St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-27
CONGRESSIONAL.
Both Houses Devote the Day Main
ly to Talk.
A Spat Between Hoar and Vance on
the Educational Bill.
The Bonded Whisky Bill Under Discussion
in the House,
The Senate.

| NOTInerQ JUDICIAL OlSIrlclS Ol leAds, dH'
attach part of Indian Territory to sucl
Districts.
The senate then took the bill reported
from the commission on Indian affairs pro
viding for allotment of lands in severalty t.
Indians on various reservations, and to ex
tend the protection of laws of the Slater
and territories over the Indians.
Senator Dolph moved an amendment to
that clause of the bill which provides for sales
of surplus lands on the reservation and pay
ments Of the proceeds to the tribe or its in
vestment for their benefit. Senator Dolph's
amendment provides that the principal O
all sums agreed to be paid by the United
States to the purchase price of any portion OF
the reservation shall be payable only to the
Indians or tribes from whom the purchase
was made, by express authority of congress:
after the expiration of twenty-five years
from the purchase of said land
| but the same shall, in the meantime, be
placed in the treasury of the United States tt
the credit of the tribe or tribes of Indians en-.
| titled thereto, and in the meantime and unit
| such principal sum shall be paid over to OF
| expended for the benefit of said Indians the
| United States shall pay interest annually on
said principal sums at the rate of five pei
cent. per annum, which sum shall be paid tc
the secretary of the interior for the use and
benefit of said Indian tribes, and shall be
used for the purpose of educating and pre-
pairing them for self-support, etc. Agreed
to.
An amendment offered by Senator Nor
gan was agreed to, to the effect that nothing
in the bill should be taken to affect the right
of the United States to grant the right of way
for railroads or other highways or telegraphs
through the land in question.
Senator Dawes offered an amendment,
which was modified by Senator Conger, and
agreed to, protecting the rights of religious
socities holding lands for missionary rur-
poses by authorizing the secretary of the in
terror to confirm to such society title to such
land not exceeding 100 acres in any ons
tract at such price as he may deem just.
After further debate the bill passed.
The bill reported by Senator Cockrell, from
the committee on military affairs, to author
ize the secretary of the treasury to cause to
be examined certain vouchers of the state of
Missouri for sums claimed due by the United
States to officers and men of the militia
forces of that state for aid in suppressing re-
bellion was passed.
The education bill was then taken up.
Senator Vance said the whole country for
many years had been taxed 10 support Mas
sachusetts, and North Carolina was COMPEL
ed to contribute to that support. Referring
to remark by Senator Hoar, Senator Vance
said it was a constant source of modification
to him to hear senators taunt his state with
illiteracy, but it made the modification more
humiliating to him to hear the taunt from a
representative of Tewksbury, the representa-
tive of state that had sacrificed every prin
ciple for gain; that was more responsible for
slavery than any other state; that was the
nursing mother of all the horrors of the
middle passage. When slavery, was
found not to pay in MASSACHUSETTS,,
Senator Vance said, the people OF
that state sold their slaves to the south for a
consideration, and then thanked God and
sang the long meter doxology through their
noses, that they were not responsible any
longer for the sin of slavery.
Senator Dolph concurred in the main with
the purpose of the pending bill, though not with
its details. All the northern, western and
pacific states could educate their own child
rem. If the people Of the southern states
would voluntarily tax themselves as much as
the people of Oregon, Portland, had done,
they would be able to give all their people as
good an education as majority of the mem
beers of the United States senate had received
in their childhood.
Senator Hoar did not wish to follow the
Senator from North Carolina, (Vance) into
that province, which with other senators, he
seemed to have monopoly of raking up old
comicalities that would not even sell at a
penny a piece when fresh for the sake of
making up speech, but Senator Hoar ought
after Senator Vance's speech, call attention
to the precise attitude in which Senator Vance
put the community (which he represented
here. The sum which Massachusetts would
receive under the present bill, was only
5000, 900, while North Carolina would get
over 81, 100000. He did not say this by way
of boast. He would not have the bad taste to
accompanying an act of liberality with a
boast. Senator Hoar read from Senator
Vance's speech few days ago, in which ref
erence was made to the investigations by
congress, and to carpet-bag government and
in which Vance had said that If the states OF
the south would help themselves if the north
would take their hands off the south. That
he had always had his doubts about 4he Re-
Publican party wanting to do anything sub
stantial for the blacks, and so was not disap-
pointed now when he believed this bill would
not pass. Senator Hoar wondered whether
there was another senator from the south
who was willing to meet so generous prop
osition as this bill made, with such a slap in
the face as thus given by the gentle
man from North Carolina.
Senator Jonas denied most emphaticauy,
as baseless and calumnious, any charge that
the people of the south had any prejudice
against the colored people. ''You sympa
thise," said Jonas, with their ignorance and
poverty, but they are our fellow citizens. We
meet them every day of our life. They are
our neighbors. They parade the streets OF
our cities; they live in our villages; they
cultivate our fields; they mix with our fam
lilies; they mix with our children; they vote
at the polls, and to large extent control oul
eiections.n
Senator Harrison inquired whether the
senator meant to imply the colored voters
controlled the elections in his section.
Senator Jonas replied, they did, whenever
they had the numerical right to control them.
They controlled them, in some instances, in
the interest of the Democratic party, but they
voted, and voted freely and fairly. Jonas
supposed, however, that the senator from
Indiana would not consider they voted freely
| if they voted for the Democratic party.
Senator Harrison said, the senator did him
| injustice. He had but one desire and thai
was, to see everywhere throughout the entire
country, that black men and white men
should freely vote and nave their votes fairly
| counted.
Senator Jonas said, he shook hands will
the gentleman on that, but he wanted t.
! give the voters the benefit of education. HI
hoped the time would come, when every
young man, woman and child in the Soutf
| could be educated by their own states, but i
| they were to be educated now, aid would bt
necessary. Jonas repealed, in the strongest
terms the insinuaton which had been made,
that the people OF the South, or at least thai
portion he in part represented, would bt
faitbless to this trust if confded to them
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