robb (Mo.) delivered a speech
 against the Republican party and said
 the Postoffice Department was reeking
 with corporation. while In the general
 land office. frauds and crimes had been
 committed involving millions of acres
 
 first he declared the people stood aghast
 at the stupendous official debauchery, but
 now they were demanding a searching and unsparing investigation.
 Using as his text the remarks of MT Hardwick (Ga.) on the negro question ir
 the South, delivered in January last, MT
 Morrell tPaD said that the ambitious ol
 aspiring negro was treated as an outcast
 in this country to greater extent thar the Jew was treated by the degraded
 neasantry in Russia. Everywhere, hC said. the negro was beginning to bC , treated as necessarily an inferior anC
 was discriminated against in the differ
 ent walks of life. It was not alone ir
 tbA Southern States that the negro was
 unfairly treated in the enforcement Of tbe law In the North, he said, courts , and iuries often were his enemies; "al- ways ready to exaggerate his faults and
 ignore his virtues" The cnrnerstone up