St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-29
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Senate Devotes Another Day to
to the Educational Bill.
Senator's Lamar and George Speak in Its
Support.
The House Proceedings Confined to the
Private Calendar.
The Senate.

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ing an amendment to the constitution to
extend the suffrage women.
Senator Cockren said this was an action of
of the majority OF the committee. minor
| ity of the committee would hereafter present
| their views.
Senator Platte, from the committee on ter
ritories reported favorably the bill to author
ize the enumeration of the inhabitants of the
territory of Idaho, and the reapportionment
| of the same into council and representative
districts, ON the basis thereof. The joint
resolution and bill were placed on the calen-
dar.
Senator Plumb's resolution, offered yester-
day. calling on the secretary of the treasury
for information relating to the unpaid por
ton of the war tax of 1861, was agreed to.
| 1t is as follows
| Resoloed, That the secretary of the treasury
be directed to advise the senate what amount
of the war tax of 1861 is due and unpaid,
from what states, or from citizens of states
due; whether any portion of said tax, and
if so what portion, had been paid by with
holding money due any state or states from
the general government, and whether the
| rule adopted in withholding such money has
been applied alike to all states.
A resolution was offered by Senator Van
| wyck, and after verbal amendment by Sena-
| tor Garland, agreed to as follows:
| ReSotaed, That the secretary of the interior
| be directed to furnish the senate with copies
| of correspondence between the departments
| of justice and interior, as to the present
| efficacy of the statute of March 81, 1907, en-
| towering the president to direct marshalls
and employ such military force as may be
| necessary to remove certain persons and OBJ
| structions from the public domain.
H-1.f He'd
and the senate passed the bill authorizing the
secretary of the navy to issue proclamation
| offering reward of S25, 600, to be paid to
private parties who shall discover, rescue or
satisfactorily ascertain the fate Of the Greeley
expedition.
The senate passed the bill introduced by
| Senator Dolph, amending the revised statutes
| so as to authorize vessels to unload coal,
| salt, railroad iron and other like articles in
| bulk, under the superintendent Of customs
| officers at the expense OF the
parties interested at places to be designated
by the secretary of the treasury, with a collec-
ton district. Senator Dolph explained that
the permission sccorded by this bill had be-
come necessity to the commerce of Port
land, Oregon, San Francisco and other cities
! BY the law as heretofore existing, the goods
had to be discharged at port of entry and re-
shipped, even when needed for use across
the river. This bill permits a vessel to be
unloaded places other than port of entry,
provided the unloading be within
collection district and be designated
by the secretary of the treasury.
The Senate took up the education bill and
Senator Lamar addressed the senate Its
support He had no doubt of its constitution
atty. The educational scheme was in his
| mi ba irct cfn fol NV in
regard to the race question in the United States
and would have more decisive effect upon
that question, than the 13th 18th, and 18th,
amendments. Unless this measure is con-
sidered as he thought it should be consid-
| ered, "a logical sequence of those amendments.
! 1t was measure fraught with almost I'M
speakable consequences to the people OF the
| South. Apart from the question of the
money involved it would give to common
school education that impetus it
| had never before known. 1t would
stimulate the people to grapple with diff
Guilty in the presence of which they had
| stood appalled,. The war had overthrown all
pre-existing conditions, and schools and col
leges suffered with the rest. This magnani-
nous measure would infuse new hope into
| the people of the south; it would be a mani
festation of respect and affection for them,
| and would dispel whatever impression past
| events may have produced tending to show
| that this government stood in the attitude of
severity toward the south. The idea that the
amount was too large to be proftably applied,
| Senator Lamar said, was a mistaken one.
The south had school houses enough, teachers
| enough and ample material for making
teachers, because the south did not afford
the same variety of occupation as did the
| wanted
which to employ them. Senator Lamar would
very much regret if any of the suggested
amendments should be adopted, namely
that which provided that the money should
be administered by agents of the federal gov
eminent. 1t would give to the measure q
harshness unworthy of its great purpose, and
would change its whole aspect and character
| for it would, in certain sense
be re-enactment of the color line. The
adoption of such an amendment as he refer
| red to, would introduce an element of dis
cerd into the operation of the act, for there
would be conflicting authorities. The agen-
cies selected by the bill as it stood, were
agencies having the confidence of the people,
whereas any other agency would place the
administrator of the act in the hands of
strangers, responsible to no restraints of local
| public sentiment-men who would be apt to
be moved by political considerations: rather
than by the interests of education.
He was no optimist. He had no visions
of rapid strides in the education of the col
ored race; dense ignorance, even with this
measure had to be met, and whatever trouble
the work might entail, it was one that all
people, north or south, would take pleasure
in directing the work guiding that great
mass in its slow upward and onward path.
Senator Cullom would not vote for the bill
in its present shape, but thouSht it ought to
be in some respects amended. The educa-
ton Of the youth of the country belonged, he
said, to the separate states, and the only ex
euse for the general government inter
| fering was when a state could not, or
would not educate her children.
So far as his State QIlinois), was concerned,
she was perfectly able and willing to educate
all her children. He knew he spoke the
sentiment of his people when he said Hi
nos neither asked nor desired to receive
dollar of educational aid from the United
| States government. He would like to see the
appropriation confined to the Southern States
exclusively, and so adjusted as to begin with
only about Sc, COO, 900, and rise for few
years as the money could be proitably ap-
piled, and then diminish year by year as the
States themselves became able to carry on
the work. He would make the total appro-
priation $40, 000, 600 instead of S105, 900, 900.
Seator George favored the bill. AS to the
points made by some Democratic senators
that the bill was Objectionable because it pre-
scribed the branches to be taught the objec-
ton was not tenable, he said, because the
prescription was merely asserting that the
pyramid should stand on its base and not on
| lis apex. 1t required that the elementary and
| fundamental branches should be taught 1t
was simple requirement that not differential