The Portland daily press., 1884-04-05
FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS-.


WASHINGTON, April 4.
In the Senate to-day among the petitions presen
ed and appropriately referred were the following
By Mr.. Bayard from the merchants of New
York asking for suspension of the silver coinage
also protesting against any law which would make
the trade dollar receivable at any higher rate thar
its value as bullion.
By Mr.. Logan from the Chicago board of tradt
and labor assembly protesting against further coin
age of the silver dollar.
Also from the Chicago trade and labor assem- bly
protesting against further coinage of the silver
dollar.
Also from the Chicago trade and labor assembl,
laws. F''N-
After the introduction and appropriate reference
Of several minor bills the Senate proceeded to the
consideration of the educational bill and Mr. Bay
ard took the floor. He said the bill was PROPOSE
ton to tax the people of the United States to sup
port the education of the respective State. The
passage of it would be an ultra constitutional meas
ure though necessary logical consequence of the
enfranchisement of the negroes. The State schools
would have to CONFORM to the views of the general
government. Never before had the conflict between
duty and inclination been SO great with him as
now. The earnestness and straightforwardness Of
Mr.. Blair in regard to the bill had gained his re-
gard and he believed Mr.. Blair to be animated
wholly oy sense of high patriotic duty. The ad-
dresses that had been made in the Senate by differ
emit Senators had SO impressed him that he felt
obliged carefully to review his opinion.
He had observed the flower of their manhood
slain; their strong men and warriors crippled: the
desolation of thesr houses and upheayal of their
clal system but there was one curse deyastinp
than all ether and that was after the plowsbare of
desolation had done its work and at the moment
when every selfgoVerning agency that law could
supply was coming into operation, the party in
control of the general government adopted the uu-
happy policy of interdcting every yestige Of self
government in the South until it was absolutely an
initiated. The traditions of the North were the
common glory of the country. The name of Wash
ington must ever be the watchword of liberty and
password to every American heart. He believed
that the position of the men and women of the
south in their adversely since the war would be re-
garded by history as that which established their
highest claim to the respect and affections of ali
good people. When the great military leader of
the South had surrendered all save his honor the
counsel he gave was worthy of him. Gentlemen, y
SAID ne, We must now cultivate our virtues"
Ihese words had sunk into the minds and hearts of
ms countrymens
Mr.. Bayard had come into public life, he said,
since the war, and his main object in doing SO had
Deen 10 do what might be in his power, to bind up
the wounds of the civil war in his country and to
assist in the restoration of all the States to their
proper position of equality in the Union. To that
END ne had opposed every measure which he had
oeemed unequal or unjust. This bill, III Mr. Bay
ards opinion invaded the harmony of our political
system. If the bill before the Senate was to be
passed. then logically and necessarily Congress
occupy the entire field covered by State functions
and local self-government would die In apathy.
This bill was Capitalization run mad Whatever
our feelings were of the necessity proposed to be
ueVed by the bill, this was government OF law,
and we should respect the law. While the senators
sat IN their seats, there had come news of great
riot in western city and by the light Of the burn
ing records we could read the dangers of departing
from law. Should not the senators set an example
of strict adherence to law?
MIR. Gibson supported the bill. The senator from
Delaware (Bayard) had referred to the recent occur
renee at Cincinnati as teaching lesson to senator's
and requiring them to be more faithful in the OBJ
serysnce of the guarantees of the Constitution. He
lGibson) read by the light of the same burning
court house another lesson, namely, the Importance
may necessity, of educating all the people, in order
that they may understand how to govern themselves
and that they may understand not only the duties,
Incidents sboWe 6 Ct M h
one part OF the country what was the condition IN
another? A vast number of ignorant men, enfran-
chised without preparation, were arrayed in an al
most solid mass in political party, while the in
teligence character and virtue of the people were
arrayed on the other. He said that he did not ap-
pear here to solicit bounty for his State but to
ploy the resources OF the government in every egt
innate and proper manner to remove the illiteracy
and ignorance that threatened the guarantees of
self-government throughout the whole Union, but
especially in the Southern States
Mr.. Morgan opposed the bill. AS the subject WAS
a new one, and the scheme grand and far-reachng
one, he thought that it would be better to defer
final action uutl the people should have been CON
suited. No amendment that could be made to the
bill could make it more acceptable to Mr.. Morgan.
On the contrary, the more amendments had been Of
fered the more they looked to giving to the general
government control of the administration of the
fund.- yet he would not be surprised If the friends of
the measure on his side of the chamber in their
eagerness to get hold of the money, would yield to
the demand for the control of the fund by the ma
tional government 1t was unnecessary for him to
say til at he favored education, but he denied that
the South was in the lamentable condition which
had been represented by Senators.
At 52O p. m, MIR. Morgan gave way for motion
to adjourn.
Before adjournment Mr.. Butler submitted, in or
der to have printed, the following amendment,
which he intends to propose to the bill 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 United States which shall
be apportioned among the several States according
to their respective members.
Adjourned until tomorrow.
HOUSE.
At 1915 the House went into committee of the
whole on the Indian appropriation bill.
Consideration of the bill having been concluded
the committee rose and the bill was passed.
At 1.60 the House went into committee of the
whole on the private calendar.
The committee remained in session until 400
considering the bill to relieve certain soldiers of
the late war from the charge of desertion, but no
final action was arrived at.
Mr.. Cook of Iowa presented to the House to-day
through the petition box paper signed by about so
citizens of Avery, Iowa, which opens with these
words: We, the undersigned, sovereign citizens
hereby respectfully command you our servants .
demanding the passage of the bill to construct a
double track STEEL railway from New York to San
Francisco, and declaring that not another dollar
should be lent to national banks or squandered on
canal.
The House at 4.35 took recess until 7 80.
At the evening session the House passed 10 pen
sion bills and then adjourned.