The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-03-25
FoRTEEIGRTa CONGRESS.
senate Proceeding. Yesterday.

senator sherman. who has been designated
uuuer The rule by the Vice-President fol
that purpose.
The Chair laid before the Senate a com.
munication from the Acknowledgement
asking for an appropriation Of $4,000. &c
be applied to the defence OF the United
states In the case referred by Congress and
the Executive Departments TO the Court Of
/ Claims. These cases, the Attorney Genera
states, cover claims amounting to S6,500,.
/ 600, although the act under which the
cases have been referred was passed only
/ last year.
Mr.. Vance presented the views Of the
minority Of the Committee on Foreign
( Relations relative 10 the action and report
Of the committee on the subject Of the ex-
clusion Of American meats from foreign
countries.
The bill TO regulate salaries Of United
States district judges was taken up.
Mr.. Coke offered an amendment making
II unlawful Tor any relative OF a circuit or
district Judge OF the United States 10 hold
office in the courts with which such Judges
are connected. and making IT a INSIDE
meanor for a Judge 10 knowingly appoint
any OF his relatives 10 Office in his court.
The bill was discussed until O'Clock
8 II.
Blair's educational bin came up. In
course Of the debate which followed Mr..
Vance spoke in support Of the bill. The
colored people, he said, had been freed and
enfranchised by the National Government.
The southern >tates had lost so much. and
had been so bled by Republican carpet-bag
governments, that they had not been able
10 do rs much as they otherwise could
b,r a. H. II, r Al
pie vet those States had been held by
the public opinion of the North to
rs high a standard of advancement
in educational and other respects as
was expected Of States or people whose
civilization and society had not been dis
tuTbed for one hundred years. Not only
was this expected Of them, but the world
was made aware of it. On every occasion
the southern States had BEEN "investi-
gated" Now bill was brought in TO aid
those States in educating their cOlored
people, and the singular spectacle was pre-
sented OF opposition by gentlemen who
had been moving all the powers Of Con-
greSs in order that the sick calves Of Kan
SIS might be doctored. Some objection
might naturally have been expected from
the "Strict conStructionists, but il came
with a bad grace from the gentleman from
Kansas. MIR. Vance would not withhold
his sympathy from sick cattle; but would
not the gentlemen from Kansas extend their
Sympathies TO the illiterate: Asto the basis
Of distribution, Mr.. Vance thought there
was no proper basis but that Of illiteracy.
The population As awhole was no proper ba-
sis. Did senators wish 10 distribute money
among college professors or members OF
Congress? Ii should be distributed where
it was needed. But Mr.. Vance did not
expect the bill TO pass. He had long be-
lieved, and he now saw the confirmation
OF bis belief, that senators on the other side
OF the chamber were louder in professions
than in acts in behalf Of the colored
people, while the party which they
represented would send emissaries among
the colored people 10 band them to-
gether for political purposes and take
them 10 the polls. He had always thought
that when il came TO really do some
thing for those people there would be
failure; hence Dir. Vance was not diSap-
pointed. He had no doubt that the Senator
from Ohio (Mr. Sherman) attached more
value TO the negro rs an ignorant person
as fruitful source Of iDvestigation-than
he would attach 10 the negro as an intelh-
gent man and an intelligent voter. No
doubt be answered the purposes Of that
Senator better in ignorance than with in
telhgence.
Mr.. ingalls, congratulated Mr.. Vance on
the very adroit appeal be had addressed to
northern sentiment on this subject. He
had said that the white people Of North
Carolina were not asking. They were
willing TO accept 1t as a gratuity for the
benefit OF the coored people. The census
tables showed that the white illiteracy OF
North Carolina was SO per cent; hence
the gTatuity would be very largely TO the
whites as well as 10 the blacks. The blacks
Of that State, in Mr.. lngalls's opinion,
made much more commendable showing
in regard TO education than the whites.
The principal necessity for the bin, TO Mr..
Ingalls's mind, was TO be found In the
white illiteracy rather than the cOlored
illiteracy of the South. He read from the
census tables of 1880 to show the figures
OF white illiteracy. In Alabama they were
nearly - per cent. OF white Inhabitants;
in Arkansas. ~ per cent; in Florida, 90
per cent: in Georgia. 20 per cent; in
Kentucky, % per cent: in Louisiana, lS9
per cent; in Mississippi, l6 $40 per cent;
in North Carolina, 31s per cent. in South
Carolina. - $40 per cent; in Tennessee,
~ $40 per cent; in Texas, Is $40 per
cent; in Virginia, IS 2-10 per cent. How
could IL he said that this money was re-
auired because this nation freed the slaves
and gave them the right OF suffrage! The
fact was that the occasion for the eXpendl-
ture Of money grew out OF the position OF
the Caucasian and not OF the colored race.
Mr.. Vance. replying to Mr.. ingalls,. said
be (Vance) had said nothing about the war.
That was matter OF history. Mr.. Vance
denied that the money Of the bill was
needed by the white people for themselves.
They would be able to take care OF their
own education if they did not have so
large a colored population.
Mr. ingalls, said that in 1850, in the hal
cvon DAYS Of the old regime, there were
over eighty thousand whites in North
Carolina who could not read or write, and
that was a larger proportion OF illlteracy
than even at present.
Mr.. Vance said that North Carolina,
poor State, had paid into The Treasury
Twelve times as much money as Kansas,
rich one. North Carolina paid in in 1880
e. 37a. 22G, while Kansas paid only S239, I62.
MIR. Plumb inquired bow much OF the
North Carolina amount had been on dis
titled spirits.
Mr.. Vance replied: About one half OF it
on whiskey that had been drunk in prohi-
bition Kansas.
Mfr. Riddleberger wished the Senate
could get back to the question involved In
the bill. II made no difference to the chill
dren who were affected by the bill bow the
necessity for il arose. If it were right Tor
little children TO give their pennies to a
society without being asked
what their fathers politics were, then SEN
ators should eliminate politics from THIS
question and vote for or against the propo-
sltlon on IFS merits.
Mr.. Butler said.it was clear that tne