The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-02-27

South ought to secure $3S,OOO,OOO and the
white schools $13, ,000, ,000 these figures ION
the other basis) would be reversed and the
| white schools would receive SIG, 900, 900 more
| than the colored schools.
Mr.. Blair asked whether it was not proper
| to apply the morey so that it would reach
the white children and cOlored children
alike.
Mr.. Faulkner replied that the bill had
been justified on the ground of its believing
| illiteracy existed in the States and yet when
the fund got into the States one-third more
would be given to white children
than to colored children ION the basis
illiteracy of colored children was
40 per cent. greater than that of the
white children. That contradicted the
principle sof the bill. Mr.. Blair
| said that there was misapprehension
of the bill. There was manifest error
and he was about to explain but Mr.. Faulk-
ner declined to yield the floor for that pur-
pose and proceeded with his argument. He
declared that the bill instead of It's being
(as Mr.. Blair had described it) new
declaration of independence would be II
national declaration on the part of Con-
gress of antagonism to the COM
mon school system and would in
vite friction and discord between the
sections, He referred to the fact that the
y,
S4,316,OOO under the provisions of the bill,
the State of Arkansas, which would re-
! ceive $2,503, 900, and the State of Texas,
which would receive $3920,000 (all of
which State had been in favor of the bill
some years ago., had now instructed their
Senators to vote against it, and that the
Legislature of the State of Georgia, which
would receive $6,443,OO0 (the largest
distribution of any State in the
Union) had recently postponed indefinitely
resolution approving the bill. So that
four States, he said, that would receive
S17, ,1S5, 900 under it, an amount equal to
what the entire North and West would re-
ceive through their Legislatures, rejected
its provisions i'll the interest of education
and of self government He had perfect
faith and absolute confidence in the pres
ent and future of the South.
He did not intend the active, energetic
and enterprising people of the State of West
Virginia should be held before the Amer
lean people clothed i'll rags and crying
about their poverty and humiliation. If
the constitution did not prohibit the pass
age of the bill, sentiment of justice at
least would demand that the distressed
farmers of Dakota, the miners of Colorado
and Nevada, the lumbermen of the North
west should not be called upon to contri-
butte to the education of the children of his
State. He quoted approvingly a paragraph
from one of President Pierces veto mes
sages to effect that if the time should
ever arrive when, for an object appealing
however strongly to sympathy, the dignity
of the State should bow to the dictatiOn Of
Congress, the people would see the begin
ming of the end. Such he said was the
opinion of the citizens of New Hampshire
who had drunk deep at the fountain of
congressional construction Believing the
bill to be unconstitutional in its purpose,
unfair ana unequitable i'll its methods OF
distribution, uuwise and hurtful III the pol
icy inaugurated by it, he appealed to all
sections uf the couDtry to unite in defeat
ing it and he especially urged the South
> To turn from the gIittering bribe its scorn-
full eye,
Nor sell for gold what gold could never
buy"
Senator Coke obtained the floor and Ser
ator Blair said he would furnish for record
certain tables in refutation of some state
mentS made by Senator Faulkner, and SAID
that the State Of Georgia had not reversed
her instructions to her Senators to vote for
the bill and that both Senators were for it
neither had the State of South Carolina
done so.
After executive session the Senate ad-
journed.
HOUSE.
In spite of the bad day, with rain falling
and skies so dark that full head of gas
blazed under the glass panels of the ceiling
of the hall of the House at high noon, when
the Speakers gavel fell the galleries were
packed with spectators and crowds OBJ
structed the corridors. All these people
had gathered to witness the deciding strug-
gle between the adherents of the cities of
New York, Chicago, st. Louis and Wash |
ington, upon the result of which depended
the location of the Worlds Fair for 1892.
A host of representative men were to be |
seen i'll the galleries.
Representative O'Neil of Pennsylvania |
opened the proceedings by presenting John
Il. Reyburn, successor of the late Repre-
sentative Kelly of Pennsylvania. Mr.. |
Rey burn took his place before the bar and |
was sworn by the Speaker.
The Clerk read the Special Order of the |
House prescribing the method of voting |
upon the site for the fair requiring some
one place to have majority of the votes |
cast. |
. Mr.. Blount of Georgia wished to know If |
there would be an opportunity afforded to
pass upon the question as to whether |
there shall be fair before selecting site. |
The Speaker replied that under the spec
ial order this opportunity could not be had, |
and Immediately directed the Clerk to call |
the roll. There was some applause as the |
first few responses were made which was |
promptly checked by the Speaker. The |
vote resulted, as by official announcement
Chicago lis, New York 72, st. Louis 81,
Washington So, Cumberland Gap |.
Second vote (official eChicago 121, New |
York S3, st. Louis SO, Washington 49, |
Whole number, 300; majority 1856.
Third ballot (official6 6Chicago 127, New
York 50, st. Louis 50, Washing ton "a.
Whole number, ,3O6; majority lA.
On the eighth and last ballot Chicago |
achieved her victory and out of the total
of 307 votes cast received 157, or three more
than majority; New York had ls7, st.
Louis 25 and Washington H. Following is
the result of the eighth ballot In detail:
Chicago-Abbott, Adams, Anderson, AL
len, (Mich.), Alien, (Miss.) Anderson,
(Kans.) Atkinson, Bartine, Barwig, Bayne,
Belknap, Booth, Boutelle, Brewer, Brick
ner, Brookshire, Brown, T. M.
Brown, ]. B. Brown, Bullock,
Bynum, Caldwell, Cannon, Carter, Cas-
we'll, Cheatham, Chapman, Clark, wis },
Clunie, Cogswell, Coleman, Comstock, Con-
ger, Connell, Cooper, Qnd.) J, Cooper, (0hio),
Craig, Grain, Culberson, (Tex) }, Culbertson,
PAL Cutcheon, Dalsell. Darlington, Da.
wilson, Dolliver, Dorsey, Dunnell, Evans,
uwart, Finley, Fithian, Flick, Forman,
EFnston, Gear, Gest, Clifford, Green, Gros
venJr, Grout. Hall, Hansbrough Haugen
Hares Hayes HAYNES Henderson iii |