The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-18
CONGRESSIONAL,
WHAT WAS DOME AND SAID In BOTH
HOUSES YESTERDAY.
senator Henry g. Davis Makes speech
In Favor or Education-A West Vir-
ginian's Application for n Par.
don Considered In the House =
... Other Matters.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, December 17.-After tht
Chair had laid before the Senate somt
communications from the Secretary o
War transmitting reports in relation te
surveys under the River snd Harbor act
and the presentation Of few memorials
Mr.. Davis, OF West Virginia, reported 70
vorably the House resolution Tor recess
from December % to January s.
Mr.. Beck said there were now many
bills on the House calendar and large
number on the calendar OF the Senate
There would be but forty odd days fol
work after the 9Th Of January. The Cen
sus bill was to be acted on, oil the appro.
priation bills and many, other important
measures which should be disposed of
But little had been done 30 for, and II
seemed to. him that everything should not
be forced into the last days OF the session.
The gentleman from Minnesota (Win.
dom) would recollect how, toward the
close OF the last Congress, he had, with
himself. sat up night after night until the
sun rose to carry through what was called
legislation. Legislation ought not to 60 on
appropriation bills, yet by crowding It of
till the close OF the session 1t became nec-
essafy, or the measures could not be pass
ed for want Of their consideration. Take,
for instance, the pension bill, with its an.
nual appropriation of $50, 600, 900. There
were frauds upon this fund amounting TO
S. ,O00, 900 annually which ought to be
guarded against by separate legislation.
II Congress adjourn now, measures would
have to be attached to the appropriation
bills, and subsidies OF all kinds would be
tackled on to them.
Mr.. Mcdonald favored as short recess
for the holidays as was consistent with
propriety. :.
The resolution was disagreed to; yeas
81, nays 81.
OF the twenty.Beyen Senators voting in
favor OF the adjournment resolution the
only Democrats were Messrs. Mcpherson,
Ransom, Vest, Wallace, Withers and
Davis, Of Illinois. OF the thirty.one
voting nay the only RepIblicans were
Messrs. Blair, Hamlin, Ingalls, and Plumb.
The vote dissgreeing being announced
Mr.. Burnside moved that when the Senate
adjourn to-day it be 10 meet on Monday.
Cries OF "No, No." were at once raised
and Burnside withdrew his motion.
The bill appropriating s25,0 600 for re.
building the Custom House at Pensacola
was passed.
Bills introduced and referred:
BY Mr.. Wallace: Establishing uniform
system OF bankruptcy.
Mr.. Blaine offered resolution directing
the Committee on Judiciary to inquire into
the expediency Of increasing the number
OF Judges OF the Supreme Court to thir-
teen. Agreed to.
Mr.. Ingalls,, after consultation with
several Senators, entered motion TO re.
consider the vote by which the Senate
agreed to the joint resolution for holding
an adjournment.
The pension appropriation bill was re.
ferred to the Committee on Appropria'
tions.
Consideration was resumed OF the edu-
cational bill, and general debate took
place.
HENRY @. MAKES A SPEECH.
Mr.. Davis, OF West Virginia. wished
that the whole fund might be expended
in education OF this generation and moi
be held for the generation to come. II
was as much needed now as It would ever
be. We were paying off the pu bic debt
at the rate off sl00. 900, 900 year ly for the
b enefit OF future generations, and he
thought this was enough Of burden on
the present population. He therefore al.
vocated the amendment proposed by Mr.
Teller yesterday.
Mr., Allison said there was no logical
reason why the proceeds OF the public
lands and patents should be devoted
10 this purpose any more than the
proceeds from the tax on tobacco or
spirits. The bill was, in essence, an ap.
preparation OF public money, and he (Al.
iison) would rather see 1t made large
enough for the immediate production ol
good results. II q permanent appropria.
tion OF patent fees were made. any future
attempt 10 reduce the fees on patents
would be opposed as unfair to the educa'
iional fund.
Mr., Ingalls, thought the surplus money
In the patent Office was money unjustly
taken from the inventors, and his disposi
ton OF 1t would be TO return 1t, pro rata
TO the inventors. This Government should
not be run as a money making and diyi
dend paving business, and no more money
should be raised than is necessary to pay
expenses Of the Government. He did moi
want TO establish q permanent eduoationa
bureau or fund. The amount OF interest
proposed was 100000. This would moi
buy slate pencils for the children o.
tbe country. It was idle 10 talk o.
curing the disease OF illiteracy with $50,
600 a year. Every illiterate man in thiI
country was menance and danger "a
free Institutions. II was our right and
duty 10 appropriate large enough sun
TO cope with this danger at once. Weowt
nothing 10 pooterity-posterity can take
care Of itself. Perhaps the greatest gilt VI
can give to posterity Is an educated generr
alton. Let us make an annual appropri
alton, leaving future Congresses to do thu
same II they see g..
Mr.. Ingalls, amendment was rejected.
Mr.. Morgan offered an amendment au
thorizing the colleges established unde
The act Of '62 TO establish schools for tech
nical and industrial instruction Of females
Agreed TO.
4 After being further amended the bill re
ported to the Senate and the amendment
made in Committee Of the Whole wer
voted on.
. above was, nays 2s, yeas %: So tn
, amendment was lost. lThe Vice Presi
dent was not occupying the chair.)
Mr.. Teller remarked that the bill as nov
left was an expression Of sentiment, not q
practical idea. -
Mr. Kirkwood had been in favor of Nj
. Teller's amendment and now opposed tn
bill as worthless aud as building up o vas
central and permanent bureau Of educi
,, ton at Washington.