The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-04-26
DOINCS In CONGRESS
What Ii Being Done Day BY Day By
the National House and Senate.
In the Senate.

cisco sufferers; approprating $4,000
to pay the expenses of bringing home
the bodies of the kearsarge vietine:
listened TO an explanation by Mr.
Bailey concerning the proceedings of
the Democratic senatorial caucus;
heard the first half of an exhaustive
speech by Mr.. LaFolette on the rail-
road rate bill and witnessed decid-
edly spirited encounter between Mr..
Tillman and Mr. Hopkins concerning
the recent Chicago bank failure.
Mr.. Tillman read newspaper charges
to the effect that the Illinois senator
had used his official position TO pre-
vent punishment for violation of the
banking law ard MIR. Hopkins res
pondcd by charging the South Caro-
lima senator with approving the lynch
ing negroes and with securing his
election to the senate by supressinc
the negro vote. He also declared that
MIR. Tillman had changed the officia!
report OF his last speech on the bank
question so as to make it appear that
he (Mr. Hopkins) had cvaded pues-
ton, and to this Mr.. Tillman respond
ed that he had done nothing of the
KIND. The colloquy at last became so
bitter that it VAS necessary to call
the senators to order.
TIE HIImoy oorp. ,-bo,, NJ.
said:
Modern Reformer.''
'lt is time the country should
know who this modern reformer is:
yho is he and where does he come
rom?'
Replying he said Mr.. Tillman is
from South Carolina, with q white
tpulation of 557 900 and a black pop
ulation of $4,000 This being the
case Mr.. Tillman had been able, he
said, to get to the senate only by sup
pressin the colored vite-securing a
majority by manipulation, which re-
suits IN deprlvlng the majority Of the
people of the rights guarantee to
them by the constitution. He would
ask the senator if he would deny that
in a speech made in 1900 he had said
that he had dcne all that he could to
keep the negroes from voting.
"Why should I deny it?" respond
ed Mr.. Tillman, "when I put it in
The Record? I do not deny it and
l am willing to repeat it,
Roosevelt Severe on the Beef Packers.
In special message, delivered to
the congress, President Roosevelt de-
clares that the result of the recent
trial of the "beef packers" in Chiea-
go was miscarriage of justice"
and that the Interpretation placed
by Judge Humphreys an the will of
congress "is such as to make that will
absolutely associative.
The message which is sensational in
character, is based largely on letter
to the president from Attorney Cen
eral Moody, in which the attoney gen.
eral reviews the proceedings Of the
case f the government abainst the
beef packers. The president SAYS
it is clear that no criticism attaches
to Commissioner Garfield, as what he
did was in pursuance of a duty i'm
posed on him by congress. He refers
sharply, however, to the decision Of
Judge Humphreys, saying that con-
gress could not have forseen such a
decision and that he can hardly be-
heve that the ruling of Judge Hum
phreys will be followed by other
judges. He declares that such inter-
probation Of the law as that placed on
it by Judge Humphrey "comes meas
urably near making the law farce"
And he recommends that congress
pass declaratory act stating its real
intention. The president also requests
congress to confer upon the govern
ment by statue tb- same right of APP
real. in criminal cases, which the de-
fendant now enjoys, where The merits
of the eases have not been determined.
The Fas. Mail.
The Southern railway subsidy Of
$142, 900 for running train number 81,
| fast mail and express, from Wash
ington to New Orleans continues to
call for talk. Though passed by an
exceedingly small majority in the hose
the vote being 81 to 96, still it passed.
Friends of the subsidy Slain that had
there been a full attendance in the
hause that Gay it would have carried
by majority of something like 30. II
is now up to the senate. Heretofore it
has passed that body without and ap-
preeiable opposition. 1t is believed,
however, that there viii be some stren-
uous opposition to it this time. So
| much is the attention of the senators
absorbed in other matters which they
| consider of greater pith and moment,
however, that they are not thinking
about this little affair Of hundred
thousand dollars or so. South ;.asC'
lina's senators have always voted for
this subsidy, and they say that unless
there is something which they do not
now know to change their minds they
will vote for it this time. When asked
about it Senator Tillman said,
"I have said on the floor OF the
senate several times that consider
this subsidy steal, but I have voted
for It because it is the only steal, out
Of . good many which are going on,
that benefits the South. -