Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-02-17
CONGRESSIONAL.


WAsHINeros, February 16.-A petit
tion Of bankers. merchants and lawyers
Of Savannah, o., was presented by
Brown. which prayed for the repeal Of
the silver coinage act. He felt ii his
duty to present the petition of such
highly intelligent gentlemen, but also
felt IL his duty to say that he could not
agree with the statements Of the petit
ton to the effect that the law had been
luxurious to the country. Brown added
that II II were desirable he could secure q
petition signed by hundreds OF Thousands
OF people Of that State against the re-
peal Of the coinage act. The petition
was referred.
When the Education bill was taken
up Mr.. jackson said that inasmuch as
the dceign Of the measure was not to
establish national schools, but to give
temporary aid TO States for purposes Of
education. ho could support it. He
dwelt briefly on the question of suffrage
in the South and the indispensable me-
oessity OF the education Of voters every.
where, in order that the suffrage may
not be corrupted.
Mr.. Maxey followed. He yielded to
no man in his regard for education, but
be would never consent to transfer to
tho general government the duty OF the
State, especially as there was no war
rant in the constitution for this depar.
ture 10 the governments policy. He ad-
mitied the force of the argument
made by the friends Of this bill that the
whole country ought to assist in oon-
tributiug to the expense of educating
colored people, aad in order to carry
out that idea, Mr.. Maxsy would be
willing 10 vote for an appropriation Of
proceeds Of the public lands, to be de-
voted to this purpose. He deemsd 1t
necessary to warn the country against
the dangers of Capitalization.
Mr.. Pugh said he had voted for this bill
In obedience TO the instructions of his
legislature. His colleague (Mr. Nor
gan) had offered an amendment a short
time ago to an appropriation bill. Of
which several thousand dollars were
to be devoted to the work of ar
resting the ravages Of the cater
pillar and investigating the devastation
Of the cotton worm. Mr.. Pugh could
not see how Congress- could have the
pillar IN csrtsin locsl;sis. az eer,sin
States and no, have the nowsr IN srrs.t
the ravsgss of irnoranse oos was a
a mare Zeal ev,l-rths other wss .
tiousl peri,
Mr.. Blalr dac,arad ths III, cor.,;t,,. !.
tional, and added thai n wa. ussIsss for
snvhoav ~ say ~. "ss ass'es' ~,
Soath did not want this ,ness,,,s ] ,a..aJ
Mr.. Coke said the teaehsrs "A ~,
represent the people Of Tsrss Ths.
State was almost solidlv Dsma.ras;o
and the Democratic Conyention AZ.
nounced this bill,
The debate tn IN closed for the dsv
and the senate then adjourned.
uor..
hoosA
Hammond, from the Judiciary Com
mittse, to which was referred the reso.
luton directing that COMMITTEES to fur.
nish under what law the Attorney.Gen-
eral had the right ia the pane Of the
United states and at the expense Of the
United States at the instance and in the
interest Of private corporations to insti-
tuts and carry on or defend against suits
to cancel or annul letters patent Issued
to United States citizens on account Of
inventions or discoveries, reported rsso.
LUTON which was adopted requesting the
COMMITTEES on Judiciary to snswer the
questions asked by said resolution and
advise the House as to the present state
of the law on said subject, aud report
any amendment thereto which may be
needful.
Mr.. Riggs, OF Illinois. from the Com
mittee Of Post Offices and Post Roads.