Arizona republican., 1903-05-26
Plea in Presbyterian As- SembIy for the Freedman
SAID 10 BE A FIXTURE
1t That Case There Is Nothing 10 do hut Provide for His Education. The Matter of Arbitration Be
 tween Capital and Labor.

Los Angeles. May 25.--The reports of the standing committee on freedmen, ,be special committee on education. vnung peoples societies and Presbyteri- an building and the breaking of ground for additional buildings at Occidental college. made up the programme of the Presbvterian general assembly today. The discussion of the reports submitted bv the special committees brought wider range of debate than any ques- tions thus far submitted to the general assembly. The freedmen's committee report gave opportunity for all the col cred commissioners to be heard and there were some ringing speeches from these representatives of the south.
 Prospects of a debate in the assem- bly, this morning brought out large attendance in the galleries of Emmanu- el church The commissioners were all in attendance and lost no time in com ing to the business before them. The report of the freedmen's committee was read by pr. c. P. Cheesman, chair man.
 Dr. Cheesman, in commenting upcn the report, said:
 mere mas GOille DClOlG lillS siSStlliDiS this year problem demanding our in- terests and requiring our best thought, the present question of the freedmen. Who sold the black man into slavery, but the whites? This is history and as result we have moral responsibilities to meet. This race is here to stay. They have right to stay. We gave them their freedom. We must give them education.
 Now l want to say that We must re- solve to put $500, 900 to this end. We ought to have a. million, but what is the use of resolving if ye do not act? It is our duty Something is wrong when the richest churches in the land give mere pittance to this work when they give large sums to other objects"
 Dr. E. P. Cowan, secretary of the board Of freedmen, said in brief: There are in this land of ours more than nine million freedmen. A noted Englishman wrote a book some time ago in which he demonstrated to his own satisfaction that the negro in America was bound to disappear. On the contrary the negroes have increas- ed from IS to 23 per cent. They are thus here to stay and they will stay in the states where they were born They will not emigrate largely and they have not only doubled in numbers in the last forty years but they have ouadrupled in influence.
 Half a dozen or more of the colored commissioners were given five minutes each in which to urge the church to lend its aid in the education of the colored people of the South, arguing that education was the only solution of the race problem that now confronts this government. The report of the committee was finally adopted
 Rev. C. Banks Nelson of Rochester. N. r., introduced a resolution which was referred to the committee on pills and overtures, having for it's object the appointment of committee of nine commissioners to act as a board of ar bitratiOn in disputes between labor and capital.
 The report on the Presbyterian build ing in New York, which makes a strong plea for funds to lift the mortgage Of some $2O00eO within the next year was adopted.
 A resolution was adopted expressing the assembly's profound regret that the authorities and contractors of the Sr. Louis exposition have allowed work l' oT uOls on ouiiueSS ana teSiecli ui- ly protested against it's continuance
 A resolution by MT. Yerrance of New York, relating to Sunday travelling of the commissioners to and from recent general assemblies caused a Hurry of debate among the commissioners, some of whom had been obliged to travel on Sunday and took the resolution some what as q personal affront. Those who acknowledged that they had travelled on Sunday laid the blame on the rail- road companies. Rev. W. II. Roberts, stated clerk, said that railroads east of the Mississippi river had carried out their itinerary contract. The lesolu- ton was finally adopted.