The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-12-18

District Of Columbia. When Congress
said there should be no suffrage In lht
District It would not deprive any
man Of any right guaranteed him b
the Constitution, Congress had the SAM
authority over the District that II had owe
Fort Monroe or Fort Hamilton, and /
would not be contended that there coult
be any authority within any Of thesl
iorts In hostility 10 the Federal Govern
mGnt. 1t never intended that the seat 0
the Federal Government should be in thu
power ol any municipality. The people
OF this District are not the only person.
interested in 1t. The Government itsel
Is the largest property holder here, ant
had right to protect its own property.
Pending discussion, after the executive
session the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Lowe introduced a bill to establish
the Judicial District Of Oklahama In the
Indian Territory. Referred.
Mr, Orth, from the Joint Committee or
the reception Of King Kslakus reported
the recommendation Tor his presentation
10 the House tomorrow. Agreed.
The House then went Into Committee
OF the Whole, E. II. Roberts In the chair
on the Legislative Appropriation Bill
BUREAU OF EDUCATION.
Nothing Of public interest occurred in
the consideration oil the bill till the para
graph was reached which makes provi-
sion for the Bureau Of Education. A
proposition to increase the clerical force
OF the Bureau was made by Monroe, and
advocated by himself, HOsr and Town,
send, and was opposed by Frye and Cox
The latter aVoWed his hostility 10 the
whole system OF bureaucy, and declared
that all those bureaus which had no war.
rant in the Constitution would be abol-
ished by the next Congress, because II
the Democratic party had not the power
in the Senate it had power in the House
10 prevent the passage Of laws.
Dir. Garfield favored the increase pro-
posed by Mr. Monroe, and defended the
Bureau of Education as . necessary in
strument Tor obtaining and publishing
educational statistics. II the Democratic
party proposed to begin itS new career Of
power by putting out the eye OF the gov.
eminent by destroying the methods OF OBJ.
tanning intelligence as TO the condition OF
the people, il the government was to enter
On a system on which to build peuilen-
tiaries and was to take no steps to get in.
formation as 10 whether it was not posi-.
ble by better system to avoid the neces.
sity Tor penitCntiaries, then he thought it
was well thatthCy should have timely no.
tce.
Mr. Willard, Of Vermont, argued against
the bureau Of education as an unwarrant.
cd interference with mater which the
people themselves could and did take bet.
Ter care of, and declared that there was
no more reason for bureau Of education
or n bureau Of agriculture than there was
for a bureau Of boots and shoes.
Finally Mr.. Monroe's proposition was
rejected.
Mr. Hereford moved TO strike out the
whole appropriation for q bureau Of ed.
ucatlOn, and argued against the whole
system of Capitalization. he referred TO
Spain as illustrating the system by
which q nation might become powerful,
but by which individuals were dwGrfed.
The motion was rejected.
The Committee progressed as far as
page "a, and adjourned.