Morning journal and courier., 1884-03-19
Forty eighth Coneress---First Session.

WASHINGTON, March 10.
SENATE The bill to aid in the establishment
and temporary support of common schools
| was taken up. It appropriates for the first
year $15, GOO 900, the second 81, 600, 900, the
third $13, OOO, 600 and 30 on for ten years,
decreasing 81, 600, 900 yearly, to be expended
for common school education, the sxpendi-
ture in each State to be on the basis Of litter
acy, the money to be paid by the United
States in the first instance 60 the treasurers of
the respective States or such other agents as
the States may designate, the Secretary of
the Interior to have charge Of the portion
going to territories. The bill asserts the OBJ
ject to be not to establish an independent
system of schools, but simply to aid in the
maintenance of the State schools and pro-
vides that no part of the money appropriated
by the bill shall be paid out in any State
which shall not during the first five years of
the operation of the act annually expend for
common schools at least one-third the sum
allotted to it by the bill, and during the sec
ond five years a sum equal to the whole
amount it shall be entitled to receive under
the act. One-tenth of the moneys paid to
the States may be expended in training teach
ers Mr.. Blair addressed the Senate on the
bill.
Mr.. Call introduced bill to reimburse de:
positors in the Freedmens Savings bank for
losses incurred by the failure of the COM
pany.
The Senate at 4:15 D. m. went into execu-
tive session and shortly afterwards adj
journed.
HoUsE-A deluge Of committee reports
was submitted to day, and appropriately
disposed of.
At the expiration of the morning hour, Mr.
Townshend, of Illinois, moved that the House
go into committee on the postofice appro-
priation bill and declined to yield to Mr..
Curtin of Pennsylvania, who wished an op-
portunity to submit the report of the Foreign
Affairs committee upon the matter of the
Lasker resolutions. Thereupon the members
of that committee mustered their forces and
attempted to vote down the motion, but
though they made good fight the Appropri-
atoms committee came out successful, and at
1:30 the House went into Committee of the
Whole (Mr. Blount Of Georgia, in the chair)
on the bill stated.
Mr.. Aiken, of South Carolina. denounced
the bill as the most niggardly appropriation
bill and said the object in reporting it was
to get up cheap notoriety for economy.
Mr.. Bisbie, of Florida moved to amend
the bill by inserting a section requiring that
stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers and
dead letter envelopes, shall be made of the
cheapest material obtainable and said he was
surprised that Mr.. Townshend should make
point of order on this amendment so in
harmony with the general character of the
bill Qaughfer).
Mr.. Horr commended that the amendment
was in order and should further provide that
the bill be sent to the Senate on brown
paper. The bill made such inadequate pro-
vision for the postal service that for the first
time he felt it his duty to vote against an
appropriation bill.
The point of order was sustained and the
amendment ruled out.
The committee then rose and reported the
hill tn the House. Mr. Risbie eXDre6aed his
regret that his amendment had not been
adopted. He insisted that it honestly be-
longed in the bill, which was a cheap bill
from a cheap committee of cheap party
and based on cheap estimate of the Ameri-
can people.
Further debate was cut off by the opera
ton of the previous question and the House
proceeded to vote on the bill and amend
ments. The amendment striking out the
clause cutting down to 81, 600 all salaries of
postmasters above that sum was adopted.
The amendment increasing the amount
for letter carriers from So 600, 900 to 81 ,00O,
900 was rejected; yeas 122, nays 1877. All the
other amendments in committee we're agreed
to.
Mr. Hosr moved to recommit the bill with
instructions to report q bill with specified
increased amounts for the following items:
Clerks in postofices, railway mail clerks, mail
messengers, mail bags, rent lights and fuel,
steamboat mail service and for letter carriers.
On this the Democrats demanded a second
vote and the motion was rejected; yeas 81,
nays les.
The bill was then passed; yeas 100, nays
II. The vote was substantially party one.
Mr.. Davidson voted no, with the republicans,
and Messrs McComas of Maryland Jefords
of Mississippi and Nelson of Minnesota
voting aye.
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