Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-21
CRETAN UPRISING UPHELD Senate Acknowledges the Justice
 of the Cause NOW AGITATING EUROPE Hoar and Hawey Defend the Catholic Church
 in America. 1T IS LAW-ABDlNG AND PEACEABLE And on an Equality With Ali Other Christi ian Bodies-Discussion Grew Out of the Indian Children Dilemma-Shir
 Scored by McMillin.
IT IS LAw-ABIDlNG AND PEAcEABLE

Washington, Feb. 20.-The Cretan up- l rising against Turkey was recognized and 1 encouraged by the senate of the United 1 States today in the unanimous adoption 1 of resolution offered in it's intervention to free the people of Crete from the | tyranny of foreign oppressors, and to | restore peace with the blessing of Chris 1 tian civilization to that distressed is- l land"
 l A bill which was passed by the house l last session, and which has been on the
 senate calendar for sometime, author l izing the appointment of labor commits sion, was taken up today on motion of | MT Quay, and was likely to lead to a | long and animated debate, when MT. Ali | sen Cep. Ia.), chairman of the committee | on appropriations interposed with a mo | tfon to take up the Indian appropriation 1 bill, and that motion was agreed to by a l majority of six, thus relegating the labor 1 commission bill back to the calendar | The Indian appropria tion bill was taken 1 up, and during its discussion the de- | cision of the supreme court in the income | tax case was brought in question. Mr. | Allen said: ''Mr. Justice Shiras owes it l to the country to say why he so suddenly 1 changed front on that subject. The | change was so radical and so extreme | that the man will go into history under | cloud unless he explains to the country | what motives influenced him to change his position on the income tax cases)" The question of Indian schools came up on the item appropriating $1 100000 for that purpose, to which item the commit tee on Indian affairs had reported an amendment as follows:
 Of which amount the secretary of the interior may in his discretion use $5,000 for the education of Indians in Alaska; provided:
 That the secretary of the interior may
 make contracts with contract schools apportioning as near as may be the amount so contracted for among schools of various denominations for the educa- tion of Indian pupils during the fiscal year 1898. but shall only make such con- l tracts at places where non-sectarian schools cannot be provided for such h. dian children, and to an amount not ex- ceeding 40 percentum of the amount so used for the fiscal year 1895; provfdeb ftiitl,eP that the foregoing shall not applysto the public schools of any state, territory, country or city, or to schools bersin or hereafter specifically provided for.
 MT. Lodge opposed the amendment as something which would entirely undo the work of last session in relation to seectarian Indian schools.
 The policy of the new government had been plainly declared in the bill of last year, and was regarded as the true American policy and that was that no appropriation should be made for any seetarian schools.
 The amendment was defended by Sena- tors Hawley and Teller on the ground that the schools would have to be con- tinued for another year or the children would have to be turned away. MT Gallinger sided with MT. Lodge and against Senators Hawley and Teller In the course of his remarks he said that every church but one in the United States refused to take money from the govern ment for sectarian education. "What church does refuse to take it?" MT. Allen asked
 "The Roman Catholic church." MT. Gal finger replied. .1 do not mean to ar raign that church, but I am absolutely
 irrevocably and eternally opposed to vot-
 ing a dollar for education in sectarian
 or religious schools"
 Mir Hawley defended the amendment
 as "a little letting up'' on the declared
 policy of the government. He was not
 Catholic, he said but it was faith hon.
 estly held by am immense number Of
 people. It was a church of tremendous
 organizing and executive power The
 two houses last session were a little
 merciful in the matter in permitting h.
 dian children to learn to read under a
 Catholic priest for little time, until oth-
 CT schools could be organized. That was
 all that was proposed in the amendment that the Indian children should not be
 turned out of school; and in the meantime
 that efforts should be made to establish
 non-sectarian schools. He never had
 such prejudice against Catholic schools, and that he would prefer to see his child
 go there rather than to have him run the
 streets as loafer.
 MT. Pettigrew, chairman of the Indian
 committee, defended the amendment and
 daoIo ,ad hir,1ca1f sttirad of the rOntpmDti-
 ble prejudice of the Indian Rights as-
 sociation."
 MT. Gillinger protested against such characterization of "a great benevolent association"
 MT. Hoar eulogized the Catholic church
 for it's adhesion to the constitutional
 right of all Christian bodies to stand on
 an entire equality before the law He
 understood that the leaders and the 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 Uni
 versity in Washington (Dr. Conaty) de-
 clare in a farewell speech to the people
 of Worcester, Mass, where he had been living for twenty-five years, his devo-
 tion to the authority and principles of
 the constitution of the United states
 and said that he owed his right to be
 Catholic and his right to advocate his
 religious faith to the humane and just
 provisions of the constitution of the
 United States, which declared all Chris tian bodies on an equality.
 Mr. Allen ridiculed the idea of the pay
 ment of denominational schools as a
 union of church and state; and said
 that, just as well might the payment of
 a union general who rode in the storm of battla at the head of his troops, and
 who was a Catholic, be called union
 of church and state.
 The bill was laid aside without action | lao mo unanimous
 consent being given to have the vote talk en on Monday at p. m.
 After a brief executive session the sem
 ate adjourned at 5:30 p. m.
 IN THE HOUSE.