St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-26
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Senate Engaged All Day Or
the Educational Bill.
And the House Wastes Time on the
Whisky Bond Bill.
No Final Action Taken on Either Measure
The Senate,

Kansas and the issuance of a patent for the
Iowa tribe in the Indian territory
BY Palmer, from the committee on post
offices and post roads, for readjustment of
the compens sation for the transportation of
the mails on railroad routes.
| The chair laid before tie senate the reso-
luton offered by Van Wycke, calling on the
attorney general to furnish certain informa-
ton as to the star route attorneys. or state
why he does not furnish it. The senate
| agreed to the resolution.
Senator Hoar then called up his bill in
creasng the salaries of the United States
district court judges to $4,000. Pending the
question, an agreement making it unlawful
for judge to appoint To any position in his
court any relative within.the degree of first
cousin, and making it misdemeanor for d
judge to do so. This amendment was modi-
fed by the omission of the clause specifying
| that the offense was q misdemeanor, and if
was agreed to.
Senator Coke said there had not for seve-
raj years been a United States Judge, save
one, in Texas whose nepotism had not be-
come scandal and an outrage upon the
people of the state.
After further debate the bill passed, yeas
40, nays 49,
dar of unobjected cases The bills establishing q
a bureau of statistics and labor, and to pro-
tect employees and servants engaged in for
eign and interstate commerce, went over.
Senator Calls joint resolution, providing
for the payment of laborers in the govern
ment 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 Harrison s
amendment, to require states to contribute
each annually an amount equal to the
amount severally received by them from the
national fund.
Senator Harrison supported his amend
| ment. Harrison expressed himself strongly
in favor of the purpose of the bill, but agreed
that the view expressed some days ago by the
senator from Iowa, Allison, that the logical
way would be to begin by small appropria-
tions, and so permitting the growth of the
adaptation of the means the end.
He thought to attempt to appropri-
ate so much at one time,
was interfering with the bill. He would have
each state pay as much as the nation paid.
He did not think that giving too much aid
was the proper thing to do. He knew the
avidity of the colored people for education,
Some of the most pathetic scenes he ever
witnessed, were scenes in camps in the
Union army, which illustrated the hunger of
black men for education. He had no word
of bitterness for any southern state on this
occasion, but thought, instead of stepping in
with great benefacion. We should give
prudent and helpful aid, such as would
stimulate the energies of the people every
] where.
Sena tor George knew the colored people of
i
he desired to speak for them and did not
wish to raise any feeling by what he should
say. Owing to the liberality of the tax laws
of that state which exempted all poor people,
white and black, from taxation, and those
upon whom the burden of taxation fell have
been brought to the point where they looked
with horror on the day when the tax collector
came around. The lands in Mississippi
could not be sold for the amount of the taxes
The uneducated condition of the coored
people ought to appeal to the majority of the
senate. 1t was impossible to see what the
future would bring forth with so large pro-
portion of the population in ignorance.
Senator MaXey opposed the bill, on the
grounds of expediency. He thought every
state could do better without an artificial
stimulus, and that is what is proved by this
bill. Texas made an impartial provision for
the education of colored and white children
alike in separate schools. He could not, with
sincerity and justice to his state, say that
Texas was not able to educate her own chill
dren. The state of Texas was abundantly
able to support her own children. He could
not, therefore, conscientiously ask for nat
ional aid in that work. He had heard the
senator from Ohio, Sherman, whose state
lately received magnificent donation from
the nation, say he would not trust the south
with this money. MaXey thought SO far as
his state, Texas, was concerned, it would be
time enough to cast that up to her when she
asked for aid. The people, both colored and
white, ought to be educated but each state
ought to educate its own people.
Senator Coke spoke highly of the Texas
school provisions.
Senator Brown said, when the late war
commenced, neither side supposed the slaves
would be freed. Providence had deeper
design than the congress of the United States,
and it began in time to be seen that the free
dom of the slaves was necessary to the saliva
ton of the union. At the close of the war
the southern people were required to incor-
porate in their constitution provisions which
clothed the slaves with all the rights of citi-
zens. The slaves were freed as a necessity
for the union. Certainly it was the duty of
the union to take such action as would qualify
its newly made citizens for the duties
of citizenship. The southern states
had supported, from their property,
all the armies of the confederacy, and the
money which the southern people had at the
close of the war was as ashes in their hands
How different was it in the north. At the
close of the war every investment made in
the north for the support of the army was
good. In the south they were utterly worth
less, besides this, theyhad to contribute to the
payment of the northern war debt and many
millions of dollars of captured and abandone ed
property had been taken and sold by the
United States, and although the supreme
court of the United States said that as to the
several millions it captured after the war
the United States had no shadow of title
to it, and the statute of
limitations ran against private
owners. Brown only mentioned these things
to show that the people of the south were i'm
poverished by war. So it was impossible, no
matter how anxious they might be, to edu-
cate their colored population except Texas.
No southern state was in position to do all
that was required.
If, Senator Brown said, congress had the
power to protect men in their exercise of the
uallot, ulu IL hob lolioW IuaI cohSiess niu lho
power to prepare them to cast that ballot!
Aad we not the right to prepare him to read
and to write his ballot?
Senator Sherman said, as the remark made
by him the other day had been commented
on by the other side of the chamber, he felt
he ought to state his views upon the subject
before the senate. He would say broadly,
that possibly he believed it to be the bounden
duty of the national government to aid in
the education of our illiterate population.
He was willing to recognize that by the re-
suits of the war burden of illiteracy was