Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-30
NO SECT Is KNOWN
6y the Indian Commissioner, in
Making Necessary Removals.
HE SAYS so, AND OUGHT TO KNOW.
Related Pensioners Standing Determinedly
BY Their Guns.
POSTMASTER LARKIN SOLID AS YET
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WASHINGTON, October 29.-The Church
Ne1Us, Catholic organ published in this
city, contains in its issue of this week a
bitter attack on the management of the
Indian schools in antagonism to the Catho-
lies, and particularly berates DR.. Dor
chester. Superintendent of Indian schools,
for his bigotry and hostility. Commissioner
Morgan. who is also attacked, said to- day,
when asked his views in regard to this at
tack:
81 will say now, as have often said be-
fore since have been at the head of the
Indian Office, that 1 have not made re-
moval because man was Catholic or be-
cause man was Democrat Ny aim has
been to retain all employees who are fully
qualified, and to appoint only men OF
that character in filling vacancies. 1 have
refused TO enter into any contract with new
ly organized UNCONVENTIONAL schools, or
contract schools, as they are known, to dis
tinguish them from the schools solely con-
Quoted by the Government, because 1 am in
favor of the public school system.
ALL TREATED ALIKE.
'In educating the Indians to citizenship
see no reason why they should not be
taught in the same sort of schools as the
children of American citizens. am, there
fore, opposed to the system which encouraged
grants of money by the Government to pri-
vate elementary schools of any char
acter. The number OF Indian schools
conducted by the Government is 159. The
contract schools number II. renewed the
contracts with all the existing schools, but
refused to make contracts with proposed new
D. rhrr11 1c{c Etrafe
copalians, Baptists, as we'll as Roman
Catholics, applied to me for such contracts,
but I refused
cit is true" continued Mr.. Morgan.
''that the Catholic schools received larger
share of the appropriation than the schools
of any other denomination. This is shown
by the amount paid by the Government to
the Catholic contract schools. The appro-
priation for 1890 is divided thus: Bureau
of Catholic Missions, $3.50. 491, including
$4,000 special appropriation; Missions
of the Presbyterian Church, $47,-
$50; American Missionary Asso-
ciahon, SIG, ,4S9; Cathedral Chapter of
South Dakota (Episcopal), 81. $50; Ameri-
can Unitarian Association, S., 400; B. C.
Hobbs (Friends), S13, 1868, including special
appropriation of S12, coo; Whitis School,
Indiana (Friends), $1,000; Halstead, Kan
sas (Mennonites), s., 375; Mission School at
Wittenberg, Wis. (Lutheran), S., $50; S. d.
Hinman (EpiscopalD, $3.50; J. A. GilIfllan
(Episcopal), S19, ,116; Society of Methodist
Episcopal Church, IS, $50; total, S505, ,994
''In the year 1886 the Catholics received
S11S,343 out of a total appropriation of
SI74, ,S19; in 1887, S194, ,635 out of S3O9, VA;
in 1888. S221, ,169 out of 1922, ,s24; in 1889
S34T, ,6z2 out OF SAG, 100.
A GREATER INCREASE.
"The number of Catholic teachers in the
Government schools" added the commits
sioner, ''has increased recently in much
greater proportion than those of any other
denomination. But in all the changes
which have been made-and none have
been made recently-I have endeavored to
act for the best interests of the service, and
without reference to religious belief.
II more Catholics have been dismissed
that Protestants. it was probably due
to the fact that there were more Catholics in
the service. 1t is not known positively
what is the proportion of Catholic and
Protestant teachers that have been dropped
from the rolls. l never made any inquiry
as 70 teachers religious faith, but DIR.
Dorchester, in a recent letter, copy of which
have, says that undoubtedly more Protest
ants than Catholics have been dropped"