The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-08
BLAIR'S FLOW OF WORDS.
MEN WHO LOOK HIS GIFT HORSE
IN THE MOUTH HARD HIT.

Goes Back on It's Alleged Pledge
to Support the Bill.
WASHINGTON, March I'm the Senate
to-day the usual morning business was ac-
complished in the way of the presentation
of petitions and of the introduction and re-
porting of bills, none of them of public
importance, and the Senate at 1880 o'clock
proceeded to consideration of bills on the
calendar.
The public building bills on the calendar
having been reached, the following were
passed: For Sterling, Ill, $4,000; Oak
land, CAL, $4,000; Cheyenne, Wv. $780,
600; Chester, Pa, 100000; Helena, Mont,
100000.
BLAIR's BILL COMES UP.
At2o'clock the Blair educational bill came
up as the unfinished business Mr..
Ptatt and Mr.. Harris desired Mr. Blair to
fix the time when a vote could be taken on
the BILL
MIR. Blair said that he was unable to do
so. AT least five or six senators desired to
speak upon the bill, and the concluding
speech OF Mr.. Evarts would necessarily
take considerable time-probably a full
day. He then proceeded to reply to some
OF the criticisms of the bill made by Messrs
Faulkner and Spooner.
4nSSotSs luillp dllQ CpOOU6r ldQ, ne SAID,
referred to the fact that the newspapers in
the south were against the bill, and that
some or the southern states We're against it
q that was to say, that those who had control
OF affairs in the south were opposed to it.
lie would like to ask how long it was since
those northern fre-eaters had begun to pin
their faith and shape their polit-
lcal action on the testimony of the
southern democracy. Could they rely on
Of Gun, l.. .,A1, 4
call them falsifiers and liars at the other
endf Ordinary common horse sense would
hnd 1t exceedingly difficult to follow the
logic OF those gentlemen.
HIS PARTY PLEDGED.
He insisted that the Republican party
was pledged in its platform to the pas
sage OF his bill, and he predicted that if
that party failed to make good its pledge,
that fact would put an end to the party
For himself, he owed no political al
legiance to party that hed and there
were other men in the country, like him,
testing the solemn pledges Of the Republican
party. That, he said, was no threas, but it
was fair warning-a fair warning from
one who loved his party, and who had as
much blood in the soil which that party had
helped to bless as any of them.
HALE OPPOSED IT.
Mr.. Hale addressed the Senate in opposi-
tion to the bill, asserting that the rising tide
Is against 1t, and citing the steady growth
OF the vote in the Senate against it upon
ITS successive appearances as evidence
in support Uf Lis assertion. Among the
people at large, he said, support has fallen
away from the bill in the same manner. In
his own state the sentiment among the
people, educators, clergy and press was
largely In favor OF the bill when it first ap-
peared, but the reverse is now the case Mr..
hale went on to say that the south had
been at first tempted by the largess offered
In the bill into supineness and into Yielding
up interest in local common
school education; but that as
soon as the south had seen that
the bill was not likely to receive immediate
passage the south had turned Loyalty and
earnestly to the task of rearing and main
tanning and increasing its common school
system.
EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH
As to Mr.. Blair's assertion that the con-
dltlon OF education in the south was worse
than it had been twenty years ago, Mr..
Hale said that it could not be correct. 1t
was impossible TO believe that any commu-
nifty in the United States, north or south,
would find itself advancing in the ac-
cumulation of wealth las the south
was shown to be) without at once setting
itself to the task Of uplifting what was tho
Foundation of the prosperity of any people
the common school system in the advance
ment OF education. 1t was not possible that
the south could 60 on increasing in wealth
and prosperity without turning its atten
tion directly to the great question of the
education of it's people. The history Of the
Dill had shown that all the time that the
opposition TO the bill had increased the
reasons for its passage had diminished.
AID vrrfrrr
Mr.. Blair replied to Mr.. HaIes argument
and also to those Of Messrs. Spooner and
Plumb, but said that the points which
be was making were all fully set forth in
his eight day speech, copies of which in
pamphlet form he had by him, and was
ready to supply to such sena-
tors as might like them. As to
the statement that the newspapers at
the south were opposed to the bill, he said
that the whole.democratic press of the south
Montgomery Idrertiser was strongly
Tor II. A southern senator who was
opposed to the bill had told him that the
papers in bis state were asserting that the
bill provided for mixed schools. and had
thereby turned public opinion against il.
So that if there was a change of public
opinion as to the bill, it was not truth. but
lies, that had done evil to the south as well
- SL-C boi vi. AuOiD Weio lDO phDeTS
by colored people published in the country,
aud every one Of them was for the bill.
THE NORTHERN INFLUENCES.
AS to press in the north, he had already
stated the reasons for its position, and he
did not propose TO reiterate them. He knew
that the bills had been given in the House
into the keeping of packed committees in
former congresses, and that its report had
been prevented by threats to prominent
members Of congress of the anathema Of
the church on them and their families He
was not mistaken as to the source from
which most OF the Misrepresentation at the
north had come. The Jesuitical power of
the country had decided that the way
to get control Of the schools was first
to get control Of the press. The
press had received its full share Of attention
and had manifested its full share Of sub
serviency He had letter (extracts from
which he read from a member of the New
York Press Club, asking for a copy Of his
speech 50 as b learn something about the
oil, showing that even the newspaper men
IN New York could find out nothing from
the press about it.
cLAssED WITH THE cHEsTEUTs.
The tribune had said it did not publish
any Of the matter because IL was old mat
Ter. The Tribune had net for years pub
iisaed any Of all the terrible facts which be |
LAD read - the Senate. II did not do its /
1uty. he New York papers were m0nOpo- |
iies Of the worst kird, and the. country |