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[?] would have been carried to the extreme if it had not have been for
the attitude of the honorable senator from Minnesota, Mr [Cliff?] in intro-
ducing a resolution in the Senate inquiring as to the reason why such
rules had been established. All honor is due from this race to [?]
in calling the attention of the Nation to this new order of things.
Your failure to appoint colored men to positions of honor and trust
heretofore held by them because the United States Senate would not
confirm them could and would be accepted if it came from a less
resourceful man than yourself, so a [contra?] distinction to this thought, your
action as shown in shaping pending legislation in Congress, the "Tariff Bill,"
which will if passed revolutionize the industrial and mercantile in-
terests of the Country, the "Currency Bill" destined if passed to affect
the financial interests of both rich and poor alike. If sheer willpower
on your part can compel members of divergent views on these mea-
sures of both the Lower and Upper House to vote for them and which
will affect their political future, it would be mockery for any one to
think that these senators who so willingly follow your behests in
the legislation would not as readily follow it in confirming those
who may be your selection to such offices. There is I am sorry to say
Mr. President either a lack of will power on your part or else a desire
not to do so. I will not say a lack of back-bone in you to do it, those who
know you best, know that you are not looking in this direction.

We had hoped in your election as the President of our Common country
that a new era in our history would be open to us, one of progress to our
race in the doing away with race friction and in a full recognition
of our rights to those privileges which are the inestimable rights of an
American citizenship which have been denied us these many years.
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We had looked forward in the hope that under youur guidance all