The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-26
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
THE SENATE.
Discussion of the Bill to Aid in National
Education.

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Discussion of the Bill to Aid in National
Education.
WAsHINGToN March 25.-Among the memo
rails presented were several protesting against
the passage of bills before the Senate relat-
ing to patents or any bills that may be injurious
to the interest of patentees,
The following bills were reported favorably
and placed on the calendar:
| By Mr.. ingalls,, from the committee on Indian
affairs: To provide for the sale of the Iowa In
dian reservation in Nebraska and Kansas and
the issuance of a patent for a reservation for
the Iowa tribe in the Indian Territory
By Mr.. Palmer, from the committee on post
offices and postroads; For the readiustment of
compensation for the transportation Of mails ON
railroad routes.
| The Chair laid before the Senate the resolu-
ton offered yesterday by Mr. VanWyck, calling
upon the Attorney general to furnish certain in
formation as to star-route attorneys or state to
| the Senate why he does not furnish it,
The Senate agreed to the resolution.
| Mr.. Hoar then called up the bill to increase
the salaries of United States District Court judg
| es to s., 600. The pending question was on tho
amendment making it unlawful for judge to
! appoint to a position in his court any relative
within the degree of first cousin and making it
misdemeanOr for judge to do so.
| The amendment was modified by the omission
of the clause specifying that the offense was a
| misdemeanor, and it was agreed to.
| Mr.. Coke said there had lot for several years
been a United States judge, save one, in Texas,
whose nepotism had not become a scandal and
an outrage upon the people of the State.
After further debate the bill passed-yeas ~,
| nays IA.
The next order of business was the calendar of
unobjected cases.
| U.1.N .
| labor and to protect employees and servants en-
gagged in foreign and interstate commerce went
over.
Mr.. Calls joint resolution providing for the
payment to laborers in the government employ
the same wages for holidays as for other days
passed without debate
The Senate took up the education BILL the
pending question being on Mr.. Harrison's amend
ment to require the States to contribute each an
nually amount equal to the amount seVeraly
received by them from the national fund.
Mr.. Harrison supported his amendment He
expressed himself as strongly in favor of the
purpose of the bill, but agreed with the view eX
pressed some days AGO by the senator FROM Iowa
(NIr. Allison), that the logical way would be to
begin by small appropriations and so permitting
the growth and adaptation of the means to the
end He thought the attempt to appropriate so
much at one time was an lmperfectlon IN the
| bill. He would have each State pay so
much as the nation paid, He did
not think giving too much aid
the proper thing to do. He knew the avidi-
ty of the colored people for education. Some of
| the most pathetic scenes he ever witnessed were
scenes in camp in the, Union army, which illus
trated the hunger of the black men for educa-
ton. He had word of bitterness for any
Southern State on this occasion, but thought in
stead of stepping in with great benefactons, we
should give prudent and helpful aid such as
would stimulate the energies of the people every
where.
Mr., Sherman sad he was willing to
go as far as any man in
the attempt to remove the evil of ilhteracy
either from the North or the South. The safety
Of the nation demanded its removal, and with
out going into the past or casting reproaches,
| he was willing, as far as he was personally
concerned. to vote a large sum every year. under
wellguarded restrictions, to remove a dark cloud
Of ignorance from every part of the land; but he
didn't want the money turned from its proper
use into adding to the attachments of those
already sufficiently educated
Mr.. Hoar defended the bill from the several
detailed criticisms made by Mr. Sherman and
added it would not do to always take counsel
from our resentment and our recollections of
the past.
After executive session the Senate adjourned