Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-02-19
The Census Of 1880 a Very Poor
Basis For Any Thing Out
This Way. Il
The Transc0ntinental Railroad Asso-
citation Finally Comes to a a5 ,
. Natural End. II
Brooks Red Eagle in the Happy
Hunting Grounds = News.
in Brief.
SENATE.

LY THE ENTIRE SESSION.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE bill provid-
ing for the allotment of lands in severalty
to the Indians was taken up, but at 2
o'clock it went over, and the consideration
Of the educational bill was resumed With
out further debate the senate agreed to the
amendment proposed by the educational
committee, striking out the special appro-
priation for school buildings. An amend
ment proposed by Mr.. Teller was also
agreed to without debate, providing that
none Of the money appropriated by the
bill should be paid to state until its leg
islature should accept the provisions Of the
bill. MI. ingalls, moved an amendment to
limit the moneys going to each state to it's
proportion of illterates between the ages
of 10 and H. He thought it proper to make
this limitation, because the object of the
appropriation should be to reach and rem
edy the ignorance that was remediable, not
that which was unremediable. There are
a number of illiterates who are over 81,
whose illiteracy it would be hopeless to at
tempt to remedy. .-.. ,
The amendment was rejected-yeas, II;
nays, %. ...,..z. -...
Mr.. Plumb moved to amend SO as to
make the legislature of state the deter
mining authority as to the application of
that portion of each states quota which the
bill requires to be applied to the education
of teachers. The amendment, somewhat.
modified, on the suggestion Of Mr.. Hoar,
was agreed to-yeas, 25; nays, 15. -.".
Mr. Maxey moved to amend by adding to
the appropriating clause of the bill, after the
words from the moneys in the treasury"
the words mot otherwise appropriated to
the current express of the government, in
Guiding interest on the public debt, the
amount provided by law for the sinking
fund, and the appropriation for pensions"
The amendment was rejected-yeas, TO-;
nays, 80. e-. "
Mr.. Butler inquired of Mr.. Blair as to a
certain clause of the bill whether it meant
that the states were commanded by it's pro-
visions to keep their common schools up to
the mark at which they shall have arrived.
on the the expiration of the eight years con-
templated by the bill.
Mr.. Blair did not so understand it.
MIR. Butler moved to strike out the phrase
which he maintained admitted of the con-
struction indicated, and it was struck out.
Mr.. ingalls, moved to strike out from the
provision relating to the territories the
word industrial" so as to make the bill
conform, he said, to the purpose Of the bill
as expressed in several other of it's sec
hot fcr 20 D,>Sc
Mr.. Call hoped industrial schools would
not be shut out from the benefits of the bill.
Industrial education, he said, was becom-
ing Of the utmost Importance, in view Of
the increasing development of the factory
system of labor. With well devised and
generally diffused system of industrial edu-
cation, factory! operatives would be prepared
to turn their hands to more than one pro-
cess of labor, and 30 would not be so much.
as now, at the mercy of their employers.
Mr.. Call said that at the proper time he
would move to apply "the industrial
school" provision to all the states and ter
ritOries. X, -.3 s..s
Mr.. Conger thought industrial schools of
great Importance. They would be Of great
benefit in Alaska. III. & .
Mr.. Dolph did not think the idea of the
bill was to make any arbitrary distinction
between common and industrial schools.
He did not. however, think Alaska COW
cred by the bill at all. s.&
Mr.. Teller said Alaska ought to be COW
cred by the bill, if it was not already coy
cred by it: but he saw no use in providing
for industrial education in the territories.
That sort of education was only needed in
crowded communities, and the amount, in
any event, going to the territories would
be extremely small; for example, during
the life time Of the bill eight years-Da-
kota would get only $4,000, and Wyoming
only $4,000. The territories, therefore,
had no interest in the bill. VI.
Mr.. Morgan thought there was one con
sideration alone that ought to send the bill
back to the committee. 1t was based on
the census of 1880, which showed a very
small population in the territories. Da-
kota might have an enormous population
within the next eight years, and its people
might be paying enormous taxes, yet the