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WASHINGTON.
Proceedings of the House
and Senate.
A DEBATE ON EDUCATION
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SENATE.
WAsHrHoToN, February ll.-In the
Senate to-day. after the disposal Of
routine morning business, Edmunds said
as one Of the important committees Of
the Senate had to go to New York to-
day. and other important committees
had considerable work to do, he be-
lieved public business would be best
subserved by adjournment of the Senate
from this afternoon till Monday. He
therefore moved that when the Senate
adjourned to-day it be till Monday.
Agreed to.
Tellar submitted an amendment to
Eustis' resolution Of inquiry regarding
| the refusal OF the Assistant Treasurer al
New Orleans to issue silver certificates
| in exchange for silver dollars. The
amendment directs the Committee on
| Finance to enquire also into the loss OF
money alleged to have occurred in the
New Orleans Sub. Treasury aud whether
such loss occurred in connection with
the exchange of silver certificates for
silver coin. The amendment was or
dered printed.
At2 o'clock the Education bill was
laid before the Senate and Morgan took
the floor ON it. The bill, Mr.. Morgan
said, was a bill TO Great officers and
elaborate machinery Of government. 1t
was a bill to tax honest, hard wo, king
men in order TO educate the children Of
drunken, loafing vagabonds who would
not work for their families. II from
the sixty millions of people in the United
States were to be deducted all dead
heads, dead leafs and on-producers,
there would be about twenty million
people left who would have to pay taxes
to carry out the provisions of this bill.
The bill itself would be equivalent to
tax of 50 per capita on those taxpayers
and by the time ali the officers
were appointed for the administration
of this scheme of benevolenoe and all
the clerks appointed that would be nee
essary to investigate the accounts of the
thirty-eight States and ten Territories
affected by this bill, it would be found
that the tax per capita would be $40.
instead of So. If United States Senators
were men who plowed fields or worked
smiths and paid taxes out of the sweat Of
their brows, Mr.. Morgan could have
more respect for them when voting
away the money Of one man for the chill
dren OF another. The constitutional
ground for the bill, Mr.. Morgan contin-
ned, was said to be found in the "gen-
eral welfare" clause Of the preamble
to the Constitution. Such an
application Of that clause simply
meant that you could pull down a man
that got up by his own exertion,, in or
der to put up a druken loafer that
would not exert himself. The best peo-
pie in the United States to-day were
those who in the backwoods. in the fear
Of God and having respect for good or
der and the morals Of society, had
brought up around their own footstools
and hearthstones honest, sincere, dill
gent and faithful sons and daughters.
MIR. Morgan characterized Mr.. Blair's
idea as one involving the right OF Con-
gress to educate the children of several
States without the consent of the States.
MIR. Blair interposed to say that
he regarded the primary duty
Of education to rest on the parents,
but inasmuch as education was
indispensable to the existence Of free
government, il q parent, whether from
inability or disinclination, failed In the
performance of that duty that duty fell
to the States of our Republic; II the
States proper and the parent both failed,
then it became the duty of the Republic
to educate the child. since the child
would be citizen not only of the State
but of the United States. This, how
ever, was a power that should be exer-
cised only as . last resort.
Mr.. Gail asked Mr.. Morgan IL he de-
MED the right of the United States to
make donation to State for any pur-
pose.
Mr.. Morgan replied that he could
conceive Of such case. This point
was debated at length. II the bill was
passed, however, Mr.. Morgan wanted
to see it amended, and suggested certain
amendments, one Of whicn was agreed
to, making the fiscal year Of the United
States the year contemplated by the
bill, and excluding from the moneys La
bic to be used for the purposes of the
bill ell moneys drawn from the postal or
consular service or the Patent Office.
Mr.. Morgan drew broad distinction
between moneys derived from taxation
and moneys derived from the sale Of
public lands. These lands consti-
iuted a trust for sll of the peo-
pie of the United States. and he
maintained that If money was to be
given to States IL should come from the
proceeds of these lands. At this point
Mr. Morgan yielded for an executive
session, after which the Senate ad-
jourped until Monday.
HOUSE.
In the second morning hour Adams,
OF Illinois, on behalf Of the Committee
on Banking and Currency, called up the
bill to enable National Banking Asso-
Citations to increase their capital stock
and change their names or locations.
The bill passed, yeas. l29; nays. 100.
Adams entered a motion to reconsider
and to lay that motion on the table, but
the morning hour having expired final
action was not taken.
The House at 2 O'Clock went into
Committee of the Whole on the Fitz-
John Porter bill. The debate was open
cd by Mr.. Haynes, of New Hampshire,
in support of the bill. The strongest
prejudice which he had ever entertained
had been against Porter, but it had dis
appeared when he commenced 10 exam