The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-11
THE NATIONAL CONGRESS.
FOOD AND DRINK BILL. AND TIL f
BLAIR BILL AGAIN.

The House Talks about Imm migYation..
and The Effect on American Work.
insmen--OfThe Purchase of Ameri.
can lndustries--By Foreign Capital.
BY United Pres-
WASHINGTON, March 1O-Senate The
bill providing for an inspection of meats
for expectation, prohibiting the importa-
ton OF adulterated articles of food or
drink, and authorizing the President TO
make proclamation IN certain cases, aud
for other purposes, was taken from the
calendar and discussed until D. M,
wnen the bill was laid aside without
action
The educational bin was taken up.
an Mr.. Higgins spoke IN support Of the
bill.
The bill was based upon two great
facts That illteracy existed in the
South, AMI that the South wassnot pos
sessed of means adequate to meet it,
Replying TO the argument that one ob-
ject OF the bill would be to destroy the
spirit Of the Southern people, to take
away from them their natural force,
and to emasculate the South Of its
strength and yigor, he insisted that
experience did not bear ont that
argument, and pointed to the fact that
localities received State aid for common
schools, aud that the States themselves
had received large aid in public lands
from the general government without
any such bad effect following. If that
argument were seriously argued, 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 10 the question of
constitutionality he had no trouble about
that From the northwestern ordinance
of 1887 to the present time, public lands
and the proceeds of public lands were
given to the new States for educational
purposes.
Mr.. Jones, of Arkansas, said the
legislature of his State had
instructed him to vote against
the bill, and he would do So
The question of its passage was not
one of principle, but of expediency. He
had hoped that leading negroes might
be led to think soberly, to reason in a
dspassionate way, not as the result OF
going 10 school, but rs the result Of see
ing that the white people of the South
wished to do for the colored people the
very best they could. Schools and school
books would help, he said, to solve the
race question, but they were not the
most powerful agents. There woulG
have to be moral uplifting of the ne
gro, and this would be Of necessity. Az
to work, for that, there would have t.
be peace; but it seemed that the pre-
tended friends of the negro did not in
tend that there should be peace. If tn,
negro could be taught to think, he wOult
learn that when he was moderate au(
81 conservative his white neighbors wer
with him; he would learn that thos
who undertook to incite him to murder
and arson were his worst enemies; tina
his best friends were those who employee
him, but would not be ruled by him
and that the intelligence of the countr,
must govern it.
IA when the negro had been taught that
a great kindness would have been don
him, and he would be shown the onl
practical way of working out the intel
esis of both races at the South.
The bill was then laid aside and th
Senate, after short secret session, /;
4:35 p N. adjourned.
House.
The House to-day concurred in tt
Senate resolution providing for an il
vestigation by a joint committee of II
Senate and House committees on imm
gration, into the workings of the FEEDER
And State laws relative to immigratic
rom foreign countries. The resolutio
was amended so as to direct tho joil
.committee to investigate the effect c
& American workiDgmen, which is like
ITO follow the purchase of American il
,dustres by foreign capital
IM Senate bill TO prevent the introdu
lf8 tion of contagious diseases from on
q 81 State to another was passed.
A number of bridge bills were ais
M passed.
& Mr.. Lacey, of Iowa, reported fro
al the committee on elections a reso!uti'
for the appointment of sub-comm
~ tee to 90 to Arkansas and make a fl
"A investigation of the Clayton -Brecke
ridge contested election case. Agre
TO.
The House, in committee of t
whole, took up the Oklahoma Terrific
IL bill, but without making much progre
.. the committee rose, and the House,
sS># j1j p. m., adjourned.