Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-03-03
WRTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.
First Session,
SENATE.

of the petitioners. ''4'e'
CLOCK the Senate took up the educa
tioh Dill and Mr.. Call addressed the Senate
IN opposition to Mr.. Alisons amendment
MI oauisoury opposed the bill, whethe,
with or without Mr.. Allison's amendment
mere was not only no constitutional author
ity ior 1t, he said, but not even the slipbtes
necessity for it. The Southern States wer.
amply able to educate all their illiterate.
mr. hlddleberger opposed the Allison
amendment. 1t would give So to the colorec
chlidren for every 81 going to the whit,
children. 1t would destroy the bill and would
destroy the public schools of Virginia.
Hir. Hampton said he was a sincere frienc
OF the colored man and would be very sorr,
10 see the Allison amendment adopted.
hr. ingalls, had heard no democrat senate,
give any reason for the bill except as beipa
necessary to enable him to care for the col
ored ililterates in the South. If this money
were to be distributed we should throw abnn
II all the safeguards possible. Who was I,
administer this fund of SIT 600 600? who
was assistant attorney of the department OF
the interior! One Mr. Zach Montgomery
Nhat were his views about common schoo
education?
MIR. Ingalls, read many extracts from book
emitted, drops from Poisoned Fountain
iacts that are stronger than faction. by Zach
Montgomery of the California bar" Among
the abstracts were the following: 1--WE prom.
lse to prove that our boasted New England
pubic school system, as now bv law estab.
lished throughout the lengthsand breadth OF
the American republic, is poisonous foup.
tain, fraught with seeds of human misery and
moral death. 1t is crime and pauper breed.
ing system. system which being conceived
In crime, brought forth in crime and mus
tered in crime must of necessity propagate
crime. This bill too, Mr.. Ingalls said, was
for fund to be applied to non sectarian
schools He then read from speech deliv-
cred by the same Zach Montgomery before
the Roman Catholic Sunday School Teachers
Association of California in 1873. Speaking
of telegraph. railroad and newspapers
the pamphlet report says: They
are the means of spread
ing false runIors and moral sentiments that
corrupt the minds OF good Catholics in this
land. Instead of reading corrupting news
papers teach them (the children) the truths
of the church and that will save them from
the whirlpool of Professionalism and heresy in
all its forms.
Mr.. Blair said that Zach. Montgomery had
not vet been confirmed by the Senate. II
that person had been correctly reported, Mr.
Blair hoped that the Judiciary Committee (ot
which Mr.. ingalls, is member) would pro-
tect the common schools against him. Mr..
Blair strongly opposed the Allison amend
ment, which he said would be the defeat of
the bill.
Mr. Hoar said that Presidents Garfield,
Grant, Hayes and Arthur all republican
presidents, and to the last three republican
conventions had all favored the policy of ex-
tending aid to the common school system of
the south.
Mr.. Harrison rose to make some remarks
but yielded to Mr.. Allison.
MIR. PIatt wanted to adjourn.
Mr.. Blair wished to make arrangements
for the hour tomorrow when the vote might
be taken.
Mr.. Edmunds would not consent to any
arrangement that might result in preventing
him from making some remarks in favor of
Mr.. Allison's amendment, and stating his
reasons for voting against the bill if that
amendment be rejected
Mr. Allison defended the amendment
Mr.. Edmunds said the amendment was
clearly necessary to secure fair play"
MIR. Logan said he himself introduced
three or four of these general education bills
and desired to make some remarks on the
bill He submitted as amendments the sub.
stance of the measures heretofore introduced
by him, one providing an appropriation of
$40, ,000,0 900 the first year, Sl7 100000 the
second year, S20,000,000 the third year,
SIS 200, 900 the fourth year, $4,000, 900 the
fifth year, Sl4 900, 900 the sixth year, Sl2,-
900, 600 the seventh year, Sl0,0O0,0O0 the
eighth year, 100000 the ninth year,
Sc ,OOO, 900 the tenth year, when all appro-
priations under the act shall cease and the
amendment providing special fund OF
So, ,00. 900 to aid in building school houses in
the sparsely populated districts, not more
than 500 on any one house, nor more than
one half the cost of the schoolhouse in any
case.
Mes.rs. Dolph and Hoa- also submitted
amendment, which were ordered printed
and the Senate at P. NJ. adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Wise of Virginia on behalf of the
committee on manufactures, in the morning
hour called up a bill authorizing the Presi
dent to appoint a commission of seven ex
merits. skilled in the investigation, production
and use of metallic substances and othel
structural materials, to execute tests ano
experiments on iron, steel and other materia
used in the construction of bridges, buildings
and mechanical structures, and deduct usefu
rules therefrom.
Pending the discussion the morning houl
expired, and the House went into a commit
tee of the whole on the pension appropriation
bill.
Mr.. Wilson of West Virginia, regretted
that on Thursday last the House had beer
presented with a spectacle of politician II
search of some political issue. There was
no longer any successful congering with the
issue raised by the gentleman from Iowa
fHenderson,) if he didn't mistake the recen
action of the American people and the gen
eral temper of the American people. Sec
tional issues, wherever or by whomsoevel
raised W ould lead no man nor party to polit
ical victory in this country. He vigorously
defended Commissioner Black from the crit
icism of the gentleman from Iowa, (HeDder
SON. and declared that the country had re
garded his appointment by the President q:
an eminently wise and patriotic selection
MIR. Wilson regretted to hear the gentleman
from Maine (Boutelle) criticising the south
ern people because they had in one or twt
poipts raised modest memorials to their dead
Such an utterance hardly comported with th'
brave and manly character of the gentleman
from Maine. 1t was time that the southern
people had erected humble monuments t.
| their sons, brothers and fathers, and placed
upon them the flowers of that section, but they
| had done it in no spirit of disloyalty to thu
country. The war had secured the preserva
ron of the Union, but it had secured resul
greater than the preservation of the Union il
the extinction of slavery, and greater thai