St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-07
Feeling in the Senate Over the
Education Bill--Speeches by
Morgan and HOar.
The Bill Amended to Prohibit Dis
elimination on Account
of Color.
The House of Representatives are Wrestling
All Day with Appropriations Sue
cessfulIy.
The Senate.

person falsely and fraudulenty to assume
or pretend to be an officer or employe Of the
United States government. Passed.
Senator Morgan presented petition from
the state board on silk culture in California,
praving that congress establish bureau on
silk culture. The petitioners state that they
do not ask any protection on raw material,
being satisfied that with improved mechani-
cal appliances the American manufacturers
could compete with the foreign manufactur-
ers whose crude appliances had been but
little improved for centuries.
Senator Cullom introduced a bill to REIN
burse the several states for interest paid on
war loans. Referred.
a bill was passed to authorize the con-
atructiOn of a railroad bridge across the st.
Croix river, in the states of Wisconsin and
Minnesota.
The education bill was taken up, and Sen
ator Morgan continued his remarks in oppo-
stion to the bill. As to the future of the ne
groes Morgan said there was less
to be expected from the young negro
population of the United States in contribu-
tons to the moral, social and political
institutions Of the country than was to be
expected from Arabs on the desert of Egypt
This is not spoken reproachfully, but as one
who despaired Of finding remedy for the
trouble. He was not sure the morality of
the negroes had been one particle improved
since their emancipation. He was almost
beginning to believe that book learning was
no cure for the troubles of that race. The
negroes trouble was the race trouble
a race affection, from which they could never
recover. No congress could get the women
of this country to recognize the negroes as
persons with whom they and their daughters
should associate. Congress was not strong
enough to do that, and never would be.
Morgan would rather see one million dollars
appropriated to establish a steam cOmmu-
nication from Charleston to the mouth of
the Congo river than see this appropriation
of 1O5, 900, 000 After referring to the carpet
bag regime in the south, Morgan inquired
whether the senator thought he was a cruel or
inhuman man. He did not believe
they did. ''Yet can point you," said he,
<'to a house set on fire on a November night,
fire that was eXtinguished after the most
terrible exertons, and afterwards on three
separate occasions riddled with bullet holes,
that now display themselves, the balls pass
ing through the chambers Of my sleeping
children, and cutting the bed clothes above
them, and that at the instigation of politi-
clans, not because l was in their way, but
because they knew L had a voice to
sentiments and to proclaim throughout
the world the wrongs they had inflicted on
my people There were hundreds of people
in Alabama, he continued who have been
similarly treated, but they have not been
raised like the people OF Cincinnati to burn
temples and destroy social order. With re-
gard to the suggestion of the senator from
Ohio, (Sherman), that the south could no be
trusted with the money appropriated by the
bill under the consideration, Morgan did not
wish to say much in the absence of that SEN
ator from his seat, but it would not be i'm
proper for him to say, the people of Alabama
thoroughly reciprocated the feeling the sena-
tor seemed to have for them. They remem
bered he had said, on the floor of the senate,
that anything was justitabe in morals and
law, that would break down the Democratic
and build up the Republican party. After
hearing such declaration from so eminent
a man, the people of Alabama were not
chagrined if he happened to entertain bad
opinion of them.
Senator Plumb's motion to recommit the
bill to the committee was withdrawn, as were
the amendments, offered only in debate by
Senator Harrison, the latter gentleman say
ing, an amendment proposed later covers the
ground of the former amendments and more.
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ducing the amount to be given for the first
year, and it was read.
Senator Logan remarked his amendment
had been first in order of presentation and he
wanted that placed before the senate.
Senator Hoar withdrew his amendment for
the tune being.
Senator LOgan's amendment was then
read. 1t appropriates 100000 for the
first year, ST, 800, 600 for the second, $780,
900, 900 for third, and then at diminished
rate of 81, 900, 600 a year up to the tenth year,
when the appropriation shall cease to be APP
piled to the education OF all children of
school age in the United States. The amend
ment being voted on was lost. Yeas 2, Brown
and Logan, nays II.
Senator Logan next proposed an amend
ment which was then read. 1t proposes to
appropriate $4,000, 600 to aid the building of
school houses in sparsely populated parts, not
more than 500 to be contributed for any one
school house, nor more than half the cost of
the school house. Lost, yeas 20, nays %.
A third proposed amendment of Logan's
was read to provide that no state should re-
ceiye the benefit of the fund that did not dis
tribute all school funds equally for all child
rem without regard to race or color. Agreed
to.
Senator Hoar's amendment then read,
making the first years appropriation 81
600, 900, second year so, 100000 third year
SIS, 900, 900; then decreasing at the rate of
$4,000, 600 annually until the eighth year.
Senator Morgan admonished the senator
from Massachusetts, to keep the bill up to
the maximum amount otherwise he would
weaken his bill and lose votes. 1t would not
do to commit the senators on the Democrat
ic side of the chamber to bill that did not
furnish very large amount of money.
Senator Hoar said he did not base his sup
position of the measure on the general wei
fare cause of the constitution, nor did he go
into any subtle retinements as to the
distinction between land grants and money
grants. He would undertake to say that the
legislature of this nation had a right
to save the life of the nation
against whatever danger might imperil
it. When honest, intelligent and influential
men declared in his hearing, that the blacks
ignorance was so great as to be a menace to
their property, their government, their civil
cation itself, and that all must perish alike.
If the mandate of our constitution was to be
obeyed, and those ignorant men were to have
their votes honestly counted, man for
man, and that the danger was
so overwhelming that men deemed
themselves entitled to resort for self preser
yation to any agency that would keep those
colored men from the ballot. And there
certainly were numbers of intelligent men
and influential newspapers that said that
then Hoar thought it the duty of the national
legislature, within the bounds of the const-
tuition to remove that menace. II think,
said he, - it is better thing to try the ex-
pertinent whether by educating the black
man, he can be made fit for American citi-
zenship, than without trying that experiment
10 cheat him out of his vote,
Senator Morgan remarked, he was sorry
that thought had not occcrred to the senator
before he enfranchised the black man. s'Mr.