Show BOOKERS REPAST IS DISCUSSED congressman of mississippi makes slurring reference to incident of negro dining with president said he was sorry washington had no more self respect the more negroes are placed on equality the more dangerous Is their in r position 99 i 1 washington march 16 in his invocation at the of session chaplain hale prayed that there may be peace among the nations and that this nation may show the way the banate passed without discussion the joint resolution authorizing the president to negotiate with england to secure a revley of the regulations for the catching of fur bearing seals in alaska so as to obtain an abatement of the alling of female seal and thus preserve the seal industry the following bills also were passed appropriating towards the erection of a memorial of the landing of the pilgrims at S lass authorizing the establishment of a fish culture station on blacky fork of green river wyo the senate then went into executive session when the senate went into executive session senator blackburn resumed his speech in opposition to the confirmation fir of general leonard wood HOUSE 1 washington march 16 when the house met today consideration ot the postoffice post office appropriation bill was resumed mr miss discussed the negro question in the south and eald ho desired to vindicate that section from the charge ot barbarism within the bouth he said the negro had been denied the right to vote and to hold office but not the right to work for an honest living as bad been done in the northern states we sometimes kill them for outrageous crimes but never because they want to work As for he said that sometimes they have unnecessarily occurred in the south he referred to the wll del lunching lynching lyn ching last year and to the subsequent attacks on the negro settlement this occurred in the south he said when the guilty wretch has paid the penalty ot hi awful crime that Is the end of it f J he added Is and does not wrease indiscriminate vee geande upon the innocent because they belong to the race as the ariasi inal he said that unlike the people of the north the people of the south doat come out with a torch in one hand and a gun in the other and pointing the gun at defenseless women and children shoot them as they flee for their lives he said this had occurred annew york city in 1900 and he referred to a number of lunching lynching lyn ching which had occurred la the north including those at danville ial and springfield ohio and said such race prejudice finds no place in southern hearts referring to sir washington dining at the white house he said this one incident had done more to inflame the passions of the negro and give him a perverted idea of his importance and his near approach to equality than anything that had been done for ane last ten years he said booker T washington had eat don to dinner with the president as graciously as it he had been the governor of new york he was ha continued sorry that mr washington did not have more sense ana self re than to accept the invitation it would have been Infinitely 1 to his credit had he declined the nore the are put on asocial equality beasser tedi demoro ne moro dangerous becomes theira position the surer death by violence will overtake them sooner or later |