Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-17
The Senate.

The Senate.
WASHINGTON, March 16.-Ihe hous'
amendment to the senate joint resolution
making further appropriations to relieve sui
ferers by the Mississippi overflow was takel
up, apd first increasing The appropriation by
$4,000 concurred in.
Senator Harrison asked noneoncurrence IL
the second amendment which directs the us;
of the proposed appropriation for the hire O.
laborers 10 strengthen threatened leyees. HI
thought the whole amount was needed for re
lief, and objected to the creation of separate
leyee fund as making expenditures not fore
seen and further that people threatened Will
disaster ought to contribute their labor to
protect their homes from the food. The
second amendment was not CONQUERED in
Senator Sherman presented protest iron
many ex- Union soldiers against the passa &c
of the army bill restoring to the rolls Fit
John Porter.
Senator voorhees, introduced bill to il
crease the pension of persons who have lost
leg or arm or been permanently disabled by
their military or naval services. II lncreases the
pension OF such persons from $50 to S4S pei
month and provides that there shall be paid
the difference of said sums monthly from Feb
ruarv IS, 1877 10 the time of the approval oil
Ibis act.
4 bill for the erection of public buildings
al Terre Haute, Ind, aid for the use OF the
postoffice and government officers.
Logan addressed the senate upon the meas
ure introduced by him 10 appropriate and ex.
uend the entire income derived from internal
revenue taxes on the manufacture and sale of
distilled spirits for the education OF all chill
dreu living in the United States. He said the
proposition was 10 distribute pro-rata to the
several states and territories, according to
its population as shown by the census returns,
the amount aggregating under the preSentrate
Of taxation, about $50. COG, 900 per annum. Di.
version from its usual course, of
50 large a portion Of the revenue
what startling, but he thought the advance
ment of educational interests of the country
which the bill would secure, vindicated its
propriety. Proceeding to enlarge upon the
scope and probable effect of the measure, aud
detailing its provisions, he said every state or
territory to be effected by its benefits must
maintain for six months of the year, an Or
ganzed school system; that the bill would Sc
cure uniformity in these systems throughout
the country and stimulate public
education in states temporarily
crippled for want OF means.
The term education, he said, in the bill mean
10 include not only the usual curriculum OF
instruction in the public schools, bnt instruc-
ton in industrial and mechanical arts, and
thereby achieving the high educational train
ing of children of workingmen without sep
aralipg them from their class. After showing
that the school tax, as direct tax, bears most
heavily upon the rural districts, and citing
numerous statistics to show the respective
amounts expended for school purposes by the
various states he said the proposed distribu
ton, on the basis named, wouls give the
Southern states nearly 100000 coo per annum
for their schools. After detailing the pro
visions of tha bill and reviewing the superior
educational facilities of German, French
and other systems, he said he
was not welded 10 his own proposition, but
would favor any that would devolye upon the
nation direct responsibility Tor the super
vision of the education OF the youth of this
country. He gave his calculation of the whole
gursber of children throughout the country
tho are of common school age as Ii, 500, goo,
and estimated the cost of their education at the
rate of 80 per scholar, or over $3.50, 100000
per anuum. He said $Sl 100000 are now ex-
pended by the states and territories, and that,
with the addition of the S6O,00O,00O proposed
hy The bill, there would be almost enough for
all purposes. Logan then urged the peculiar
propricty Of devotlng the whisky tax to the
J NNi'N
The bill was referred.
Senator's Sherman, Hoar and Voorht es were
appointed on the Joint committee to provide
for the Marshall statue.
More Peru Chill correspondence was re.
ceived and referred.
Senator VOORHEES, offered resolution
which was adopted, directing inquiry and re-
rort bv the committee as to whether the Sec
tion of the revised statutes declaring that per-
49,, ho,oroblv diccharrpd from m Hilary or
naval service by reason of disability resulting
from wounds or sickness incurred in line duty
shall be preferred for appointment TO civil Of
fees, provided they possess the necessary Ca
pacity, for the proper discharge OF duties OF
such Offices, is In full force or has been re-
Iealed or modified; also whether it has been
openly disregarded and violated, and whether
itapplies TO provost, deputy provost, marshals,
ouartermasters and suffers not disabled, and
whether additional legislation is necessary to
cause the section TO be enforced by the various
departments.
Consideration of the postoffice appropria-
ton bill was resumed, the question being on
the senate committee amendment to increase
the appro Driation for special facilities, from
$500,0 600 to 100000, changing the term trunk
line TO railroad lines, and adding the pro-
viso that "said facilities shall be rates, dis
tributed as near as may be on railroad lines
leading to and from principal cities in differ
emit sections of the United States. y
The amendment was adopted as also the
items of increased expenditures recommended
by the committee as follows: Miscellaneous
Items $4,000; railway postotiice clerks, $780,
600; route agents, $3.50, 200; mail messengers,
$4,000. The amendment allowing the use of
department stamps as heretofore prevailed
after discussion.
Senator Edmunds moved an amendment 10y
inserting the following, land the secretary of
The senate and the clerk of the house OF repre-
sentatives shall have to use official envelopes
prepared by them for all official business Of
their respective offices, and the use of such
envelopes for any purpose other than such
official business shall be punished by penalties
imposed 10y law for illegal use Of such envel-
opes, and each member OF the senate and
house of representatives and each delegate
from each territory shall have right to send
through the mail any letter or package con-
tanning only printed or written matter not ex'
ceedlng two ounces in weight, identified by
his autograph signature, without paying
postage"
The yeas and nays were demanded, and the
amendment adopted by q vote Of 40 to ID.
Without further progress on the bill the
senate, after restoring the tariff committee tc
its place as a regular order, went into execu
tive session. Adjourned
House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, March 16.--Immediatel.
after reading the journal McLane rose to