Show APOLOGIZED TO MR I Congressman Scott Acknowledged Acknowledged edged That He lied 4 LETTER FROM 4 I NEVER DINED A NEGRO q i w HOG B I i I I March IIA the I vv house houe today Mr r Webb eb N C 1 to the made a a few Ita days ap o W Me ao s Scott ott Kanj that a negro mil h lit Ja the White House HOUR Mr lor Cleveland was president announced that le MAl bad writ writt t n ii the former fonner him tD 15 eXtract from Ute the Record Dd ask lag If the statements de b Mr S Scott t were true V This morning he be said I ze elved the following reply which iso read amid amIci applause e on the side as follows fonos a Letter Princeton March 2 MIRon E W Webb House o of ReP Dear Sir It Is a matter f o I con concern I cern cent to me that a lIT Mr seen use ee my game e In a display of b his l le e erR n propensitIes on the r or of the house hoUN o ut representatives In W an answer r to your however I have to say or of his hie tent that t the e colored man C H J Taylor lunch with me at the White H House that It is a tk deliberate falsification out of oC the whole cloth As far as 88 Mr Taylor is 15 concerned I understand prior to his as register of deeds at Washington hington that he had bad served as an a assistant In Inthe inthe the office of the city at Kan Kansa Kansas sa sas City His nomination as re register ter was RS confirmed by the senate and he served in that place with Jn intelligence UI eDee and with He has hag since tiled died Some people restraIn themselves elea from abusing the dead Scott fy inquiries concerning Mr Ta Talor Tay lot lor before his appointment JOy my abner ration or of him durin during his Incumbency and the little I hav known of f him since convince me that his bip character Is very unjustly att attacked ked In the din dia diatribe tribe of Mr Ir Scott One charge is made against Mr 11 Taylor b by Mr Ir ScOtt which he doubly clinches with Uh truth when he declares He was as a bla black k Be negro ro I Iam Iam am led however to doubt h hit famil larity wIth his subject when he adds As black as 88 you ever er saW Y Yours oun very truly traly GROVER CLEVELAND D Mr Webb said he wanted thiS to travel that the statement lUent of ec Mr Scott ott be overtaken Mr Cleveland Was a ot of tHe negro but not a fool saId Mr Webb e b He never bY or action encouraged ed the t dres of f In the k TIt Thin was u greeted with applause by th Democrats o Scotts 1 tn R Jre the I friend frien of the color d d wag Io aiso tile the friend of the southern white whiteman whiteman man and sympathized with S In our race problems and race Nee burd and aud audI I that sir It is more than Mr Roosevelt se seems ms ever eyer to have done Mr Ir Scott said he accepted the state mont nt ot of Mr Ir Cleveland aa n tiie and made to the former ident Jim In justice to hirn elf sa said id Mr Scott the statement had bad never been denied Mr Swanson Ve Va asked Mr Scott birc bere he had heard the report to which Mr Scott Stott replied that he had ha haScott seen Scott the statement nt In newspapers Mr Swanson asked further for fora a c copy p of a I per contain containIng InS the Mr Scott Sott explained that these e state statements ments were made several vf yea years ago I and the p papers might not Be easily eully pro procured procured cured lie He said that b he had made full apology to Mr Cleveland Mr Scott I Added that he bad brought to Mr Cleveland for the first time In bar I years applause from roam th the Democratic side idt This was as loudly applauded uon the majority side Bide of the tb chamber Social Equality 1 Mr Ir the minority leader chal charged that Mr Roosevelt had dined j Book Booker r T Washington to carry any the light of example to the south which does not believe in social ocial When hen a question is raised he said a against the appointment of 4 a negro liero to I positions In the south the statement Is made that there can be no di crimi a thin tIon on of color but added Mr 11 the would not appoint a ChInaman aO s postmaster ter on the Pacific coast If ice POSSessed the ability ot of Ll Li Hung Chang Reception to Taylor I I remember distinctly ut when lr Taylor came back ack from said Mr Scott PreCeded the an announcement announcement that he had been appoInt eel ed to the th office of recorder Of deeds in hi hithe the District of COlum Columbia la by Cle Cleveland fl his friends friend J et at the I Union depot a car carriage carriage to which were four I white homes hor es A O was With the carriage and he was as escOrted ted to a public hail and thou then he boasted ac according according cording to the reports ot of tI te perL I that It remained fec a Demo Democratic cratic president n the professed good will to the always made by the Republicans to entertain at his table at the White rJ te H or f r the tl first t time a negro That mat e was published so PO broadly and generally throughout the state fI of Caus that it was impressed upon my Was Merely He What bat evidence have yea U that he ever made that boast My Mr tord Mo MoNo MoNO No e but ne per re reports ports portar replied Yr Mr Scott Does the t tbt t It ft would he be Improper and aDd a f dignity ty for the president of the th States to rush into print a and d news newspaper newspaper paper statement that mi be put putout out asked Mr Ir Har e o Georgia Mr Scott replied lut heW not t erit crit leising the former J i of the United States for not made a denIal I 1 him full Cut I credit for the denial Jae be ht he added Hypocrisy Mr William said Incident nt showed time die und h of th tb that all meg m r equal regardless of cot color ace traits i and tendencIes Mr Ir Scott inquired who wh had been beef u as social equality I 1 have understood replied Mr Wil Williams llama liams that thE political theory of oi r your Ut household of for orth lust twenty years D 0 t melt mea regardless of color raft rab te leaden den elite Clos capabilities or what net aught to tobe ta be strictly equal politicalLy but that I Inot li S lit not all The head of your party set se t the e example or of soe in the tha r only manner in 1 et by bI k inviting a black m r Ir f kf Continued on on lae 3 APOLOGIZED APOLOGiZED TO TOR MR R ClEVELAND ContInued e from Page 1 what the nt had done was not to crry carry the th light of oC example i It wa was done for at nl 41 A An The minority leader sid said he was not quarreling with Mr Roosvelt Roosevelt adding He hI hag a perfect right to Invite a col colore colored ore ored man It if he cho choss hut but W as far as I know he waited d until of the United States It could be States ep an official example 5 Mr Scott sid said he a a l made no tation of fault against 11 Mr Cleveland Cleeland He simply had Pointed t to the allega allegation I ton tion he made because te the D party had Ione gone into hysterics because one man mait had invited Invite a colored man to hi his table tableAu Au An right sid said Mr Williams I Iam am glad to hear har that because I thought th the gentleman h had d a sharp harp stick and amI ws was after m my dear and aud much adored old friend Groe Grover Cleveland District Bill il Passed The hout house passed te the District ot at Co Ce lumbia bill and then be began gsa gan consideration ot of the Indian ap appropriation bi bill Mr fr Sherman N Y V chairman a of the on Indian affairs explained the provisions lons of the bU bill He said i it provided that the Dawe Dawes I Como commission lon should Is its work i b by July Jub 1905 and then terminate Mr Finley R S C asked Mr Lacey of Iowa who nd had defended the corn com ml mission lon i if he be thouGht I it was for the het best inter Interest ot of the Indian Territory to have members or oC the Dawes Dawe c corn mission interested In Investment coin 1 Mr Ir Lacey tha that he found no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of members of that committee Mr r Stephens T ranking ml mi member or of the on In Indian dlan dian a affairs tal rs held the secretary ot of the Interior responsible for delay In ac acton action ton tion on applIcations from the Indians or of Indian Territory for tor enrolling an and criticised his rUngs in that connection ton tion He sd said app had been held up hy by order of the secretary The rhe house at 5 p m adjourned until tomorrow |