The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-05-30
WASHINGTON.
Thc Civil Rights Bill.
THE FINANCE WlI.--RICHARDS0N
AND SAWiER-REi'E
FOR THE SOUTH
Especial Cor Of THE BULLETIN. ]
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.

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The passage Of the civil rights bill
by the senate has caused considerable
|, excitement here. A great portion of
: the colored people are quite jubilant
fancyipg that they have gained every
9 thing that l. worth having-whilc the
, more thoughtful arc moro than doubt
full as TO the good that will come Of il.
The experiment in the event of the
bill becoming a law, will be made here
and even now the parents of children
who attend the public schools are look
ing with dsmay at the prospect Of hav-
ing to take them away, as they would
not think OF mixing their children with
the ncgroe'. 10 the very poor it
means no more education; to the veal
thy who recognize the superiority Of
| the public over the private schools it
is great deprivation and the result
will be the breaking up of the public
school system of the south. | hereby
present the views Of a Northern man
| who speaks without bia. feelings or
prejudice. Yesterday Barnes Sears
ID. ID. Il LII. ID. formerly Secretary Of
the Massachusetts, State Boardof educa-
ton, successor of Horace Mann and
afterwards President of Brown Univer-
sity and now for several years past sec
rotary and general manager Of the Pea =
body Fund for the establishment OF
public schools in the South, gave his
testimony before the American Bap.
5 fist Home mission society, now hold
9 ing its Anniversary exercises here, in
regard to the effect of the civil rights
bill, lie said that he thought i,
would destroy the public schools in
!, the South, root and branch, and gave
his reasons for this opinion in detail
The opinion Of such man as DR.
oears VINO has given tho subject OF ed
with men who were legislating for the
good of the country in the interests of
white and black--but when it is ac
knowledged that the bill is to be passed
to conciliate black voters of the South
well knowing the evil tendency of
the mcasurc-what avails the warning
and advice and protests of senators,
{ doctors and cditors-political madness
rules and only general cleaning ont
VIII purify the atmosphere of the Cap
itol. The defeat Of the bill in the
House yesterday, does not settle the
matter. The radicals cannot reach
the senate bill except by suspending
the rules-requiring two-thirds vote
which cannot be got. The judiciary
committee can at any time report a
bill, exactly the same as the senate
bill, this can be passed by a majority
and sent to the senate and there acted
on. This will be the modus opcr
andi by which the Sumner legacy
will be disposed of. There is q dis.
position to shirk the subject by some
Of the house radicals who foar TO face
their constituents, but the party hat
has gone forth and tho lash will be
used to make all face the music.
4 THE FINANCE BILL.
| The house committee on banking
and currency yesterday morning
instructed Mr.. Maynard-chairman-
to ask the house to consider the f.
nance bill and to dispose of it at once
permitting only short discussion
of the subject, the infationists feeling
assured that they had strength enough
4 to pass it. When the necessary mo.
Q ton to suspend the rules was made it
lacked the two thirds and was nepa.
T lived. The bill in its present shane
. compelling the retirement of forty per
cent. OF greenbacks az national bank
: notes are issued, is not acceptable 10
the infationists and they will make n
strong effort to insert the senate promo.
sition of retiring only twenty five per
cent The vote yesterday is consid.
!. cred as an indication that the bill will
pass the house, but what the nresi
dent will do in that case no man oon
guess.
DON'T LIKE III.
Assistant secretary Sawyer wrig.
giles considerably under the proposed
congressional censurc Of bimsolf
Secretary Richardson, and Solicitor
Banfeld, on account Of their action in
the Sanborn contracts. lie il ont in
a statement to the ways and means
committee in which he claims ina,
] what he did was done under the le,,l