The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-03-11
NATIONAL LAWMAKERS.


PREgpKHr CLEVELAND sent to the Senate.
on March I, q special message declining
TO furnish unofficial documents relating TO
suspensions from ONCE, and claiming the |
right to destroy them. When the message
had been read Mr.. Edmunds said II re-
minded him of the communication OF King
Charles l. TO the Parliament He also said that
the President, unintentlonally no doubt. had en-
tirely misstated the question involved between
printed. The Senate, In executive session. re-.
jscted the nominations OF Messrs. Pillsburyand
Chase to be Collectors OF Internal revenue ~
Boston, Mass, and Portland. Me-. respectively.
THE Blair educational bill was again tho sub
iect of debate in the Senate on the I'd inst. Sen
ators Call of Florida. Riddleberger OF Virginia.
Berry Of Arkansas and Hampton of South
Carolina opposed the Allison amendment relat-
ING 10 colored schools. and Senator Salisbury OF
Delaware opposed the bill with or without the
.ssS %Sa WAS Senator to admfnser the
of S77,O00,000 provided by the Dill.
and. answering his own question by
to do il, launched into an attack OF Assistant
Secretary Montgomery, reading many extracts
from book entitled Drops from nne ho,so T;
ton; by Zach Montgomery, OF the California
bar President Cleveland sent TO the Senate
IN tSs u Wosern states and Territories
and insisting upon the punishment OF
citizens who commit outrages upon tnem.
bin came up for debate, and Mr. Cannon. of
illinois, supported It.. Mr.. Wilson, OF West Vir-
gnia vigorously defended Pensions ~, OoW Wdase
recently. He then said that he saw IN the war
the stately stepping OF that Providence when
purposes It had secured the preserva-
ton OF the Union but 1t had secured
greater result than the preservation
OF the Union in the extinction OF slavery;
and greater than the extinction OF
| slavery was the utter humiliation OF any
ground cause or excuse n.t Lor MT Watson 1ind1
| supported Mr.. Black in his charges egainst ex,
| Commissioner Dudley Mr.. Butterworth tOhio)
criticised Commissioner Blacks report as an in
J suit to every man and woman in the employ OF
| the Commiss oner of Pensions. H. spoke bitterly
| of the witnesses before the Wa:aer Committee
| especially Mai. Clark, who were so swift, he
| said to assault their chief that they might De-
! come the pampered and favored menials OF
coming ineninpent, . ma; hsrexer Democraey
| reigned an honest bahot and n fair count was a
! lost art Secretary Manning sent to the House, In
reply to the Bland resolution calling Tor inforIna-
ton in regard to the past and future policy OF the
| Treasury Department on the silver question
document OF forty pages, containing VAST
| amount of correspondence and 5tatist!cal ln1or-
nation.
SENATOR HAnRIsos, OF Indiana supported the
Blair education bill in the debate in tho Senate
on the Sd inst, and opposed the Allison amond-
ment He would leave the fund to be adminis-
tered as all education funds Of oil the States
were administered-in the hands OF the people
OF the States. An amendment Of the Allison
amendment offered by senator HSnr, was
adopted after which Senator Edmunds
Senator blair accepted il, and it was agreed To-
It provides that wherever separate schools 'or
whites anl negroes aro maintained TEE nehey
appropritt,d by the bill shall be paid out for
the support OF such white and colored Scboop
respectively in the proportion wh;h the
| her
Prior to tie adop..en Of the subst tute,
Senator Logan made speech in which
he attacked the south for SUI sSuPrrsssin
bin was INTENDED rs money on the st tor s5a
benefit Of the southern whites. Mr. MY FRYE pre-,
e ss the sSaer pfSss as s51 unrss
ExJt1 n.4.@g t. I' on Tt s1e ' 5 q
non residents In the House the pension APP forri.
a'ion bill was debated. Mr. Weaver iowa report
cd back to tie House the resolutio directing t1e
House COMMITTEES on Expenditures i'm the lnte'
rior Department to investigate the past ana pres
eLt adminis.r alton OF the Pension Bureau Inc
army appropriation bill was reported 20 inc
House by Mr. Bragg. II sets aside S23o9f,oSo'
THE debate of the Blair education bill was
continued in the Senate on the 9Th. The Fitz-
John Porter relief bill was reported to the SEN
ato. Secretary Manning reported to the Senate
that Sc, 3S5, $50 OF the bonds maturing April are
he'd by national banks The Senate passed a
bill accepting for the United States TING Grant
ment by Mrs. Grant and W. H. Vanderbilt.
The President nominated James c. Matthews,
OF New York, to be Recorder OF Deeds for the
District OF Columbia, vice Frederick Dou-l So,
whose resignation sent to the President on Jan.
5, is made public to-day. On motion Of Senator
Plat Conn the Senate adjourned. in express.
sion OF their sympathy with Senator HaWly
Conn., in his bereavement. minority report
ON the Eads ship-railway bill was sub
R' s to sho the ao S S sEs o% sss
private corporation. located and to be operated
in foreign On SOan y5s
The pensions appropriation bill was passed
after n lively partisan debate, during which the
House was often in excitement and confusion I:
also n bill extending the linn e of the cost of the
Peoria public building from s225, 900 to s275.OOo
THE Blair educational bill passed the Senate
on the 5th. The sum appropriated is SO, 900 900.
1t provides for eight years after its passage
thcre shall be annually appropriated from the
Treasury the following sums in aid OF common
school educati9p in the stats and Territories.
100000; the second. slo,ooooco tho third
year, s15,ooOOlO; the fourth year, $3.50 O.aQQ !;
the NTH year, 81 900 ooo the sixth year. 5000
year, s5,Ooo.00o; in all, s77 ooOsfo Besides this
there Is special appropriation q Nooo. 600
sparsey settled districts, making the total SO.
100000. The money is given to tho several
States and Territories in that proportion which
the whole number ~ persons in each of the ago
of ten years and over who cannot write bears to
tho whole number OF such persons in the United
States, according to the census OF $780, until tho
census figures of 1890 shall be obtained. and
then according to the latter figure. In States
having separat, schools for white and colored
children the money is to be paid out in support
OF such white and coored schools respect
lively in the proportion that the white and
colored children between ten AMI twenty-on,
years Old bear to each other No State to receive
the benefit OF the act until its Go fernor shall
| file with the Secretary Of the Interior n st ate
ment giving Z al stat sites OF the school system.
attendance OF white and colored children.
amount of money expended number OF schools
| in operation, number and compensation of
teachers, etc. No State or Territory is To receive
in any one year from this fund more money
| than IL ha, paid out the previous year from its
| own revenues for common schools III any
Stite or Territory declines TO take its share
| of the national, fund such share is to be dis
| trbuted among the States acceI ting the bene-
fits of the fund. II any State or Territory mis-
applies the fund, fails TO comply with the
conditions. it loses all subsequent appoltio
| ment. Any State or Territory accepting the
provisions of tho act ut the first session of its
| Legislature after the passage OF the act shall
| receive its pro rata share OF all previous annual
| appropriations. The right to alter repeal the
| act rea erved nv no Senate hill Tho Sanat IN