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Show IT MUST BE A'OX-SECTARIAX. Senator Iugalls Alludes to What Itlust Be a Prominent Feature of the Education Bill. Washington, March 2. At 1 o'clock yes- j terday the Senate took up the Education bill, and Call addressed the Senate in oppo- sition to Allison's amendment. He charac-terizedit charac-terizedit as a reflection on the States and an abandonment of one of the principles of our Government. Mr. Saulsbury opposed the bill whether with or without the Allison amendment. Mr. Ingalls said if this money were to be distributed we should throw about it all the safeguards possible. This bill, too, Mr. Ingalls In-galls said, was for a fund to be applied to non-sectarian schools. He then read from a speech delivered by Mr. Zach Montgomery Montgom-ery before the Roman Catholic Sunday School Teachers' Association of California in 1873. Mr. Ingalls would do Mr. Montgomery Mont-gomery the justice to say that he had declared de-clared that the pamphlet report was incorrect, in-correct, but Mr. Ingalls would read certain extracts which Mr. Montgomery had not included in the extracts which he had claimed misrepresented him. In speaking speak-ing about the telegraph, railroad rail-road and newspapers, the pamphlet report says: "They are the means of spreading false rumors and moral sentiments that corrupt cor-rupt the minds of good Catholics in this land. Instead of reading the corruping news, teach them (the children) the truths of the church, and that will save them from the whirlpool of Protestantism and heresy in all its forms. The notion that the Protestants entertain about the great progress pro-gress made in the nineteenth century, I wish you to abstain from. The Protestant theory of independence in making up our minds for ourselves on matters of religion. are false as well as damnable in the outcome. out-come. There is no such thing as personal freedom in religion and morality. The whole power lies with the successor of Saint Peter, the Holy Pio Nono and the Holy See of Rome." These, Mr. Ingalls said, were extracts that had not been denied, yet the bill before the Senate was to be administered on a non-sectarian non-sectarian basis. After further debate the Senate adjourned. |