Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-06-23
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Proceedings of Congress.
WASHINGTON, D. o., June %.
SENATE.

SENATE.
The Senate resumed the consideration OF
the agricultural college aid bill snd MIR.
Morrill, offered substitute for the various
amendments pending on Saturday SIS to the
division Of the fupd between colored snd
white schools OF q State.
Mr.. Colquitt asked Mr.. Morrill, as to the
proportions in which the fund vas to be dis
tributed between colored and white colleges.
MIR. Morrill, said that the proportion was
not fixed. That was left to the State legis-
latureE.
Mr.. Morril's amendment was adopted.
1t provides that in any State in which there
has been one agricultural college established
under the act OF 1862, and in which also
there ia or may be an educational institution
of like character for colored students aided
by the State from its own revenue (howeyer
named or styled) there shall be just and
equitable division of the fund to be received
under this act, made by the legislature.
Mr.. Blair made remark to the effect
that II was from q southern Senator MIR.
Pugh) that the proposition came to give
colored schools share of the fund, aud that
no northern man had thought of it.
Mr.. Hawley resented the remark, and
said that the bill bad originally contained
provision that NO money should be paid
where a distinction of RAGS or color wss
made, but that the establishment and main
tenance of separate colleges for white and
colored students would be compliance
with the act.
Mr. Ingalls, also resented Mr.. Blair's re-
marks. He frankly confessed that prcpo-
sition to disburse the fund among white
and colored schools could not, with proprie.
", come from northern Senator. His in
stinots and convictions were against It, The
necessity could arise only In a southern
State. The Senator from Alabama, there
fore, had logically offered his amendment TO
adapt the bill to condition of things which
existed in the South and so he (Mr. Ingalls)
cordially gave his assent to it.
Mr. Hawley thanked Mr.. Ingalls, for bis
speech. For himself, he would have but
one agricultural college in each State, and
it would be for every person whom the
Lord made fit to go into the school. That
was the wsy he would have it, but he
yielded to this other proposition because it
seemed best on the whole. Some formal
amendments we're madeto the bill, end it
was then passed.
The conference report Oh the dependent
pension bill was taken up, and MIR. Berry
made speech against it. The practical Ell
feet of it would be (he said) to put 80 per
cent. of the union soldiers on the pension
roll. 1t was really service pension bill,
and the chairman of the committee on pen
sions (Mr. Dsvis) could not deny that.
He believed that, under the operation of
the pending measure the annual pension
rell would be 5000 900 .0OO and the cry
would be for more.
HOUSE.
MIR. Sherman, Of New York, asked ccn-
sent for the immediate consideration of tie
Senate bill providing for leave of absence TO
government employees in the customs SET
vice, and Mr. spinola, OF New York, second
ed the request, saying that these employees
worked 81 hours day but objection was
made.
On motion of Mr. Circuit, of Vermont,
chairman of the District Of Columbia Gem.
mittes, the House went into Committee Of
the Whole on District business, taking up
the Atkinson bill, amendatory to the act au-
thorizing the construction of the Baltimore
and Potomac railroad In the District of Co.