The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-11
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
SENATE.

SENATE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 1879.
In the Senate to-day. the unfinished business.
being the bill to amend the patent laws was laid
aside informally. ON motion of Mr.. Window, and the
Senate proceeded to consider the Indian Appropria-
ton bill.
Mr. WINDOW, trep.) of Mimi. said the amendments
to the bill were but few AS it passed the House it
appropriates s4,Cs1.27s 49, The estimates were
$4.9as.24 so: so it would be that the House
had substantially conformed to the estimates. The
net amount added by the Senate Committee on APP
preparations $5s.757 IS, and the most important
items in the amendments $500 for the North
ern Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Indians, $23.4OO for
the Sioux and s29.4oo for pay of Indian police.
AMENDMENTS AGREED TO.
The amendments proposed by the Committee on
Appropriations agreed to as follows:--
For the pay Of seventy-one Indian agents. instead
OF seventy -four. the House bill; increasing the
appropriation for the Northern Cheyennes and
Arrapahoes from S35 to S3 5O0 and that for the
Sioux of different tribes from $4,000 to s3s4oo.
WILD TRnEs IN INDIAN TERRITORY.
The committee reported amendment to strike
of the House bill the clause directing the Presi
dent to prohibit the removal Of the Apaches and
other Indians OF Arizona and New Mexico to the
Indian Territory.
Mr.. MAxEY dem) of Texas, moved to non-concur
the FIVE civilized tribes now residing in the Indian
Territory We're prosperous, and it was detrimental
that Territory to bring wild tribes of Indians among
them.
Mr. WINDOW said there was no law to allow the
settlement of Wild tribes in that Territory and there
no necessity for this prohibition.
Mr.. CocKREIL, (dem.) OF Mo-, said it well
known that wild Indians had been taken to the In
dian Territory
Mr.. DORSEY (rep) Of Ark. said wild Cheyenne Ind
ians had been the Indian Territory and con-
Quoted themselves very well while surrounded by
soldiers. As soon as the soldiers were Withdrawn
these Indians broke loose and raided through Kansas
10th Gfata ha Tndin
the worst OF all. They were now in Arizona and to
bring them into the In,lian Territory would be
outrage upon the surrounding States.
Mr.. INGALLS, (rep.) OF Kan. said that during the
past six years the process had been gradually
into the Indian Territory. The Modocs. Northern
Cheyennes and various other bands had
been concentrated there. In September last in
sequence Of the unlawful concentration Of the
Cheyenne Indians in the Indian Territory. not less
than thirty citizens of Kansas massacred in
cold blood by these Indians who had been placed in
the Indian Territory by the Executive Department of
the government without the authority of Congress.
Hundreds Of thousands OF dollars worth of property
was destroyed, and now when the people of Kansas,
Arkansas and Texas asked that they might be pro-
tected against the unauthorized acts of the admins
traton they met with the statement that there
was law to settle these Indians in the Indian
rtory At the proper time he would move to enlarge
the provision OF the House bill to forbid the in
PRODUCTION Of any Indians into the Indian Territory
without the consent OF Congress.
After some further discussion the Senate refused
to concur in the amendment OF the Committee on
Appropriations to strike out the clause. by vote
Of yeas =, nays 80.
Mr. INGALLS, OF Kansas, then moved to amend the
clause OF the House bill SO as to read
the President of States hereby
ritory unless the same shall hereafter authorized by
act OF Congress.
Mr.. WINDOW, of Minnesota, said he was opposed to
the amendment unless going to vacate the
Indian Territory. III going to Nacate it and
turn colored brethren there am in favor Of
the proposition
Several Senators on tho democratic side-What do
you think of that?
After some further discussion Mr.. INGALLS, said
that at the suggestion Of friends of the BILL he with
drew his amendment
appropriation tor the support OF tho Tonkawa Indians
ut Fort Griffin, Texas, from $4,000 to S2,729 was
agreed to; also amendments OF tho committee in
crensng the number of privaes for the Indian police
from 400 to 800, and the number OF officers from 30
to lO0 aud the appropriation for that service from
$4,000 to $G0,0OU
An amendment reported by the committee to strike
out of tho House bill the clause authorizing the Sec
rotary of the Interior under direction of the Pres
dent to any surplus that may remain in any OF
the appropriations made by the bill for the purchase
OF subsistence Tor the several Indian tribes and to
supply any subsistence deficiency that may for
any tribe, providing however, that funds appropri
sed to fulfil treaty obligations shall not be used.
agreed to.
The bill having been considered in Committee of
the Whole was reported to the Senate, amendments
made in the committee were concurred in and the
bill was read third time and passed.
The Senate, at haf-past three, motion of Mr..
ALLISON, OF Iowa, went into executive session, and
when the doors were reopened adjourned until Mon
day.