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Show I NEGRO PROBLEM AND THE BBiSTOW REPORT Houso Members Divide Their Afcten-tion Afcten-tion Between Race Question and Postal Affairs. LV A "WASHINGTON. March 1G. AYhen the y jok House mot today consideration of the V At ' postolTlce appropriation hill Tvaa re-la re-la f ' sumed. wl' Mr. Splght (Miss.), discussed the ne- I m jro question In the South and said ho B j desired to vindicate that section from I jK.! the charge of barbarism within the B1 South. Ho said the negro had been d'e-nled d'e-nled tho right to vote and to hold office, jjkj jt not the right to work for an honest Kj living as had been done In the Northern JHp States. gR. "Wo romeUmea kill them for out- B- fj rageous crimes," ho Gtild, "but never be- I cause they want to woii." Hf ' As for lynching he said, sometimes jK , they have necessarily occurred In the Vm South. He referred to the Wilmington, lK T)t., lj-nchlng last year and to the sub- I1B reauent attacks on the negro settlement. H Tnls "fever occurred irt the South, he said. "When the guilty wretch has paid lWt the penalty of his awful crime, there is jK an end of it." KB! 1 LTNCHINGS IN THE NORTH. fjMv I "The mob 13 satisfied and does not wreak Indiscriminate vengeance upon iTIwt the Innocent becauso they "belonjr to HP the same race a& the criminal." He fr Ijp. said that, unlike tho people of the P IK North, the people of the South "don't ' f oomo out with a torch In one hand and ,( w , a gun in the other and. pointing the F I : " i gun at defenseless women and children, tr Im8 Bhoot them as they flee for their lives." felil ' He saJ(1 tnls natl occurred In New York BL city In 1900. and he referred to a num-HJp num-HJp her of lynchlngs which had occurred at HL t the North. Including those at Danville. fth 111 , and Springfield, O., and said, "Such i g race prejudice flnd3 no place In South- I vm orn n:arts!-" mm H Mr. Splglit spoke of tho attempt of HFr gj certain white persons to put the negro a a on a social equality with themselves, H nnd. referring to the occasion when n Booker T. Washington dined at the BLf? w White House with President Roose- Df ij volt, said that "this one incident had BWW 1 done more to Inflame tho passions of B) ft m tne negro and give him a perverted K"' vj 1 idea of his Importance and his near Rikf m npproach to social equality than any- Hi'lpl thing that had been done for the last B'J g ton years." Ho said Booker T. Wash- Wm lngton had sat down to dinner with the Afl ,&M President "as graciously as lfhe had m v been the Governor of New York," He W fi Was, he continued, "sorry that Mr. Mi i li Washington' did not have more sense rtfLN nnt self-respect than to accept the ln-m ln-m rtl vn Tllation. It would have been Infinitely BlU fcl to n's credit had he declined. The BH W more the negroes arc put on a social IBWj w equality," he vigorously asserted, "the BflBJ 1 more dangerous becomes their position BflBjl 1 nnd the surer death by violence will BRISTOW REPORT AGAIN. TV The granting of subsidies to railroads for carrying the malls was vigorously opposcd by Mr. Robinson find ). who 'c-racterlzod them as a stain and blot . Thl alleged Brlstow report, reflecting on rnembers. was bitterly attacked by Mr. Pearre (MAS. The Brlstow report, he said, was a "lot of slush and stuff" gathered from the waste baskets, and was "a report the parentage of which no one would acknowledge." Mr. Crumpacker find.) took up the pubject of appropriations for special mail faculties granted certain railroads' and said they were nothing short of a mere gratuity. The rural free delivery service he strongly favdred. General debate on the postofllco appropriation ap-propriation bill was cloeed by Mr. Gaines of Tennessee, who opposed mall Subsidies to railroads. ' ' A number of pension bills were passed, as also wos a bill authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land I office to transmit original papers to be used as evidence In certain cases. At 6:20 o'clock the House adjourned. Routine Occupies Senate. , WASHINGTON, March 16. The Sen ate today passed without discussion thu joint resolution authorizing the President Presi-dent to negotiate with the Government of Great Britain to secure a review of the regulations for the catching of fur-bearing fur-bearing seals In Alaska, so as to obtain I an abatement of the killing of female i Reals, and thus preserve the seal lndUB- The following blllg were-passed! Appropriating Ap-propriating $40,000 toward the erection of a memorial of the landing of the pilgrims at Provlncetown, Mass.; authorising au-thorising the establishment of a fish ? culture station on Black's fork of the Green river. Wyoming, The Senate then went into executive session. At 4:D0 p. m. the Senate adjourned. ad-journed. That Petit Case Again. I WASHINGTON, March 1G. Tho statement made by Postmaster War-field War-field of Baltimore that former First As-Hlslant As-Hlslant Postmaster-General Heath was ' responsible for placing the name of John W. Petit on the rolls of the Baltimore Bal-timore office was discussed today at the meeting of the Senate Commltteo on Postofflces nnd Postroads. One of the members of the committee called i-i! attention to the publication of the 1 ctatement, and suggested an Inquiry I r'll concerning Its correctness. Petlt'a J W'2i name has been on the roll for six years I !-Fm nnd the Government ls now seeking to j tJB recover from Postmaster Warfleld's ' 'jffl , bondsmen the amount thus paid, the I Jmk claim being made that ho never per il B formed any duties In the Baltimore of- 'B i From the discussion In the commlt- l' V tee lt ls nPParont that the question will fBj!' come Up ftt a subsequent meeting. It A -M le cald that Senator Gorman will direct BlOa n.n Investigation In the interest of the W1M -Baltimore postmaster, who declares afSBl at wnen ue WaB commanded In a lel- lXjrMB tor from Heath to put Petit on tho wrf fl pay-roll3 lie did so, thinking that Petit i" -BJ may have boon assigned to some out- nfc 9 i s,3 employment of a secret nature. Bk. I When shown the above, Mr. Heath BflB stated that several months ago he BBjjH , wroto a letter to the Postmaster-Gen- BBflBflll ?ral ln reference to tho employment of yBBBBn ! Mr. Petit, lh which he said that there TBBBBfll 1 was nothing different from that to any 'BBBflBB i other appointment hg had made; that IfcT hp had had no personal Interest ln the T(r vz rtPlpolntment, which v.'as made upon tho WW frl , irttaommendallon of some one In thr I T arJ ' xefcular manner, and that ho Under-Ml Under-Ml Tb ataod Mr. Petit had been borne upon II 1 the roll of the Baltimore postofflcc for ( 'M two or three year after he (Mr. Heath) fir tfiM had Idft the Postofflce department. Mr. HI? Heath statfed further that whatever lie 9 P'B sn'd or doneWna a matter ot wrlt-Sj, wrlt-Sj, ;ViB teK record ln the department, and that BllBB suca record together with his letter to the Postmaster-General, was accessible to the Senate committee. |