Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-10

negro women, he Salu, were superior W Hie
negro men, and he did not know that there
was any question of the superiority OF Wo-
men among all races. Adjourned:
In the House, under the call of commit
tees, number of bills were reported, among
them one by Rogers, of Arkansas, from the
Committee on pOstoffices and post roads, to
pay certain southern mail contractors. Re
ferred to Committee of the Whole. The
bill for the retirement of the trade dollar
was then taken up, after some immaterial
amendments, the bill was passed by vote
of yeas, 1893; nays, 46.
In the Senate, on the End, after the trans
action of some unimpOrtant business, the
Blair Educational bill was taken up and
debated for three hours and half, when
the Senate adjourned.
In the House, the Indian appropriation
bill was discussed and message was re-
ceived from the President recommending
an appropriation of 100000 for the protec-
ton of the levees of the lower Mississippi.
In the Senate, on the 3rd, the chair pre-
sented message from the President SINH
lar to that received in the House on the pre-
ceding day, relative to the levees of the
lower Mississippi. The Blair Educational
bill was taken up, and Pendleton, of Ohio
spoke at considerable length against it, bas-
ing his opposition on Constitutional grounds.
Pendleton was followed by Beck, who
spoke ostensibly on the Educational bill,
but confined his remarks mainly to ques-
tions relating to the tariff.
In the House, on motion of G. ID. Wise,
of Virginia, the joint resolution was passed
authorizing the Secretary Of War to loan
flags and bunting to the Mayor of Richmond,
to be used at the fair to be held in that
city in aid of the home for disabled Confed-
crate soldiers. Cox, of New York, present
ed memorial of the New York Mercantile
Exchange and merchants and citizens OF
New York, protesting against the passage
of any bill which will enable the Govern
ment to receive trade dollars in any other
way than by purchase at their market
value as bullion. Referred. The Indian
appropriation bill was debated until adj
journment.
In the Senate, on the 4th, joint resolu-
ton was properly referred, making an ap--
preparation of 100000 for the protection of
existing leevees on the lower Mississippi.
The regular order was dispensed with, and
the Educational bill was taken up. Bayard
spoke in opposition to the bill. He said
that it had been his intention to cast silent
vote on this measure, but the debate had
more and more shown the interest and I'M
portance of it. Just in proportion as its inn
portance and necessity had grown upon
for it. But he thought that it was seldom
that measure could be brought before Con-
gress that would have such an effect on our
form of government as the bill now before
the Senate. Itwas proposition to tax the
people of the United States to support the
education of the respective States. 1t Wasa
proposition accompanied with condition
that condition being that in the proportion
of ignorance existing in the States the mon
ey was to be expended. Under that condi-
tion the money was to be expended by the
General Government. Acting as repre-
sentative men, executing great trust OF
public power under the limitations Of a
written charter-not only under rcivil obliga-
tions, but under those of religion added-lt
was the duty of men to look carefully to
their votes in this body. Bayard read from
anewspaper with which he said the Senator
from Rhode Island (Mr. Anthony was con-
nected in speaking of the Blair bill, an edi-
torial said the passage of it would be an
ultra constitutional, though necessary, au-
thority, as logical consequence of the en-
franchisement of the negro, and that the
schools would have to conform to the views
of the General Government. Bayard assent
ed to those views so far as concerned the
ultra constitutionality of the bill. Never
before, he said, had the conflict between
duty and inclination been so great with him
as now. He said he knew the South. He
had given thought to the condition of its
people, and had observed their struggles
after the war. He had observed the flower
of their manhood slain, their strong men
and warriors crippled, the desolatiOn Of their
homes, the upheaval of their social system.
But there was one cause more devastating
than all others, and that was that after the
ploughshare of desolation had done it's work
and at the moment when every self-govern-
ing agency that the law could supply was
coming into operation, the party in control
of the General Government adopted the un-
happy policy of interdicting every vestige
of self-government in the South until it was
absolutely annihilated. He did not cite this
for the purpose of reproach or recrimlna-
ton, but merely as a part of history. He
had come into public life since the war, and
his main object in doing so had been to do
what might be in his power to bind up the
wounds of civil war in his country to assist
in the restoration of all the States to their
proper position of equality in the Union.
To that end he had opposed every measure
which he had deemed unequal or unjust.
He had been in this Chamber when not
single true representative of the interest and
sympathies of the Southern people was
found in it, and when such representations
DIS eAlSleu Was Al u IutlI, SCe1iioaiouo i.iioASP
resentation. How different condition eX-
listed to-day. The people of the South were
represented according to their will, and the
courageous and large-hearted public opinion
of the country had risen too high to permit
again such an overthrow Of liberty as had
taken place few years ago. He was CRATE
full to God that this had come, but this could
not affect his theory of the Union. That
was unchanged. 1t was a Union of equal
States, what Madison called "the Compound
Republic of America" This bill, in his
opinion, invaded the harmony of our politi
cal system. He then entered on an elabo-
rate argument, supporting it by copious
readings from the Fetleralist and other early
authorities, to show the unconstitutionality
of the bill, claiming that Congress had no
the people of any one State. He concluded
by saying that the concession to Congress Of
the power assumed in this educational bill
would be to start the country on a course
which must end in the whitening of the
States. Gibson, of Louisiana, followed in
an argument upholding the Constitutionali-
ty of the bill. Morgan, of Alabama, made
lengthy argument against the bill. At the
conclusion of his speech, Butler submitted,
in order to have printed, the following
amendment, which he intends to propose to
the bill as soon as it is in order to do so:
"The money to be provided for in this bill
shall be raised by direct tax to be levied
annually upon each of the States of the Uni
ted States, which shall be apportioned
among the several States according to the
respective members"
In the House, the Indian appropriation
bill was considered, and finally passed, after
which the House went into Committee of
the Whole on the private calendar, Cook,