Evening journal., 1890-03-11
TN SENATE AND HOUSE.
An Arkansas Senator on the
Race Problem.
WINDOW AND BEDLOE'S ISLAND.

The Secretary Refuses to Reconsider His
Action Making It the New Castle GAR
den-The House TO Investigate His Ac-
tion-other News from Washington.
WASHINGTON, March lin the senate
resolution was agreed TO instructing the
committee on rules TO report a rule defining
the extent to which senators shall be at lib
erty to revise their remarks for publication
in The Record The bill appropriating
$500 900 for public building at Salt Lake
City, Utah, was passed. The bill providing
for an inspection Of meats for expectation,
prohibiting the importation of adulterated
articles Of food or drink, and authorizing
the president to make proclamation in GER
tain cases, and for other purposes, was dis
cussed and laid aside without action. The
educational bill was taken up, and MIR.
Higgins spoke in support Of the bill The
bill was based upon two great facts-that
illiteracy existed in the south and that the
south was not possessed Of means adequate
to meet it. Replying to the argument that
one effect Of the bill would be to destroy the
spirit Of the southern people, to take away
from them their natural force and 20 emas-
culate the south of its strength and vigor,
he insisted that experience did not bear out
that argument, and pointed to the fact that
localities received state aid for common
schools, and that the states themselves had
received large aid in public lands from the
general government without any such bad
effects following
The States and the Schools.
If that argument were seriously urged,
then, in order TO be logical and candid, it
became incumbent on every state to give up
its school fund and to leave the support Of
the common schools to local taxation alone.
As to the question of constitutionality he
had no trouble about that. From the north
western ordinance Of 1867 TO the present
time, public lands and the proceeds of pub
lie lands were granted to the new states for
educational purposes.
Education and the Negro.
Mr.. Jones Ark said the legislature of his
state had instructed him TO vote against the
bill and he would do so. The question Of It's
passage was not one of principle, but Of ex.
pediency. He had hoped that leading
negroes might be led to think soberly, to
reason in a dispassionate way, not as the
result Of going to school, but as the result
of seeing that the white people Of the south
. wished to do for the colored people the very
best they could Schools and school book
would help TO solve the race question, but
/, they were not the most powerful agencies
There would have TO be moral uplifting
Of the negro, and this would be, Of necessity
a slow work. For that there would have :
( be peace but it seemed that the pretende
friends Of the negro did not intend tina
. there should be peace
The Great Race Problem.
If the negro could be taught to think, b
would learn that when he was moderate
Q and conservative his white neighbors wer
Q with him. He would learn that those win
2 undertook to incite him 70 murder and arso
e were his worst enemies; that his bestfrend
h were those that employed him, but VIII
would not be ruled by him, and that tn
:, intelligence of the country must govern i
\ When the negro had been taught that,
great kindness would have been done hin
X and he would be shown the only practic'
h way of working out the interests Of bot
races at the south.