The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-02-03
FORTY SECOND CONGRESS- I'd Session
FRIDAY, Feb. 2, 1872.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.


The iron workers of Pennsylvania petit
ton against reduction of tariff, and the
st. Louis merchants petition against the
Chicago relief bill, as it would unsettle
values, open the door to fraud and impose
upon few the burdens which should be
borne by all.
The Indian appropriation bill was passed.
Hostile Indians get nothing, and deductions
are ordered for depredations.
The education bill was resumed, when
Mr.. Hoar met with a general assault /; the
criminal records showing strong against
Massachusetts,, which he attributed to for
eigners.
MIR. Critcher, of Va, took the floor, and
he, too, directed his remarks to what Mr..
Hoar had said as to the illteracy of the
people of Virginia and the other Southern
States. He would challenge the whole
State of Massachusetts to pro duce as many
elevated, intelligent, and patriotic men as
he could name from single county in his
own district. In the neighborhood of his
own plantation was the birthplace of
Washington. Not far from that was Strait
ford, the residence of "Light-Horse Har-
~" Near there was Chantilly, the resi-
dence of Richard Henry Lee, the mover of
the Declaration of Independence, and the
Cicero of America. In the same neighbour
hood were the homes Of Charles Lee,
Washington's encouragement, Arthur
Lee, the accomplished negotiator of the
treaty between the Colonies and France,
and the birthplace of Monroe, Jefferson,
and Robert E. Lee. He challenged Hoar
to find such illustrations of mental vigor in
his own State.
Mr.. Hoar, said that she had not allowed
himself to criticse either the intelligence or
elegance of the educated tyrants of whom
MFR. Critcher had spoken. He had alluded
to generation of men who whipped wo-
men, begot little children and sold them
into slavery, and then rebelled against the
institutions which they had assisted to es.
tablish."
Mr.. Perez, from the Committee on Edu'
cation and Labor, reported a bill to pay tt
the College of William and Mary, in Viz
ginia, $4,000 for the destruction of tht
college building and other property, de
stroyed without Authority by disorderly
soldiers of the United States during the lat
rebellion; no money to be paid except OF
accounts rendered aud duly verified ane
proven. He asked that the bill be put
upon its passage.
Mr.. Blair, of Michigan, made the poin
of order that as the bill made an appropri
alton it must first be considered in Commit
tee Of the Whole.
The Speaker maintained the point, an
the house went into the committee of tn
whole on the question. Being Friday
which is called collective" day in the com
mittee, objection was raised by Mr.. Farms
worth and four others 1.-THE rule requiring
five), it consequently went over, but wit
the understanding that when the Hous
shall next go into the committee of tn
whole on the private calendar it shall b
considered independent of objections.
The committee then rose, and Mr.. Perc
gave notice that he would, next Friday
move to 60 into committee of the whole OF
the private calendar.
There will be no active session to-mol
row. 1t is for debate exclusively.