Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-13
Who From Time to Time
Visited White House.
SUBJECT OF DEBATE
There was Pretense Of Discussion
of the Alaskan Bill at the Time.
The Senate Proceedings, also, were
not Entirely Without Warmth.

Washington, April 12.--The Alaskan
delegate bill was taken up for further
consideration in the house of represen-
tatives today.
Mr.. Scott of Kansas devoted himself
in reply to Mr.. Gilbert of Kentucky,
who he said had animadverted Sc
verely on President Roosevelt regard
ing the so-called Rocker Washington
incident" at the White House. He re-
ferred to the recent letter of ex-Presi
dent Cleveland to Mr. Webb Of North
Carolina, denying emphatically that
he had extended courtesies to c. H. j.
Taylor, a Kansas negro politician, as
Mr.. Scott had charged in the house.
Mr.. Scott read several extracts from
letters he had received from persons in
Kansas and elsewhere, which he said
would make it clear that the state
ment made by him was not Il fabri
cation.
These letters, he said, contained
statements that it was the common
boast of Taylor in Kansas that he had
lunched and dined with Mr.. Cleveland,
and that Taylor made no secret that
intimate personal relations existed be-
tween them. He did not, he said, cite
the letters to impeach Cleveland. and
gave Cleveland full credit for telling
exactly the truth. But he hoped that
what he had presented would convince
the house that he also had told the
truth when he previously said the al
| lega ton was based on widespread ru-
NOR. Mr.. Barthold of Missouri spoke
| of the fact that Thomas Jefferson had
honored a negro with a formal invita-
tiOn to dinner.
| AT the instance of Mr.. Bartlett of
| Georgia the following letter from eX-
President Cleveland. dated March A.,
| 1904, in reply to one from himself. was
read:
~ have received a number of inquir-
les similar to yours, touching my in
| vitation to Fred Douglas to a wedding
| reception and signing. while governor
Of New York, of the bill providing for
/ u mixed school
! Il do not suppose that Mr. Thomas
/ f. Watson believed. or had any reason
! to believe either of the allegations then
made. At any rate, they are utterly
and absolutely false.
! II cannot afford to devote a great
deal of time in denying such foolish
| tales. l shall therefore attempt to
| cover every phase of the subpect now
and for all. 1t so happened that /
have never in my official position eth
/ er when sleeping or waking, alive or
! dead, on my head or on my heels. din
| ed, lunched, or supped or invited to a
/, wedding reception any colored man.
woman or child.
IF, however, l had decided to dc
any of these things, neither fear of
Watson nor any one else would have
prevented me. When 1 was governor
a movement was made in the legisla-
ture to abolish separate colored school.
in New York. 1 opposed the measure
and it failed. l do not find that L in
| terposed a veto and 1 have forgotten
the course matters took, but l know
that whatever L did was in favor oi
maintaining separate colCred schools
instead of having them mixed.
?. Yours very truly
"GROVER CLEVELAND"
After it's reading Mr.. Bartlett said
that whenever Cleveland's name wa.
suggested as a candidate of the the
democrats for president the republi.
cans seemed to get very much excited
and afraid. Mr.. Bartlett added:
II know he will net be nominated.
know, too, that he does not desire tC
be nominated" He said he also knew
that the democratic party would nom
mate someone who was a true demo
crat and he added with some delibera
tion "It is not very difficult now t
state who that will be-
Does the gentleman know who i
will be-" inquired Dalzell.
Yes" said Bartlett, "The who'll
country knows. Judge Parker of New
Vnrly xx-bi oil
Dlause.
Mr.. Lacy, of Iowa, facetiously asket
Mr.. Bartlett if he was not discourteou
to his two colleagues, Williams, o
Mississippi, and Hearst, of New York
81 withdraw in the interest of part,
. harmony" calculated Mr. Williams
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