The Irish standard., 1892-10-08

place, / put forth every effort, beginning
first with my address to his eminence the
cardlnsl and to some thirty archbishopl
and bishops, at the meeting in Baltimore
at the time Of the centennial or Catholic
congress. That meeting unanimously
agreed that something should be done
and a committee consisting of Arch.
bishops Ireland and Riordan was selected
to call on the President and lay before
him our views OF the appointment Of Mr..
| Dorchester as superintendent of public
schools. Bishop Chatard Of Indiana and
myself accompanied that committee. We
called upon President Harrison by ap-
pointment, and had conference with
him in the presence Of Secretaries Blaine
and Window. At this lnterview the
President stated that he wanted the In
dian children educated in government
schools, thus indorsing Morgan's policy
in that respect, and he denied our re-
guest to withdraw the nominations of
Messrs. Morgan and Dorchester, thus
showing his preference for these two
men to the hierarchy and the Catholics
of the country. In view of the failure at
the White House the only course left me
was to fight the confirmation of these
men in the Senate, The history of that
fight is too recent and well-known to
need comment, but / must remark that
there never had been battle in the
Senate that appeared more promising,
and never was one lost more signally.
EARLY IN the summer Of 1889 Gen. Boyn-
ton said in tbe Commercial Gazette;
In view OF Morgan's dishonorable war
record he cannot be confirmed"
Then he published that record in full
and said that, III view to these disclos
ures: vi.
The Senate cannot confirm him. The
President could not have known this
record when he appointed him, " etc.
,lEhelate Senator Plumb called at our
.offiice and aaid he would assist us ii our
fight on Morgan, and Senator Ingalls,
gaVe ME the same assurance.
4 Senator NIanderson, it was assumed,
would lead the old soldier fight against
him. Every thing seemed to favor the
defeat soff his conf rnnation, when certain
elements was told the President
entered into the contest, which changed
the whole situation.
Neither discouraged nor disheartened I
went into the work Of saving our schools.
1t was useless to appeal to Mr.. Morgan;
so went to the national Legislature,
and In the first session Of the Fifty-first
Congress obtained special appropriations
for our schools at RENSSELAER,, Ind, the
Holy Family, Blackfeet Agency, Mon
tana, and st. Boniface, Cal.
During the debates in beth Houses
much was said In favor Of our system ct
schools, and no opportunity was ever al
lowed to pasg to present their merits in
the press OF the country. The purpose
was to lose no ground. IT we could not
extend our work we hoped to maintain
its status quo; and the chairman of the
Indian com mittees in both Houses gave
public assurance that our work should
not be interfered with. While contend
ing for the appropriations above mem
toned we met with much opposition, for
the senators and members were flooded
with rem onstrances against granting aid
to our schools, and the American League,
the committees of One Hundred Of Bos-
ton and Lynn, Mass, sent on memorials
protesting against such appropriations.
The officers of that league and others ap-
peared before the committees and openly
opposed us. / knew well that this oppo-
sition was instigated by Morgan, and it
was only the other day that a friendly
United States senator told me that while
at home he could not sit down to talk
with a minister without being called
upon to explain his action in voting and
talking for our schools, and he was salts
fed that Morgan was running q regular
bureau for the dissemination Of matter
calculated to injure our work Senators
In several states were annoyed in the,
same manner, and the re- election Of one
in particular was seriously threatened
because he voted for our schools. / pub
1icly, IN the press, charged Morgan with
stirring up this opposition, and to this
day he has not denied it.
The Commissioner never tires in his
work Of crippling us, and I clearly fore
saw that he would succeed in his pur-
pose to- destroy our system Of schools, il
allowed, and therefore I used all the in
fiuence / could command to get the
President and the secretary OF the In
terror to- interpose in our behalf but.
failed. al 4
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