Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-24

BuenOs Ayres-How the President
VIII Pass Christmas-Speaker Carlisle
at Work on the Committee Ltsts-A
Delesation OF the Labor Unions Visit
Speaker CarIisle-The Education Bills,
WASHINGTON, Dec. %.
1t said at the White House that there ia no
truth in the report printed in New York that
Collector Heddin had been removed and that
Hubert o. Thompson appointed his sue.
cessor.
1t is said that the President will sign the
bill granting the pension to Mrs. Grant in
time for that measure to become a law be-
fore Christmas day.
The President will spend Christmas day
quietly at the White House and will have no
company but will eat Christmas dinner with
Miss Cleveland
AdJutant General Drum today received a
telegram from Gen. Crook confirming the
press account of the ambuscading of Lieut..
Fountains force by Indians.
The additional force of experts employ ed
by the court of Alabama claims are now well
advanced 10 the revision of the second list of
judgments. embracing all cases in which
Judgments have been modified on rehearng,
and when the court meets again in public
session next Monday those lists will be ready
for the court to certify to the secretary of
state for payment. The awards in the Sec
ond class or war premium cases foot up to a
fraction over Sl0,500,000 and are divided
among l 300 claimants, who will probably
receive little over so cents on the dollar of
the amount awarded without interest. The
existing law provides that the powers of the
clerk OF the court shall be extended for a
period not exceeding four months after the
termination of the existence of the court for
the purpose Of closing up the business of his
office and depositing the records in the office
Of the secretary of state. The bill intro
duced by Senator Frye, and now pending, in
creases this time 10 six months. The amount
which it is proposed to retain out of the fund
for that purpose is Sl5,000 this to include
rent of court room, clerical hire and all other
expenses. The records are so bulky that es
Inmates obtained from competent persons
place the cost of carriage alone at $3.50. All
these records have to be indexed and print
ed list prepared of the judgments rendered.
Scores of dispatches have been received BY
the secretary of state from Minister Thomas
Osborne, at Buenos Ayres, the last of which
is dated Oct. l6, 1885. 1t describes the in
teresting episode in the nature of the struggle
between church and state in Argentine Re-
public for the control of normal schools, a
struggle which soon became a dominant issue
in national politics and absorbed much OF the
attention of the government and peO-
pie. In normal schools of that re-
public, established and supported by
the national government, many Protestant
teachers, mostly ladies from the United
States. are employed. On the 25th of April,
1885, DR.. Clara, Catholic ecclesiastic acting
bishop at Cordova. issued a pastoral letter
prohibiting among other things the sending of
Catholic children to schools where Protestant
teachers are employed. The national gov
ernment considering it an act of disrespect
and insubordination took the matter up and
after an exchange of several notes between
the minister of education, the governor of
Cordova and DIR. Clara referred it to the at
torney general for his opinion. The attorney
general in long report giving a full review
of the relations of the state and church
gives it as his opinion that the government
which confirmed church nominations could
discipline and dismiss President Romeo, ac-
cepted this as sound doctrine and issued a
decree dlsmissing DR.. Clara. DR.. Clara re-
fused to accept dismissal, and continued to
exercise the functions of his priestly office
He even issued second pastoral, in which
he asserted that it was his duty to
obey his instructions from Rome rather
than the laws of the national govern
ment. The people are now divided into
two parties-clerical and ant-clerical.
Congress passed a bill which has been intro
duced at the previous session, providing that
in the schools of the national capitol there
should be no sectarian test or teaching. In
the discussion of the budget of the minister
of education and worship, hot debate took
place in the section relating to the suppress
sion of seminaries for the education of priests,
and Minister De Wild, who took part in the
discussion, made it known that the President,
by Withholding the supplies, was determined
to press the question to point of separation
Of church and state. DR.. Maltera, an apos-
tolic delegate, mathematical the Normal
School at Cordova, of which Miss Clara Arm
strong. an American lady and protestant, was
directress, and having been requested by Miss
Armstrong to remove anathema, consented
on the condition that she should secure GER
tam pledges from the minister of worship.
This she attempted to do but was sharply
reprimanded by the minister, who told her
that the government hired her to teach sci
ences and DR.. Maltera had no right to interfere.
The minister called on DR.. Maltera for ex.
PLANTATION of his interference with the laws
and authorities of the country and as the ex.
plantations were not made the minister sent
the apostolic delegate his passports and re-
quired him to leave the country within "a
hours. The requirement was complied with.
The secular press charged DR.. Maltera with
being the instigator of all the trouble. 81,
is quite probable" says Osborne in his last
dispatch, THAT the President sent IL mes.
sage asking Congress to approve the call for
convention to amend the constitution in
order to relieve the State from the church
| One of the early incidents of the struggle
was the procession of more than 1000 ladies
of the first families of Buenos Ayres which
marched to the Senate and presented q pc.
tition, signed exclusively by women, pray.
ing the rejection of the pending bill already
passed by the lower House which prohibited
the touching of religious dogmas in common
schools. vote was Immediately taken and
the bill rejected by one vote.
Speaker Carlisle will remain in Washing
ton during the recess of Congress and devote
the time to the preparation of the committee
list. The list will not be made public till
officially announced IN the House, which will
be on the day of the reassembling of Con
gress.
delegation of representatives of variou.
labor unions of this city called on Speaker
Carlisle tonight and presented the resolutions
adopted by the labor Congress which me-
here few weeks ago, urging the appoint.
menl of Foran of Ohio to the chairmanshil
of the House committee on labor. The del.
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