Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-16
CONGRESSIONAL.
Blair CToEes Debate on His Bill In the
Senate With g DenuncistIon OF
tho Jesuits.
Passes the Bill Creating Greer County
Arbitration Board.
Fiftieth Congress.
TIE SENATE.


commercial prosperity of the America
nation was reported and placed on III
calendar.
the Senate then resumed considerable
of the Blair educational bill and was 40
dressed by MT. Hale in opposition to 1t.
Mr.. Salisbury also spoke against tn
bill.
The debate was closed by Mr.. Blair i
8 final argument in advocacy of the bill
He spoke of the opposition made to tn
bill by the New York Evening Post, I'll
Washington Post and other organs @
"Jesuitry." The opposition to the bill
was fight sgainst the common school
Of the country, an attempt to subvert
great system. Soon after the bill Wa
passed at last Congress and while it wa
struggling in the hands OF packed com
mittee in the House of Representatives
where 1t Wss 6aslly strangled, the Sens
tor had shown to him (and he had read
the original letter Of 8 Jesuit priest beg
ging member of Congress to oppose the
bill and to kill 1t. The writer said there
was an organic Iticn all ever the country
for the destruction Of the bill, and thai
they would destroy it inevitably; and also
II they had known of il in season they
could have prevented It's passage through
the Senate. They had begun In season
this time, but they would not destroy It
Twelve years ago, when he was q mem
Ger the House, and while there was 6
proposition pending 10 amend the consti-
tuIion 30 as to prevent the appropriation
Of public money to the support Of secta.
ozk@ l.
friend Of his pointed out to him
nine Jesuits on the floor Of the House
log rolling against that roposition-nine
at one time. They were not Che thanked
God) the Catholic church. 10 the sound
of his voice were sleeping the remains OF
John Carroll and Charles Carroll of Car
rollton, men who had been devoted to
civil rights and to true religion, and
against the great Catholic organization OF
the country he would say nothing, as he
reVered their memory, as he venersted
that great organization, which in his be-
lief wss true exemplary OF true Chris
tlanity. He cared not how far It extended
or how widely It's power was spread. But
within that organization WAS Jesuit Or
gRnizStion which had set out to control
this country, which had been repudiated
by every country in the Old world, Cath
ole or Protestant, but which had come to
America and was now trying to secure
control of this continent by destroying the
public school system. The Jssuits had
been expelled from the countries of the
old world, and the time would come when
they would be looked upon as enemies of
this country and when the question OF
their expulsion would have to be consid-
cred. All through the north (Gou only
knew under what Influences the news
papers had opposed the bill and had ar
gued that such aid TO the common
schools wss no longer needed, but he had
for three or four days read of demons rs-
tons from every state in the south
showing hat It was still s necessity, as
much so es ever. He spoke of the Chi
csgo Tribune as one Of the papers which
had for yesrs advocated even the extra
ordinary appropriation OF $50, 900, 900,
by General Logan for the school
system Ct the country, but which now
opposed this DILL and denounced
it IS bill for the promotion
of mendIcsrcy. What had produced
tie changer The Boston Herald
had for years been an advocate
of the bill, bat had abandoned 1t last
Congress. He mentioned also In the
ssms connection the Boston Advertiser
and the New YORK Sun and Times. The
Times, he said, had been for years Its
advocate and WAS now charging that
there WAS no pretense for II, that the
necessity had passed away. Why was
this? It was because there was on the
staff CT every great newspaper In the
country to-day Jesuit whose business
it was to gee that 8 blow was struck
whenever there was an opportunity to
strike at the common school system Of
America, and the further investigation
was carried in that direction the more
potent would the fact appear. There
was another power, he said, arrsyed
against the bill-the power Of the liquor
interest, as represented By its Washing
ton organ, the Sentinel. The time was not
far distant when the people of the north
would understand all the lugglery. The
American people would have the truth
from that gallery (pointing to the re-
porteF's gallery or, said he, they will
clear that gallery on which l now gaze.
The Senate then proceeded to vote on
the bill ard amendments.
Mr.. Plumb offered an amendment p O.
vidIDg that the money should be annually
divided among the several states and ter
ritories and the District Of Columbia in
TO their population between
the sges of ten and twenty one, as shown
BY the census. Rejected. Yeas, %;
aays, IS.
Mr.. Berry moved to amend by striking
put sec ion 4, the portion that requires
the governor Of state or territory to file
with the Secretary Of the Interior q state
nent showing the common school system
IN force, the amount Of money expended
during the preceding school year, etc.
-jec,ed. Yeas, %; nays, Il.
Mr.. Berry moved to strike out section
q, which prescrlbes condition for the
second and subsequent sllotments. Re-
ected. Yeas, 2l; nays, 10.
The bill Was then passed-yeas So; nays
70, as follows:
Yess-Allison, Berry, Blair, Bowen,
Brown, Cameron, Call, Chandler, Col
,uitt, Cullom, Daniel, Dawes, Dolph,
Sustis, Evsrts, George, Hampton, Hearst,
dosr, Jones. ct Ark Henderson, Mitch
IL, Morrill,, Palmer, Pssco, Payne, Plat
odgb, Quay, Ransom, Riddleberger, Saw
Ier, S AFFORD. Stewart, Stockbridge, TEL
er, Vance, Walthall, Wilson, (of lows, 80.
Nsys-Aldrich, Bate, Beck Blackburn,
3lodgett, Butler, Coke, Davis, Farwell,
faulkner, Frye, Gray, Hale, Harris,
Iawley, Hiscoek, Ingalls,. Jones, (of Ne