Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-21
MONEYS SENSATION.
MISSISSIPPI SENATOR WAKES AN.
CRY IN DEBATE ON
STATEHOOD
southerner Declares That the North
and East Are Forcing Joint State
hood Bill to Passage in Order to
Weaken the South.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
Washington Bureau of the Courier,
WASHINGTON. p. c., June 18,

SPEClAL CORRESfONDENG
Washington Bureau Of the Courier,
Washington, p. c., June 10.
The rebel yell' Is not an uncom-
mon sound in Washington, particularly
about election time, but not until last
week has your correspondent ever
heard anything Of sectional charac-
ter in the United States senate. OF
course the rebel yell was not heard
then, but the deliverance Of Senator
Money of Mississippi was in the ma
tlre of note of defiance from the
south,
The senate is pretty we'll accustom-
ed to harsh talk and pointed remarks
and statements that cut and tear the
flesh, but the senate Is not accustomed
to listening to the character of lang
uage INDUCED in by the senator from
Mississippi upon the occasion Of his
remarks on the statehood conference
report. In fact the senate sat as In a
trance while Senator Money waved
the bloody shirt as it has not been
waved in many day. Senator For
aker expressed the views Of the senate
when he arose, following the flre-eat-
ing remarks Of Money and declared
that during his long career In that
body he had never heard anything like
it, Senator Foraker probably voiced
the sentiments Of the majority Of the
democrats although they are nearly all
of them from the south. The differ
ence between Senator Money and most
other senators is that he does not beat
about the bush. He calls spade a
spade and does not mince words.
Senator Money made the point blank
charge that the action of the congress
in the statehood matter was a direct
slam at the south, that the south was
Disseminated against by the north and
the "effete" east simply because the
north and east had the power to do It,
Senator Money said:
BIames Sectional Feeling.
II want to say to senators plainly
and unequivocally without any inten-
ton OF causing offense, that If these
two territories had been in the north
not man on that side of the chamber
would have voted to unite them as one
state.
When Dakota applied for admis.
sion, having about 100000 people, she
was divided into two states so as 10
get four senators at Washington.
There are now dozen western states
that have not the population today OF
the Indian Territory, and there is not
single senator on the other side who
will admit now that he would vote to
unite two territories lying north OF
Mason and Dixon's line with united
population of 100000 souls-not one
of you gentlemen would do so.
Says Bill Is an Outrage.
Because these territories happen tc
1 lie to the south, this measure Is
forced upon the country and forced
upon these two territories by the re-
i publican majority, assisted by the
democrats on this side of the cham
4 Der. do not know that there is q
single man here who will vote against
4 this report except myself. never
!, will sanction an outrage of this sort
However inevitable it may be, it shall
not have my Endorsement. / say thai
i 1t is subject of just indignation
l tories that they have been compelled
to say that they want Joint statehood
because they have been continually
threatened with exclusion from the
II Union, in their .elation as states.
j 1.-THE people of these territories car
i guide themselves. They are sufficien
today for their own control /, fol
\ my part having visited every part O.
this Union, would not give hundred
thousand men in the west for five
hundred thousand men in the east
In all the elements of manhood, in en-
A terprise, In courage, in adventure, Ii
self-respect, they are equals Of one IL
] five, and they can take better care O
], their morals than can the effete east
Oklahoma Wants Territory.
II think Oklahoma has been reach
ing out for spoil, naturally, as say