The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-05
CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, June 8.
Senate.

Senate.
Mr.. Pomeroy (Kansas) introduced a bill to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease
and preserve the public lands OF the United
States which contain mineral springs. Referred
to the Committee OF Public Lands.
Mr.. Edmunds (Vt.), from the Committee on
Commerce, reported the House bill for the pro-
tecion of the lives of passengers travelling on
steamboats, on the Western rivers, which was
ordered to be printed.
AT 10 O'Clock the Reconstruction resolution
Mr.. Poland (vt.) took the floor to deliver a
written speech.
House OF Representatives:
Mr.. Julian Qnd.o. from the Committee on Pub
lie Lands, reported bill to provide for the sur
vey and sale of lands Of the United States con-
tanning gold, silver, and other valuable NINE
rails, and for the assaying and coinage of such
minerals. Read twice and recommitted.
On motion of Mr.. Stevens (Pa.), the vote by
which the Senate bill TO enable the New York
and Montana Iron Mining and Manufacturing
Company to purchase certain amount of the
public lands, not now in the market, was re-
ierred TO the Committee on the Public Lands,
was reconsdered, and the bill came before the
House tor its action. The bill was read third
MI. Ashley (Ohio) introduced bill to aid in es-
tablishng line OF traction engines and wagons
from the Missouri river to the RocGV Mountains
Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Pub.
ON motion of Mr. Farguhar lind }, the House non
Goodrich & Cornish, Tor carrying the mail from
Ba city to Idaho city, and asked for committee
OF conference
Education reported substitute for the bill to es-
tarlish a Department Of Education at the city OF
MIR. Donnelly (Minn.) addressed the House in
support of the bill. He denied that with the
Rebellion the nation was born into a new life.
The Southern people had sought for years to
overthrow the Government, and they could not
he trusted 10 administer ii, unless meas ures were
| taken 10 provide against the dangers of the
| future. Slavery was destroyed, but the igno-
rance when was its consequence remained.
| That must be destroyed, or the nation must die.
| -Four million slaves had been liberated, and must
| be raised TO the level OF citizens. This could
! only be done by educating them.
| The white man Of the South must also be edu-
| Gated for he can only become loyal as he be-
| comes intelligent. This must be the most intel
| hgent as well as the most energetic and indus
| trious people in the world. In France, Prussia,
| Austria, and Russia provision has been made
| for public education bv the nation. The United
| States alone while its Government resting solely
| on the intelligence of the people, had done no
| thing.
| Rebellion had been the consequence. The igno-
| rance of the South il not removed, would cause
| still another rebellion. A republican govern
| ment was the result OF both, and could not
Two distinct policies were established two
| hundred years ago, one IN New England, the
| other in Virginia. They had travelled over the
| world. One was the policy OF popular educa-
| ton, the other that OF popular ignorance.
| He compared the condition OF the North in
| point of industry happiness, virtue, and pros
| perity with the South, and stated that in 1850
| three.uuarters of a million dollars were ex-
| pended in the Slave States 10 support of public
Schools while in the Free States seven millions
| were expended