Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-26
STEEL TIPPED ORAT0RY.
BTEsSRS. GEORGE AND MORGAN,
TRY CONCLUSIONS.


The EIssIssippian Characterizes anltha
Speeches Of the Alabamian as Trashy
The Debate of n CollOquial style
With a Superabundance of Personals
ties.
WASHINGTON, Feb. e5.--At 2 o'clocki
to-day the education bill was laid before,
the Senate, and Mr.. George took the floor
to continue his remarks In favor OF tho
bill. The people of Mississippi, he said,
had 80 much interest in the bill that he
felt constrained 10 present some further
views in advocacy of the measure. He
called Mr.. Morgan's attention to the reso-
luton introduced by him Mr.. Morgan)
ut former session Of the Senate, giving
a months extra pay to Congressional
clerks. He found no warrant in the con-
stitution for such payment, il Mr.. Nor
gan's theory OF the constitutionality OF the
education bill was a true one.
Mr.. Morgan inquired what had becOma
OF the resolution.
A LITTLE TILT.
Mr. George replied that he did notl
know, and he then went on TO criticised
Mr.. MOrgan's record in the matter Of apl
preparations for other purposes.
Mr.. Morgan said he would not follow
the retail effort of Mr.. George to lay be-
fore the world his Mr.. Morgan's J record,
but the Senator from Mississippi was well
come TO any instance OF that sort of trash
that he could find in his Mr.. Morgan's)
record. The Senator from Mississippi
was the fret Senator who had the capacity
TO see any unoonstitutionality in the act
which he had criticised.
CHARACTERIZED AS TRASH.
Mr.. George was much obliged for the
complimentary manner In which Mr..
Morgan had referred to him. It so haps
pened, he said, that when a Senator fol-
lowed the course OF the Senator from Ala
bama Mr.. MOrgan) he was compelled by
necessity of occasion 10 deal with "trash'a
for there was very little else in the record
OF the Senator except what could be de-
nominated by the word "trash."
The debate took cOlloquial form be-
tween Messrs. George, Butler, Maxey,
Morgan and others, and between Mr..
Morgan and Mr.. George it was very per-
sonal.
A WASTE OF WORDS.
Mr.. Morgan denied some of the infer
ences drawn by MIR. George from his Mr..
MOrgan's) speeches on former measures
before Congress, and said Mr.. Georges
reading mlsrepresented him.
Mr.. George shall read the Senator's
own language, and then | shall not mis-
represent you.
Mr.. Morgan-It does misrepresent me.
Mr.. George-If / read your own lan-
guage il will not misrepresent you.
Mr.. Morgan--It does misrepresent me,
and the Senator knows it.
Mr.. George-It is untrue. The state
ment made by the Senator is simply un-
true, and he knows 10.
Messrs. Dolph, Platt, Blair, Logan, Ed
munds, HOar and Allison also took part
in the debate.
WHITES AND BLACKS.
Mr.. Allison suggested an amendment.
which he said he would offer at the prop
er time, providing that in each State in.
which there shall be separate schools for.
white and colored children the money
paid shall be appOrtiOned and paid out for
the support Of such white and colored
schools In the proportion that the illite-
racy of white and colored persons bear
TO each other as shown by the census.
Mr.. Allison thought the bill should be so
amended as TO be precisely what it was
intended TO be, and that there should be-
no room left for doubt to arise when the
provisions Of the bill came to be applied
in practice as 10 the proportions OF money
TO be applied to white and col0red schools
respectively.
The debate here closed for the day, and
the Senate at O'Clock adjourned.