Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-18
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, Feb. II, 1886.


SENATE.-Mr. Hoar introduced bill pro
viding for the erection of a suitable monu
ment at Washington to General Grant.
appropriates $3.50, 900 for the purpose ant
| provides for commission of three member
| of each House to contract for the same. Mr.
| Logan suggested that the amount be increased
| to $3.50, 900, which was agreed to, and the
| bill was referred to the Library committee.
| A bill was passed providing punishment
| for trespassers on Indian lands or boomers
| by fine of not more than $500 or imprison-
ment or both.
The bill to provide for the allotment of
| lands in severalty to the Indians was then
| taken up but at two o'clock went over and
the educational bill came up. The Senate
agreed to the amendment striking out the
special appropriation for school buildings.
On motion of Mr.. Teller an amendment
was agreed to providing that none of the
| money appropriated by the bill shall be paid
to State until its legislature accepted the
provisions of the bill
An amendment by MI. Plumb providing
that the legislature have control of States
quota which the bill requires to be applied to
the education of teachers after slight
modification agreed to.
Mr. Butler moved to strike out clause
which he maintained compelled the States to
keep the schools up to a certain standard at
ter the operations of the bill had ceased and
it was ordered
Mr. Malone moved an amendment requlr-
ing the Governor of State to furnish the
Secretary of the Interior each year particulars
as to the population, white and colored, of
each school district: the number of white
and colored children of school age in each
such district the number attending school,
etc.
Pending action on this Mr.. Edmunds
moved that the Senate go into executive ses
sion. The bill was ordered reprinted as thus
e., Al h. ia OF ~
went into executive session. At O'Clock
the doors were reopened and the Senate ad-
journed.
HoUsE-The House passed the bill reduc-
ing from eight to five cents the rate for
money orders not exceeding So; also the bill
to protect homestead settlers within railway
limits. 1t provides that settlers restricted to
less than 100 acres may make additional
entry and have the same patented without
further proof OF settlement.
The bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter
was then taken up.
Mr.. Laird, of Nebraska, made a carefully
prepared argument in support of the bill,
and was followed by Mr.. Kelley of Pennsyl-
vania, in opposition. Mr.. Thomas, of Hin
OILS, also opposed the bill.
Mr.. Oates, of Alabama, made speech in
support of the bill and he was listened to
with great attention as he based his speech
HOAoOiAeNA
of August 30. In quiet, deliberate man
ner he described the assaults made upon that
day. There had been good deal OF fight
ing, but there had been no general engage
ment in the sense in which that term is
used 1t was insisted that Porter had been
in fault for not making an attack. The op
portunity of victory had been lost when
early on the morning of the goth of August
Generals Mcdowell and Porter with
their united forces did not
interpose in front of Longstreet
at Gainesville. They had together greater
number of men than Longstreet and by in
terposing they would have delayed his union
with jackson. But he did not think even
that interposing would have given the Veto
~ to Pope, for Jackson had strong position
from which he could not have been driven.
Pope was not to blame for failing to inter
pose, for Mcdowell ranked him and if any
one was to blame it Mcdowell. He adj
mitted that in the strict sense Of military
discipline Porter had disobeyed orders, but
the punishment had been too severe.
Mr.. Weber, of New York, earnestly sup
ported the bill arr the committee then rose
and the House ct $40 adjourned