Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-02

preparations, reported the naval apprO-
priatlon bill, with sundry amendments
He gave notice that he would call it uI
either tomorrow or Thursday.
A resolution introduced by Mr.. Morgan
was agreed to calling on the Attorney
General to inform the Senate whether a
vacancy exists in the Office of Marshal of
the Middle and Southern districts of Ala
bama; whether any person is now per-
forming the duties of such office, and if
so by what authority. he is doing so, and
whether such person has been indicted
for any and what crimes in a court for
which he has been acting; whether such
indictment has been disposed of, and how
and by whose direction.
The House bill to release the American
Baptist Mission from the conditions of
the Marine Hospital building and ground
at NatcheZ, Miss, was read three times
and passed with but slight amendment.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Edmunds
and reported fayOrably from the Commit
tee on Naval Affairs for the relief of the
Jeanette survivors, was taken up, read
three times, and passed. 1t provides for
the compensation Of survivors for losses
incurred by them on the expedition. The
names and amounts are as follows
George w. Melville, Chief Engineer.
$1,000; John w. DanenhOwer, Lieutenant,
ist, 5000; John Cole, acting bOatswain.
5000; w. F. c. Ninderman, seaman, $500.
and the remaining survivors $500 each
The bill further provides for the payment
to the widow, child or other legal repre-
sentative of each deceased member of the
expedition any arrears of pay due the
deceased, and one years additional pay.
THE EDUCATION BILL.
The educational bill then came uD. and
MI. Coke again expressed himself op-
posed to the bill on the ground of both un-
cOnstltutlOnality and ineXpediency. If
Congress, he said, had constitutional
power to pass the bill, it was not eXpedi-
eut that it should pass it.
With the exception Of brief Interrupt
tiOns by different Senators whose argu-
ments Mr.. Coke traversed. the latter Oc-
cupied nearly all of the remaining portion
of the days session.
Mr.. Logan gave notice of several amend
ments which he intended to offer.
Mr.. George secured the floor to reply to
Mr.. Coke, but preferred not to 20 on to-
day owing to the lateneSs of the hour.
Mr.. Blair gave notice that he would to-
morrow, at the conclusion of the morning
business, ask that debate on this measure
proceed, and tnat the Senate dispose of
the bill tomorrow.
DIR. MAYO's ADDRESS.
Mr.. Lamar sent to the desk and had the
Clerk read some extracts from an address
by DR.. Mayo, of Boston, recently deliv-
cred in Nicksburg, in which the Doctor
assures Northern Senators that it is i'm
possible for the people of the South. out
1Ot their own resources, to supply the
means of educating their children in such
manner as the necessities of American
citizenship require; that he had looked
over the shadOwed side of Southern Iifa
and had seen nothing that could not be
removed by education; that he believed
that any money appropriated would be
honestly and properly applied; that the
people of the South were doing all in their
power for education, Nicksburg taxing
herself twice as much in pro-
portion as his OWE city, BOs-
ton, did for common schools.
and he was proud of Boston. DR.. Mav0
thanked God that he lived in the same
country with people who exhibit such
sacrifices for the cause of education, IT
would seem TO him, the address stated. as
if Congress that would turn its back
upon such people and give them stones of
constitutional theory and partisan dis
trust, would itself he a Congress sOrelv in
need of education, in patriotism and with
out craftsmanship, which knew how to
help those who helped themselves.
Mr.. Blair read Il letter from a distin-
guished professor of South Carolina, and
resolutions of the National Educational
Society in support of the bill. He also
gave statistics showing the relative edu-
cational conditions prevailing in the
Northern and Southern States before the
war.
Mr.. Beck inquired of Mr.. Blair how
much it would help intelligent suffrage if
the sixteenth amendment recently re-
ported to the Senate, as Mr.. Beck believ-
ed from Mr.. Blair's committee, should be
adopted, and how it would help intelli-
gent suffrage if all the negro women of
the South were given the ballot.
Mr.. Blair replied that he would not
mind discussing the subject with the SEN
ator, but not in this debate. The negro
women, he saId, were superior to the ne
gro men, and he did not know that there
was any question of the superiority of
women among all races.
Adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
In the House to-day, under the call of
committees, the following bills were re-
ported:
BY Mr.. Tucker, of Virginia, from the
Committee on Judiciary-To amend the
naturalization laws. 1t was referred TO
the House calendar. 1t provides that a
child or grandchild of any alien who has
enlisted in the army or navy of the United
States, and who has died in the service. or
been hOnOrably discharged, shall be ad-
mitted to become a citizen of the United
States on proof that he was under q years
of age at the time Of the death or dis
charge of his ancestor, and that he has
resided in the United States for one year
previous to his application. Also as a
substitute for a number of bills to define
and supplement the act re-establishing
the Court Of Commissioners of Alabama
claims, and for the distribution of the
Geneva award. 1t was referred to the
House calendar. Also limiting the time for
the presentation and payment of claims
against the United States. Itwas referred
to the House calendar.
BY Mr.. Rogers, Of Arkansas, from the
Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads
To pay certain Southern mail contract
Ors. 1t was referred to the committee of
the whole.
BY Mr.. James, OF New York, from the
Committee on Labor-To prohibit any
officer, servant or agent of the govern
ment to hire or contract out labor of pris-
Oners Incarcerated for violating the laws
Of the United States. 1t was referred to
the House calendar.
BY Mr.. Lowering, of Massachusetts,
from the same cOmmittee-TO pay to the
employees of the government wages here
tOfore withheld in violation of the eight
hour law. 1t was referred to the commit
tee of the whole.
BY Mr.. Dingley, Of Maine, from the
Banking and Currency Committee-Au-
thOrizing the Secretary of the Treasury
to invest lawful money deposited in the
Treasury in trust by national banking as
sOciatlOns for the retirement of their cir
culating notes. 1t was placed on the
House calendar.
BOYNToN EXONERATED.
The special committee appointed to in
vestigate the charges against Gen. H. V.
Boynton, the correspondent of the Cin-
cinnati Commercial Gazette, made by eX-
Speaker Keifer, submitted the following:
Resolced, The the charges against II. V.
BoyntOn are not sustained by the evidence,
and that there is no ground for action by the
House.
1t was laid over without action.
The House then resumed consideration
Of the trade dollar bill, and was addressed
by Mr.. Pusey, of Iowa, in its support.
Mr.. Cassidy, of Nevada, confined his
antagonism to the fourth section, which
he maintained would have the effect OF
contracting currency to the amount of
the trade dollars which would be retired
MT; Belford, of Colorado, regarded the
fourth section as a covert fraud on the
people and as being in the interest of the
Rothschllds, who controlled Germany on
the question of gold or silver demonetiza.
ton.
Mr.. Brumm, Of Pennsylvania, protested
against the fourth section OF the bin as
an unfair and cOwardly rider on the
trade MT IL.