The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-19
emphatically upon this point. There
is no danger that he will be misunder-
stood"
CONGRESSIONAL.
senate.

was referred to the committee on foreign
| relations.
| Also, messages from the president relat.
| ing 10 the payment of claims of The CherO-
| kee Indians and the sale of a tract OF land
| belonging to the Sac and Fox Indians.
| They were referred to the committee on
| Indian affairs.
Senator. Frye presented q petition from
| citizens OF New Jersey praying for legisla-
lion for the legal protection Of young girls.
| The petition IS on printed blank with the
words New Jersey written in the body
| OF the print, urges congress to provide ex-
emplary penalties for seduction, with or
| without promise OF marriage, and for the
defilement OF the persons of girls with or
without consent, under the age of at least
IL years, in the District OF Columbia,
and in all other localities under the juris-
diction of congress. The petition was re-
ferred TO the committee on the District OF
Columbia.
Mr.. Beck offered resolution which was
agreed to, calling on the Secretary of the
Treasury for Information rs to how much,
IL any, the actual payments and purchases
of the principal OF tAe actual debt since
July /, 1917 have been in excess of the re-
QuirementS of The law regulating the sink
ing fund, and how, the existing laws can be
carried out in relation to said fund from
now until the $500 0,000 of Az per cent
bonds mature. Mr.. Beck SAID that he had
positive information on this subject up to
1871, and he wanted later information.
MARCH 4.-Thc debats of the Blair edu-
cation bill was cOntlnu Ell in the senate to-
day. Senator Logan N wed his amend
ment providing for graduated appropria-
tionS and supported ii with arguments, but
it was rejected By vote of 80 to -. lie
then moved his amendment providing for
an appropriation OF 1900, 900 to be used in
erecting SclO0l-houses IN sparSely inhabited
districts, and after debate increased the
limit of expenditure under the amendment
from 500 to $780, in which shape the
amendment was adopted.
During the debate on this amendment
Senator Van Wyck declared that the vot-
ing OF the colored people of the south was
nauSeating 10 the whites, and asked Sena-
tor Hampton Is. c. if the southern whites
would be any moro satisfied with negro
suffrage If the blacks were educated. Sem
| atOr Hampton said, i'll reply, thnt he HIM
self WIS not subject TO enator Van Wycll's
! criticism, rs he could claim that he was the
first man in the south after the war, and he
| believed the first In Amerlca. that proposed
| to give the negro The right to vote, and did
| that Immediately after thew Senator
! Van Wyck said that he was glad to hear it.
MARCH 5.--The Senate to-day, after
| some debate passed Blair's Educational bill
! by q vote of 36 yeas TO IL nays.
The bill, as it passed the Senate, provides
for eight years after lis passage there shall!
be annually appropriated from the Treasu-
| ry the following sums III aid of common
| euuClIlOI Ill lut oIilcS UUu ltTElJOT-
| les, and District of Columbia and Alaska:
The first S1,000.C00; the second, S10,00O,G00;
| the third year, S15, 600, %; the fourth year,
$1S.0C000J; the fifth year, $1,000 600; the
sixth year, S9,00),00J; the seventh, $1,000
| 000: and the eighth year So, COO 600; in all,
appropriation Of go, 0000 900 to aid in the cree
| ton OF school houses in Sparsely settled dis
tricts, making the total S79,O00,0O0. The
money is given to the several states and
territories in that proportion which the
| Whole number OF persons i'll each or the
ages of ten years and over who cannot
write bears to the whole number of such
| persons In the United States, according to
| The census of 1850, until the census figures
OF 1880 shall be obtained, and then accord
sep rate schools for white and cOlOred
children the money is to be paid out in sup
| port of such white and colOred schools re-
| spectively in the proportion that the white
and colored children between ten and
| twenty-One years old, bear to each other.
| No state is to receive the benefit of the act
until its Governor shall file with the Sec
rotary OF the Interior statement giving
full statistics OF the school system, attend
ance of White and colored children, amount
| OF money expended, number of schools in
operation, number and compensation of
| teachers, etc. No state or territory is to re-
| celve in any year from this fund more mon
| ey than it has paid out the previous year
| from its own revenues for common schools.
| Ii any state or territory declines to take its
| share OF the national fund such share is to
| be distributed among the states accepting
| the benefits OF the fund. 1t any state or
territory misapples the fund, or fails to
| comply with the conditions, it loses all sub
| Sequent appointment.
| Any state or territory accepting the pro-
| vision OF this act at the first session OF its
| Legislature after the passage of the act
shall receive its pro rata share. of all pre-
! vious annual appropriations. The right to
| alter or appeal the act Is reserved by the
| Senate bill.
MARcn G-The Senate Committee on
Public Lands was in session all day.
Among other important actions they agreed
TO report favOrably, with amendments a
bill which has passed the House. allowing
settlers enveloped within railroad limits to
make an additional homestead entry of
eighty acres on lands Immediately adjoln-
Ing their original entry; also substitute
for the bills of Senators Van Wyck and
Hawley, requiring land grant railroad COM
panieS TO pay for the surveys and take out
patents, so that the lands may be taxed by
the states and territories. The substitute
limits this provision to the lands adjacent
to and coterminOus with the completed pOr-
tons of the railroads.
MARCH 3.-The morning business having
been disposed of, Mr.. Bowen ut o'clock
obtained unanimous consent to address the
vide new basis for the circulation of ma
tional banks" The bill provides that bank
ing associations shall, deposit with the Uni
ted States treasurer silver dollars, gold dol
lars, and United States bonds to the aggre-
gate amount Of 20 per cent of the circulate
ing notes as desired by such association. In
lieu of these they are to get United States
notes to the amount of 500 for each $50 so
deposited. The active circulation Of the
United States shall be So, per capita of
population, and the secretary of the treas
ury shall assume the population to be co.
DOC, GOETHE volume of currency to be I'M
creased yearly at the rate of 81 per cent.
The government shall have a first lien on
the bank as further security for the notes
issued, and individual stockholders shall be
liable to the extent of twice the par value
of their shares. The per capita of circula-
ton shall not be held TO include the bank
reserves fixed by law or gold and silver that
may from time to time be in the treasury.
The new notes are legal tender for all debts
public and private except customs dues,
and the principal and interest of United
States are payable i'm coin. The bill also
gives the secretary of the treasury with the
approval of the president, authority to
suspend and resume specie payments by
the government from time to time, when