Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-26
.TLLI. CONGRESS.
WAsHINGToN, Feb. ., 1856.

senate.
The Chair laid before the Senate {
communication from the Secretary o
the Treasury transmitting reply to a
recent reSOlutiOn--a statement showing
the amount of United States notes re.
deemed as required by the resumption
act since July, 1879. Ordered to be
printed and laid on the table.
Among the bills fayorably reported
from committees were the following
BY Mr.. Edmunds. from the judiciary
Committee, to relieve Robert Ii. An
derson, Of Georgia, from his political
disabilities. On Mr.. Edmunds'S mo-
ton the bill was at once passed.
Mr.. Hoar, from the Committee on
Privileges and Elections. reported back,
with amendments, the bill which had
been Iecommitted by the Senate to the
committee, fixing the day for the meet
ing Of the presidential electors. Or
dered to be printed and placed on the
calendar, Mr.. Hoar saying he would
call it up at an early date.
The bill to provide for the allotment
Of land in severalty to Indians was
passed.
At 2 o'clock the education bill was
laid before the Senate, and Mr.. George
took the floor to continue his remarks
in favor of the bill. The people of
Mississippi, he said, had so much in
terest in the bill that he felt constrained
to present some further views in ad-
vOcacy Of the measure. He called
Mr.. Morgan's attention to the resolu-
ton introduced by him Morgan at a
former session Of the Senate giving a
months extra pay to congressional
clerks. lie found no warrant in the
Constitution for such payment, if Mr..
MoIgan's theory Of the constitution
atty of the education bill was a true
one.
Mr.. Morgan inquired what had be-
come Of the resolution.
Mr.. George replied that he did not
know, and he then went on to criticise
Mr.. MoTgan's record in the matter of
appropriations for other purposes.
Mr. Morgan said he would not follow
the retail effort of Mr.. George to lay
before the world his (Morgan's) record,
but the Senator from Mississippi was
welcome to any instance Of that sort Of
trash that he could find in his Nor
gan's) record. The Senator from Mis-
sissippi was the first senator who had
capacity to see any unconstitutionality
in the act which he had criticised.
Mr.. George was much obliged for the
mplimentary manner in which Mr..
Morgan had referred TO him. 1t so
happened, he said, that when the Sena.
tor followed the course Of the Senator
from Alabama (Morgan) he was COM
PEELED by the necessity of the occasionto
deal with trash" fer there was very
little else in the record Of the Senator
except what could he denominated by
the word trash
The debate took a colloquial form
between Messrs. George, Butler,
Maxey, Morgan and others, and between
Messrs. Morgan and George it was very
personal. Mr.. Morgan denied some of
The differences drawn by Mr.. George
rom his lMorgan's) speeches on former
measures before Congress, and said
Mr.. Georges reading misrepresented
him.
Mr.. George &" | shall read the Sena-
.Or's own language, and then shall
not misrepresent you"
MIR. Morgan (" 1t does miSrepresent
me-"
Mr.. George "lf | read your own
language it will not miSrepresent you"
Mr.. Morgan lit does misrepresent
ne, and the Senator knows it,"
Mr.. George: at is untrue. The |
statement made by the Senator is SIM
,ly untrue, and he knows it,"
Mcssrs. Dolph, Plat. Blair, Logan, |
Hoar, and Allison also took !
art in the debate.
Mr.. Allison suggested an amend |
lent, which he said he would offer at |
be proper time, providing that in each
tate in which there shall be separate
chools for white and colored children |
be money paid shall be apportioned
nd paid out for the support of such
'hite and colored schools in the pro-
ortion that the illiteracy Of white and
olored persons bear TO each other as
hown by the census.
Mr.. Allison thought the bill should
G so amended as to be precisely what
was intended to be, and there should
Q no room left for doubt to arise when
be provisions Of the bill came to be APP
lied in practice as to the proportions
money to be applied to white and
'lored schools respectively.
The debate here closed for the day.
I'd the Senate at q o'clock adjourned.
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