The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-02-22

dian children and to an amount not ex-
ceeding forty per cent of the amount so
used for the fiscal year 1895; provided
further that the foregoing shall not ap-
ply to public schools of any state, terri
tory, county or city, OR to schools herein
or hereinafter specifically provided for.
Mr.. Lodge. Republican of Massachu-
sets, opposed the amendment as some
thing which would entirely undo the
work of the last session in relation to
sectsrian Indian schools. The amend.
ment he said was in absolute disregard
of the declarations in the last Indian ap-
Precipitation bill and in absolute disregard
Of the statements then made. 1t has been
perfectly understood then il the school
appropriation was continued for year
longer the general policy of unsectarian
schools would then be accepted by all
hands He hoped the Senate would no
reopen that old controversy. The policy
of the government has been plainly de-
clared in the bill of last year, and was
regarded as the true American policy
and that was that no appropriation
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The amendment was defended by SEN
ators Hawley, Repu blican of Connecticut,
and Teller, Republican Of Colorado, on
the grounds that the schools would have
to be continued for another year or the
children would have to be turned away.
MIR. Gnllinger, Republican of New
Hampshire, sided with Mr.. lodge and
against Senators Eawley and Teller. He
said every church but one in the United
States has refused to take money from
the government for secuarian purposes.
"What church dnes not refuse to take
it?' MIR. Allen asked.
"The Roman Catholic church." Mr..
Gallinger replied 81 do not mean to
arraign that church, but / am absolute
ly , irrevooably and eternally opposed to
voting dollar for education in scotia
rinn or religious schoois.''
Mr.. Hawley defended the amendment
as ''Iittle letting up'' on the declared
policy of the government. He was not a
Catholic, he said, but it was faith hon
estly held by an immense number of
people. 1t was church Of tremendous
organizing and executive power. The
two Houses last session were q little mer-
clful in the matter In permitting Indian
children to learn to read under Catholic
priest for little time, until other schools
could be organized to do SO. That was all
that was proposed in the amendment
that the Indian children should not be
turned out of school; and in the mean
time that efforts should lie maue to es-
had such prejudice against Catholic
schools as that be would not prefer to see
his child there rather than have him -un
the streets as loafer.
Mr.. Pettigrew, Republican of South
Dakota, chairman of the Indian COM
mittee, defended the amendment and de-
clsred himself "tred of the contemplate
prejudice of the Indian Rights Associa-
tion."
Mr.. Gallinger protested against such n
characterization of "a great benevolent
association.
Mr. Palmer, Democrat of Illinois, ar
gued that the Senate should not permit
itself to be drawn into controversy about
"the miserable question of the denomin-
ational control of the Indian schools. T"
His own feeling was that the good men
and good women of the various churches
who had done such pIaiseworthy work
among the Indians should not be aban-
d oned by the government but the secre-
tary of the Interior should BIO permitted
to make contracts with snch religious
schools as existed among the Indians.
Mr.. Lodge said he did not think Con-
gress ought to appropriate money for
Presbyterian schools, Episcopal schools,
Methodist schools, or Baptist schools, and
he waited for any Senator to say he swas
attacking those scots. He wanted to see
an exhibition of that sensitiveness which
WAS displayed when he claimed Congress
ought not to appropriate money for the
only church which now received govern
ment money for its schools. He no more
attacked the Roman Catholic church
than he attacked the Baptist or the Pres
byterisn or the Episcopal or Methodist
churches. No sect, rs such, should re-
ceive government money and he believed
in that principle. He was not to be de-
tered frum saying 80 by the outcry that
he was illiberal.
Mr.. Teller denied the statement of Mr..
Wilson that the large amount spent on
Indian education had been without any
good result, and MIR. Pettigrew sustained
MIR. 1eller's view, saying that there were
now in thu gallery some highly educated
Sioux Indians.
Mr.. Hoar, Republican of Massachu-
sette, eulogized the Catholic church for
its adhesion to the constitutional right
of all Christian bodies to stand on the
entire equality before the law. He un-
derstood that the leaders and great
authorities of that church recognized
that policy. He had heard the eminent
pulpit orator who had just been called to
the head Of the great Catholic University
in Washington CDR. Conaty) declare in
q farewell speech to the people of Worces
ter, Mass, where he had been living for