Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-28
AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL
THE WHISKY BILL DEFEATED
By 1O2 VOTES.

Long Speeches from Opposite Stand
| points by Messrs. Randall and Black
burn, in which the Latter Touches up
the Monopolistic Tende ncies of the
Former-The Trade Dollar Bill now
before the HOuse-A Limitless Out
/ pouring of Words on the Blair Bill.
WASHINGTON, March 27.-In the Sem
ate to-day, Mr.. Miller, of California, re-
| ported favorably from the Committee on
! Naval Affairs, with amendments, the
/ joint resolution authorizing the Secretary
/ of the Navy to offer a reward of $4,000
for rescuingsor ascertaining the fate of
Lieut.. Greely and party.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Mitchell
and agreed to directing the Committee on
| the Library to inquire into the expediency
/ of printing the official letters and papers
/ of the late President James MunrOe. In
Offering the resolution Mr.. Mitchell re-
/ ferred to the great historical Importance
of the papers.
GEORGIA TO BE REIMBURSED.
The Senate had read three times and
/ then passed the bill to repay the State of
| Georgia so, ,567 for money advanced by
/ said State for the defense of her frontiers
/
not heretofore repaid. From this amount
/ the bill as passed requests that there shall
| be deducted any debt which may be due
/ by the State Of Georgia to the United
/ states, and ''debt' not being intended to
| include any direct tax not assumed by
| said State. This qualification as to the
/ word ''debt' was added on motion of Mr..
| Brown, who said that as Congress had
| not required any of the other Southern
{ fn 41,r,rr 90 l., 4
/ suppose it was intended to include any
/ thing Of that sort in the word ''debt" in
/ this bill. If the United States should re-
/ quire the Southern States to pay that the
| State OF Gorgia would pay her share of
! the tax, but this transaction should be
! settled by itself.
! Mr.. Morgan said that there was money
! due to the State Of Alabama from the pro-
| ceeds Of public lands, but that the State
/ could not get it because the Secretary of
| the Treasury held it as credit against
! the war tax because some Of his prede-
| cessors had done so. The rule followed in
! that department was that of stare declSis,
and once decision had been come to
there was no way Of changing it.
THE EDUCATIONAL BILL.
! The hour of o'clock arriving the Chair
! laid before the Senate the educational bill.
| Before taking it up Mr.. Plumb offered and
| ton OF the following resolution:
| ResoIoed, 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 what States
| due; whether any portion OF sad tax, and, IL
/ so, what portion. has been paid by withhold
| ing moneys due TO any State States for the
| general government, and whether the rule
/ adopted in Withholding such money has been
| applied alike TO all States.
| Mr. Rlair Objected tn ifs nrnsant con
! sideratiOn, and the resolution went over
under the rule.
Consideration of the educational bill
! was then resumed. Mr.. Hampton ad-
! dressed the Senate i'll favor of the bill.
DIFFERING WITH MIR. BUTLER.
1t was with sincere regret, he said, that
| he found himself unable to agree with his
| colleague Mr.. Butler) in regard to mat
! ter Of so much Importance to the interests
Of their State as the measure now before
| the Senate. He most fully agreed with
all that his colleague had SAID of the pluck
| and energy of South Carolina, of her re-
cuporatiYe powers, of her earnest efforts
| in the cause of education, and of the great
! results which she had achieved under the
most disheartening conditions. His col
| league could utter no expressions about
South Carolina too laudatOry to find full
| echo in his Mr.. HamptOn's) heart. No
he had OF the heroic courage,
sublime fortitude, silent patience and
| untlinching adherence to right which his
State had manifested during the time
| when bad men were throttling her to
| death; but she had secured her place
again, where she had once been, among the
| great sisterhOOd of free and sovereign
States. Knowing and appreciating all
this he sympathiZed fully with the ring
| ing words in which his colleague had re-
| counted the efforts of his State in the
| cause of education. Mr.. Hampton pro-
ceeded to add to the recitals of MIR. Butler
! with respect to the educational achieve
| ments of South Carolina. He showed that
| the administration of the State Govern
ment cost $24O,0O0 a year, while there was
! expended for public schools and charita-
| BILE institutions 100000 He animadVerted
with great severity on the carpet-bag re-
| gime in South Carolina, characteriZing it
as period when fraud, corruption, vice
and crime ran riot throughout the State.
| The public schools of the State, he said.
! cost more than twice as much as the adj
ministratiOn of the State government, and
those schools, maintained at so much
cost, were open to all alike, no distinction
being made on account of race or color
| Might he not ask, what State could make
a better showing than South Carolina un-
der difficulties that might well have ap-
palled the NOSE sanguine and courageous
CHARLESTON's EXAMPLE.
AS an instance of magnificent municipal
| achievement Mr.. Hampton cited Charles
ton, which had spent on its schools one
| third more than the prosperous and class
ical city of Boston, and did this while
pressed down with a debt of $4,000, 600.
But after all this was told and after hear
ing all the facts which had been so ably
and eloquently presented by his distin-
/ guished colleague, he Mr.. Hampton had
been obliged to come to the conclusion di-
rectlv opposite of that reached by his col
| league on the pending bill. He had no
doubt that there were 250,0 900 children be-
tween the ages of ten and sixteen in the
State requiring education, and this could
not be given to them at less cost than five
| dollars per capita annually. This would
| involve an expenditure of 81, ,2j0,000. The
amount thus far spent on schools had
! been 100000 annually. How was the
/ State to raise the increased sum in her
present exhausted condition? In the face
of all the facts the people of South Caro-
lima were authorized to ask aid of the gen.
eral government in behalf Of those whom
the government made citizens and adopted
as it's wards.
NOT AFRAID OF UNCONSTITUTIONALTT
Important as Mr.. Hampton deemed this
matter for the preservation of good gov
| ernment throughout the whole country,
| he would not advocate this or any other
measure that in his judgment violated the
constitution of the United States. Like
his colleague, he Mr.. Hampton had been
trained in the school of strict cOnstruc-
tion, and had never learned to look he
yond it. He could not, however, see that
the measure under consideration was
more open to objection on constitutional
grounds than was the measure introduced
at the previous session by his friend and
colleague, and he did not believe that so
able a constitutional lawyer as his col
league would introduce or advocate a
measure violatiye of the great charter of
our liberties. " hen that measure had been
introduced, Mr.. Hampton had felt him
self on safe ground in following the lead
of his colleague in invoking the aid of the
Federal Government for the purposes
of education in his State. Mr..
Hampton felt compelled to occupy
the same ground now, for the most care
full and serious reflection had brought
him to the conclusion that the greatest
danger that threatened the permanency
Of our institutions came from the fright
ful prevalence of illiteracy.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CHILDREN.
Those to whom the blessings of educa-
ton had unfortunately been denied were
potent for evil, and, in Mr.. Hampton's
opinion, no government would discharge
its duty to its citizens that did not secure
them an education. In order that the
destinies of this grand republic should be
properly directed we should see to it that
the ignorant and illiterate among
our population are prepared properly
! TO assume the grave responsibilities that