Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-04
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, March 3, 1886


 SENATE-The chair laid before the Senate the Presidents message on Chinese matters. It was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Also messages from the President relating to payment of claims of the Chero- kee Indians and the sale of land belonging to the Sac and Fox Indians; referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs
 MT. Platt presented a joint resolution of the Connecticut legislature recommending the removal of the naval training school from Coasters island to the New London naval station.
 MT. Evarts presented petitions of officers and trustees of saving banks of New York $437, ,00O, 900 of deposits in favor of the sus- pension of the silver coinage.
 MT. Beck offered resolution, which was agreed to, on the Secretary of the Treasury calling for information as to how much, if any, of the actual payments and purchases of the principal of the public debt since July 1, 1877, have been in excess of the requirements of the laws regulating the sink ing fund and how the existing laws can be carried out in relation to said fund from now until the $250, 1000, 900 of 1-2 per cent bonds mature. MT. Beck said that he had positive information this subject up to 1S77 and he wanted later information.
 A request of Mr. Gibson to have the refer ence of bill changed from the Committee on Military Affairs to that on Public Lands provoked some discussion. The bill referred to related to military reservation at Baton Rouge, La., which was now in charge of the Interior department as abandoned. After some discussion between Messrs. Logan and Gibson as to the authority of the War and Interior departments in regard to "aban- doned" military posts, Indian reservations, etc. Mr. Cockrell offered a resolution, which was agreed to, calling on the Secretary of War for full information as to such aban- doned reservations.
 MT. Riddleberger offered a resolution, l which was agreed to, requiring each Senator to report to the Senate the name of his pri- vate secretary. In introducing the resolu- ton MT. Riddleberger said that, while Cap tain Eads had not been on the floor of the Senate, he had three henchmen there-two representing Republican papers and one a Democratic paper-Who came to secure in- formation on which to libel Senators. 1m- | agine man having a ticket to the Senate floor in the pretended capacity of a private secretary to a Senator, which Senator had | his own son as his private secretary, who drew the pay, while the other-the creature | was compensated by the ticket. Upon motion of Mr. Hoar the resolution | was amended so as to have the names sent to | the secretary of the Senate. After further unimportant routine busi- ! ness, the education bill was taken up and | Mir. Morrison spoke in advocacy of the bill ana Tn opposition to the Alllson anehu- ment
 l An amendment offered by Mir. Hoar to the | amendment of MT. Allison was agreed to pro- l viding that in each State having separate white and colored schools the money received | by such State under the bill should be ap- propriated and applied in the proportion of | ilhteracy of the two races respectively until | an equal sum per capita shall have been ap- | propriated from the national and State funds | and declaring the object of the bill to secure l equal advantages to all children of whatever | color or race.
 l MT. Edmunds then moved substitute for the amendment as amended. The substi- | tute is as follows: "And in each State and | territory in which there shall be separate | schools for white and colored children the l money paid each State and territory shall be | appropriated and paid out for the support ot l such white and colored schools respectively l in the proportion that the white and colored 1 children between the ages of ten and twenty l one years in such State or territory bear to
 each other as shown by the census of 1880 | The foregoing provision shall not affect the l application of the proper proportion of said
 money to the support of ali common schools i whe~ no distinction ct race or color shall | exist" MT. Edmunds addressed the Senate
 in support of his amendment.
 MT. Blair was willing to accept MT. Ed
 munds' substitute for the Allison amend | ment. The substitute he said would remove l all the objection that had been made to tha
 amendment It distributed the money or
 the best attainable basis of white and color
 ed, giving the white no more than the black:
 and vice versa.
 MT. Edmunds' substitute was then agreed
 to.
 l An amendment offered by MT. Dolph pro