Show A P A LEADER WAS BEATEN the house passed the appropriation jor jar the colored university at washington aton washington april 2 the house presented today the extraordinary spectacle of republicans striking at the only appropriation made on behalf of the race of people who were emancipated by lincoln and of southern demo crate posing as th the e friends and defenders deposing ot of the emancipated blacks for sixteen years congress has appropriated money for the support of howard university a colored school in this district which has a theological seminary connected with it this year because odthe of the A P A fight upon district appropriations for charities the appropriation committee dropped the howard university item from the sundry civil bill but an ap appropriation I 1 a of for the university with the proviso that no part of it should be used either directly or indirectly to support the theological department was inserted yesterday today mr hainer of nebraska who led the fight against the district charities and is an A P A leader on the floor assailed the howard university amendment with great gnat vigor mr hepburn who followed mr sayers charged ill treatment of the negro in the south by south ern whites and was interrupted with denials and declarations of that is false that is not true the house voted to to retain the appropriation an analysis shows that republicans 19 democrats and 3 populists lists voted for the amendment that 55 republicans publicans public ans s 47 democrats and 3 populists populist lists 3 were against it the sundry civil bill amended was passed N V Y world no good reason can be assigned to these re republican P publican negro haters baters for their prejudice against the rue race except that many of us refuse to remain remain in a state of servitude to the g 0 p they doubtless reason that the more education and intelligence ge nee the colored people possess the more likely they are not to fall down and ana worship these self con guardians of the negro the more knowledge a negro has the more likel likely y he is to be a democrat ocr t hence it is the policy of the republicans to keep him in ignorance and apply the lash of the old antebellum ante aute bellum bellu m days slowly but surely ische is the race advancing to t the hd light aud and al 11 the efforts of the g 0 p politician icim cannot retard his onward and upward march colored baptizing zig at the thirst I 1 bap baptist aist church last sunday the j I 1 rev geo money maney opened the services i by reading the third chapter of Matthe Maithe wand singing hymn hy mn prayer r by brother W W taylor alor singing hymn then rev bey maney selected je hii hia te text from mat j ja 19 anc and sis from delivered everea an ible sermon sermon tb nie W well trall filled taid after he baptized liia the ahe three ee candidates dat mrs emma X battie cattie afee on the th the h S salt t baie Calvary Baptist t Chare hiU gibean nt called the may taws trl T AR abare anare eor alu in cited tg ibs attend a bloc k |