Arizona republican., 1904-01-28
A VARIED HOUSE DEBATE.

H HAhiGO r1OOSG OEBA E,
 Washington, Jan. 27-The general debate in the house on the urgent de- ficiency bill digressed today to a dis cussion of political topics, the race question and aerial navigation
 MT. Hemenway, of Indiana, from the committee on appropriations, reported a resolution requesting the secretary of war for a statement showing the amount of money disbursed by his de- partment in the promotion of flying machine experiments and construction, with recommendation by the commit tee that it be laid upon the table. MT. Hitchcock, the author of the res olution, contended against extrava- gance. He asked why a modern Darius Green should be established at nation el expense, and insisted that the infor- nation sought in his resolution should be furnished the house.
 MT. Robinson, of Indiana, said.
 ''We should strike directly at that queer scheme of aerial navigation whereby a scientific promoter, encour- aged by executive officers, if not by congress, raised high expectation by the public only to have the venture fall flat.
 "We should stay the hand of waste ful adventure and strike down such costly bubbles as Langley's airships and air castles and rescue the innocent public from such dreams"
 On his motion the resolution was laid on the table.
 The house went into the committee of the whole on the urgent deficiency bill.
 MT. Burkett, Of Nebraska, speaking on party issues, said the democrats would not know whether they will talk free silver or gold standard until after their convention at St. Louis and they learn who is to control the party. the gentleman frCm Nebraska or q reor- ganization.
 Being asked how much of the $500, COG had been expended in the prosecution of trusts. MT. Burkett said all that was necessary.
 MT. Landis, of Indiana, remarked that that was $25.0OO more than had ever been expended by democrats for that purpose. The paramount issue of the republican party, declared Mir. Burkett, is and always has been, the development of the country and the welfare of the people.
 MT. Cochran, of Missouri, replying to MT. Burkett, paid his respects to J. Pierpont Morgan. The financial policy , inaugurated by President Cleveland, he said. emanated from no political party, but from a coterie of gentlemen who then and since then had been the ad- visers of presidents, and who had by their vicious financial legislation of 1893 and up to 1896 brought upon this great continent the desolaCion of the desert and have now followed it up by plundering every man of small means and every small investor in their neighborhood.
 Tt should be remembered that if any man more than any other was con- spicuous in furthering and promoting the financial policy of Grover Cleveland it was John Pierpont Morgan, the man who has sunk from the condition of ad- wiser of presidents and inventor of financial legFlation to the level of a man with a gold brick to sell or a con- fidence man with three cunning little shells at a county fair
 MT. Hardwick, of Georgia, speaking on the race problem, rejoiced at the happy relation now existing between the north and the south. He said tEe south yielded to no section in loyalty, and in that spirit he invoked consider ation of the question. The negroes, he said. constitute about thirty-siX per cent of the voting population in eleven of the southern states.
 Reviewing the voting qualifications imposed by constitutional action in southern states. Mir. Hardwick said it was not believed by southern lawyers of ability that any of these qualifica- tions was in conflict with the fifteenth To coiH q I,o longer stand as a special ward of the government, but must stand on his merits as a citizen. There never had been any disposition in the south to deprive the negro of his civil rights, his right to earn living and the right of protection to life and property ! There cannot be political equality, he added. He quoted statistics, and said it was shown that as illiteracy de- creased among the race criminality in- creased, from which he deducted that education had been detrimental rather than beneficial to the negro.
 Calling attention to the laws of a number of the states. including Ohio Vermont. Massachusetts, Maine, Ore gon, California, Wyoming and Idaho, he said if the representation of south ern states were to be reduced because of the voting qualifications imposed the representatio tion of the states named would have to be reduced for the same | reason.
 Mir. Landis, of Indiana, said the dem ocratic party was in the midst of de- moralization and humiliation; that it
 was without a leader while the repub- ! liCaD party stands with it's face to the 1 future. more hopeful than ever. Ref erence to election methods in the south ern states precipitated numerous collo- i quies between Messrs. Landis and
 Williams, of Mississippi. and several others on the minority side. MT. Lam dis said prosperity was here to remain if the democrats would let it stay, but
 the democrats could scare it away to-
 morrow, he added, by electing a demo-
 cratic congress and enacting q meas 1 ure similar to the German Wilson tar
 if bill. The republicans. declared MT.
 Landis. would go into battle on the party's record. He called attenton to the prosperous condition of the south ern states, and replying to a question