The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-05-07
SAYS ARGUMENT
HAS NOT BEEN
REFUTED
Admissions of Mallory in
Accord With Mr..
Boards Views.
BELIEVES SENATE
- ACTED WISELY
In Passing Resolution With
View to DISTINGUISHING
Negroes.
Is WILLING TO DISCUSS THE
MATTER WITH SENATOR NAL
LoRY BEFORE THE HOUSE IF
THAT BODY SO DEsIREs-Ac-
TON OF SENATE NOT NULLIFI-
CATION.
BY A. Il. Roberts.

Tallahassee, May 6.-Senator John
S. Beard was seen this afternoon at
the Leon Hotel. and asked if he had
seen the interview with Senator Nal
Tory published in Saturdays Pensa-
cola Journal, in reference to the joint
resolution proposing an amendment
70 the state constitution limiting the
franchise to white males which passed
TIDE senate April 18th.
Yes, VI read the Interview last
ntehI niekts' he replied He was
u - Hed what ne thought of it and
s2iG:
- ~ have seen many criticisms befol e
this one of the state senate. for pass
ing this resolution, but not one, in
Guiding this one. has ever made an at
tempt TO answer or refute "a single ar
gument advanced by me in my speech
before the senate in advocacy of ;he
passage of this resolution. This in
Ierview of The Journal, as all the
other criticisms, deals in ex-cathedra
statements and assertions, but not a
single attempt to refute a single ar
gument
II spoke to this resolution in the
senate on April 10th. On the same
iday it passed the senate, my speech
in full was spread on the Senate Jour
nal of the 18th and was published IN
full in the daily papers of Pensacola
on Sunday, April 21st, This inter
view published Saturday, May 4th in
The Pensacola Journal and bearing
every evidence of careful preparation.
after more than two weeks in which
TO investigate and deliberate, admits
ali that I said in reference to the
methods employed. in the passage
Md adoption of the amendments: ad-
rnits that they are a standing men
ace to the security of our institu-
tons" admits that the safety of the
Republic, and the preservation of CIT
dearest interests, from the baleful eff
fects of these amendments, is a ques-
ton of supreme moment to all of us,
and it's proper solution is worthy of
the best efforts of every man among
us-then criticises the action of the
state senate, hopes that il will be
killed in the house; vaguely predicts
frightful disasters to the state, if IL
is not; and then cites decisions of the
supreme court of the United States.
that have no bearing upon the ques-
ton"
II sincerely believe" continued MI
Beard, that the senate. in passing
this resolution, acted with judgement,
wisely, and periodically. and | am al
so firmly of the opinion that the
mouse Is IullN capdDle OF Wisely anu
periodically dispoSing of this reSolu-
ton. without any outside assistance.
Senator Beard was then asked if he
expected to address the house or this
resolution. when it comes up for &C
ton and replied;
Il have not been invited to do so,
and I repeat that I think that the
house is fully capable of determining
this. as we'll as all other matters that
come before the house, without advise
from me. or from any one else who is
not a member Of the house. If. how
ever, the house should deem IL proper,
and advisable. to invite Senator Nal
lory and 20 discuss this momentous
question before the house. will &C
cept the invitation with pleasure.
) This interview in The Pensacola
4 Journal following, the New York
: World. Washington Post. and other
northern papers. has characterized
the action of the senate in passing
this resolution. as notification. There
IS not only no resemblance between
this action of the senate, and nullifi-
cation. but they are absolutely antag-
onistic. Notification denies the right
OF the federal government TO enforce
within a state an act of the federal
government which the state. asserting
her paramount authority as sovei.
eiSn. has declared to be without con,
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