Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-03-11
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Revision Of Senator's Speeches
Before Publication.
SsnstoP Dolph's Special Committee On
Leaks" Continues Its Work.
The Contested Case Of CLAYTON 70
Breckenridge Comes Up.

WAsHISoroS. Mar. lO.-In the Senate
Hoar offered resolution. which vas agree,
to. instructins the committee on rules {.
| report . rule defining the extent to which
senators may be at liberty to revise theil
remarks for publication in the Record.
Plumb offered resolution (agreed to-
calling on the secretary Of the interior fol
. statement ~ to the cacses of Withholding
patents for lsnds within the limits of the
Union Pacific land grants; also for . copy
of the compilation recently made, respect.
ing the legal statue of Indians and lands
within Indian territory.
At 2 the educational bill was taken up,
Higgins addressed the Senate in advocacy
of the bill. He said if the view he took of
1t Vas correct, il was the most important
measure now pending before Congress. He
regarded the measure - tending to the fnal
eradication Of differences between the two
sections, aud make them one people. Ii
seemed to him if the actual condition of the
agricultural sections Of the South compared
With the condition Of other States Of the
South. enjoying the benefits of manufac-
turers and commerce, Ito say nothing Of
comparing it with the great North the en-
ormous disadvantage can be seen under
which they rested in meeting the problem
Of educstion of the people and of the re-
moval of mountain Of iliterscy. The bill
went upon two great facts, that illiteracy
existed, and the Sou;h was nos possessed
of means adequate to meet it.
He pointed to the fact that localities re-
ceived State aid for common schools and
States themselves received large aid in
public lands from the general government
without natural force being lost or strength
and vigof emssculatsd. AZ to the question
Of c0nsiitutionslity they had no trouble
about that From the northwestern ordi
nance OF 1877 TO the present time public
lands and the proceeds of public lands have
been granted to new States for educational
purposes. 1t seemed to him that in the
light of facts there was the largest equity
on the side of the South in saying they
should be helped TO solve the problem
forced upon them against their own will
and by the will Of the nation.
Jones of Arkansas, said the legislature
of his State had instructed her Senators to
vote against the bill, and he should obey
these instructions. He had no difficulty as
to its cons,itutionality, but the question OF
it, passage was Che said) one Of expedi-
ency. Schools and school books would
help Che said) to solve the race question
but they are not the most powerful agen-
cies. There wonld have to be = moral up
lifting of the negro, and this would be, OF
necessity, slow work If the negro could
be taught to think that he would learn when
be was moderate and conservative his
white neighbors were with him. He would
learn that those who undertook to incite
him to murder and arson were his sorst
enemies; that his best friends were those
who employed him. but who would not be
ruled by him; that the int lliyence of the
country must govern it. When the negro
bad been taught that great kindness hsd
been done him, he would be shown the
only practical way Of working out the in
terests of both races at the South. At the
close of jones speech, the Senate proceed
ed to vote on the amendments proposed by
the committee, and they were severally
agreed to. The bill was laid aside, and
he Senate, after an executive session, at
!. So adjourned.