Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-12-16
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senate.

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WASHINGTON. December 1.-THE fol.
lowing bills were introduced today:
By Hill Of Colorado-For the retire.
ment Of small legal tenders.
By Pendlston-To regulate and pro.
mote efficiency Of the civil service; also,
against the political assessment. Of United
States officials.
Cole announced that on Tuesday next
he will ask consideration OF Senate bill
providing for the allotment Of lands In
ssveralty to tbs Indians aud extend the
laws OF the States and Territories over
the Indians. He said the bill 10 thought
important by the Interior Department.
Burnside and Morrill, advocated the
bill devoting part OF the proceeds OF the
sale Of public lands to public education.
Senator Brown followed Morrill, In
support OF the bill. He pointed out
that nearly all our prominent men. from
Washington to Garfield. had been OF
poor par.ptage, and had. by their thirst
Tor knowledge and industry. worked
their way up to the top. Doubtless
thousands Of boys OF equal capacity
with those he had mentioned had re-
NAMED mute and inglorious through the
absolute impossibility Of overcoming un.
favorable circumstance and obtaining
tho necessary education to lit them
above the masses. Brown referred to
the great advantage enjoyed by New
England, in comparison with other Sec
tons Of the country. by reason Of her
supremacy In education. She had fur
nished or educated most Of the men who
had controlled our public affairs. The
growth Of Prussian and German predomi.
nance were eIplainsbls by the education
Of the whole mass Of the people. making
every individual man IN intelligent aid
to the State in war or peace. There were
special reasons why the South should
favor the bill. The Senator from YER
mont (Morrill) had referred to the
alarming amount OF illiterscy in the
United States, but had not analysed il.
Unfortunately 1t was disproportionately
great in the South. One reason for this
was that under the old system Of South
eru society more attention was given to
the education Of the ruling classes than
to that OF the whole mass. Another
reason was the nome education Of the
slaves. AL now agreed that the blacks
should be educated; but the South was
too poor to do 1t alone. They lost S2.-
900. 600. 000 in the value OF their slaves.
which they held constitutionally before
the war. They spent 3 1000. 000. 900
more in maintaining their armies. and
immense amounts by the destruction Of
property. He thanked the trainers Of the
bill for providing that the greater amount
Of the money appropriated by the bill
should 60 to the States where there was
the most illiteracy. He complinented
the negroes upon their s~slf-csntrol and
psacefulness under their new political
condition. He had more belief than hs
had pace in their future advancement
among the races. The whole country
was interested In the intelligence Of the
colored population. There wal . com
plant that the negroes were cheated At
the polls. Ignorance can be cheated
anywhere. Educate these people up 10
q knowledge Of their rights and the form
and spirit Of our Government, and there
will DO less and less danger. 10 hoped
the blacks and whites alike would 30 Cd.
ucatsd in the love Of republican institu'
tons. He reiterated his belief that r.
publican institutions could best b In
sursd BY the spread Of education, and