New-York tribune., 1908-02-23
THE RACE QUESTION UP.
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| Democrats with lodging the negro question, and
| said he would like aye and no vote so as to
put them record. He said Mr.. uefiin and the
| other Southern Representatives were trying TO
nullify the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amend
ments. They have drafted constitutions he
/ declared, land adopted them for their states:
they have made statutes regulating elections.
| and practically disfranchsed all of the negroes
| throughout the country You have succeeded in
subduing them. in quieting them by force, and
| the people of the rest of the country have toll
Grated this. and you have been permitted to do
| this by sufferance."
Mr.. DrscoIFs remarks were loudly applauded
and the chairman forced 10 warn the gal
leres against joining in the enthusiasm
M Burleson of Texas. the other hand.
serted that if a secret vote could be had there
would not te five votes against the amend
ment.
The debate closed by Mr.. Smith, OF Mich
igan. who declared that the amendment if
adopted would drive the street railways into
bankruptcy.
The amendment defeated by a vote of
40 to 80
The street railway bill was then passed It
provides universal transfers on the basis OF
cash fares six tickets for p cents and for
street railway facilities from all parts of Wash
ington to the new Union Station.
Earlier in the session the House INDUCED in
fun at the expense of Mr.. Campbell. of Kansas
Mr.. Currier, of New Hampshire, had called up
a resolution providing for the appointment Of
police force for the new House office building
and referred to the necessity for the number of
men recommended account of the visits to
the building of ''hoboes, drunks and thugs
When he turned Mr. Campbell and asked
him to relate his experiences of last Sunday
Mr. Campbell bashfuy stood up amid shrieks
of laughter.
Il confess" he said. ito violating some Of the
comma ndments by going to my office and work
ing Sunday
Which commandments" some inquired,
at which there laughter. Mr.. Camp
bell said that last Sunday, while at work In the
office building. lot of children skated through
the corridor entered his room, pulled over his
books and papers and inquired who he and
If he clerk to a Senator a member.
They skated out of his room and after a while
returned but left the room again. He finally
compelled to lock his door.
Noticing that Mr. Campbell had said nothing
of "hoboes. drunks and thugs,'s Mr.. Mann sar-
castically inquired if that experience with chill
dren was the foundation of Mr. Curriers' charge.
Mr.. Campbell disclaimeG any knowledge on
that point.
prolonged discussion followed over the rea-
tive police needs of government and private
buildings.
In supporting proposition to reduce the num-
Der of police from twenty to ten, Mr.. Adair,
of Indiana, said that there danger of
''hoooes' thugs" infestng the building.
You innocent you would not know
if you him. interjected Mr. Goulden amid
shouts of laughter.
oh" retorted Mr. Adair, don't you believe
l don't" When he Immediately afterward
marked that Washington an orderly city
and that he had not drunken man since
he came here. the members laughed and good
naturedly accused each other of having mar
rowly escaped Mr. Adair's vision.
Mr.. Currier. however assured the House that
drunken had found their way into the
hiIilding