The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-02-21

schools; the number of white and colored chill
dren between the ages of 10 and y the
number of schools in operation; average at
tendance OF scholars, etc. No amount is to be
paid to any state or territory in any year
greater than the amount expended out OF its
own revenues in the preceding year for the
maintenance Of common schools No part of
the funds is to be used for the erection or rent
OF school buildings, but an additional fund OF
two millions is to be allotted in the year for
school houses, either for construction or rent
ing. in sparsely populated districts.
Mr.. Berry, by way Of personal explanation,
said that while he was a candidate for the SEN
ate, he had promised, if elected, to vote for the
bill, the legislature Of his state having pro-
nounced in favor Of it. There never had been
time, however, when he was not opposed to
it, and but for the instructions of the legisla-
ture for his own plighted word, he would have
voted today against the bill.
Mr.. Randall from the committee on appro-
priations, reported a resolution for the APP
pointment Of a special committee OF five mem
bers TO investigate and report TO the house
what contracts have been made for the con-
struction Of the new library building and the
amount expended hereunder, the cause Of
delay in the progress Of the work and what
persons have been employed and paid from
appropriations for the purchase of the
site and construction of the building.
Items for various expenses connected with
the departments came in for a good deal of
criticism, III the course Of which Mr.. Randall
priatOnS in calling attention to this matter
was to bring the people in control Of the adj
nnistration Of justice to the due realization
Of what was necessary in this connection. The
committee on judiciary should frame some
FOrt OF amendment to the statnte law which
would prevent gross injustice which was done
to innocent and inoiiending citizens by trivial
prosecutions. Many Of these prosecutions, as
SAID by the gentleman from Missouri, (Burnes)
came under the internal revenue laws BY all
.rp1sg Ia nIr
The time had come when these wrongs should
be duly considered, and he hoped the Judiciary
committee and the gentleman from Arkansas
(ROgers) as member Of that committee would
take a hand in the work. A wink was some
times az good as a nod to a blind horse
Laughter.
Mr.. Rogers-I sometimes take wink, but
when wink | wink at the tariff. Laughter
Mr.. Randall-All right We viii wink to-
gother, maybe. Laughter and applause.
Mr.. Rogers-If that suggestion means any
thing it gives me profound qualification, for
heretofore we have not been winking together
on that biect.
Mr.. Burnes said that he would never cease
denouncing the horrors and evils perpetrated
in the name of law by officers of the law under
the internal revenue law, At the same time
no wished to say to the gentleman from Penn
sylvania (RandalD and the country that he
would remove the burdens of tariff taxation
and reduce taxes on some of the nccessaries of
life before he would undertake to lessen inter-
nal revenue taxation. [Appause.l
Mr.. Richardson, of North Carolina, from the
committee on printing, reported the senate
concurrent resolution for the printing of Z 600
additional copies of executive document 81. on
the subject OF cattle and dairy products. On
this resolution, MIR. Martin, of Texas, delivered
his maiden speech, and though he made it re-
CARELESS of the fact he had not received recog-
milton from tho chair, his earnest deelara-
ton that every farmer in the land should have
a copy of this valuable book was received with
applause.