The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-11
SESSION OF THE SENATE.
THE COMMITTEE REPORT ON THE
CALL-CHANDLER RCMPUS.

Hect OF Foreign Purchases of
American Enterprises be Looked
Into.
WASHINGTON, March 10.-In the Senate
this morning Mr.. Hoar. from the committee
on privileges and elections, reported the
order for striking from the Congressional
Record the words inserted by Mr. Call in
the report Of his remarks in the discussion
with Mr.. Chandler on Feb. 90 and for the
substitution of the original report made by
the official reporter. The order was placed
on the calendar.
The bill for the appointment of an assist
ant general superintendent and chief clerk
OF the railway mail service was reported
and placed on the calendar.
LOANS ON REAL ESTATE.
Mr.. Stanford offered a preamble and
resolution instructing the committee on
finance to inquire what relief for existing
agricultural depression may be furnished
by the Unlted States government, and par
tlcularly whether loans may not be made by
the government upon mortgages on real
estate independent of the improvements at
such rates and to such an amount
as will make the security to the govern
ment perfect, the government to receive
some small rate Of interest from one to TWO
per cent? aud to be able to call in per-
centage of the loans from time to time at
its discretion. He submitted some remarks
in support of his resolution, and tine resolu-
tion was referred to tAe committee on
finance.
EFFECT OF FOREIGN SCOOPS.
The resolution was so amended as to
direct the joint committee to investigate
the effect on American workingmen which
is likely to follow the purchase of American
industries by foreign capitalists; also to re-
port TO congress the official correspondence
on the proposal to make Bedloe's Island in
New York harbor an immigrant depot;
What title the government has to
the island; what buildings, if any,
are intended to be built on the island, and
what officers and employees it is designed to
employ in connection with such an immi-
grafton depot, and whether in the opinion
of the committee such island is the best and
most suitable place for such depot
Mr.. HOar offered resolution, which was
agreed to, instructing the committee on
rules to report rule defining the extent to
which senators shall be at liberty to revise
their remarks for publication in the Record.
The bill appropriating $500, 900 for pub
lie building at Salt Lake City, Utah, was
taken up and passed, Mr.. Plumb Withdraw
ing his amendment to reduce the amount to
100000
ported by him from the committee on for
eign affairs on March 5, providing for an
inspection Of meats for expectation, pro-
hibiting the importation of adulterated
articles of food or drink, and authorizing
the President to make proclamation in
certain cases, and for other purposes, was
taken from the calendar
BLAIR's BILL UP AGAIN
The discussion of this bill was still in
Io1oorass al . 0ic1Ock xvhau tho hill ,roe 10 4
aside without action, and the educational
bill was taken up as unfinished business.
Mr.. Higgins of Delaware addressed the
Senate in advocacy of the bill. He said
that if the view which he took Of it
were corectt, it was the most
important measure now pending before
congress In saying that, he did not forget
the important character of other measures
pressing for consideration-the adjustment
of the revenues to the needs of the govern
ment by further revision of the tariff,
the silver question, Of seacoast de-
fenses, and enlargement of the navy
But education still he thought. held its
place at the fore. The conclusion was forced
upon him from time to time that while this
was nation composed of many states the
people we're in many and distressing respects
two peoples.
TWO DIFFERENT FOUNDATIONS.
The social structure Of the north had been
founded on white free labor, that of the
south on black slave labor, and the
Emergencies between the two sections
thus organized had remained and continued
until the present day. He regarded the
measure as one peculiarly within the scope
of the national government as tending to
final eradication of these differences between
the two sections, and to the making of them
not merely one nation, but one people. The
two sections were living to-day in different
lnf.., Ill
Emergencies, hlch were laid at the very
foundation Of the government. and
it seemed to him that they would
not become one people until they
became in all respects homogeneous Gden-
tical in character and in characteristics).
Until that came TO pass there would CON
tlnue to be those continual conflicts in
which the country was seriously concerned
1t seemed to him that whether consciously
or not, the south, when the war was put
down and slavery destroyed, had turned its
back upon its past and had turned its face
to new future. This it had done involun-
tarily by the force Of higher power, by
the law of GiS major imposed upon it by
the act of the nation.
DUTY OF THE COUNTRY.
After suffrage had been conferred upon
the blacks the south, as ell as north, was
committed to the task and duty of educat-
ing all its citizens. The south had taken
the first long stride toward the establish
ment Of its position side by side with the
north in the development of its industries,
in the emancipation of its people from the
incidents that had been consequences and
conconmitants of slavery. There was urged
to-day against the bill as the strongest argu-
ment that could be made against it the
splendid progress which the south has so
steadily made. It's mines, its manufactures,
its railways its banks, its agriculture,
even its schools were all brought up in the
Senate in order to show that the south had
so far progressed that it no longer needed
any aid whatever from the nation. He did
not coDcede that to be the case In the
agricultural state of Virginia there was
great distress among the farming commu-
mites. The same was the case in North
Carolina, South Carolina, and in the agri-
cultural portions Of Georgia and Alabama.
AGRICULTURE's WEAKNESS.
Throughout them all, throughout the
south proper, which was called upon TO
solve the problem of education, the people
had to depend upon the outcome of-he
would not say uncertain, but the certain
weakness OF agricultural support alone. It
seemed 10 him that IL the actual condition
OF those states was compared with the con-
dtion OF other states Of the south
that wero enjoying tho benefits Of de-
veiopmentot manufactures and commerce,