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we are willing to give benefcent object. B
would favor paying ten per cent.


would favor paying ten per cent.
Bailey agreed to this.
Davis would have the whole fund expended to
educate this generation. We were paying off the debt
for the benefit of the future the rate OF 0o0
| 600 annually He advocated the amendment OF
Teller introduced yesterday.
ingalls, said the interest would amount TO $780, 0e
per annum, not enough to buy slate pencils for the
children of the country. 1t was idle to talk of
curing the disease of iliteracy with 500 900 year
| Every illiterate man in the country was menace
and danger to free institutions. 1t was our right
and duty to appropriate large enough sum to cope
with this danger at once. We owe nothing to pos.
terity Posterty can take careof itself Perhaps the
greatest gift we can give posterity is educated
generation, Let us make sufficient annual appro-
priaon, leaving future Congress to do the same If
they see fit.
| Bailey thought the fund would grow speedily,
and soon be large enough to meet the views of the
Senator from Kansas (Ingalls) and those who
thought with him. He believed it our duty to es-
tablsh secure permanent provision for the edu-
cation of the people.
Morgan advocated TeEer's proposition for direct
appropriation instead of permanent fund at inter
est. The latter would not materially add to the
present State facilities
Mcdonald advocates Teller's amendment
Pendleton supported Tellers amendment, and
said he would not carry Goals to Newcastle by adding
TO it the forcble argument of the Senator from
Kansas. We were in crisis, owing to the great
increase of illiterate voters This crisis should be
solved at once Any increase in the scope of gov
ornamental operations was repugnant him, but
| the Importance OF the object in view led him to
| support the bill
After further debate Teller's amendment was
adopted-3l ayes, 30 noes 1T strikes out the
clause setting apart the proceeds of lands and
patents permanent fund, and provides that for
the first ten years said proceeds shall be paid to the
several States, according to proportion of popula-
ton over 10 years of age who cannot read and
write.l
ingalls,, in witty speech, rebuked Hoar for de-
claring that the bill would be useless if amended
proposed, and not passed as it came from the com
mittee 1t was bad taste for any Senator to assume
that wisdom died with him, or that his committee
alone could evolve worthy bill When mans house
was on fire he generally seized the nearest available
utens and to the creek to get water to pour on
the flames. He did not set about the erection of a
system OF water works. The evil of illiteracy was
present and alarming What the South needed
the application Of the old Puritan practice OF
education. There was a subtle contagion about ed
ucation. Educate one man, however poor, and SO
far that mans influence extends he viii be an cd
ucating force upon those around him. Kindle de-
sire for education to-day and will rapidly spread
until we shall leave the next generation perfect
population. He thought the work could best be
done by common schools There had been too
much half education 10 this country. The sickly
colleges scattered around the land were responsible
for very large number OF failures in life. Boys
have been taken from the pillow, plane and anvil
and sent to great cities to be poor lawyers miserable
doctors and wretched ministers, until failing in
their pursuits they degenerated into lightning rod
peddlers and book agents, to finally disappear be-
meath the earth they had ncumbered while above it.
Hoar said he had made his remarks only because
he feared the proposed amendments would defeat
the wishes of those most DESTROYS Of educating the
masses. The Eastern Senator's had never been be-
midland in advocating measures to build up the
West and South, though they knew all the time
that the balance of power steadily passing from
New England to the other sections, and that by
their action they were fastening the transfer.
Blaine congratulated the country upon the final
disappearance OF the old doctrines OF strict con-
strUction, proven by the fact that no Democratic
voice was raised to oppose a bill distributing the
proceeds OF the sale of public lands by the General
Government.
Beck gave as his reason for not insisting on the
State right theory in this case the fact that discrin
nation had been introduced and confined since
1862 in the method of granting land to settlers and
salisbury dwelt upon the waste OF land under the
Republicans for railroad grants
Ingalls, amendment was rejected
Morgans amendment, authorizing colleges estab-
isbed under the Act OF 1862 to found technical and
industrial schools Tor females agreed to-
The bill was then reported to the Senate and Tel
lers amendment was lost on a tie votes to Is
the Vice President being absent.
Teller said the bill was expression of sen i
ment not practical idea, and Kirkwood now op-
posed the bill as worthless.
Mcdonald opposed it as inadequate.
The other amendments were adopted, and the bill
passed Al to 6-Jonas, Mcdonald, salisbury, West
Voorhees, and Williams voting no.
Adjourned till Monday.