Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-16
CONGRESSIONAL.
lsrDual BY 1rlnonArH TO TIE RroonD-uslos J


WASHINGTON December 15th.-The following
bills were introduced
By Hill (CoI)-Fcr the retirement OF small legal
tenders.
efficiency Of the Civil Service also, against political
assessment Of United States officials.
Coke announced that on Tuesday next he VIII ask
consideration of the Senate bill providing for the
allotment of lends in severalty to Indians, and ex-
tending the laws OF st ties and Territories OYER the
indians He said the bill is thought important by
the Interior Department.
par of the proceeds OF the sales OF public lands TO
senator Brown followed Morrill, in support of the
hill He o intsd cut that nearly all our prominent
men. from Washington to Garfield, had been Of poor
parentage, and had, by their thirst for knowledge
and their industry, worked their way up to the
top Doubtless thousands OF boys OF equal
had remained mute and inglorious through
the absolute ;npossbility Of overcoming IN
favorable circumstances and obtaining the
necessary education TO lift them above the mass.
Brown referred to the great advantage enjoyed by
New England in comparison with other gee ions OF
the country, by reason Of her supremacy in educa-
ton She I'd furnished or educated most OF the
men who had controlled pubic affairs the
growth OF Prussia and German predominance were
explicable by the education OF the whole mass OF
the people, making every individual man an intelli-
gent aid TO the State in war or peace. There were
special reas1 why the South should favor this
bill. The Senator from Vermont (horrilD had re-
ferred to the alarming amount of iliteracy in the
United States but had not analysed it. Unfortunately
it was disproportionately great in the South One
reason for this was that under the old system OF
Southern society more attention was given TO educa
tioI Of the ruling classes than that OF the whole
mass. Another reason was the non education OF
slaves. Eli now agree that the blacks should be cd
ucated, but the South was too poor to do it alone
They lost two billion dollars in the value of slaves
which they held constitutionaily before the war !;
they spent two billions more in maintaining their
armies, and lost an immense amount bv the de5truc
ton of property. He thanked the trainers of the
bill for providing that the greater amount Of money
appropriated by the bill should go TO the state
where there the most illiteracy. He compli-
mented the negroes their selfcontrol and pesce-
ableuess under their new political condition. He
had more belief than he had once in their future
advancement among the races Tie whole country
was interested III the intelligence OF the colored
population. There was a complaint that the me-
groes were cheated at the polls Educate these peo
pie up to a knowledge Of their rights and the form
and spirit OF our Government, and there viii be less
and less danger. He hoped the blacks and whites
alike would be educated in the love OF republican
institutions He reiterated his belief that Republic
can institutions could best be insured by the spread
of education and appealed to the Republicans Of all
parts of the country to secure general benefit by
this means.
Brown stood at the desk upon the Republican side
of the chamber and faced the Republiean members
while speaking, but was listened to with marked
interest by all present
The bill was then informally laid aside until to.
morrow. when it is designed to reach vote
On motion of CoclIrell, the Senate TOOK up the
Senate bill for the relief of Samuel A. Love- appro
printing s. $50 to pay him for services and expenses
as Clerk Of the Territorial Legislature OF Kansas in
1855.
ingalls, said this was an attempt to have granted
compensation for the compilation OF what are known
IS the " bogus statutes of Kansas" or the slave
code, which was repealed and publicly burned by
the Free Soiiers they obtained control of
the State. The statutes the blacklist, most
daunahla hOfV of laws attenOked he nasSed
They never were recognized as the laws Of Kansas.
Ingalls, in responding to Vest, said he did not
propose at this period OF the Eations history to
ter upon vindication OF John Brown. John Brown
was executed as a traitor the I'd Of December,
1859, but the nation took up the flag that he laid
down at Harper's Ferry and bore it through four
years of war to Appomatox Courthouse, John
Brown about four years ahead of his time. 1t
the nation that lagard, and it required but
very few years after his decease for the nation to
occupy the platform on which he stood.
Ingalls, did not intend to be drawn into any con-
troyersy with Vest this subject. He had SIM
ply stated that the avs of Missouri formed the
basis of the code in question, being changed or
supplemented in such respects as to fit them for the
peculiar state Of society desired TO be established in
Kansas. He continued to argue against the valid
ity of loves claim. loves claim had slept to
await its opportunity.
Cockrcll held that Lowe had earned his pay.
Vest referred to the remark of Ingalls, that it
based on the code of Missouri. No such statutes
existed in Missouri. He did not propose to re-
vive the questions Of that terrible period. Slavery
was dead, and he had wish to bring il to life
but he could not refrain since the subject had been
brought up, from saying that violence begot vio-
lence and outrage provoked outrage. The people
sent out by Plymouth Church and other parties Of
God and mortality. headed by that John Brown who
afterward justly expiated his crime the gallows
at Harpers Ferry, responsible for much OF the
violence of that unfortunate time. He did not pro-
pose quietly to hear the people OF Missouri charged
with projecting slavery Statutes into Kansas Lowe
an irresponsible servant, and should be paid for
his clerical work
Edmunds said he began to get interested in this
bill since John Browns name had been brought up,
although he added nothi that can be said of him
in this Senate, good evil will mar the brightness
of that fame that will go down as type of honest
though it may be misguided, love of liberty. His
body Ii moldering in the grave, but his soul, l
thank God, is marching on.
The Senate, without action, adjourned.