The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-03-03
XLIXth CONGRESS- FIRST SESSION.
SENATE.

NASHlNGION, NdICu q.
Among the petitions presented was one by
Mr.. Hoar from workingmen employed i'll
government workshops since the S-hour law
of 1868 was passed, praying for compensa-
tlon for over time, or a reference OF their
claims to some tribunal that may adjudicate
the question whether they ought to have
such compensation. Mr.. Hoar favored the
request of the petitioners.
The Senate then took up the education bill
and Mr.. Call addressed the Senate in opposl-
tion to Mr.. Allison'S amendment.
Mr.. salisbury opposed the bill whether
with or without the Allison amendment.
There was not only no constitutional author
itv for it. he said but not even the slightest
necessity for it. The Southern States were
amply able to educate all their illiterate..
amendment as It would give So to colored
children for every 81 going to white chill,
dren. 1t would destroy the bill and would
destroy the public schools of Virginia.
Mr.. Hampton said he was sincere friend
of the colored men and would be very sorry
to see the Allison amendment adopted.
Mr.. ingalls, had heard that no Democratic
Senator give any reason for The bill except
as being necessary to enable them to take
care of the colored illiterates in the South.
If this money were to be distributed w we
possible Who was to administer this fund
of $77OO0000? The Secretary of the In
terror. Who was the assistant attorney OF
the Department of the Interior? One Mr..
Zach Montgomery: What were his views
about common school education? Mr.. In
gals read many extracts from book entitled
"Drops from the poisoned fountain; facts
that are stronger than hctlon; by Zach
Montgomery of the California bar. Among
the abstracts were the following:
"We promise to prove that our boasted New
England public school system as now by law
established throughout the length and breadth OF
the American, republic is poisonous fountain
fraueht with the seeds or human misery ana
moral death. 1t is crime and pauper breeding
system system which being conceived In crlme
brought forth i'll crime and nurtured In crime
must if necessity propagate crime"
This bill, too, Mr.. ingalls, said, was for a
fund to be applied to -sectarian schools.
He then read from a speech delivered by the
same Zach Montgomery before the Roman
Catholic Sunday School teachers association
of California in 1878. Speaking of the tele-
graph, railroad and the newspaper the
pamphlet report says
They are means of spreading false rumors and
moral sentiments that corrupt the minds of good
Catholics in this land. Instead OF reading cor
rupting newspapers teach them (the childrenl the
truths of the church. ond that will save them from
the whirlpool of Professionalism and heresy in all
its forms.'' wish to warn you to abstain from
the Protestant theory of independence, making
up our minds for ourselves on matters of religion
are false as well as damnable in the extreme.
,The is no snch thing as personal freedom IN
1.-The Whole power lies with the successor of
Saint Peter, the holy Pho Nino and Holy Sea OF
Rome"
Mr.. Blair said that Zach Montgomery had
not yet been confirmed by the Senate. If
that person had been correctly reported Mr..
Blair hoped the Judiciary committee (of
which Mr. ingalls, was member) would pro-
tect the common schools against him. Mr..
Blair strongly opposed the Allison amend
ment which he said would be defeat OF the
bill
Mr.. Hoar said that Presidents Garfield
Grant, Hayes and Arthur, all Republican
Presidents, and the last three Republican
conventions had all favored policy of ex-
tending aid to the common school system of
the South
Mr.. Harrison rose to make some remarks
but yielded to Mr.. Allison.
Mr.. Platt wanted to adjourn.
Mr.. Blair wished the Senate to make ar
rangement for an hour tomorrow when
vote might be taken.
Mr. Edmunds would not consent to an ar
rangement that might result in preventing
him from making some remarks In favor OF
Mr.. Allison's amendment and stating his
reasons for voting against the bill II that
amendment should be rejected.
Mr. Allison defended his amendment. 1t
had been ON principle embodied in the litera-
ture of the question of education for the
South. Education of the coiored people had
been reported by all educators as an essen
tial feature of any bill of this character, and
all that had been said or could be said on the
subject showed that the precautions of this
amendment were necessary. MIR. Edmunds
said the amendment was clearly necessary
to secure fair play"
Mr.. Logan said he had himself introduced
three or four of these general education bills
and desired to make some remarks on this
bill. He submitted as amendments the sub
stance of the measures heretofore introduced
by him-one providing an appropriation of
$10,O0,0OO the first year; $17,50O,00O the sec
ond year: $40, 100000 the third year; SIS. 600,
600 the fourth year; SIG, 900, 900 the fifth year
$14,0O0,OO0 the sixth year; $l2,00O,000 the
seventh year; $1O,OOO.OOo eighth year; $18,-
100000 the ninth year; $6,000,000 the tenth
year; and when all the appropriations under
the act shall cease an amendment providing
special fund of $2,000,000 to aid in building
school houses in sparely populated districts
not more than 800 on any one house nor
more than one-half the cost of the school
house in any case.
Messrs. Dolph and Hoar also submitted
amendments which We're ordered printed, and
the Senate at D. m. adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Wise of Virginia, on behalf of the
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