St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-04


They had stood siege for ten years, but fell
when the Greeks brought gifts. The hatred
entertained by the Republican party for the
white people of the south, was as intense to-
day as ever, and this bill was the entering
wedge of absolute federal domination in the
southern states. The bill did not, in Beck's
opinion, express one-half what it meant
The Danville riot and the Copiah incident
failed to enable the Republicans to again
raise the cry of the bloody shirt, and educa-
ton was now deemed as the most plausible
means of procuring discord, and enabling
the Republicans to get rid Of the surplus in
the treasury, and keep taxation up to the
highest point. Beck then entered upon an
elaborate argument on the tariff, in the
course of which he said, he was glad the two
parties had squarely shown their colors, the
Republican for protection, the Democrats Tor
tariff revenue. The so called Morrison bill
had forced the Republicans to svow that
they opposed any and all reduc-
tions, and would permit no
relief to the over burdened tax payers. That
bill had at last developed the plan of its
enemies, who now thought themselves en-
trenched with sufficient safety to warrant
them defying all their enemies Beck Sc
verely criticised the action on the tariff of
Sherman, Morrill,, Allison and other Republi-
cans, and continued that the present policy
Of the Republican party in opposition to re-
duction of taxation, when the revenue was
not necessary, was unconstitutional. If
congress would enable the south to buy her
cotton machinery free from tariff taxation,
the south could educate her children. He
was unwilling to devote the sur
plus in the treasury to educate
either the negroes or the whites.
What he wanted to do was, to remove the
burdens from the people of all the states, so
that they could attend to their own education.
Beck thought he would vote for fund to be
set apart to sustain the educational scheme,
of tax, say of two per cent for all incomes
above $4,000. According to newspaper ac-
counts, Vanderbilt's income would yield to
such fund as much as $40, 900. He ewould
tax the incomes of the rich to protect whose
property, armies were maintained. After
referring to the efforts for education made in
the state of Mississippi by the Republicans,
in 1869 and 1870, which witnesses before an
investigating committee of congress had
said, involved more taxes than this cotton
crop would realize. Beck said he never
trusted men twice. The Republicans had
control of these southern states, and the re-
suit had been ruin and bankruptcy. The
Democratic party had finally got possession of
those states, and since that time they had ad
vanced in every way in which states could
advance He did not want the Republicans
to get their hands on those states any more.
Senator Williams inquired of the chair what
the business before the senate was!
The chair replied the pending question
was ON the motion of the gentleman from
Kansas, Plumb, to recommit the bill to the
committee.
''To recommit what?n asked Williams.
''The educational bill, " replied the chair.
''Oh,'' remarked Williams, amid the
laughter of the senators. Williams continued:
This debate had covered so wide a range he
had got out to sea, and lost recognition, and
it required some efforts to collect his
thoughts, to get back to the subject which the
chair had Informed him, was the subject be-
fore the senate. This bill, he said, has been
debated three weeks, and everything, but
education, has been talked about. As he
viewed this question, the local welfare was to
be looked after by the states, the general
welfare by the general government. Every
government must possess some power of ex
pansion to adapt itself to the growth of the
nation. 1t would be as ridiculous to expect
a full grown man to wear the clothes of his
boyhood as to expect nation of fifty or sixty
million people, with all the complications of
commercial relations, imposed by the accel-
Grated speed which electricity and steam had
impaired to modern progress, could be gov
erned by the simple rules that were ample
for two or three millions of people, scattered
over the thirteen original colonies. Williams
had no doubt as to the constitutionality of
the measure, and if he had doubt he would
give the benefit of it to the poor
struggling human soul, living and dying in
ignorance and vice. He would try to get
some light into the prison house of the ignor
ant that would lead them to higher plane
of manhood. There was no force in the OBJ
lection, that the Federal government might
interfere. 1t had not heretofore interfered
in the states to which it had given land
grants for educational purposes.
Senator Hoar and Hanson submitted
amendment which they intend at the proper
time to propose the bill Adjourned.