St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-28
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Whisky Men Must Take Their
Liquors Out of Bond.
The Enacting Clause Struck Out by
2 to 1.
The Education Bill Still Before the
Senators.
The Senate.

The Education Bill Still Before the
Senators.
The Senate.
WASHINGTON, March 27.-The chair laid
before the senate the memorial of the con-
vention of American inventors in session al
Cincinnsti, protesting against the passage OF
any act injurious to the interests of paten-
tees.
Senator Logan presented similar memor-
ial from large number of in ventors.
! Senator Vest presented a memorial from
the lee islative assembly OF Utah, protesting
against the passage of the measures now
| pending before congress, or any measures
affecting the interest of that territory without
full investigation by congressional com
mittee.
Senator Miller, of California, reported
favorably from the committee on naval al
fairs, with an amendment, joint resolution
authorizing the secretary Of the navy to offer
reward OF S25, 900 for rescuing, or ascer-
tanning the fate of the Greeley expedition.
| A resolution was agreed to, directing the
Ilcommittee ON libra-v to inquire into the ex-
pediency of pr lting the official letters and
papers of the late President James Monroe.
|
payment of ten claims for depredations COM
mitted by the Ute Indians at the time of the
massacre at the White River agency in 1879.
The number of persons included in the bill
is eleven, and the amount is about S4 500, OF
which SITS is for Mrs. Meeker, now dead.
The money paid is in satisfaction of claims
| to be refunded to the United States by TAX
| ing the amount out of any moneys in the
treasury due tie Utes.
The following bills were passed? Author
izing the secretary of war to examine the
claim of Thomas j. Miller, Washington ter
ritory, for the seizure and sinking of his fer
ry boat on the Columbia river by the armed
forces of the United States, to prevent its use
by hostile Indians during the Bannock war
in 1878. A bill to pay 81, 500 to the legal
representatives of Mrs. Martha Vaughn, and
SO, 500 to Mrs. Louisa Jackman for patriotic
services rendered and information to the
Union army in Kentucky in 1868. A bill
authorizing the court O. claims to grant a re-
hearing in the case C Charles P. Chouteau,
of Missouri, for delay and extra expense
caused by the government in building an
iron clad during the war A bill to repay
the state of Georgia S22, 567, money advanced
for the defense of her frontiers against the
Indians from 1895 to 1918, and not hereto
fore repaid.
The senate then took up the education bill
and Hampton addressed the senate in its
favor. No one, he said, could have higher
appreciation than he of the heroic courage,
sublime fortitude, silent patience and I'M
fiinching adherence to right, which his state
had manifested during time when bad men
were throttling her to death. But she had
secured her place again where she had once
| tba fcic off Il
sovereign states. Knowing and appreciating
all this, he sympathized fully with the ringing
words in which his colleague had recounted
the efforts of his state in the cause of educa-
ton. He animadverted with great severity
on the "carpet bag" regime in South Caro-
lima, characterizing it as a period in which
fraud, corruption, vice and crime ran
riot throughout the state. The pub
| lie schools of the state, he said,
cost more than twice as much as the admin
stration of the state government, and those
schools were maintained also at much cost,
and were open to all alike, no distinction be-
ing made ON account of race or color. Might
he not ask what state could make a better
showing than South Carolina, under difficult
| ties that might well have appalled, the most
sanguine and courageous AS an instance
| of a magnificent municipal achievement,
| Hampton cited Charleston, which had spent
on its schools one-third more than the pros
porous and classic city of Boston, and did
this willie pressed down with debt of S.
100000. But after all this was told, and
after hearing all the facts, which have been
so ably and eloquently presented by his dis
tinguished colleague, he had been obliged to
come to conclusion directly opposite to
that reached by his colleagues He had NO
doubt there were 250,O00 children, between
the ages of ten and sixteen in the state, re-
curing education, and this could not be
gwen them at less cost than SIS per capita,
annually. This would involve an expendi-
ture of 81, 250,000 The amount thus far,
annually spent on schools had been 100000
annually. How was the state to raise the
| increased sum, in her present exhausted
conditions In the face of all these facts, the
people of South Caroliua were authorized to
ask aid from the general government in be-
half of those whom the government made
citizens, and adopted as It's wards. No gov
eminent would discharge its duty to its citi-
zens that did not secure to them an educa
ton. In order that the destnies of this
grand republic should be properly directed,
we should see to it that the
ignorant and illiteratc among our population
| NCiC piCPaiCu PlOPCiiy W dSouHlc tuC grave
responsibilities that rest upon them. Sena
tors had expressed fear that the southern
states would not honestly apply the funds
granted. The charge he deemed, was I'M
worthy to be noticed by southern man.
He would rely npon the statements of north
ern men, men whose words should have
weight before the senate, to show how IN
founded the accusation was. Senator Hamp-
ton then quoted from the reports and adj
dresses of Rev. DR.. Mayo, Boston, and Hon.
j. II. Smart, superintendent of public schools,
Indiana, testifying to the extraordinary
energy and progress shown in the matter of
education in the south, DR.. Mayo saying:
Never within any ten years, within the
history of the world, had so heroic and per-
sistent an effort been made for education,
as within the past ten yeors in the southern
states, and this effort included in its benefits
the children of both races
Senator Pugh supported the bill.
Senator Vest opposed it, and criticized the
statistics compiled from the census, which
had been furnished by Blair on former oc-
casion, to show the great extent of illiteracy,
which, the statistics, Vest said, seemed to in
Guide children under five years, infants,
'mewling and puking in their nurses arms.''
He read from the figures quoted by Blair,
showing illt3racy of st. Louis, Chicago, and
other cities and denied they were correct.
Senator Gail supported the measure on
constitutional grounds.
Senator Harrison said, it seemed to be con-
ceded, if there is any obligation existing for
the proposition of this bill, it was because of
the emancipation cf the slaves. Yetwe were
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