Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-13
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YANk DAKOTA.
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Monday Evening, Jan. 10, 1879
u INDIAN BILL.

After tho Adoption OF q Few Amend.
me"ts Ii Passes the senate.
Washington, Jan lO-Tbe Indian sppro.
priatlon bill cssde up in its regular order 10
the senate to-day.
Mr.. Window said the amendments to the
bill were but few. Az it passed the house
it appropriateS S4,6sl,27s. TaeAes,imates
were "a, 1898 244, The net amJp1z fdded by
the senate committee on appropriation was
p43,577, and the most important items in
the amendments were $500 for the north
ern Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Indians, $685.
400 for the Sioux, and 500, 400 Tor the pay
of the Indian police.
The amendments proposed by the COM
mlttec on appropriations were agreed to as
follows: For ,be pay of II I1dlan agents
instead OF "a As in the hous. bill; increas.
ing the appropriations for the Northern
Cneyennes aud Arrapahoes fro IL $751; 600 TO
S37 500, aud that OF the different Sioux
tribes from S!5, 900 to $3S, 400.
The committee report an amendment to
strike out Of the house bill the clause direct
ing the president to prohibit the removal
of the Apaches and other Indians o, Ari-
IONA anu New Mexico to the Indian terri.
tory.
Mr.. Maxey moved 10 non.concurrence
anC said the tive civilized tribes now resid.
ing in the Indian territory were prosperous
and IT was detrimental to these Indians, as
we'll as to the states bordering on that terri
tory, u bring wild tribes Of Indians among
them.
MIR ingalls, raid that during the past six
years a process had been going gradually
on of concentrating unfriendIy indians in
the Indian territory. The Modocs, North
ern C%heyennes and various other bands had
been concentrated there. In September
last, in consequence of the unlawful concen.
tration OF the Cheyenne Indians in the In
dian territory not less than thirty citizens of
kautas were massacred in cold blood by
these Indians, who had been placed in the
Indian territory by the executive depart
ment of the government without the auti or
i,y Of con ,ress, and hundreds Of thousands
OF dollars worth of property vas destroyed.
At the proper tine he would move to en-
large the provisions Of the house bill so as
to forbid the introduction of any Indi ans in
TO the Indian territory, without the consent
of congress. After some further discussion
the senate refused to concur in the amend
ment of the committee on appropriations Il
strike out the clause by a vote Of s &c
80.
The following amendments of the commit,
tee were agreed to: Increasing the numbe,
of p%riva,es for Indian police from 40 tc
800 and the numb r Of officers from so te
loo an the appropriation for that service
from $50, 900 to 100000.
The amendment reported by the commit
tee to strike out of the. house bill the CLAUSE
authorizing the secretary of the interior
under direction Of the president, to use any
surplus that may remain in any Of the ap
preparations made for the purchase of sub
slstence for the several Indian tribes anc
supply any subsistence deficiency that may
occur for any tribe; providing, however
that the funds appropriated to fulfill treat,
obligations shall rot be used, was agreed to
The bill having bean considered in commit
too ofthe whole was reported to the senate
the amendments made in the committe.
were concurred in, and the bill read a thirc
time and passed.