Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-03-13
WASHINGTON.
CONGRESS-.
FIRST SESSION..
SENATE.


WASHINGTON, March 2.-Mr. Hoar present.
ed q petition from workiDgmen employed In
government workshops, praying for compen.
sation for overtime since the passage OF the
eight-hour law.
The pension bills were then taken up.
Mr.. Van WICK said he would ask for an
early consideration OF the bill, and would ask
sions to IS per month instead Of 81, as recon-
mended ny the committee. He would also ask
that insane and helpless children should re-
ceive the pension given to minor children over
Is years OF age SO long as disability or insan!-
ty should continue.
The Mexican pension bill was placed on the
calendar.
The education bill was then taken UP. Mr..
Hale opposed Mr.. AllisOn's amendment.
Mr.. Salisbury spoke against the principle Of
the bill.
Mr.. Riddleberger and Mr.. Hampton opposed
the Allison amendment.
Mr.. Berry favored The bill but not the amend.
ment.
Mr.. Ingalls, favored the amendment as q
safeguard against improper distribution OF the
money.
Mr., Blair opposed the amendment offered by
Mr.. Allison.
Mr.. Allison defended his amendment.
Mr.. Logan submitted as amendments the
substance Of measures heretofore introduced
by him, one providing ar appropriation OF
$40, 00O, 900 the first year, $l7, 500, 900 the sec
Ond year, 800, 600, eco the third year, SIS, 000,-
00O the fourth year, SIC, 0OO, 600 the fifth year,
: 100000 the sixth year, $l2, 0C0, 10000 the
seventh year, Sl0,C COG, 600 the eighth year, SS,-
100000 the ninth year., S6,ooo,ooo the tenth
year, when appropriations under the act shall,
cease; also an amendment providing a special
fund Of 81, 900, 900 TO aid In building school
houses In sparsely populated districts, not
more than 500 on any one house, nor more
than one.haIf The cost OF the school. house.
Adjourned.
WASHINGTON, March 3.-The Presidents
message on the Chinese matter was laid before
the Senate, and also a message relating to the
payment OF the claims Of the Cherokee In
dams, and the sale OF a tract of land belong
ing to the Sac and Fox Indians. The Chinese
m ,ssage was referred to the committee on
foreign relations.
Mr.. Frye presented a petition from citizens
Of New Jersey urging Congress to provide ex-
emplary penalties for seduction with or wi,h-
cut promise Of marriage, and for the deflt-
Dent Of girls with or without consent VI der
the age of at least IS years IN the District OF
Columbia aud other localities under the juris.
dictlon Of Congress. Referrt d to the commit |
tee on the District of Columbia.
Mr.. Egarts presented a petition from savings
bank officers praying for the DIT monet.za alton
Of silver.
Mr.. Riddleberger offered a resolution which
was agreed to, requiring senators to reportthe
names OF their private secretaries.
The education bill was then taken I'D and
amendment.
Al amendment offered by Mr.. Hoar to the
amendment Of Mr.. Allison was agreed to, pro-
viding that In each state having separate
white and colored schools the money received
by such state under the bill should lie appor-
toned and spilled In proportion Of he illit-
eracy Of the second race respectively until an
equal sum per capita shall have been appro-
pria,ei from national and state funds, and de-
claring the object OF the bill TO be to secure
equal advantages to all children Of whatever
color or race.
Mr.. Edmunds moved the following subst.-
tut for the amendment as amended:
And in each state and territory in which
there shall be separate schools for white and
colored children, the money paid In such state
or territory shall be apportioned aud paid out
for the support Of such white and colored
schools respectively, In proportion that white
aud colored children between the ages OF ~
and IL years in such state or territory bear 70
each other. as shownb by the c4nsus OF 1880.
The foregoing provision shall not affect the
applicable OF the proper proportion Of said
money TO the support OF all common schools
wherein no distinction Of race or color shall
exist,
Mr.. Eimunds addi esstd the Senate In sup.
port or the substitute,
Mr.. Logan then took the floor and addressed
the Senate In favor OF the bill
Mr.. + mund's substitute was agreed 10.
Mr.. Dolph's amendment that the bill should
rot b made operative until two-thirds OF the
states hould accept Its provisions was re-
jected.
The Senate then went into ex ,cutive session
aftar which n adinurpad