Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-12
ILIr. CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. Feb. IL, 1856.

ASlIlNGTON. Feb. IL, 1886.
senate.
In the Senate to-day, after the dis
poSal of the routine morning business.
Mr.. Edmunds said as one important
committee Of the Senate had to 20 to
New York to-day, and other important
committees had considerable work to
DO, he believed the public business
would be best subserved by an adjourn
ment of the Senate from this afternoon
till Monday. lie therefore moved that
when the Senate adjourn to-day it be
till Monday. Agreed to.
Mr.. Teller submitted an amendment
to Mr. Eustis's resolution Of inquiry re-
gardiDg the refusal Of the Assistant
Treasurer at New Orleans 10 issue silver
certificates in exchange for silver dol
lars. The amendment directs the Com
mittee on Finance to inquire also into
the loss of money alleged to have oc.
Cured in the New Orleans Sub-Trea-
sury, and whether such loss occurred in
connection with the exchange Of silver
ment was ordered to be printed.
The Senate took up and passed, after
some discussion but without amend
ment, the bill to regulate the promo
tion Of West Point cadets. The effect
Of the bill is that graduates become
part Of the army upon graduation,
even though no vacancies in the service
may exist
At . O'Clock the education bill was
laid before the Senate, and Mr.. Nor
gan took the floor on it.
The bill, Mr.. Morgan said, was a
bill TO create offices aud elaborate the
machinery OF Government. Ii was a
bill to tax the honest, Woodworking
man in order to educate the children of
the drunken, loafng vagabond who
would not work for his family. If
from the sixty millions of people in the
United States were to be deducted all
the dead-heads, dead-beatS, and nom
producers, there would be about twenty
millions Of people left who would have to |
pay the taxes TO carry out the provisions
of this bill. The bill itself would be
equivalent TO a tax Of s3 per capita
on those taxpayers, and by the time
all the officers were appointed for the
of this scheme Of be-
nevolence, aud all the clerks appointed
that would be necessary TO Investigate
the accounts Of the thirty-eight States
md ten Territories affected by the bill,
1 would be found that the tax per cap
to would be sl0 instead Of 50. If
United States senators were men
Who ploughed the fields or worked
Is smiths and paid their taxes out
" the sweat Of their brow, Mr.. Nor
,an could have more respect for them
Vhen voting away the money Of one
nan TO educate the children Of another.
he constitutional ground for the bill,
ir. Morgan continued, was said to be
ound in the general-welfare clause of
he preamble TO the Constitution. Such
n application Of that clause sim
ly meant that you could pull
own q man that got up by his
wn exertions in order to put
p drunken loafer that would not
xer, himself. The best people in the
nited States to-day were those in the I
aekwoods, who, in the fear OF God 7
I'd having respect for good order and
ie morals Of society, had brought up Q
'ound their own footstools and hearth q
ores honest, sincere, diligent, and U
ithfal sons and daughters. r
Following this line Of argument, Mr.. u
organ spoke until 40 P. H., ecca- Il