The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-14
NEWS AND GOSSIP BFMA1L.


NEWS AND GOSSIP By NAIL.
Summers Bill to Nesroize the Punlie
schooIs-virgIn!a to be Kept I'm n Com
dition of Pupilagc-Thc Progress of
Radicalism-Protect Lobby Ing
Tho Present Tariff to bo Maintain
cd-BoutwcIrs Financial Bill.
A Washington letter Of Tuesday 10 the Balti-
more Gazette says:
The slow, but sure, process in vogue of
negrolzing the public schools of the district,
does not suit the sangnine temperament OF
Senatorial Dictator Salnner. He has conse-
oucntly introduced O bill which provides that
all the powers exercised heretofore IN re-
spect to this matter, shall be invested In q
new board, but that ''no distinction on ac-
count of race, color or previous condition
of scrvitude shall be made In the admission
of pupils to any of the public schools un-
der the control Of such trustees or other per-
sons, or in the mode Of education or treatment
or pupils in such schools" By his bill 1t Is also
provided that instead Of separate funds (here-
tofore existing) there shall bc one common
fund set apart and devoted to educational pur-
poses generally. 1t further requires that the
name Ot every child (without "regard TO race
or color:') applying for admission to public
school, and of every person applying for SER
vice as teacher, shall be recorded IN the oraer
of application, and acted on accordingly, and
that "there shall be no preference In respect
to teachers, on account OF race or cotor nor
shall there be on this account any difference in
the grade or compensation Of teachers" This
bill. the practical effect of which will be not
ouly to inaugurate mixed schools, but, TO q
larye extent, to put white scholars under the
tuition of black teachers, will undoubtedly be-
come law (so-calledl this session. SO they
The discussion in the Senate this morning
proves that even those of the Radical senators
who voted against postponement in the case Of
Virginia lin other words, for immediate ad-
misson,) did so avowedy upon the ground
that ilnplicdly the State would still remain un-
der Congressional surveillance. Senator Nor
ton. the leader Of the moderate wing, DIS
timely declared this to be the doctrine OF the
marty at large And thus has cullElnated The
yrxGd question of Virginla's admission" The
State. after admission, is to be regarded as IN
thc condition of pupilage, and liable to be re-
manded 10 military rule at the whim OF Con-
urrss This feature of the Radical programme
Is infinitely more alarming than would De the
rejection OF the claim to admission altogether,
since iC develops clear purpose 10 use tnc
whole South for partisan purposes alone. Nor
ton declared that If Congress had the autlofl-
| ty to reconstruct under conditions, and make
n state under additional conditions (which
they had done,) they clearly had the power to
unlnake 1t OF pleasure This is logical. But
why pirate? The steady and rapid encroach-
melts of the dominant party have By no means
ward p Go ahead! The necks OF tue people
The manufacturers gang Of lobbyists have
inst arrived. 1t was thought that an effort
would be nude to release people fl ON the one
rous burden imposed upon them by the Eastern
! protectionists, and hence this eftiuX OF patent
| legislative engineers. Their leaders, in o few
hours satisfactorily ascertained that no dan
rer was to be apprehendcd from the detec-
lion of the miserable whimperers representing
tile West. The tariff, it was quickly ascertain
ed. would not be touched In q solitary imp0r-
tant point: the bulk of this section OF the lobby
consequently contemplate nm early EXODUS
Those lobbyists in the interests OF concerns"
Interested in revision and lowering Oh tne III
however dissatisfied! Congress will do no
thing outside of their programme OF retention
| of mower ! learn that not one OF the mea-
sures OF relief SO blatantly promised O lew
weeks ago, will be so much as seriously con.
sldcrel The financial bill OF Boutwell,, as bad
as 1t Is, Is mere tub to the whale.
Well, will the people submit to oil thcec In
suits lfor they are such.) Isay, yes, and many
more! Never, until they are lnanacled hand
and foot, will they see their danger, and then
| 1t will be too late
The Fifteenth Amcndment-fmport
Question.
A Washington letter OF Tuesday, speaking oil
that days proceedings in Congress, says;
One of the most important legal questions
debated was that 1s to the effect of reyoca-
ton by one Legislature Of o State OF the
ratilcatlon of the Fifteenth amendment by
preceding Legislature OF tne same STATE,
as illustrated in the action taken on the
amendment an in New York. 1t was argued
by several senators that the constitution
does not confer any power of revocation
upon o State Legislature; that that body
can only considerer the question OF ratfca-
ton, and dispose Of it only by adopting OF
refused 10 adopt it, aud there its authority
over the subject ends; the Legislature has ne
jurisdiction over the subject save that " hlcl
| tI,n if,,t;o &c fhn r nil,