Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-19
JUST A LITTLE TAFFY.
Sennfor Hawley Explains tho Meaning of a
Political PIaiform-Sherman Presents q

| senator HaWley Explains tho Meaning Of q
Political Plaiform-Sherman Presents a
| Substitute for His Antitrust Bill.
| NNAsHINGToN March 1S.-In the Senate to-
day the Blair educational bill was taken
| up as unfinished business" and Mr. Hawley
addressed the Senate in opposition to it. He
| said the bill was in no sense party measure
There was nothing on the record of the Ma
| tional Republican Convention that showed the
| bill to be party measure. He knew exactly
what was on the record in that connection. 1t
was nothing more than general declaration as
to what nice and lovely thing education was
Just like the polite recognition of ladies who
wanted women suffrage. That was the extent
| of the Endorsement that was contained in
the platform Of the Republican convention.
The Republican party, he declared, was dis
tinctly State rights party. Coming down to
the provisions of the bill, he analyzed and
criticised them, and then summed all up by
saying that % Northern States did not want
the bill They had no need of it. They would
be asham ed to say that they wanted money.
In fact they would be giving more than they
got-perhaps every one of them. Seven
Southern States had two Senators each
opposed to the bill distinctly and expecting to
vote againstit. That made % States that did
not need the bill, and it left twelve or thirteen
more to be accounted for. or the l6 Southern
States, seven had both Senators opposed to
bill; and the other nine were equally divided.
A Hit mt Congress.
CONGRESS did not govern SO well that it
should undertake to do everything. 1t did
not know how to get along with the steam
railroads in the District of Columbia, which
occupied streets without permission and with
out compensation. There were not school
houses enough in the city of Washington
(where Congress had exclusive jurisdction). a
large number of children having to ride and
tie"-half to attend school in the orenoon and
half in the afternoon. So that Congress showed
that it could not run the common schools of
the District of Columbia. He found. too, that
Congress was not success in the management
of the Indians. for he read every day charges
that Congress was robbing the Indians, and he
had read recently an eloquent protest from the
Chief of the Cherokees, that they were being
crowded out of their lands. He found that
Congress was imbecile so far as the coast
defenses of the country were concerned.
The Government had few cast-iron guns and
had ne protection against a first-class or a Sec
ond-class ironclad. Three or four years ago
there had been nothing but the ruins of a for
mer brilliant navy-some poor, old, broken
down, ragged cripples of ships. Now the coun-
try was beginning to have navy, but still 1t
was practically defenseless. He found Su-
preme Court loaded down with neglected bust
ness so that there was practically denial Of
justice all over the United States, and Congress
had not been able OF willing to reorganize and
relieve that court. In short, he found every-
where proof that Congress was not absolutely
wise.
The bill was bad enough, and went far enough
In the direction of trespassing on State rights
and on State duties; but, as somebody had well
said it was not the distance it travelled, but the
direction In which it went, that was objection