St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-03
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Education Bill calls up Some Ex-
ceiient Speeches from Senators
George and Van Wyck.
The Indian Appropriation Bill Discussed in
the House of Representatives.
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, April 2.-The chair laid be-
fore the senate the credentials of Henry B.
Payne, senator elect from Ohio These Gre
dentials were owing to informality in the
credentials first presented.
! A resolution was offered by Senator Call,
which was referred to the committee on for
elgn relations, requesting the president to
negotiate with the government Of Spain, for
reference to an umpire whether the treaty of
1881 has been fully carried into effect by the
United States, and whether the United States
is bound in good faith to pay the full amounts
awarded by the judicial tribunal to whom the
same was referred, for losses sustained by
officers of the United States, acting under
orders in 1918 and 1919.
The senate passed bill referring to the
court of claims, the claim of WIN. q. Ford,
Memphis, for the proceeds of fifty bales of
cotton seized by the United States in Ala
bama in 1865.
Also a bill directing the secretary of the
treasury to refund to John P. Walworth $2,-
$50, proceeds of the same, by order of Gen
eral Banks, CERTAIN funds of the Louisiana
bank, New Orleans, in 1888.
| Also bill to increase the efficiency of the
| general land office.
| Also Morrill's bill for the improvement of
the coinage.
| The education bill was taken up and Sena-
| tor George maintained that as congress had
the authority to levy taxes for the generalwel-
| fare, it must also have authority to eXpend
| those taxes for the general welfare. 1t
would not help the general welfare to have
money collected merely to have it
stored away in the treasury. The constitu-
ton did not contemplate making congress
powerful enough to collect money! yet i'm
potent to disburse it. George cited instances
of appropriations in the early history of the
| United States, as well as appropriations of
recent date, such as the gift of $4,000 in
| 1882 to the sufferers from the overflow of the
Mississippi river, and 100000 recently to
sufferers from the overflow of the Ohio river.
The objection that taxes could only be levied
| for purposes of public use, could be no
valid objection to this bill, because
the object of the bill, in Georges opinion,
was to serve public need of the most urgent
character. The general welfare clause, he
| said, was the animating spirit! in every
clause of the constitution, and was to be
| read between the lines all the way through
that document. In conclusion, George re-
marked, he would gladly, in behalf of the
suffering population of Mississippi and other
southern states, give his vote to support
| the measure.
Senator Vanwyck said, he had some days
ago offered an amendment, to strike from
the bill the words "not sectarian in charac-
| ter"
Senator Blair said, he was willing the
whole clause containing these words, should
| be Struck out.
Senator Van Wyck said, if it was a thrust
| at the Catholic church, he desired to say, the
| world was indebted to that church from the
time when she preserved the literature of
the preceding centuries, and from the time
when she established missions among the
Indians until now, when she was aiding in
the edcuation of the colored race. A rel-
gion whose creed we might not endorse, was
preferable to infidelity, hid underi;a mask of
liberal christianity. Nothing was so intoler-
ant as his boasted liberalism, which, under
the pretense of blotting out sects, had united
| with sectarianism in an attempt to drive the
bible from the public schools, and was ever
attempting to weaken that sentiment that
steadied the progress of reform in the state,
sanctioned the pure and good in society and
tended to make liberty more enduring. He
rejoiced the gentleman from New Hampshire,
Blair, was willing that these words should
be stricken out. After executive session the
senate adjourned.