Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-03-04

laid before the Senate the Presidents
message on trestnsnt Of the Chisese IN
the West, already published. Referred
TO The CsRnitt>e on Foreign Relations
Also, messages from the President re-
lstlue to the payment Of claims OF the
Cherokee Indians and the sale Of q
tract OF land belonging 70 the Sac and
Fox Indians. Referred 20 the Com
aittee on Indian Affairs
Also, a letter from the Secretary OF
the Treasury. transmitting the recon-
Denda,ion of the Lighthouse Board for
the appropriation of $50 900 fer the
establish nent Of light at the entrance
OF Grsy's Harbor, Washington Terri
tory. Referred 10 the Committee on
Commerce.
Frye presented q petition fron citi-
zens OF Nex Jersey, praying for legisls
ton for the legal protection Of ysang
girls The petisien, which ~ on a
printed blank With tAs words New
Jersey" written in the body of the
print, asks Congress t. provide exsm
piary penalties for seduction, with OF
without promise Of marriage, ana for
the detlemeHt OF the persons OF girls,
With or without conseEt, under the age
of at least Is years, in the District OF
Columbia and all other localities under
the Jurisdiction Of Congress The petit
ton was referred TO tbs Committee on
the District of Columbia.
Evarts presented the petitions OF
officers and trustees Of savings banks OF
New York State representing LIS OUl
depositors, praying Congress to stoF
| the coinage of silver dollars Referred
TO the Committee on Finance.
Riddleberger offered a resolQ ton
which was agreed TO, requiring each
Senator to report the name of his pr
| vate secretary. In introducing the re
solution Rlddleberger said that son,
men we're holding tickets of admission
to the door of tbs Senate Who vouiC
not be admitted 10 the parlors. Suot
tickets were issued to people who re
ceived no pay, except admission to til,
Senate floor, TO blackmall gentlemen
| and to libel them in their newspapers
| Rlddieber6er said be knew of q case II
point. All knew what had been sail
IN the House OF Representatives abol
Eads being on the door of that House
de asked II 1t were permIssabl,
for him Mr.. Riddlebergerl 20 stat,
that, while Eads had not been on th,
door OF the Senate, be had had thret
henchnen there, two representing Re
publican newspapers and one Demo
cratic newspaper, Who, to secur
information on which to libel Senators
have tickets ~ the Senate floor 10 tn
pretended capacity OF secretaries to
Senator, which Senator had bis own sol
As private secretary, who drew his pay
while the other creatures we're compen
stated by tickets.
After the adoption Of the resolution
Mr. Hoar had 1t reconsidered and 8,
amended as to have the names sent il
20 the secretary Of the Senate.
The education bill was then taken al
and Mr.. Harrison spoke in advocacy o
the bill and in opposition to Mr.. Ali
sons amendment.
The amendment offered BY Mr.. H0a
TO the amendment of Mr.. Allison. wai
agreed TO, providing that in each Stat
having separate white and coloret
schools, the money received by sucl
State under the bill should be appor
ii ned and applied in the proportion o
illitsraoy Of the two races respectively
until an equal SUN per cap,ta shall hav,
been appropriated from National ane
State funds, and declaring the objes
of the bill 60 be to secure eqaal advan
tages to all children, of whatever Colo
or race.
| Mr.. Edmunds then moved sabsti
\ tute for the amendments az amended
fhe substitute is as follows: And il
each state and Territory in which there
| shall be separate schools for white and
| coiored children, the money paid iu
| SUCH State or Territory shall be appor-
l nd 10 hA -
| such white and oolored sob ools respect
lively IN the proportion that the white
| and cOlered children between the ages
OF ten and twenty one years, In suoh
State or Territory bear to each other as
shown by the census of 1880. The fore
going provision shall not affect the ap-
plioation of the proper proportion of
said money to the support Of all com.
mon schools wherein no distinction of
race or color shall exist"
Mr.. Eamunds addressed the Senate
in support of his amendment to the bill
itself. He said there was no oenstitu-
tional difficulty about 1t. No constitution
ever had said or could say that no
money shonld be withdrawn from the
Treasury except in pursuance OF an ap
preparation made by Law for a specific
purpose named in some other part Of
the constitution. Mr.. Edmunds en-
tered at some length into the question
Of discrimination in the matter of sepa-
rate schools in the South, oitisg figures
to show where the colored and white
children were Of equal numbers, the
number Of white soAools in soEns cases
WAS double the number Of oolored
schsols IL the money sas tn be used
among those who need it, Mr.. Eimunds
said, II ought to be applied to the edu-
cation Of both races alike by fair means.
80 that the children of both races
should have equal advantages and fair
play, not as between child and child,
Mr.. Eimunds thought, but equal fair
play a. regards the institution of
schools and school districts in States
where the separate school system pre-
rallied.
Mr.. Hear was willing to accept Mr.
Eduunds' substitute for the Allison
amendment. and it was agreed to.
Dolph moved to amend 10y providing
| that the bill should not take effect until
two thirds of the States should accept
its provisions. 1t was rejected. Dolpa
called for the yess aud nays on bis
amendment and pending the call the
| Senate went into executive session and
when the doors reopeusd adjourned.
House.
The Speaker laid before the Houss
the message of the President on th,
Chinese troubles. Ii Was read by tn,
Clerk and then referred TO the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs.
Weaver OF Iowa, from the Committed
on Expenditures 10 the Interior De
par,ment. reported back the resolution
directing the committee to investigate
the administration and expenditures o.
the Pension Bareaa under present ana
previous Administrations and to ascer
tain What foundation there 10 for th'
statement in the annual report Of Com
missioner Black in reference to partisan
management and extravaesnoe in thai