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Show j WHITE AND COLORED CHILDREN. Discussing the Educational Bill as It Shall Apply to Both Races. Washington,. March 4.r-The Educational bill was taken up hi the Senate' yesterday afternoon, and Mr. Harrison spoke in advocacy advo-cacy of the bill and in opposition to Mr. Allison's Al-lison's amendment. An amendment offered by Mr. Hoar to the amendment of Mr. Allison was agreed to, providing that in each State having separate white and colored schools, the money received re-ceived bv such a State under the bill should be apportioned and applied in the propor- tion of the illiteracy of the two races, respectively, re-spectively, until an equal sum per capita shall have been appropriated from the National Na-tional and State funds, and declaring the object of the bill to be to secure equal advantages ad-vantages to all children of whatever color or Mr. Edmunds then moved a substitute for the amendment as amended. The substitute sub-stitute is as follows: And in eaoh State and Territory, in which there shall be separate schools for white and colored children, the money paid in such State or Territory shall be apportioned and paid out for the support of such white and colored schools respectively in the proportion pro-portion that the white and colored children between the ages of 10 and 21 years in such State or Territory bear to each other as shown by the census of 1880. The foregoing fore-going provision shall not affect the application applica-tion of the proper proportion of said money to the support of all common schools wherein.no distinction of race or color shall exist. Mr. Edmunds addressed the Senate in support sup-port of his amendment. As to the bill itself, it-self, he said there was no Constitutional difficulty about it. No Constitution ever had said or could say that no money should be withdrawn from the Treasury except in ! Eursuance of the appropriation made by iw for the speoifio purpose named in some other part of the Constitution. Mr. Edmunds entered at some length into the question of discrimination in the matter of separate schools in the South, citing figures to show that where the colored and white children were of equal numbers, the number of white schools in some cases was double the number of colored schools. If the money was to be used among those who needed it, Mr. Edmunds said it ought to be applied to the eduoation of both races alike by fair means, so that the children chil-dren of both races shall have equal advantages advan-tages and fair play, not as between child and child merely, but equal fair play as regards the institution of schools and school districts in the States where the separate i school system prevailed. Mr. Blair was willing to accept Mr. Edmunds' Ed-munds' substitute for the Allison amendment, amend-ment, and it was agreed to. . Mr. Dolph moved to amend by providing that the bill shall not take effect till two-thirds two-thirds of the States should adopt its provisions. pro-visions. Rejected. - Mr. Dolph called for the yeas and nays on his amendment, and pending the call the Senate went into executive session, and when the doors reopened adjourned. |