Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-02-27
SECTARIAN SCHOOLS
House Refuses To Appropriate
Money for Their Support.
ONLY CATHOLICISM IS AFFECTED
The Matter Came III, in Debate on the
Indian Bill-AIr. Morgan's Speech
Fails To Arouse Any Enthu-
siasm In the Senate.

Washington, Feb. 25.-The perennial
contest over the appropriation of money
for the education of Indian children at
contract sectarian schools came up in
the house in the course of the consd-
GRAFTON of the Indian appropriation
bill and was fought out in an hour and
a half The result was that by vote
of SO to ca the provision that the Sec
retry of the interior shall make con-
tracts with present contract schools
for the education of Indian pupils to
an extent not exceeding sixty per
centum of the amount so used for the
fiscal year of 1895 was stricken out on
motion by Mr.. Linton, rep, Mich. and
an amendment inse rted prohibiting the
secretary of the interior from spending
any of the money appropriated for
education in a sectaran institution.
Under existing conditions only Catholic
schools are in contract relations with
the interior department, the other
churches having abandoned their claims
TO public money. In his speech in sup
port of the amendment Mr.. Linton at
tributed the overwhelming change in
the personnel of the house by the cleo
ton of 1894, to the sentiment in the
country against the appropriation of
public funds for sectarian schools or
institutions. Consideration of the bill
was concluded with the exception of
the paragraph directing the purchase
of the title of the Ogden Land company
to the lands within the Allegheny and
Catteraugus reservations in New York
and that was postponed until to-day.
Speaker Reed announced that he had
signed the urgent deficiency and diplo-
matte and consular appropriations
bills and at $40 o'clock the house ad-
journed.
In the Senate.
The continuation of the speech of
Senator Morgan, dem, Ala, in the
senate in support of the concurrent
resolution for the recognition of Cuban
belligerency, did not arouse a particle
of the excitement and enthusiasm
which the first part of the speech, last
Thursday, together with the other
speeches of that day, aroused. 1t was
too much of a historical review, and
was interspersed with the reading of
too many letters and reports to attract
attention or to arouse enthusiasm. The
only forcible parts of it were these:
Mr. Morgan expressed his astonish-
ment that, in view of the Spanish
atrocities in the island, "This grand
free republic could sit indifferently
by, knowing the facts, and not un-
sheath the sword and strike to death
the brutal monarch who inflicted
them, and he declared that the Ameri-
can people could go no further in
their forbearance without stain on
the national honor. He will finish his
speech to-day The resolution of Mr..
Lodge, rep, Mass, for an inquiry into
the circumstances of the recent bond
issues was taken up and discussed till
the close of the morning hour, when it
went to the calendar without action.
In opposing it Mr.. Hill, dem, N Y,
characterized it as stab in the dark
and as having no foundation but "the
walls and complaints of disappointed
bidders. The senate at 5:45 adjourned