The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-03-27

! ~ "N"'u ieau 10 the supNcIslOu OF tne
government, policy that would turn 0
ooNerninent OF limited constitutional
power intn q paternal Government. For
VIC measure before the Senate Mr.. Butler
Souiu nnu no authority in the Constitution
Solhe PAD customs had grown up, however,
anu the customs had been used rs an ar
gument Tor this bill. He did not think the
argument sound, however. He was very
anxious TO remove illiteracy from the peo-
PIE OF his State, but he thought that that
niileiacy ana its consequences had been ex.
aggerated, and In any event he could moi
consent TO remove the difficulty by
means OF a measure OF this character,
Ills State needed money; there was no
aouDt about that. They had had a des-
perate struggle to confer even such educa-
t'onai advantages as they had been able to
CONFER, but he believed the future was
brighter for them. For one, he proposed
10 put the past. with all its horrors, behind
MIN. He had no desire to charge the mis-
take on his political opponents, although
lie believed they had committed very grave
ones. And perhaps, Mr.. President" said
ne, am as responsible for that condition
OF things as the most extreme OF them. but
for one, would only recur to the past in
order to guard against mistakes IN future"
predicted that III this bill passed, ten years
would not roll around before the school
system OF the States would be in the hands
OF the National Government. The Senator
from Ohio (Mr. Sherman) had said, though
not otlensively-for Mr.. Butler did not
think he meant to be oflensive-that he
would not trust the South to disburse this
money. That Senator would PARDON Mr..
Butler for saying in the same spirit that he
(MT. Butler) would not trust him (Mr.
Sherman) TO contribute il.
Mr.. Butler would not discuss with that
Senator or any other whether the prejudice
in the South against the colored man was
stronger than 1t was in the North. He did
not believe it was. But" said Mr.. But
Ter, "when the Senator says he will not
trust me with money to educate the negro
] say / will nottrust him to giyeit. 7'imeO
DdndoS ct dOnd ferenteS.'"
Mr.. Butler preferred, on the whole, to
trust to the pluck, endurance, manhood,
courage, and humanity of the people Of his
State to do justice by all men, white and
black, than to accept aid from the Federal
Government.
House joint resolution reappropriating
for the aid OF the sufferers by the Missis-
floods the $4,000 not eXpend-
ed for the relief Of the sufferers by the
floods of the Ohio river was read three
times and passed.
Executive session. Adjourned.
House OF Representatives.
Mr. Ellis, Of Louisiana, from the Com
mlttee on Appropriations, reported joint
resolution providing that s125,000 OF uneX-
pended appropriations for the relief OF the
sufferers from the Ohio floods may be
by the Secretary OF War for the
relief OF destitute persons in the district
overlooked by the Mississippi river and its
tributaries.
MIR. Rice, Of Massachusetts. opposed the
resolution, saying it was, he knew, an I'M
gracious task to oppose call made on the
score Of suffering humanity, but the pre-
sent was good opportunity to consider
this question Of afording national relief
to every sufferer OF a local calamity. The
resolution contemplated the distribution
of supplies by the National Government
to feed the sufferers from n local disaster.
The present calamity did not much exceed
the previous disasters on the same river,
and il was not calamity the relief OF which
came within the sphere Of rights guaran-
teed to or duties imposed on the Federal
MIR. Dunn, OF Arkansas, spoke in favor
Of the proposed amendment increasing the
to $500, 900, and depicted the
especially unfortunate condition of the
people living along the Mississippi river in
Arkansas. The water was up to the highest
and would continue there for
sixty days longer, thus sweeping away the
last chance OF those people to secure sup
plies and shelter.
Mr.. JeffOrds, OF Mississippi, predicted
that the calamity which had spread over
the Mississippi-Rive Valley had not yet
and he did not consider even
100000 sufficient to render adequate re-
lief.
Mr.. Keller, OF Ohio, called attention to
the fact that the resolution made no new
but simply extended the
benefits Of the previous appropriation to
another class OF people. and made brief
argument in support OF the
power OF Congress to make such appro-
priations.
Mr.. Barksdale, of Mississippi, appealed
TO the House TO grant to the sufferers along
the banks Of the Mississippi the same meas
ure OF relief which it had accorded TO per-
sons rendered destitute by the overflow Of
the Ohio river.
The resolution was passed.
The House then, at 1:20, went into Com
mittee Of the Whole (Alr. Dorshelmer OF
New York in the chair on the bonded eX-
tension bill. The debate was continued
by MeSsrs. Pussy OF Iowa, Mccormick, j.
ID. TAYLOR, Brown Of Pennsylvania, War
ner, Worthington Of Illinois, Dunn, and
Cox OF North Carolina. The latter OPP
posed the measure as being merely a pro-
position for the loan OF money to distillers,
and argued in favor OF total abolition OF
internal taxation.
Mr.. Dunn made a severe attack on the
measure, which, he said, his OBJ
had proved to him was favored
by only three members OF the Ways and
Means COmmittee-MesSrs. Morrison,
Hurd, and Blackburn. He wished to know
by what CeSarian operation was this thing
taken untmely from that committee and
brought into the House?
The committee rose informally for the
purpose Of limiting the general debate.
Mr.. Blackburn moved that it be closed
in one hour and half tomorrow. Agreed
TO.
The committee having resumed its ses-
sion, it was addressed by Mr.. Hewitt, of
New York, in support of the bill, in
the consideration OF which he dismissed
all appeals to sympathy or passion. 1t
had been discussed, except in a few cases,
on the ground of charity on one side and
of morality on the other; but taxation
looked not to charity or morality. 1t
looked to certain economic principles
which had been settled by the experience
Of mankind and written on the pages OF the
historyof the human race. Taxation could
only fall on accumulated capital, on pro-
duction or consumption. There was no
other SPOT where the strong arm OF the