The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-20
Mr. Evarts Makes Speech in Advocacy Of
the Blair Educational Bill and Mr.. In
gals Opposes the Measure.
The Bill Denounced as National Inter.
ference in Affairs of the States.
Mr.. Scott Defends the Administration Against
the Assaults of Its Democratic Enemies,
and Incidentally Talks About Silver.
THE SENATE.
An Inquiry as to the Death of Captain Craw-
ford-Debate on the Blair Bill

AD Inquiry as to the Death of Captain Craw-
ford-Debate on the Blair Bill.
WAsHINeroN. Feb. 19.-The Chair laid before
the Senate a communication from the Secretary
of the Interior. transmitting a copy of the laws
passed at the last session of the Legislature OF
Arizona.
Mr. Manderson offered resolution directing
the Secretaries of State and War toinqure and re-
port to the Senate the facts surrounding the kiIl
ing of Captain Emmet Crawford, u. s. A, said
to have been slain on about Jan. 10. 1886, by
Mexican troops, and to report what steps were
being taken for the punishment, by the Mexican
government of those guilty Of the alleged out
rage also. whether reparation and indemnity
should not be made to those who suffered, and
ample explanation and apology be made to the
United States for the apparently gross insult.
In offering the resolution. Mr.. Manderson said
it was due to the United States, not less than to
the relatives of the deceased, that inquiry should
be made as to the killing of Captain Crawford.
Mr.. Manderson read the official report of Lieut..
Maus, U. S. A., on the subject, and maintained
that if the facts were there correctly set forth,
they constituted very severe reflection on the
Mexican troops Mr.. Manderson paid a high
tribute to the courage and soldierly devotion of
Captain Crawford, and aninadverted with se-
verify on the course pursued by the Mexicans.
He expressed the hope that the United States
would compel reparation, if necessary, by force.
from the Mexican government, in case that gov
ernment should prove to be in any way response
BILE for the conduct of les troops in this instance.
Mr.. Butler objected to the present considera-
tion of the resolution.
Mr.. Edmunds said the custom of the Senate
was TO refer to the committee ON foreign rela-
tions all questions affecting our relations with
foreign governments. The subject-matter of the
resolution should certainly be carefully inquired
into; but at this moment Mr.. Edmunds contin-
ued, we were bound to assume that the Presi-
dent and Secretary of State were not slumbering
on the subject, but were making careful investi-
CATION and endeavoring to bring the Mexican
government to the punishment of whatever was
wrong. Mr.. Edmunds certainly hoped SO. and
could not doubt that that was the case.
The resolution, with Mr.. Manderson's assent,
was referred to the committee on foreign rela-
tions
Among the bills introduced and appropriately
referred was one by Mr. Edmunds relative to
the eight hour law. He said the bill related to
the letter-carriers' hours of labor. Those hours
seemed to be really in excess of what human
nature could endure.
On motion of Mr.. Eustis the resolution of in
quiry heretofore offered by him relating to the
New Orleans subtreasury and its treatment Of
the silver dollar taken from the calendar
Mr.. Teller's amendment was agreed TO. extend
ing the inquiry into the causes of the defacation
alleged to have occurred st the New Orleans sub
treasury in connection with the handling of sill
yer dollars.
The resolution. thus amended. was agreed to-
On motion of Mr.. Dawes, the Senate then re-
sumed consideration of the bill to provide for
the allotment of lands in severalty to the In
dians. After short debate, participated in by
Messrs Dawes, Plumb, ingalls,, Teller, Maxey,
and Chase, the bill, at o'clock. went over
The education bill was placed before the SEN
ate, and Mr.. Evarts took the floor in its ad-
vocacy He took up the objections to the bill,
and, after discussing them, expressed his failure
to see that they we'll founded. Continu-
ing, he said that the people Of the United States
were confronted with deliberate, conservatives
thoughtful and honorable measure for the rem
edy of that iSnorance,-a measure which, look.
ing in the face of the situation produced by the
war. proposed TO apply the abundant resources
of a renovated and restored Union to and for tho
common defense and general welfare of the peo
pie of the Nation, with as large and liberal
hand as it had exerted the power to produce the
result of the war.
in the Northern and Southern States before the
war-the Southern States preferring not to edu-
cate the blacks; the Northern States believ-
ing in universal education. 1t was
this fact, and the homogeneity result
ing from the Northern method. that had
made Northern arms successful. Admitting, he
said, that the Constitution contained the DOR
mant and sleeping power claimed for 1t by the
advocates of this bill, the question was, why
should that power be evokedl Why should we
I'm the school svStan Of fha
try into the custody of the general government
The South was unjust to itself. One Of the most
distressing symptoms about the South was its
want of self t-reliance-its disposition to call on
the general government for assistance. Nothing
made men or nations strong as the exercise of
their own faculties. The South had not been
impoverished by the war. The ownership Of
four millions of men had AMPLY been trans
ferred from their masters to themselves. A free
man, however, was better than slave, and the
South was therefore. not poorer, but richer for
the change. Mr.. ingalls, read an article from
Southern paper showing that since 1879 the as
sessed value of Southern property had increased
by 5000, 600, 900, and that $500 600 900 worth of
railroads had been built. and that in every other
direction material progress there was making
rapid strides. Men of the South,n said he, lis
that true story2 Is there any Senator from the
South who will rise in his place and say that the
condition of the South is not immeasurably bet
ter than it was before the warp
Mr. Riddleberger replied that he, for one.
would say that the South was not In as good
condition as before the war, though he did not
regret the result of the war.
Mr. Ingalls, saw no occasion for dependency
as to the education of the colored man. Nothing
in history could compare with the advance they
had made. II the object of the bill, however.
was TO promote the education of the illiterate
classes between the ages of six and twenty-one,
and il the bill were so amended. no Senator
would vote with wider liberality than he 70
accomplish that result
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first Of these educational bills, ten or fifteen
years ago. and the proposition had never como
from the people of the South. 1t was a North
ern idea. and was supported by Northern ssnti-