The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-29

He Sdlu there IS a stronger puglance toward the negro. At the same time he said the people of the North don't recognize this preposterous talk of social equality and inequality"
 He supposed, he said, there were no social grades in this country. Every man, he said. can choose his own friends and can associate with whomsoever he pleases. All classes socially are equal. he said, but that don't mean we are all going to associate together. Every man. he continued selects for his associates those most in sympathy with himself He spoke of the Booker Washington inci- dent at the White House and said no one had the right to say 1t was disgrace to invite Booker Washington to the White House.
 Mir Gillette was asked by MT. Claude Kitchen if he had ever invited a negro to his table. Upon MT. Gillette's an- swering that he had not. MT. Kitchen -emarked:
 q want you to practice what you preach"
 A statement by Mir. Gillette that 1t is not blood that makes caste. brought Mr Slayden. Texas), to his feet. who insisted that it does make caste in thls country.
 Ut does in some parts of the country"  ing for the President" remarked MT. Slsyden.
 This Mir Gillette denied but said he admired the President for what he had done.
 Ut was," he said. "an evidence of q big heart. and done by man who had birth breeding and cultivation"
 ''The Booker Washington affair."" he said. mo doubt was an accident, but yet from that accident apparently has sprung great consequences.
 MT Gillette drew the fire of many of the Southern Representatives who piled him with questions regarding social equal ity, Mir. Gillette declared that this kind of social equality" is artificial and that in the United States race does not make superiority In the South, he said, they appeal to race prejudice to make their section solid against the Republicans. There Is race prejudice in the North, he admitted in reply to MT. Slayden. but 1t is natural Thoughtful, reflecting men, however, he argued, should not feel 1t.
 MT. Burgess (Texas), denied that 1t Is the purpose of the South to use the ne- gro question for political purposes. He declared that the Republican Party re- garded the negro as an asset and said the less said about the matter the bet
  among the negroes and who do not know of what they speak.
 Mir Reeder. (Kas.), in defense of Booker Washington, said there is not a person ir his section who would not feel 1t an honor to invite Mir. Washington to his ta hle.
 MT. De Armond CMo) criticised the failure of the Republicans to order an investigation of the Postofice Depart ment and likened it to the mob rule spoken of by Mir Gillette. In his opinion those on the Republican side showed lIt- tie regard for law or right when party interest Is in the balance.
 Mir. Champ Clark CMo) declared that only when men of all races cease com mitting rapes will lynching cease. He had he said, known white men to be lynched for rape. and he added, they ought to be lynched if you want my opinion about it." He then delivered q speech on the Tariff
 MT. Perkins (N Y0, criticized the ex- pense of government printing and said 1t cost 25 per cent more than the same work done in private offices.
 Messrs. Mahon CPa) and Gaines Tenn.) agreed with MT. Perkins that there was extravaganza In government printing.
 MT. Trimble (Ky), in behalf of the to- bacco growers of the country said they would be put on the same plane as the cotton and wheat growers. He made a plea for the removal of the tax of six cents a pound on this article so that the producer may reach the consumer with out paying this enormous and inquitous tax" The grower he said. had but one buyer, the tobacco trust. and he said. because of this tax, "a foreign corpora tion is robbing the American tobacco growers every year upon an average of $14,OOoOOO.
 Although the tax had been reduced from l2 to Sc the consumer had not been benefited. In reply to a question by Mir. Hill (Conn), whether by taking off the tax of six cents the trust would net that too, Mir. Trimble said that what was wanted was competition, If the govern ment restrictions on raw tobacco were taken of the farmer could twist his own tobacco and go to the consumer direct
 As a result of the tobacco trust. Mir. Trimble said that the negro was in a worse fix than when he was a slave be- cause then his master fed and clothed him and cared for him in sickness. but to-day the tobacco trust had forced on him half rations and let him go hungry and half naked and had no compassion for him. MT. Byrd (Miss), attacked the protective tariff under which he said trusts had grown up which have held up and robbed the home consumers. The bill was laid aside and resolution adopt