Mr. DONNELLY. Mr. Speaker, as my name has been referred to by the Gentfrom Pennsylvania, {Mr. JOHNson, ] it is perhaps proper for me to say in reply that the to which he alludes as having been passed at the last session was a bill introduced by a member from Ohio, [Mr. GARFIELD:] and that bill does not in any sense provide for the education of the children of the South, either white or black. It simply provides for the creation of a Bureau of Education with super visory powers only; to ‘ and super intend the institutions of education which may now exist or hereafter be established in the South as well as the North. I do not understand that it has any connection with or any bearing upon the JtResolution now before the House. That resolution is merely a provision, as I understand it, to extend to the State of Tennessee the benefits of the acts already passed, making grants of land for the establishment of colleges in the several States for instruction in agricultural and mechanical arts and sciences. The bill passed at the last session of Congress, made no grant of money or land. It was entirely of a supervisory char. acter, and requires a very small annual appropriation to carry it into effect. That bill is now pending in the Senate, and I trust it will become a law before the close of this session. As I understand it this bill comes as a largess or grant from the victorious section of the nation to a State of that section which has offended against the laws of the nation. It is given to the State of Tennessee because Tennessee has placed herself in accord with the wishes and desires of the majority of this nation. And I have no doubt that the magna nimity of the dominant party of this country and of the entire people of the North will sanction all such largesses and gifts to all the States of the South which shall, like Tennessee, place themselves in accord with the desire and oil of the nation. But for on, foil never vote for any such grant of land to any of the pretended State governments now existing in the South, organized as they are without the authority of Congress, and existing in defiance of its will, and which will undoubtedly use the same for the oppression of a large portion of its own population. Whenever the people of any southern State shall come before the people of the North upon a basis of equality and fair play, I do not think they will be met by any niggardly, limited, or ungenerous policy on the part of the representatives of the nation.