Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-14
John Logan Rises to Explain
Senator Ramsey and the
Postal Telegraph Bill.
MOrrilPs Bill for the Further
Endowment of Agricultural
Colleges Another Steal.
Judge Durell's Conduct to be In.
quired IntO-AlsO the Con-
duet of the Louisiana
Election.
WAsHINGToN, january -.
IN THE SENATE.


IN THE SENATE.
Senator Logan, in personal explana
ton concerning the charges in the Chi
cago Tribune, of the twelfth of July last
that his sudden conversion to Grant wa
due to the appointment of relative ant
nam esake to the agency to disburse al
appropriation of five hundred thOusanC
dollars for the Texan Sioux Indians
said that he had never known anything
of the appointment until it came befOr,
the Senate, and then had no more to dc
with it than any other man in the Sen
ate. He also said that no namesake ol
relative Of his had been appointed to any
office connected with Indian affairs Ol
TO any Government Office, at his request
or through his influence, during Grant.
administration, except in one instance
long ago; but relative of his, named
John Logan, had held an office when
the administration came into power
and had been removed by Grant. In
confirmation of this statement, Senator
Logan had read, by the clerk, a letter
from the Secretary of the Interior, stat
ing that no person named Logan had
been appointed to any Office in connec.
ton with the Teton Sioux matter, mol
had any such appointment been asked.
Senator Chandler introduced bill ex.
empting the mineral lands of Michigan
Wisconsin and Minnesota from the
operations of the mining act of May 10,
| 1872.
Senator Pratt offered resolution call
/ ing upon the Secretary of the Interior
for information in relation to a number
Of lakes and other bodies of water which
have net been included in the surveys
of public lands in the States.
Senator Ramsey gave notice that Oh
Monday next he would move to pro-
ceed with the postal telegraph bill.
Senator Morrill, Vermont called
up the bill to provide for the fur
ther endowment and support Of Agricul-
tural Colleges. He offered a substitute
for the bill, providing that the proceeds
of the sales Of five hundred thousand
acres Of public lands, at one dollar and
/ a quarter per acre, shall be applied to
each State and Territory having such a
college as is contemplated in the bill.
Senator Window offered an amend
ment, providing that the bill shall not
be construed to change or limit the ope-
ratiOns of the homestead pre-emptiOn
laws.
Senator Sherman said the bill would
give away over thirty-four million dol
lars, and also expressed a doubt as to
the constitutiOnality of the bill. The
distribution was not to be in proportion
to population, but upon plan which
would give Arizona, for instance, with
only seventeen thousand inhabitants, as
much as would be given to Ohio or New
York. The original act, establishing
A grieultural Colleges, had been a great
a ~lv~.av NJ 20 MN,Nn
The financial condition of the nation at
this time is not such that it can afford
to give away for chimerical projects the
whole proceeds of public lands for the
next ten wears.
Senator Morrill, said that Senator
Sherman was mistaken in his state
ments, and that the greatest interest
was felt in this bill by the mechanics
and farmers throughout the country.
Senator Thurman said there was no
constitutional power in Congress TO dis
tribute public money in a manner so
unequal as to give three hundred thou
sand people in a sparsely settled State
the same amount as to the four and a
half millions of people in the State of
New York, but that even if it were con-
stitutiOnal and just, it would be impolitic
to make such distinction. The bounty
Of the nation should be distributed either
according to population, or to those To-
calities where il is most needed. Mas
sachusetts, for instance, could maintain
an agricultural department in connec-
ton with her existing colleges without a
dollar of public aid more easily than
Texas could do it with the aid of three
million dollars.
Senator Thurman said, also, that he
had little confidence in these Agricul-
tural Colleges, and did not believe they
had been so successful as their friends
represented.
Senstor Patterson denied that it was
necessarily just to distribute aid for edu-
cational institutions in proportion to the
population. The benefits of the colleges
of New England were open to and en-
joyed by the people of the whole eOun-
try.
Senator Thurman said it was true that
youths from other States had gone to be
educated at Yale and Harvard in the
past, and did yet to a less extent, but
this bill contemplates the expense of a
college in each State for the education
of its people.
Senator Sherman said if the proceeds
of public lands were to be appropriated
for education, they ought not to be con-
fined TO Agricultural aud Mechanical
"a better use of the money would !
be to apply it to the support Of common |
and especially in the Southern
States. Senator Morrill, (Vermont), |
having remarked in the course of the
debate that Sherman could not conceal |
his contempt for agricultural, Senator |
Sherman said in reply that the remark |
was absurd, and that he represented |
more farmers than were to be found in |
all of New England.
Senator Sherman moved to amend 1
the bill so as to appropriate the proceeds |
of public lands to support the common |
schools.
Senator Buckingham said there had /
been nothing done ia Connecticut during /
thirty years which contributed so much /
to elevate the standard of education in /
schools as the high school or |
college established under the act of 1852, /
and, if passed, it would be beneficial to /
schools everywhere.
Senator Sherman's amendment was
lost.
Senator Stewart offered an amend
ment permitting Nevada to establish a
mining school instead of an agricultural
college.
Senator Thurman moved the refer
ence of the bill to the Committee on
Public Lands. Lost, IL to %.
Pending further action the Senate
went into executive session, and soon
after adjourned.