The Washington bee., 1908-02-29

of Georgia amid laughter.
"Emphatically, son, responded MrFos-
ter.
The amendment was bitterly fought
by Mr.. Madden, OF Illinois, who assert
ed thar Congress should never legislate
in favor of one element. against another.
He was twitted by Mr.. Griggs, who in
quired of him if he remembered "the
shotgun quarantine established BY Gov
ernor Tanner against Negroes.
Mr.. Madden responded that he ne 'er
conceded the right Of the governor to
ast as he did.
By this time a number of Southern
members were vainly seeking recogni-
ton.
Which race does the amendment dis
criminate against?" inquired Mr.. Hum
phreys, of Mississipp, who first got the
chairman's eye.
Il don't concede the right of the gen.
teman to ask such a question" MIR.
MADDEN replied, at which the Demo
crats laughed derisively.
Mr.. Campbell of Kansas, took up the
cudgels for the Negroes. He said:
The gentleman from Alabama has
led US to believe that there is riot in
the street cars Of the District of Co
bia. If there is / have seen nothing
Of it / have yet to see any offensive
act on the part of Negro toward a
white man or on the part of white
man toward a Negro. 1t may be the
friction exists in the mind of the gen.
tleman from Alabama"
Mr. Campbell continued, saying the
people of the District are Iegislated for
by the American Congress, and that
Congress should adhere to the Const-
! tuition of the United States.
i should regard il as an evil day
when the House should pass bill which
would create class disturbance. The
gentleman from Alabama says, and he
was shaking his finger at this side of
the House, that there are men here who
will vote against this amendment BE-
cause there are colored men 10 their
districts who have vote It is shame
to the gentleman from Alabama and to
his party that there are thousands of
colored men in his State and in the
South who have no vote. (Applause on
the Republican side.)
KGaSaS' Gt4GraHfee to Citizens.
Il glory in the fact that the State |
have the honor to represent here guar
antees to every citizen within its con-
fines the right to exercise the franchise
under the Constitution of the United /!
States and under the laws of that State
One man under the Constitution is as
good as another, when he behaves him ,
self. The amendment offered by the
gentleman from Alabama would, in ,
stead Of allayilg friction in the District |
of Columbia and in the United States,
inaugurate an era of friction here and |
elsewhere in the country. The people |
of this country do not all think upon
the question of the races as the people |
of Alabama and the people of Georgia
think upon that question"
Mr.. Bartlett, of Georgia, afterward /,
read a dispatch from Wichita, Kans.,
paper, in which it was stated that Book
er T. Washington had been refused ac-
cOmmOdations in the leading hotel of
that city. This was greeted with ap- !
plause on the Democratic side. Mr..
Campbell said in reply that the hotel
proprietor had acted without authoriy
of any ordinance Of he city OF any law
of the State of Kansas.
Mr.. Campbell further stated that if
Booker Washington had had the time
the hoteIkeeper would have been made
the defendant in an action for dam
ages.
"The probabilities are that the man
who was running the hotel was Dem
ocrat from Alabama" said Mr.. Camp
bell.
Mr.. Burleson, of Texas: Il would
like to ask the gentleman if it is not a
fact that in some parts of Kansas the
local authorities, under authority of the
State law, provide separate schools for .
the races" After Mr.. Campbell had {
replied in the affirmative, Mr. Burleson I
said Is that discrimination? {
Mr. Campbell replied: That is dis
that ought never to have {
been made"
Same School, Sane Wayd. B
MIR. Griggs, of Georgia, asked, Has \
this hotelkeeper who unlawfully refused >
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