The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-31
POWER OF PEDAGOGUES.
SENATOR MORGAN BoMBARDs THE
BLAIR BILL.

10 Objects to Lassoing the Whole
country and Putting It in School-The
Measure Smacks Too Much of Com
nulsory Education in the Opinion OF
me Gifted Albanian.
yr,sutNGToN, Jan. 30.--The Senate to-
5oy took up the Blair educational bill, and
NJ. MORGAN addressed the Senate in opposi-
.,to H. This was the third occasion, he
.;l that he had discussed the measure. He
Ial looked through the bill with an earnest
/ losiro +o understand it. He could not say
na, he approved its policy, because he
tbouoht it belonged to that class of
Intensive legislation, which, like intensive
arricuIture and great many other inten-
sive thugs, recoiled and produced collapse
instead of promoting healthy, steady and
ornament growth. He would have been
yorv qiad to gain his own consent to the
wisdom of the bill, and to the proposition
hat il had legal foundation among the
,,rors of the government, but in
Teither respect had he been able to overcome
,bo.e objections which arose in his mind,
rot 81 much from political training as from
his life studies of the constitutional distribu-
tiop of mowers between the United States
and the States
WOULD MAKE SCHOOLS DEPENDENT.
He knew that the retroactive effect of
the bill upon the schools themselves would
ba to callse them to RELY on the government
n the United States. and to disassocate
them entirely from reliance on their home
and State governments. Such unlimited,
UNRESTRICTED unguarded, unjust powers,
hacked with such untold millions of money
rs this bill conferred upon the Secretary of
the Interior, had never before been cont1ded
lnsal- oft no
President He would not consent that the
state of Alabama should be put under any
coercion moral or otherwise, or even eX-
posed to temptation under this
bill. II Congress would take
off the burden of surplus taxation
Alabama would take care of her own COM
mon schools She was doing it now in a
wsv 10 put to blush many of the older
States. The trainers of this bill seemed to
think that the whole of the United States
was to be put upon the blanket Indian"
basis, to be lassoed and put into school The
next step in the progress of usurpatl0n
would be compulsory education. lhe
schoolmaster intended to take possession of
the land aud this bill would give him in the
State of Alabama $4,000, 900 year in sala-
ries while all the State expenses OF the
government were but 100000.
Mr. Blair remarked that he did not be-
leve in compulsory education:
POLITICAL OBJECTS
Mr. Morgan said that that was certainly
tbe only reason why compulsory education
was not in the bill, because the Senator
from New Hampshire had got everything
else IN it that he believed i'll. As to the
political objects of the bill the Senator from
New Hampshire (Mr. Blair) wanted to pro-
tect the ballot box by educating the negroes
while the Junior Senator (Alr. Chandler)
wanted to do it by taking shot guns out of
the hands of the white men. That was the
proposition They had no more right to i'll
terfere with mans voting in the State of
Mississippi than he, Mr.. Morgan, had to in
terfere with a mans going to church in
New Hampshire. He believed that educa-
ton was safer in the hands of the fathers
and mothers in the community than IN the
hands of ''patent outside" teachers, and that
one of the defects of the common school SyS-
TEN was the discouraging of cooperating
parents Several attempts had been made
nv Congress to benefit the condition of the
negroes The Freedman's Bank was one of
them. 1t did not make the negroes rich,
but it made other people rich. This bill
was another gift to the negroes, but it was
gift which would destroy them. 1t would
take from that race of people all the man
hood which they possessed, and prevent the
very best efforts of their friends in the
South from making anything of them He
concluded by expressing the hope that ne
would never again be called upon to speak
on the Blair bill.
Mr.. Evarts took the floor and announced
his intention to speak upon the bill to-mor-
row.
JUDGE sTRoNG'S OPINION.
Mr. Blair referred to the statement circu-
atng through the press as to ex-Justice
Strong, Of the Supreme Court, having de
clared himself against the constitutionality
Of the bill. He had taken pains to speak to
~
be able to deny authoritatively the i'm
probable statement that Judge Strong said
ne had spoken with members of the Supreme
Court on the subject. He had it from
Judge Strongs own lips that he had had nc
conversation with any of the Justices OF
,he Supreme Court about the bill, and
Knew nothing whatever of their opinions
about it.
Mr.. Vest asked Mr. Blair whether Judge
strong had not stated to a law class in
Washington that he believed the bill unccn
Sttutonal
G. Mr. Blair replied in the negative. Judge
ouong had told him that he made no allu-
Noh Whatever to the bill in any lecture, but
'udl when his lecture was over one of the
Students asked him what he thought of the
,onsntutionality Of the Blair bill, and that
uS reply was that he doubted its constitu-
uonahty
ATTITUDE OF THE REPUBLICANS.
He Mr. Blair had never heard any Re-
9IDLcah express doubt as to the constitu
lohalty Of the bill. Doubts had been eX
pressed by Republicans of its propriety, OF
~ ~ necessity, but not of its constitutiouality.
az az ned IN his hand memorial of the trus-
pCI 5e5 of the Peabody fund in 1880 signed by
HHooert c; Winthrop, Mr. Waite now Chief
SStSNglce OF the Supreme Court and w illiau
~. hVarts, asking Congress to grant aid to
oss sguFe TO the colored people Of the South
IN states the education necessary TO fiji
o.5m ,lem ior the discharge of their duties as
't,iLens OF the United States.
ar heagan remarked that the gentlemen
da. no signed that memorial repudiated the
agi Fa mat the appropriation which they
@sAeo should be forced into the States by
0%IiisreSSional legislation.
Nr Blair recalled TO those arguing
ssaII saIusj y the bills through newspapers "tht
'1o.SgedIlngly able constitutional argument
f'pl' fiale IN the Senate by the present junior
'sstce &c OF the Supreme Court, Mr.. Lamar
er al = 80 O'Clock the Senate proceeded tc
o'sgIt, Ae,ullYe business, and at $3.50 O'Clock ad
'u'ned'
constitutional Amendment.
WASHINGTON, Jan. SO.--In the Senate
n, 'aY Mr.. HOar from tho Committae OF