Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-03
COLOR DISCRIMINATION.
VIGOROUS OPPOSITION TO MIR.
AI4LIsON'S PROPOSITION,


Mr.. Cali Defends FIOrIda's Dealings
with Educational Matters - The
Amendment said TO Embrace Aban-
donment OF One of the Principles of
the Government -- MIR. Kiddlebsrger
Presents Figures.
WASHINGTON, March AT O'Clock
to-day the Senate took up the education
bill, and Mr.. Call addressed the Senate in
opposition to MI. Allison's amendment.
He characterized IL as a reflection on the
States, and an abandonment Of one OF the
principles OF our government. Mr.. Call
read from the educational statistics Of
several States, and compared the figures
of school attendance in each with similar
figures relating to Florida to show that
Florida had pr0portionately as large at
tendance as other States for certain
number of months each year. Mr.. Call
said the school taxes Of Florida were now
applied TO schools without distinction Of
color. II this money were distributed on
the color, the principle of "no dlstinc-
tIon" would be violated.
MIR. sAULsBURY's OPPOSITION.
Mr.. Salisbury opposed the bill, wheth-
er with or without the Allison amend
ment. There was not only no cOnstitu-
tional authority for 1t, be said, but not
even the slightest necessity for IL. The
Southern States were amply able TO edu-
cate all their illiterates. The South had
| extraordinary resources. IL had mo-
nopoly OF the cotton crop, an enormous
tobacco crop, n monopoly of the sugar
| crop and the rice crop. Then great min
| eral and manufacturing resources were
rapidly developing. Why, the difference
| in the cost of labor alone between the
| South and North was enough to pay for
| the education of all the illiterates OF the
| South. The general welfare clause OF the
| constitution never contemplated such
schemes as this. 1t was public aims giv-
ing without any authority whatever.
RIDDLEBERGER AGAINST ALLISON.
Mr.. Riddleberger opposed the Allison
! amendment. 1t would give 81 TO colored
! children for every 81 going to white chill
/ dren. ItwOuld destroy the bill and would
/ destroy the public schools OF Virginia.
| He appealed to the Republican party TO
consider what harm it was doing TO the
colored people whom they were seeking
| to help. It, would absolutely destroy all
chance OF their education, rs the white
people would destroy the school system
| through which the money was 10 be paid
| out.
MIR. Hampton said be was a sincere
/ friend of the cOlored man and would be
very sorry to see the Allison amendment
adopted, as it would do the cOlored people
more harm than almost anything that
| could be done.
SOUTH CARoLINAs PAYMENTS.
The white people of South Carolina, he
said, paid 81 per cent. of the school fund
Of the State, leaving only 3 per cent to be
paid by the colored people, yet the con-
| ..s. a Inr. g faAn
that the school fund should be distribu-
ted according to the number OF children
attending public schools.
Mr.. Ingalls, favored Mr.. Allis0n's
| amendment il the bill was to pass. De
thought the amendment threw a neces-
| sary safeguard around the fund and said
the money was TO be distributed by the
/ Secretary OF the Interior, and the law oth-
! Ger of the Interior Department. Zach.
Montgomery, she Attorney General, was
I a man notoriously opposed to the public
school system.
EXTRACTS FROM MONTGOMERY.
Mr.. Ingalls, read extracts from a pamph.
let containing extracts from Mr.. Mont
gOmery's speeches on the subject. He
4 said Mr.. Montgomery had disputed the
correctness of some of the quotations
credited TO him, but be read one which he
said Mr.. Montgomery had not disputed.
The book was entitled "Drops from the
Poisoned Fountain. Facts that are
Stranger than Fiction, by Zach Mont
gomery, of the California Bar"
Mr.. Ingalls, read from the speech delIv-
cred by Mr.. MONTGOMERY before the Ro-
man Catholic sunday School Teachers
Association OF California in 1873. Ex-
tracts which Montgomery had not in
cluded in the extracts which he had
claimed misrepresented him.
CIVILIzERs DENOUNCED.
Speaking OF the telegraph, railroads and
newspapers the pamphlet report says:
They are means Of spreading false ru-
mors and moral sentiments that corrupt
the minds OF good Catholics In this land"
"Instead Of reading corrupting ne wspa-
pers teach them the children) the truths
| Of the church, and that will save them
from the whirlpool OF Professionalism and
heresy In all It's FORMS"
r"The notion that the Protestants enter
tain about the great progress made In the
nineteenth century, wish 20 warn you
/ TO abstain from"
"The Protestant theory yofindependence. Of
/ making up our minds for ourselves on
matters OF religion, are false as we'll as
( damnable In the extreme"
"rhere is no such thing as personal
/ Freedom In religion and morality"
"Tne whole power lies with the success
or Of 81. Peter, holy Pho Mono aud the
I holy see OF Rome"
NOT DENIED.
These, Mr.. Ingalls, said, were extracts
| that had not been denied; yet the pill be-
| fore the Senate was TO be administered on
a non-sectariau basis. Mr.. ingalls,
thought we had better put every safe
guard possible IN the bill.
/ Mr.. Hoar said the Allison amendment
/ would DO an Invitation 10 .he States them
selves 10 make discrimination IN favor OF
white children. The truth might as well
/ be told. namely, that the Senators were
/ unwilling 70 trust the authorities or the
/ states with the administration Of the
1 funds. The zach. Montgomery" argu-
ment was the tr0uble-the argument that
I we could not trust the American people.
The debate lasted without interruption
until o'clock. The remaining speakers
we're Messrs. Hale, Harrison, Platt, Blair,
Edmunds, Logan, Dolph and Hoar. Sew
eral amendments were presented and
ordered printed. The Senate then ad-
/ iournad. q