The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-03-29
FoRTK-EIGHTH CONGRESS
senate ProceeaIns. Yn.,erdar.

WASHINGTON. March %, 1851
On motion OF Mr.. Hale the Senate agreed
tnat when 1t adjourn to-day il be to Mon
day next.
Mr.. Palmer, from the Committee on
Woman's Suffrage, reported favorably a
lolnt resolution proposing an amendment
TO the Constitution TO extend the right OF
suffrage to women.
Mr.. Cockrell said this was the action OF
the majority OF the committee. The minori-
ty Of the committee would hereafter pre-
sent their views. The resolution was placed
on the calendar.
Mr.. Plumb's resolution, offered yester-
day, calling on the Secretary OF the Trea-
sury for information relating to the unpaid
portion OF the war tax Of 1861, was agreed
TO.
The Senate read three times and passed
the bill authorizing the Secretary OF the
Navy to issue proclamation offering re-
ward OF $4,000 to be paid or distributed
to any private ship or person rescuing
Lieutenant Greely's party.
Sir. Brown, Of Georgia, introduced n bill
10 require the payment in cash of $685.
55O.42 appropriated for said State by an act
to refund TO the State Of Georgia certain
money expended by said State for the COM
mon defence in l777, approved March 3,
1883.
In introducing the bill Mr.. Brown said ::
a bill was passed last year and received
the Presidents signature. but the Comp
troller OF the Treasury had decided that
the money could not be paid, as the direct
war-taX stood charged TO the State. This
bill was to direct that the VIII of Congress
should be executed. notwithstanding the
nf of Of H.
The bill was referred to the Commit
tee on Claims. Mr.. Morgan said that
several southern States were interest
ed in the question involved. Owing
TO the rulings of the Department Off
GERS he hoped the committee, when
acting on it, would report a general bill TO
cover the whole subject. He did not think
that the appropriations for the benefit OF
State should be met by decisions OF officers
OF the Treasury charging up that tax
against States. Whatever was done in the
State of Georgia should apply to all the
southern States. Congress had not re-
quired them TO pay that tax.
The educational aid bill came up, and
Mr.. Lamar addressed the Senate in sup
port Of it. He had given serious consid-
Grafton, he said, to the constitutional cues
ton involved, and had no doubt Of its con-
stitutionality. Any other Interpretation
OF it would, in his opinion, be reversing the
settled policy Of the Government. He had
watched with intense interest and sohcitude
the progress OF this educational scheme
since its first appearance in another form
in the other house OF Congress. In his
opinion 1t was the first step taken by Con-
gresS in regard TO the race question in the
MI oil 4
ciSiye effect upon that question than the
thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amend
ments, unless this measure was TO be con-
sidered, as Mr.. Lamar thought it should be
considered, the logical sequence of those
amendments. 1t was a measure fraught
with almost unspeakable consequences to
the people OF the South. Apart from the
question OF the money involved, it would
give TO the common school eduction in
that section an impetus that it had never
before known.
Mr.. George made strong and elaborate
argument in favor Of the cOnStitutOnality
OF the bill, basing it upon the general-wel-
fare clause. He took up Seridtin and
analysed the objections that had been made
to the measure, and whether looking, he
said, at the abstract principle involved or
at the history of the United States and pre-
cedents afforded for this action Of Con-
gress, he could find no reason for opposing
it, but, on the contrary, every reason for
iavoring it. As to the point made by some
Democratic senators that the bill was
Objectionable because it prescribed the
branches TO be taught, the objection was
not tenable, he said, because the prescrip-
ton was merely asserting that the pyramid
should stand on its base, and not on its
apex. Ii required that elementary and
fundamental branches should be taught.
Ii was simple requirement that not diff
ferential calculus or metaphysics, but
reading. writing, and arithmetic, should
be taught.
On the conclusion OF Mr.. Georges re-
marks a motion to adjourn was made,
which Mr.. Blair opposed, and, by calling
the yeas and nays, defeated, only to be dis
appointed, however, by the success of
motion Immediately made to 90 into eX-
ecutiye session. He expressed the wish
that the session might be prolonged in or
der that the debate might progress as far
as possible, as he did not wish the friends
of the measure to be put in position OF
seeming to have wasted public time, yet a
vote would soon be necessary.
Executive session. Adjourned to Mon
day.
House Of Representatives.
Mr.. Anderson, Of Kansas, introduced 4
resolution for the final adjourn
ment of Congress at II O'Clock on the I'd
OF June. 1884. Referred to Committee on
Ways and Means.
After the transaction OF some important
business the House proceed
ed TO the consideration OF private bills.
Mr.. Tucker, Of Virginia, reported adj
versely from the Committee on Judiciary
the bill for the relief Of William McGarra-
han. Laid on the table.
The House at 1:15 O'Clock went into Com
mittee Of the Whole on the private caen-
dar. Two hours were consumed in the dis
cussion OF the bill for the relief OF certain
soldiers Of the late war from the charge OF
and it was finally laid over with
out action.
At 4:10 O'Clock the committee rose and
the House passed a number OF private re-
lief bills.
Mr.. Randall moved that when the House
adjourn it be TO meet on Monday next.
About twenty members were opposed
to this motion, and they manifested their
opposition by raising the point OF no quo
rum.
Ii was only by the casting Of the Speak
er's vote that the motion was finally car
ried.
The House then took a recess until 1880
O'Clock, the evening session to be for the
OF private bills.
EVENING SESSION.
The House in the evening session passed
twenty-five pension bills, and ADJOURNED
to Monday.
Affairs I'm Egypt.
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