St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-10
WASHINGTON.
The Prospects for the Ratifica-
ton Of the Mexican
Treaty.
How Secretary Lincoln Slighted the
COlored Man and Brother.
The So-Called Educational Schemes to De-
plete the Treasury.
Especial Telegram to the Globel

Especial Telegram to the Globel
WASHINGTON, March 9.-Under the new
rule awarding the second and fourth Mondays
in each month for consideration of business
relating to District of Columbia affairs. The
house will consider various important bills
tomorrow reported from the District Of Col
umbia committee.
THE MEXICAN TREATY.
Considerable speculation is under way re
garding the ratification of the Mexican recip
rocity treaty, which will be taken up to NOR
row in executive session of the senate and
considered from day to day until conclusion
shall be reached. The advocates of the treaty
express themselves as confident of obtaining
the necessary two-thirds vote, while its opon-
ents, under the lead of Senator Gibson, of
louisiana, believe the treaty will be reject
ed. The sugar growing interests Of the
south are making all possible efforts to de-
feat the treaty, insisting that its ratification
will ruin them and inaugurate a system of
peonage in Mexico far worse than African
slavery.
L1ON1Z1NG IRVING.
No actor was ever so entertained in Wash
ington as Mr.. Irving has been. He attended
supper at the Metropolitan club on We'd
nesday evening, a breakfast given by Mr..
Bayard on Thursday, gave supper to Mr..
Blaine and party OF friends on Thursday
evening after the play, was the guest of Mr..
Vim. Walter Phelps on Friday evening,
attended supper given to him by Mr.. DoR
heimer on Friday evening, and last night
was the presidents guest. Miss
Terry has received more social
attention here than in any other American
city. She was the guest of Miss Risley Sew
ard, who gave some luncheon parties in her
honor.
CoLoRED GRIEVANCE.
The Capaal SAYS: ''The colored race is
agitated in its mind because Secretary Lin
coin has failed 10 appoint colored minister
from Maryland to be a regimental chaplain
in the army. preacher hom Prince
Georges county took the trouble to
get recommended by nearly all the Repub-
ncan politicians in Maryland, and
expected that Mr.. Lincoln could give him
the place, but the secretary preferred white
an. l really think it would have been a
good move politically for him to have given
the colored brother q chance, but l suppose
the feeling of the officers against such ali ap-
pontment was too strong to be overcome.
The colored brother who told me about the
case, however, seemed to think that Robert
Aincoln's political future was ruined by his
action in the matter.''
THE ALLEGED EDUCATIONAL BILL.
Wednesday next the order of the day in
the senate is the Fitz John Porter bil, but
subject to that Senator Blair's educational
bill has been set down for the 18th. THIS
bill appropriates for common school educa-
ton $120, 100000, to be expended in fifteen
years, SIS, 900 the first year, $14, 600, 900
the next year and so on down to nothing.
This sum is to be divided annually among
the states and territories in the ratio of
the number of persons in each state
who are over the age of ten years, and can
not read and write. Industrial education for
both sexes included with the common Eng
lish branches, as objects of assistance, and
the states receiving this aid must give free
education without distinction Of race, except
be provided. States must expend during the
first five years at least one-third as much
from their own funds as they receive from
the government, and during the
next five years they must expend of their
own funds an amount equal to that received
from the general government, not exceeding
One-tenth of the government bounty lay be
spent for normal schools, and none of the
governments money is to be spent for build
ings. If in any state the illiterate popula-
ton over ten years old does not exceed per
cent of the total population, it may spend its
dividend in any way it pleases, provided it
spends it for the benefit of the common
schools. By misapplication of the funds
state may lose its right to its share. The bill
of Mr.. Willis, of Kentucky, which has been
reported by the house committee on educa-
ton, only undertakes to appropriate s55, ,O00,-
900 in ten years, beginning with $40, 900, 900
and diminishing s1,OOo,OOO annually. The
apportionment is to be made according to
illiteracy, and is to be paid to state officers,
''it being the intention of this act to
leave to each state the full control
and disbursement of said fund
according to its own educational system and
under its laws, subject only to the conditions
and provisions of this act'' After the first
year no state is to receive more money from
the federal government than it expended on
schools from its own funds in the previous
year. To be entitled to any of this money
state must provide common school education
for three months at least in each year, to
all of its children irrespective of
color, though the races may have
separate schools. None of the federal money
shall be spent for buildings or superinten-
dence, and not over five per cent for normal
schools, and in case of misapplication of
funds state shall get no more.
More than dozen other bills of this kind
have BEEN introduced at this session. Sen
ator Logan's provides for the annual appro-
priation of $50, ,00O, 600 to be derived from the
internal revenue Ghis is slight
change from the original plan), to be
divided among the states according to their
total population; but in order to get any of
the money state must make attendance on
a school for at least six months in each year
obligatory ON all children between the ages
of six and twelve years.
The late Mr.. Mackey, of South Carolina,
introduced bill to appropriate $40, ZOO, 900
year for five years for school purposes, the
money to be divided according to illiteracy.
Mr.. Perkins, of Kansas, introduced bill
almost exactly like Senator Logan's except
that the amount he names is
Z $50, 900, 900. Mr.. York, of North Carolina,
proposes to divide all the surplus money now
: in the treasury, and all revenue from spirits
and tobacco among the states according to