The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-05
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
The Debate on MIR. Blair's Education Bill
Continued.

Continued.
WASHINGTON. April 4-NIr Vest reported
bill favorably, from the committee on Terrific
ries, to authorize the appointment of a commits
sion by the President to run and mark the
boundary line between that portion of the In
dian Territory and Texas, in connection with a
similar commission to be appointed by the State
of Texas Placed on the calendar.
Mr.. Logan presented petition from the Chi
cago Board of Trade protesting against the re-
peal of the present patent laws.
Bills were introduced and referred as follows:
By Mr. Plumb: To grant the right of way
over public lands to the Utah & Northern Rail
way Company
BY Mr. Lapham: To authorize the appoint
ment and retirement of wounded and disabled
officers of the regular army, honorably dis
charged under the act of July 10, 1870.
Mr.. Jonas submitted joint resolution, which.
was referred to the committee on improvement
of the Mississippi, making appropriation of
800, 900 for the protection of existing levees on
the lower Mississippi.
The education bill was then taken up and Mr.
Bayard addressed the Senate. He said this
measure was proposition accompanied with a
condition, that condition being that in proper
tion to the Ignorance existing in the States
money was to be expended under that condi-
ton the money was to be expended by the gen
erral government. He knew the South, he said;
he had given thought TO the condition of its peo-
pie; had observed their struggles after the war.
He had observed the flower of their manhood
slain, their strong men and warriors crippled.
the desolatiOn of their homes, upheaval Of their
social system, but there was one cause more de-
vastating than all others. That was that after
the Dlowshare of desoation had done its work,
and at a moment when every self governing
agency that law could supply was coming INTO
operation, the party in control of the general
gov ernment adopted an unhappy policy inter
dieting every vestige of self-government in the
1ntl tHaroc abc Dl11tal t,,,ibi i1ota1
Mr.. Bayard did not cite this for purposes of
reproach, but merely as part of history. The
traditions of the South, he continued, were the
common glory of the country. The name of
Washington would ever be the watchword of
liberty and the password to every American
heart. He believed the position of the men and
women of the South, in their adversely since the
war, would be regarded by history as that which
established their highest claim to the respectand
affection of all the good people. When great
military leader of the South had surrendered all
save honor, the counsel that he gave was worthy
of him. Gentlemen" said he ''we must now
cultivate our virtue" These words had sunk
into the minds and hearts Of lis coun-
trymen. The bill, in Mr.. Bayards opinion,
invaded the harmony of political
system. He then entered on an elaborate argu-
ment to show the unconstitutonalitY of the bin.
The concession to Congress of the power as
sumed in this educational measure would be to
start the country a course which must end in
the whitening of the States.
MIR. Gibson sad the senator from Delaware
(Bayard), had referred to occurrences at Cincin-
natl as teaching lesson to senators, and re-
quiring them to be more faithful in observances
of the guarantees of the constitution. Mr.. Glib
son read by the light of the same burning court
house, another lesson, namely the Importance,
nay, the necessity of educating all people, in
order that they may understand how to govern
themselves, that they may understand not only
the duties, but responsibilities of self govern
ment. While such incidents showed the dangers
of ignorance in one part of the country, what
was the condition in another A
vast number of ignorant men en-
franchised without preparation, were
arrayed in an almost solid mass in one political
party, while the intelligence, character and vir
tue of the people were arrayed in the other
This condition of things did not permit the con
sideration of any of those measures with which
practical craftsmanship should deal The order
of things prevailing in the South was the result
of apprehensions of the white people that if
those State governments be turned over to the
emancipated slaves, they would pervert the
power of taxation, and that result would be such
as had overtaken San Domingo and would
danger the Anglo-Saxon civilization of the
South. Mr.. Gibson then made constitutional
argument in favor of the bill.
Mr. Morgan spoke against the bill.
Mr. Butler will propose the following amend
ment to the bill when in ORDER
The money to be provided for in this bill shall be
raised by direct tax to be levied annually upon each Of