Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-02-20
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
First Session.
SEN


WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.
In the Senate, today, the chair laid before
the senators a eommu unica,ion from the sec.
retary OF the interior transmitting a copy of
the laws passed at the last session of the leg
isiature of Arizona.
Mr.. Manderson offered a resolution direct
ing that the secretaries of state and war in
quire and report to the Senate the facts con.
cerning the killing of Captain Emmett Craw-
ford, United States ARMY, said TO have been
slain on or about January 10th, 1886, by
Mexican troops; and to report what steps
were taken for the punishment by the Mexican
government of those guilty of the alleged
outrage; also to report whether reparation or
indemnity should not be made to those who
suffered and ample explanation and apology
to the United States for an apparently gross
insult.
In offering the resolution Mr.. Manderson
said 1T is due to the United States not less
than to the relations of the deceased that an
inquiry should be made as to the killing of
Captain Crawford" r" Mr.. Manderson read
the official report of Lieutenant Morris, U.
5. A., on the subject. and maintained that,
unless the facts were incorrectly set forth.
they constituted very severe reflection on
the Mexican troops.
The resolution, with Mr.. Manderson's as
sent, was referred to the committee on for
eign relations.
Among the bills introduced and appro-
priately referred was one by Mr.. Edmunds,
relative to the eight hour law, as applying
to letter carriers hours of labor.
On motion of Mr.. Eustis, resolution of
inquiry, hitherto offered by him, relative to
the New Orleans suh-treasury and its treat
ment of the silver dollar was taken from the
calendar.
Mr.. Tellers amendment was agreed to eX-
tending inquiry into the detalcaton alleged
to have occurred at the New Orleans sub
treasury in connection with the handling of
silv er dollars.
The Eusts resolution and his amendment
was agreed to-
On motion of Mr.. Dawes the Senate then
resumed consideration of the bill to provide
for the allotment of lands in severalty to
Indians.
The educational bill was then placed before
the Senate and Mr.. Evarts took the floor
in its advocacy. After paying a glowing
tribute to the philanthropy and foresight in
Peabody in establishing the well known edu-
catonal fund for the South Mr.. Evarts
said that in his connection with the admins
tration of that fund he saw the most e2cour-
aging manifestations of hunger and thirst for
knowledge on the part of the ignorant classes
in the South and praisewOrthy zeal on the
part of the intelligent classes of the South
that education should be general. Mr..
Evarts had no misgivings as to the faithful
application of the fund provided for by the
bill under consideration. He thought that
objections made to the bill on constitutional
grounds was based on narrow Interpretation
of the constitution
Mr. Evarts said the people of the United
States were confronted with threatening
and growing mass of ignorance. Now here
was deliberate, conservative, thoughtful
and honorable measure for the remedy of
that ignorance. A measure, which looking
into the face of the situation produced by
wal. proposed to apply the abundant resources
of a renovated and restored Union, to exert
at this time for the for the common defence
and general welfare, the resources OF the
nation with as large and liberal a hand as it
had exerted its power to produce the result
of the war; then, also, for the common de-
fence and general welfare"
Mr.. Ingalls, contrasted the systems prevail
ing in the northern and southern States be-
tore the war, the southern States preferring
not to educate the blacks and the northern
States believing in a universal education. 1t
the northern method, that had made northern
arms successful The South was unjust to
itself One of the most distressing symp-
toms about the South was the want of self
reliance. Its disposition was to call on the
general government for assistance.
MIR Ingalls, saw no occasion for despon-
dency as to the condition of the colored men,
Nothing in history could compare with the
advance they had made. If the object of the
BILL however, was to promote the education
of an lliterate class, between the ages of six
and twenty one. and if the bill were so
amended, no senator would vote with wider
iberality than he to accomplish that result
Mr.. Hoar said it was he who drafted the
first of these education bills 10 or Is years ago
and the proposition never came from the
people OF the South. 1t was a Northern idea
aud was supported by Northern sentiment.
But three Southern democratic votes had been
given to the first bill introduced by him in
Congress in 1872 or thereabouts. He had
listened with admiration to the eloquent re-
marks of the senator from Kansas Ungalls),
but that senator erred in supposng this to be
a question of North or South. The present
bill proceeded upon the ground that the re-
public in which every citizen has an equal
share in the government in which the vote of
merchant or prince. Education was indis-
pensable to the continued existence of liberty.
1t was because the society of the South was
our own society," the interest of the South
was our interest 1t was because in the
sublime trial, which ended in 1865, it was
determined that hereafter and forever this
was to be nation and not an aggregation of
warning and conflicting communities, held
together by feeble hand. that we had a
right to demand that the national resources
should be poured out to their fullest extent
to secure to every American citizen intellI-
gence necessary in each for the common ben
fit of all. Mr.. Hoar cited figures to show
that under Mr.. Ingalls, theory Mississippi
would get Is times as much from the bill as
would Massachusetts, which by the bill as it
stood it would get only four times as much.
Mr. Ingalls-Nothng lies like figures.
Laughter.
Mr.. Hoar-Sometimes people lie under
misapprehension from not having read figures
before making speeches Renewed laugh
ter.
Mr.. Hoar agreed that the future of the
colored race was bright one, bat, without
regard to where the blame rested for the lg-
norance of the colored people. he (Hoar)
believed that if the general government did
not assist in the work of their education tina,
work would be postponed to the remote fu-
ture. The white democrats of the south had
sense enough to answer, for the suppression
of the honest vote was one OF the worst OF
crimes. But whatever may have been the
faults of those beople, Mr.. Hoar said, they
could not be justly counted with seeking by