The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-31
Experimental Stations Bill Passes
Both Houses.
Senator Morgan the BLAIR Bfl-This
Was . GIFT to tho Negroes which
Would Destroy Them


Senate and referred were the following:
OF the National Board of Trade in favor
Of reciprocity cf trade relations between
the United States and Canada; from va
rious States in favor of prohibition in
the District of Columbia; of copy right
law; Of the proposed international expo
sition and of a constitutional amend
ment against the liquor traffic.
RAILROAD LANDS IN FLORIDA.
The following bill was reported by the
Committee on Public Lands and placed
on the calendar:
For the judicial determination Of the
rights of the United States in lands
granted to Florida for railroad purposes
under the act of 18th of May. 1886.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
Mr.. Hoar, from the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, reported the
proposed constitutional amendment as
to the meeting of Congress, and said he
would ask the Senate tomorrow to take
it up and deal with it.
NO REDUCTION IN LETTER POSTAGE
Mr.. Sawyer, from the Post Office
Committee, reported back adversely the
proposition to reduce letter postage to
one cent. He stated in reply to Mr..
Beck that the committee had made no
written report, but that he did not think
it prudent to attempt to reduce postage
at present. The Post Office Department
was still running behind, and it was
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sustaining before any further reduction
of postage was attempted. Placed on
the calendar.
MR.. PLUME ON THE MAILS.
Mr.. Plumb offered resolution in-
structing the Post Office Committee to
inquire into the causes of inefficient
mail service, especially in the West and
South, and presented newspaper extracts
and letters to show the ''Democratized"
condition of the service in Kansas, the
result Of a ''stupid attempt to make
record of economy" He said that the
late Postmaster General had seemed to
be possessed of frontic effort to make
both ends meet, and that he had in that
effort deprived the people OF what they
always had had until within a short
period Of time. The postal service in
the West had got to that point where its
condition was absolutely unbearable.
The resolution went over.
EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS BILL PASSED.
The House bill making appropriations
to carry into effect the law establishing
experimental stations at agricultural
colleges, was reported from the Com
mittee ON Appropriations, and passed,
with an amendment appropriating
money from the Treasury directly, in
stead of devoting the proceeds Of the sale
of public lands to that purpose.
THE BLAIR BILL
The Senate then took up the Blair Ed
ucational bill. and Mr.. Morgan addressed
the Senate in opposition to it.
MR.. MoRGAN's SPEECH.
This was the third occasion, he said,
that he had discussed the measure. He
had looked through the bill with an
earnest desire to understand it. He
could not say that he approved its policy
because he thought it belonged to that
class of intensive legislation which, like
/ intensive agriculture and great many
other intensive things, recoiied and pro
duced collapse instead of promoting q
healthy, steady and permanent growth
He would have been very glad to gair
his own consent to the wisdom of thu
bill and to the proposition that it had 1
4 \ - OI
the Government. But in neither respec
had he been able to overcome these oil
iections which arose in his mind, not s,
much from political training as from hi
life studies of the constitutional distri
button of the powers between the Unitet
States and the States. He knew tina
the retroactive effect Of the bill upon TIN
schools themselves would be to caus
them to rely on the Government of tli
United States and to dissociate them en-
tirely from reliance on their home an,
State Government. Such unlimited
unrestricted, ungnarded, unjust powers
backed with such untold millions o
money as this bill conferred upon tn
Secretary of the Interior, had never b
fore been confided to such an officer
mere clerk of the President. He woul
not consent that the State of Alabam
should be put under any coercion, mors
or otherwise, or even exposed to tempt;
tion under this bill. II Congress woul
take off the burden OF surplus taxatic
Alabama would take care of her ow
common schools. She was doing it no
in way to put to blush many Of II
older States. The trainers Of this bi
seemed to think that the whole Of Il
I United States was to be put upon
"blanket Indian" basis, to be lassoos
and put into school. The next step
the progress OF usurpaticn would be cor
pulsory education The school mast
intended to Jake possession Of the Ian
and this hill would give him in q
State Of Alabama q, ,000, 900 . year
salaries, while all the Stats expenses
the GovsEnmsnt were but 600. 900.
lGr. Blair remarked that he did not I
lisvs IN compalsogy education.
~. MoEunn snid thas that w1s =
1r1nly 50 cnlyssnnum Why ee0Un1pu