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_003376777	Bliss, George, 1830-1897.	Remarks of Mr. George Bliss before the Joint Committees on Education, Taxation, Charities and Legislative Powers of the Constitutional Convention on the amendment proposed by the National League for the Protection of American Institutions prohibiting the use of public money for sectarian institutions, June 26, 1894.	1894		.txt	text/plain	21933	882	64	In that letter he said, I have always been in favor of public schools and opposed to sectarian appropriations, and yet in the Constitutional Convention of 1867 Charles P. Daly used the following language: I admit that there is a principle in holding that the funds of the State raised for general purposes shall not be applied to charitable institutions managed by private individuals, and if the Convention is disposed to go to the length of that general principle—if they believe it wise or expedient to do so—then, whatever opinion I may entertain of it as to its policy or util- ity, I certainly can have none to its general justice, as it makes no distinction, but confines the funds raised by taxes of the State donated for purposes of charity solely to State institutions. They are large in numbers, and they are scattered all | over the State, and it is a physical impossibility to || carry them to certain places in the State, which shall be called State institutions, for the purpose of | giving them the aid that their necessitous condition ?	cache/_003376777.txt	txt/_003376777.txt