The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
Debate on the Blair Bib.

WASHINGTON, Feb. pa number of bills
were reported and placed on the calendar.
Among them was one to authorize the pur-
chase of gold and silver bullion and the is
sue of treasury notes in payment The bill
directs the purchase of silver bullion to
The amount of 81, SOC, 600 per month. and as
much gold bullion as may be offered, and
issue 10 payment therefor treasury notes.
and repeats the law directing the coinage
Of 100000 silver dollars per month.
Beck said the report from the finance
committee was not unanimous and he OBJ
posed it.
Sherman and Mcpherson also said they
opposed the bill.
In the debate on the resolution offered
yesterday by Chandler, censuring Call for
nterpolating in the Record a paragraph
that had not been spoken and that was I'M
parliamentary and personally offensive.
Call gave notice to Chandler that he would
arraign him before the Senate and demand
an investigation by a committee for making
a false accusation. He (CalD would CON
Wet the Senator on evidence of his own
that he did hear and know that he (CalD
had utturred on the floor of the Senate
substantially the whole of the charge con-
tanned in the paragraph. He would not
ask censure by the Senate of Chandler,
but would leave him to the Judgment of
the country for having heard his (Call's)
remarks and having had neither the cour-
age nor manhood to resent them.
Sherman declared the rules of the Sen
ate had just been violated by the Senator
from FLORIDA IN as gross a manner as he
had ever witnessed. When the United
States Senate came to such condition
that cowardice could be applied to Sena-
tor and that Senator could be charged with
stating a thing falsely, it seemed to him
the Senate was receding from its dignity
Call replied that if he was not at liberty
to state that a resolution was not true and
that he could prove it, and that a Senator
when he made the charge knew it was not
true, then he didn't understand the rules
Of the Senate. But if in the Judgment of
the Senator it is improper to use such lam
guage he would withdraw it,
Chandler once more explained his reso-
luton and added: Senator Call used
language about me which | did not hear
He wrote language in the report accusing
me OF all the crimes in the decalogue. and
he has now, this morning, charged me
with being a coward for not replying To
that which l did not hear and which he
afterwards wrote in the Record. When
the Senate has decided which language is
parliamentary to use, / viii take occasion
TO defend myself from all imputations.
The Blair educational bill was taken ND
as unfinished business, and Coke addressed
the Senate in opposition to it. 1t clearly
violated the constitution, and as a measure
of policy it was most unwise and mischiey-
Gus. 1t had constantly declined in public
favor until the indications are that there is
good ground to hope for its defeat The
passage of the bill would be a slanderous
imputation on every state in the union 1t
would be the first and irrevocable step in
the transfer of the jurisdiction of the COM
mon schools from the states to the national
government,
Stanford addressed the Senate In advo-
cacy OF the bill. 1t seemed to him to pro-
coed upon right principles. He assumed
It's constitutionality and then the impor-
tant fact to be considered was whether
national legislation was necessary Hit
eracy was conceded and it was also fact