The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-05-16

senate - attend the -.,eGorial s.-v:ce, p.
Arlington Cca terry o. Decoration Day
Laid on the table
The Senate then resumed conS;i eratiou
OF the Indian appropriation bill aui the
amendment submitted by NIr. H1ar yeste--
DAY, authorizing the President 10 disl erse
with the expenditure Of the appropriation
in The bills, providing that he NAV if he
deem them unnecessary, and that he COT
sent Of the tribe sail he fri CHAINED, and
also appropriatins $1,000 u be expended
FOR the benefit Of he ;Tihes in such manner
IS the President nav, with their oou~cn.
arurove, was laid on The tabie-ycas, 81
NAYS i6.
The question ti,en being on the amend
ment Of the Committee on Appropriations
providing that the several appropriations
made for teachers, millers, blacksmiths, en-
gineers and other employees on the reserya-
tons and for various supplies for the In
dians. may be diverted to other uses tor the
benefit of the Indians within the discretion
of the President and with the consent OF the
tribes, which was reported a. substitute
Tor the third, fourth aud fifth sections of the
House bill which authorized the
Commissioner OF Indian Affairs
TO employ Indians in farming or other civ
ilized avocations, and pay them out of tie
money appropriated Tor subsistence, when
II can be spared, &C.. also authorized the
Secretary OF the Interior. in case OF emer-
gencv, requiring immediate action, to Use
the funds appropriated for other purposes
was agreed To with the amendment submit
ted by MIR. Hoar, striking out the word
teachers" 50 that the fund appropriated
for them "hould not be diverted
! Mr.. ALLISON submitted an amendment
providing that no purchase OF supplies ex-
ceeding in aggregate the value OF five hun
dred soldiers, shall be made at any one
time without advertisement, except IN cas-.
! of emergency, when purchases NAV be mad,
| in open market not exceeding $1,000 il
value Agreed to.
| Various unimportant amendments wer,
agreed TO, and the bill, having been consid
cred in Committee OF the Whole, was re
ported 20 the Senate and the amendment
made in the committee concurred in ans
| the bill read the third time and passed.
Mr.. DORSEY-It had been the listen
ton to call up the post-offce appropriation
bill Immediately upon the completion o
the Indian appropriation bill, but at the re
quest of several Senators it had been agreeC
/ that the bill 10 repeal the bankrupt Law
should he first considered He gave MOTTO
that he would call up the iost office appro
priation bill on Monday next.
/ Mr.. FERRY said that as soon as the bli
to repeal the bankrupt law should tie dis
posed of he would call up the bill to repea
the specie resumption act.
The Senate then, on motion OF MI
Thurman, took up the bill 10 repeal IN
bankrupt act.
Mr.. THURMAN, referring to the amend
ment submitted by him when the bill va
last before the Senate so As 10 provide tina
the repeal shall take effect on the first q
September next, SAID he submltte'
il "a compromise between thos
who favored January lSt, 1S1S
the time now n Imed in the bill, an tho
in favor OF the repeal taking ei! ct Ul
ON the passage of the act. ShoTid III
amendment be defeated he would the
move TO insert August SIS. lie di'
not think the people OF this country wer
fairly notified mat the bill would b
repealed Immediately. 1t had been in II
Judiciary COMMITTEE a long time, and the
were not prepared Tor the repeal. II
thought II Dc>t 10 AIiOW II 10 remain II
force until September. Some Considerable
was due to the men who were indebted Gn
Congress should not in haste put an end t
this law at Onch.
Mr. FERRY, from the Conference Com
mittee on the bill 10 regulate the adverti-
ing OF mail-lettings, submitted Il report. an,
in explanation thereof, said the Erincipa
difference between the two Houses was ii
regard to the advertising rates IN newspa
perS. which was now regulated by the OF,
law ii 1853, allowing forty cents per fcl'
and did not give sufficient compensation
The Senate amendment was To provide t"
the payment OF commercial rates for Gov
ernmeut advertising from alt Department
nf the Government. A. the amendment va
agreed upon in conference, it fixed the rate
To he paid for advertising Tor the Pu-tut.Io
Department only. and not for other Depart
mentS Ii wa~ fixed ON Il commerce ! hf-I
Tor that department. The report Wa
agreed To-, and the bill passed.
Mr. ROLLINS introduced a bill to con
tinue in -. the act of March 81, ls11. {,
provide f.r he support Of the government
oi the l.. riot OF Columbia. Referred.
The DISCUSSION continued At length, bu
without action the Senate adjourn q.