Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-20
FROM THE CAPITOL.
THE EDUCATIONAL BILL.
Closing the Debate in the Senate.
THE MUDD.COMPTON CONTEST.
The Jncum bent Defends His
Right to a Seat.
THE SENATE,

MIR. Cockrell presented the protest Of the
pork packers association Of st. Louis against
the bill for inspection of meats, declaring the
bill to be unnecessary and injurious to the
stock-raising and curing lnterests-more in
furious even than the German and French pro-
hibitlon.
Mr.. Morgan stated that the committee on
foreign relations had had meeting yesterday,
at which there had been presentation of facts
and arguments in regard to the bill, and that
the subject would have due confederation.
Mr.. Sherman also made a statement to the
same effect, adding. however, that the signers
OF the protest were acting under a misappre-
hension Of one section Of the bill (the hrst),
which was exactly the opposite OF what they
assumed 1t TO be. They assumed that the bill
required an inspection in all cases where the
meat had been salted sixty days before ex-
portation. That was an entire misapprehen-
sion.
The protest was referred to the committee
on foreign relations.
Among the bills reported and placed on the
calendar were the following:
Granting right of way to a railroad company
across the Mile Lac Indian reservation in Wis
consin.
Appropriating $500 for . light house and
fog signal st the mouth of Coquile river, Pa
cifc ocean
Senate bill to place Horatio P. Van Cleve,
late major general of volunteers on the re-
tired list as second lieutenant was taken from
the calendar and passed.
THE EDUCATIONAL BILL.
On motion of Mr.. Ingalls, the educational bill
was taken up Cat o'clock as the unfinished
business
MIR. Blair resented the motion as an inter-
ference (without reference to himself or anv
consultation whatever) .'by one who was not in
charge of the unfinished business" He said
that he would take notice and govern himself
accordingly"
MR.. BATE DEFENDS TENNESSEE
Mr. Bate alluded to some remarks of Mr.
Blair Gin his opening speech on the bilD that
reflected on the state Of Tennessee as iaggard
in regard to her educational interests and as
serted that Tennessee was not laggard; did not
stand In the rear. but occupied a
not only of the times but of her sisters in the
| tnion He said that he had listened patiently
and politely to the speech for five or six days
but that he had then grown weary and sought
refuge IN the House Of Representatives and
that 1t was then that the remarks to which he
took objection were made.
His colleague (Mr. Harris) had also retired
to the cloak room That was the explanation
OF the remarks not being replied to at the
time. He went on to refute the statement
made by Mr.. Blair and to show the liberal pro-
vision which the state of Tennessee had made
for common school education and for colleges
and universities.
In the course Of his remarks he spoke of the
letter OF School Superintendent Moses of North
Carolina Con which Mr.. Blair had relied for
his statement) as untrue and slanderous
Coming to speak of the bill itself he
opposed 1t because it would cause the people to
rely on the federal treasury for the support
and management of public schools
1t wasa dagger behind a smile; q serpent
coiled beneath the rose
Mr. Blair rose to close the debate. He
apologized to MIR. ingalls, for the heated remark
which he had made today when that
Senator submitted a motion which was un-
usual, but he now understood that that motion
had not been made from an unfriendly feeling
to him (Mr. Blair) or to the bill