The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-27

Allison, from the Committee on Appro
| priations, reported back the Houss
bill TO carry into effect the provisions OF
the act of the I'd of March, 1887, in re
gard to experimental stations at agri
| cultural colleges. Placed on the calen
| dar.
INCREASING PENSIONS FOR DEAFNESS.
took from the calendar and passed the
bill increasing the pension for tota
deafness to $50 a month (from S13) and
allowing proportionate rating for par
tial deafness. He stated that the entire
increased expense to the Treasury under
the bill would not exceed 100000 a
year.
BILLS ON THE CALENDAR.
The calendar was then taken up and
the bills thereon taken up in their regular
order, those objected to being laid aside
without action.
A number of tills of local interest
were passed.
MRS. LoGAS's PENSION.
The Senate then took up the bill Civ
ing a pension of $1,000 yearly TO the
widow of General John 4. Logan. After
a long debate Mr.. Berry called for the
yeas and nays on the passage of the bill
and the bill was passed-yeas, 30; nays, Z.
The negative votes were given by
Berry, Coke, Colquitt, Harris, Reagan,
Salisbury and Vance.
INCREASING MRS. BLAIR's PENSION.
On motion of Mr.. Vest, like bill, in
creasing to 5000 year the pension of
the widow of General Frank p. Blair,
was passed by vote of "a TO 6 (Sauls-
bury not voting).
The Senate then took up the Blair
Educational bill, but soon proceeded to
the consideration of executive business.
The doors We're soon opened and Mr.
Blair proceeded with his remarks.
BADGERING BLAIR.
The remarks of Blair on the subject of
Northern capitalists in the South were
interpreted by Mr.. Dawes as meaning
that these Northern capitalists were in
fiuenced only by money making consid-
erations and cared little for the promo
tion of popular education in that sec
ton. Dawes inquired what Blair really
meant in that connection, and was as
sured by Blair that he had said nothing
which would justify such an interpre-
tation.
Mr.. Hawley subsequently noticed the
same point, and Blair complained that
both had attempted to place him in a
false attitude. Mr.. Hawley assured him
that he meant nothing of the kind. He
did not mean that the Senator from New
Hampshire had said anything more than
that Northern men went to the South
with their capital in an ordinary mer-
camille way, or, in Blair's own words,
for the purpose of ''self-appropriation"
to make money. He (Hawley) said that
they carried with them higher purpose
than that of mere money making, and
he instanced the Admission and Shelby
iron works in Alabama as places built
churches and schools were well sus-
tanned.
In concluding his speech Mr.. Blair
said he had confined himself to the pre-
sentation of testimony, that if ever there
was need of national aid to education,
that need had rather increased than di-
minished.
ADJOURNMENT.
Mr.. Morgan obtained the floor but
yielded to a motion to adjourn, and the
Senate at 4:45 adjourned till Monday.
COMBINATIONS.
The Senate has confirmed the nomina-
ton of Martin V. Montgomery as Asso
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court OF
the District of Columbia, and John Blair
Hoge as United States Attorney for the
District of Colorado; NJ. Parks, of Vir-
ginia, supervising inspector of steam
vessels for the Third District; f. F.
Bingham, of Ohio, to be Chief Justice OF
the Supreme Court of the District OF
Columbia; y. w. Mcconnell, of Ten
nesee, Chief Justice of Montana.