The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-02-18
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MIR. BLAIR PROCEEDS WITH
HIS CONTINUED STORY.


MN. RI.AIR PROcEEDs yyIrH
HIs CONTINIIED srORv.
There In a Lively Debate In th'
House Upon the Construction q
the New RuleS, Hut the speaker
an Usual. Wins.
WAsu,scros Febrrorv ATE
|-Nr ChondIcr nrcsenfed several NET;
t;ors from, W;ss;ss;n,,; com ,Io;p;nU of tb
sunnress;o,, of tnc rennbl;cnn votc;n tho
| State aud rcnres N, ;nU that the So coIIe,
lcp;sIot,re M M;ss;ss;nn; had recently en-
acted n law fnr esinblshinp n new con
st;,ut;on Gnr The state on the 1oth n
| Auvmst 1SeO the same not To he sub
m;tted m the neonle for RATIFICATION
that il was the nyowed purpose of th
democrats TO employ fraudulent rnethod
to deprive many Intelligent citizens O
their franchise. Referred to the commit
tee on privileges and elections.
Mr.. Frye. from the select committee o,
the Pacific railroads. reported back ad
ycrsely two Pacific railroad funding bill
| referred to II and in lieu of them reported
an original bill on the subject with two
reports. one of those reports touchin,
the Union Pacific Indebtedness and TIL,
other tbe Central Pacific Indebtedness
The latter report The saidl had beer
drafted by the senator from Minnesot;
| (Mr. Dayis,) He explained that the rea
son that the two bills were reported bacl
adversely was that the committee hut
finally succeeded, to it's own satisfaction
in consolidating those bills into one
This hill (now prcscnted) contained tn,
terms of an adjustment with both com
pnnies. Union Pacific and Central Pacific
After full explanation from Mr., Fryc O
the effect OF the bill, and how il wa.
framed, the bill was placed on the calen
dnr. and the reports were ordered printed
Mr.. Chandler offered a rcsolutio,
(which went over till tomorrow calling
| on the attorney general for Information
ms to the recent assassination of w. Is
Saunders. United States deputy marsha
for the northern district of Florida.
Mr.. Beck presented the credentials o
Mr.. blackburn. for his new senatorial
| term from the +tb of March, 1891, which
were placed on file.
| The senate then proceeded to busines.
on the calendar, and passed about two
dozen bills (unohjcctcd to) including tn,
following:
To enable the secretary oi the interior
to locate Indians in Florida upon land.
in seyeralty; approprialiny sic, 900 fol
statue and monument to lanes Madi
son i'm the city OF Washington.
The educational bill, "as unfinished
business, was taken up at 9 o'clock, anf
MIR. Blair resumed the argument in sup
port of it. He called attention to what
he regarded as having an importan,
bearing on the question, the fact that
the dependent pension bill had been unan
| imousiy reported from the pension com
mittcc and would evidently from til,
absence of opposition) become a law
that it would add to the present pension
expenditure from twenty to thirty mil
lions n wear. and that almost the Who'll,
of that sum would necessarily be dis
| tributed in the Mort thern States, while moi
less than one-fourth of the tax for it (ant
| probably thrce-eights) would fall on tn,
Southern States. The educational bill
would act ms some sort of facompcnsatior a
to the South by giving to that scctio,
the largest proportion of seven millions /;
wear 10 be paid out in the aid of commor
school education. He supposed that thu
better the case was proved by him tn,
less likely it was that the bill would be
come a law, because he had noticed thai
il was stated in the public prints that h,
was DESTROYING the chance of passing tn,
bill by occupying so much time in his re
marks, But he cave notice to those un
cnsy correspondents, and to newspaper
generally, that he knew better than t,