Evening journal., 1890-03-08
IN SENATE AND HOUSE.
Mr.. Blair Warns Up on His
Educational Bill.
RHETORICAL BRICK BATS HURLED

The Press Of the Country Receives An
other Scoring at His Handa-The Re-
publican Party and the Bill-Bitter
Words from New Hampshire's senator.
WASHINGTON, March lin the senate the
following public building bills were passed:
Sterling, Ills. $50, 900; Oakland, Cal, $780,
OOOi Cheyenne, Wy. T., sl5O00O, Chester,
Pa, 500 900; Helena, NJ. T., 10000 The
bill appropriating $500, 900 for building at
Salt Lake City gave rise 70 debate, Mr..
Plumb desiring to have the appropriation
reduced to $4,000
No Allegiance 70 n Party That Lied.
At 2 o'clock the bill went over and the
educational bin was taken up In response
TO inquiries, Mr.. Blair said he could not fix
a day for voting on the bill. Several sena-
tors we're still to speak, among them Mr..
Evarts, who was 10 conclude the debate.
In the course OF his remarks on the hill Mr..
Blair said that any longer delay in dispos-
ing Of this matter would be unjustinable,
and he would look upon IL as a perpetual
abandonment Of the effort TO give national
aid 60 the schools Of the country. The Re-
publican party was pledged in its platform
to the passage Of the bill, and II that party
failed 10 make good It's pledge that fact
would put an end to the party. Like many
other men in this country, he owed no po-
litical allegiance TO party that lied.
MIR. Hale Against the Bni.
Mr. Hale spoke in opposition to the BILL
IL had been before the senate for eight years,
and all the time there had been a rising tide
against IL. In his state, Mr.. Hale asserted,
the press and educators and clergymen we're
against the bill, and the increased opposition
TO 1t was only because observation aud
reason were against IL. He oontroverted
Mr. Blair's assertion that the condition OF
education was worse now than twenty years
ago II the bill became law, the line OF state
and local interests aud influence IN eduea-
tion would fade away and ultimately be
swallowed up by federal influence.
Favored by colored Editors.
Mr.. Blair replied to Mr.. Hales argument
and also to senators Spooner and Plumb.
As 20 the statement that the south was op.
posed 10 the bill, that was not so. The Mont.
gomery Advertiser favored its passage.
There were $50 papers in the country edited
BY colored men and every one Of them
favored tho bill
Mr.. Blair said he was not mistaken as Go
the source from which most OF the misrep.
resentations at the north had come The
Jesuitical power Of the country had decided
that the way TO get control Of the schools
was FIRST to get the control Of the press. The
press had received lis full share OF attention
and had manifested It's full share OF sub
/ serviency.
: The Press Again Scored.
He read extracts from letter receive,
I from a member Of the New York Press clul
asking for a copy OF his speech SO as q
D learn something about the bill This hi
! said showed that even newspaper man il
} New York could find out nothing from th,
, press there about the bill The New Yorl
1 press, Mr.. Blair declared were monopolie
I OF the worst kind, and the country paper
/ bad been perverted and poisoned by them
Even the Republican party In the north haS
been induced by Misrepresentation to turf
its back on the natural impulses Of Republi
i canism and oppose the bill, but when it go
the facts, as it would some day, that trucu
lent press would tell different story HI
spoke Of The Boston Globe and Herald a
1 opposed TO the bill, and said everr y mo
cratic paper in New York city i nc
| bhIpoAAGu lN-huiHlHA HI bhAh COL GkiOl
The Herald, World, Times and Evening
: Post. In conclusion, Mr. Blair said he ha,
further statements to make on another oc
casion, and that Mr. Higgins would speak Il
!. support Of the bin on Monday. Adjourne,
until Monday.
Senators Swear They Did Not Tell.
The senator's, one by one appeared befor
the Dolph committee which is Investigating
the secret session leakage Of news, and eac
. asserted on his oath that at no time had h
revealed what had transpired in the secre
session except SO far as the rules Of the ser
i ate permitted him to speak of executiv
matters The Interpretation placed upo
i the rules by senators differs in some matt
rial points. Some Of the senators held 70
|. example, that they were entitled to infori
any one they pleased Of the confirmation Q
rejection Of a nomination, whether th
action Of the senate had been 'made pull
4 licn or not. Senator Harris said that b
had often telegraphed man telling him Q
4 his confirmation without waiting for Oh
\ senate TO notify the president. Some OF th
4 senator's were inclined TO disagree with MI
: Harris. Mr.. Aldrich, the chairman OF Oh
j committee on rules said that that had Al
! ways been his construction Of the rules, an
I. that he had acted under that conviction. i
= the ante-room, the senators awaiting thei
turns, as witnesses, discussed the investiga
y tion at length, some Of them in far fron
a hattering terms.