 |
| Samuel Walker McCall. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, June 27, 1902.
ALMOST A PARTY VOTE
Philippine Government Bill Has Passed the House.
M'CALL VOTED WITH DEMOCRATS.
Bill Passed as it Came From Committee—Democratic Substitute Providing For Ultimate Independence Defeated—Also One to Prohibit Slavery—Pan-American Relief.
Washington, June 27.—At the end of a nine-hour session and of a debate lasting night and day for a week the house passed the Philippine civil government bill practically as it came from the committee. It was a party vote—141 to 97—with the exception of Mr. McCall of Massachusetts who voted with the Democrats.
The minority substitute for the establishment of a temporary government in the islands and their permanent independence as soon as a stable government could be established was defeated by 95 to 136.
The debate during the day was at times of a lively character. The Democrats offered a multitude of amendments but all were voted down, including one offered by Mr. Paterson to prohibit slavery or involuntary servitude in the islands.
The greatest interest attached to an amendment offered by Mr. McCall to the end of the bill to declare the policy of the United States to be to develop the capacity of the Filipinos for self-government and pledging the faith of the United States to grant them self-government. He supported the amendment in an eloquent speech and the Democrats challenged their political adversaries to declare their future policy.
Mr. Grosvenor and Mr. Cooper said it would be unwise to mortgage the future by making such a declaration now, and the latter quoted Governor Taft as saying that such a promise now would tend to prevent the pacification of the islands.
The amendment was lost—89 to 128. It was a strict party vote except for Mr. McCall and Mr. Littlefield of Maine who voted with the Democrats for the amendment.
Before the consideration of the Philippine bill was resumed the house by a vote of 252 to 8 adopted the conference report on the isthmian canal bill, thus accepting in toto the senate bill. The bill now goes to the president.
IN THE SENATE.
Deficiency Bill Amended to Include Appropriations For Buffalo and Charleston.
Washington, June 27.—During the comparatively brief time the senate was in session the conference report on the isthmian canal bill was agreed to and the general deficiency bill, the last of the big supply measures, was passed.
A slight protest was made against the appropriations of $500,000 for the Buffalo exposition and $160,000 for the Charleston, S. C., exposition, but finally they were included in the bill.
Mr. Hale believed the example of these cities would be a means of stopping the mad rush of cities for expositions. He hoped that not again in a generation would the government extend financial aid to exposition enterprises.
With the understanding that the present appropriations were not to be considered as a precedent Mr. Bailey withdrew his objection and the amendments were agreed to.
An amendment was agreed to authorizing the secretary of the treasury to pay the unpaid expenses incurred on account of the last illness and death of President McKinley, including compensation of physicians, $45,000, provided that only such expenses shall be paid as are just and reasonable, no government employe [sic] to be paid any sum for personal or professional services. The bill was passed.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Our Gift of Free Schools to Cuba.
One of our best gifts to the new republic of Cuba has been the American free school system, and the eagerness with which the young generation of Cubans have accepted and taken advantage of it is one of the best guarantees of the permanency of free institutions in the island.
Two years before the outbreak of the last revolution and five years before the beginning of the American occupation, according to Lieutenant Matthew E. Hanna, who had much to do with the establishment of free schools in Cuba, writing in the current Atlantic Monthly, there were only 35,000 children receiving instruction in the entire island in 898 schools. The abnormal state of affairs brought about by the revolution in 1805, which terminated with American intervention, rendered it impossible for most of the schools to exist, so that there were very few schools at the beginning of American occupation.
In 1863 Spain collected and spent $80,000,000 of the island revenues, not one penny of which was expended for public education. In contrast to this $16,977,239 was collected in 1901 and more than $3,000,000 of it expended in public instruction. In 1863 there were only 21,000 children receiving instruction in the schools, while in 1901 more than 200,000 Cuban children were registered and taught. In the schools of Cuba are now employed 3,600 teachers under a school law that appears to admirably meet not only present conditions and requirements, but furnishes a basis for a school system as perfect and complete as that of any state in our Union.
Mr. Hanna says that the Cuban children are receiving as good or better instruction than is given in the average public schools in the United States and adds:
The schools are all graded under one system, and a child in the third grade at Cape Maisi is studying the same textbooks and has reached the same point of advancement as a child in the third grade at Cape San Antonio. The great majority of this vast number of children are in the first three grades. There are a few in the fourth grade and still less in the fifth. Age is not an indication of the grade to which a child can be assigned. A boy fourteen years old may be in the same grade as one six years old. There is no better illustration of the complete lack of opportunity for free public education prior to the American occupation than these statements. These 200,000 children have learned all that they know in the last three years. If the present number of schools is maintained and approximately one-sixth of the population continues to receive some instruction in the public schools yearly, the next official census of Cuba should show a marked change in the percentage of illiteracy.
◘ The triumph of women suffragists in the new national parliament of the Australian commonwealth is their greatest achievement thus far attained. It confers the right to vote for its members on all the women of Australia. There are 4,000,000 inhabitants in this commonwealth, and this act enfranchises about 800,000 women. When those of New Zealand are added, who have been voting nine years, and those of our own four states, a total is furnished of not less than 1,260,000 English speaking women who are now exercising full political suffrage.
 |
| Cortland Normal School. |
COMMENCEMENT.
The Normal School Turns Out Its Largest Class.
FINE PROGRAM OF EXERCISES
And the Customary Large and Appreciative Audience—Address to Graduates by Irving B. Smith of the Department of Public Instruction.
The Cortland Opera House was packed to its utmost capacity at the sixty-first commencement exercises of the Normal school this morning. Long before the appointed time the doors of the Opera House were thronged with those seeking to gain admission, and before the hour announced for the opening of the program every available seat was occupied and standing room was at a premium.
The class of 1902, which is the largest in the history of the school, occupied reserved seats in the body of the house. The members of the faculty, local board and representatives of the department of public instruction were seated upon the platform, and the relatives and friends of the members of the graduating class had reserved seats in the main part of the house.
The formal program of exercises was opened by the invocation by Rev. U. S. Milburn. Music was furnished for the occasion by the Normal orchestra, and Mr. Robert Hosea of New York City sang two numbers which were well received. Mr. Hosea has a fine baritone voice, well trained and the large audience was carried away with his singing.
Miss Grace Aria Hubbard, ą member of the graduating class, rendered a vocal solo, "O Divine Redeemer," with a violin obligato by Robert I. Carpenter and this was one of the finest numbers on the entire program which was as follows:
From the literary and professional standpoint the program was one of the best ever listened to upon an occasion of this kind. Each member of the class, whose name appears as taking part, acquitted himself with honor to the class, to himself and to the institution which he will henceforth represent as an alumnus. Space does not permit of an individual reference to each of the articles presented, but all were of a high order of merit.
Mr. Smith's Address.
The address to the graduates was delivered by Irving B. Smith, A. M., of the Department of Public Instruction, and was introduced by Dr. Francis J. Cheney, principal of the school. Mr. Smith's address was listened to by the members of the class and by the large audience present with marked attention, and his words of congratulation, welcome, and admonition to the class of 1902 will go with them and remain as a feature of the day's exercises. The speaker congratulated the class upon the completion of their work as students in the Cortland Normal school. He said that the place occupied by the graduates of the Cortland Normal school were places of responsibility and trust throughout the Empire state, and that if the members of the class of 1902 were to prove their worth for holding such places they must put forth earnest efforts. Continuing he said: "We do not admire the structure for its foundation however important the foundation may be; the superstructure is also important. The lessons that you have just learned are the foundation for the superstructure which you must build as you go forth to your work. The battle is really before you. Victory is not to be had upon dress parade. I have the greatest admiration for trained teachers, but it is the duty of the older members of the profession to counsel and instruct those who are starting upon their life work.
"Great changes are taking place in the world's history today. These times seem to us great in comparison with the achievements of the past. The world moves by the power of mind. The age calls for teachers. Glory and honor are paid to the military power, but how much greater is the power of the teacher than that of the statesman, the soldier, the capitalist, the merchant and the laborer. To the student and the teacher should be given the greatest honor. But not all teachers and students are found in the schoolroom. In every department of life the true student is found.
"The closing of one important chapter implies the opening of another. You speak of this event as commencement because it is the opening of a new and important chapter of your life work. Two great problems confront the student: How, first, can I improve my own life? Second, how can I improve the life of others? Both of these problems go hand in hand and must be wrought out together. If you are not first-class teachers, if you are not first-class students, if you are not first-class in whatever you undertake, you must be first-class failures for you have come to the position which you now occupy through first-class conditions. Be active and earnest in your work and in the position which you will occupy as you go out from this school. Great lessons are to be learned from this century in which we live, which mean more to the world than the lessons of the old. As teachers you will find that social power is nowhere so great as when applied to growing humanity. Social sympathy moves the world. More is accomplished by the life we live than by the theory of life we are trying to exemplify. The teacher should have high ideals of life and duty. Teaching is more than a business matter. The teacher must see more in a school than a business proposition."
The speaker congratulated the class and welcomed them as members of the teaching profession on behalf of the department of public instruction. In closing he gave them this quotation from Dante: "Still go forward, but in going listen."
Dr. Cheney then presented the diplomas. The class joined in singing the class song, and the exercises closed with the benediction.
Class Song.
The Graduates.
The membership of the class is as follows:
Classical Course—Mattie Maude Allen, Edith Gertrude Allen, Mildred Augusta Alexander, Zuma Eddy Bellinger, Rosa Jane Britten, Florence Edith Burghardt, Emma White Cornish, Angeline Cummings, Gracia Blair Darrow, Susanna Davis, Anna Theresa Dowd, Arla Eggleston, Anna McGraw Greenman, Mercy Louise Haskins, Bessie Lutherie Hinds, Lulu Mynard Hinman, Charlotte L. Hollister, Bertha Elizabeth Jenkins, Marion Arthur Kennedy, Mary Lucinda Lockwood, Maude McKinney, Anna Estella Meldrim, Harriet Delphine Newcomb, Margaret Ester Nix, Edna Louise O'Neill, Eva May Porter, Ethel Margaret Place, Laville Samantha Powers, Maud Cole Saxton, Julia Elizabeth Sheehan, Ina Ann Shevalier, Anna Marie Stadlich, Lola E. Strowbridge, Helen Gertrude Wager, Marion Ward, Mary Amelia Yoran, Arthur Deforest Allen, Walter Bates, Edward Augustus Bingham, Charles Alfred Brownell, Charles Henry Dean, Morton Edward Hinman, William Billings Manchester, Wallace W. Rayfield, Earl B. Robinson, Samuel E. Wells.
Scientific Course—John Hart, William M. Thayer.
English Course—Edwina Henrietta Benedict, Iona May Butts, Julia Buckley, Mabel Ruth Cummings, Anna Elizabeth Caine, Mabel Elizabeth Davis, Martha Amelia Davis, Blanche Lulu Dudley, Florence E. Elliott, Climena E. Elmore, Edith Pearl Fish, Rose Hannah Goodspeed, Mina Eloira Gillen, Mary Ella Gillette, Anna Deborah Harvey, Calista Adelaide Haff, Abbie Hanna, Katherine Louise Healey, Margaret Agnes Hogan, Mary J. Holmes, Grace Ethel Hull, Laura Jennings, Lucetta Fancher Jones, Elizabeth Agnes Kelley, Helen Grace Leete, Josephine Lynch, Ida May Livermore, Mabel Mills, Prances T. Manny, Lydia S. Mathewson, Mary Vacie Northrup, Ellen Augusta Norton, Ora Mae Palmer, Ellen Elizabeth Peck, Pearl Edith Price, Freda Chessie Sullianer, Minnie Lee Stine, Florence Edna Stone, Ella Cecilia Sweeney, Mabel W. Treadwell, Edith Elizabeth VanDerVeer, Alice Frances Westover, Jeanette Winchell, Katherine Williams, Mabel Adelaide Woodford, Helen DuBois Wood, Marilla Larrabee White, Charles Henry Huntley, Charles James Kelley John O'Neill, John Timothy Smith, Orville B. Snyder, Leon Jefferson Tarbell.
Primary and Kindergarten Course—Mary Agatha Avery, Frances Berson, Harriet L. Birdsall, Grace Aria Hubbard, Mabel Birdsall Musson, Grace Estelle Rogers, Helen DuBois Wood.
Special Kindergarten Course—Jessica Marie Ostrom.
Academic Classical Course—Stuart Dye, Augustus Dillon, Frank Foster Sornberger, Anna Walrad.
Academic English Course—Emmett Paige Tracy.
The alumni banquet is being held this afternoon, and an account of it will be given tomorrow.
FORTNIGHTLY CLUB.
President's Day Observed at the Home of the Misses White.
Miss Mary H. White, the retiring president of the Fortnightly club, entertained the members of the club yesterday afternoon at her home, 58 Port Watson-st. A varied program was followed in the entertainment. Refreshments were served and with this very enjoyable gathering the club separated to meet again in the fall, the mantle of presidency falling from the shoulders of Miss White to be worn by Miss Celia Hinman for the coming year. The subject of the work next year will be architecture.
Y. M. C. A. ROAD RACE.
First of the Series to be Started this Evening.
The first [bicycle] road race in the series of three under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. will be started from the Cortland House corner at 7 o'clock this evening. There are fifteen entries for the race. The course is from Cortland to Little York and return.
Funeral of Mrs. Tillinghast.
The following people from out of town were in Cortland yesterday to attend the burial services of Mrs. R. C. Tillinghast of Syracuse, formerly of this city, who died last Monday night: Messrs. Oscar and William Edgerley and Miss Grace Edgerley of Brooklyn, brothers and sister of Mrs. Tillinghast; Mr. W. O. Greene, editor of the Monroe County Mail, and Mrs. Greene of Fairport, N. Y., and Hon. And Mrs. Wilbur Holmes of Cincinnatus.
Rev. James Rain, pastor of the Congregational church, offered prayer at the grave. The bearers were, Messrs. B. L. Webb, J. S. Bull, S. M. Ballard and J. W. Orr.
BREVITIES.
—The Protected Home circle will meet this evening at 8 o'clock for the election of officers.
—New display advertisements today are—The Corner grocery, Strawberries, page 8; Bingham & Miller, Trunks, page 8; C. F. Thompson, Home grown peas, page 7; R. W. Mitchell, Spring lamb and chickens, page 5.
—The house and lot 50 Church-st., now occupied by Rev. and Mrs. Robert Clements, has been sold by its owner E. H. Brewer to Mrs. A. J. Murray. The present occupants will have to move before Dec. 1.
—A force of twenty-five men is at work today laying the brick pavement on Railroad-st., opposite the new Lackawanna station. The plot of ground between the station and the sidewalk has been sodded and presents a very attractive appearance.
No comments:
Post a Comment