The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-20
CONGRESSIONAL


WASHINGTON, April 4.-Ih consular ap
preparation bill was taken UP. The amount
appropriated is ST, Lac, l35-an increase OF
$1,000 over the bill as passed by the House. 'N
On the compromise amendment changing
the classification Of consular offices, Eaton,
from the appropriation committee, offered an
amendment arpropriating $4,000 for the
compensation and necessary expenses OF TIE
commissioners appointed to act with the Ell
voy extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary of the United states to China to negoti-
ate and conclude a settlement OF the matters
of interest to the two governments now pend
ing between the same. Agreed TO. The bill
was then passed and the Senate adjourned.
WASHINGTON, April l4-Wells made a
brief statement in regard to the money
features of the Indian appropriation bill.
Mr.. Baker said to many people 1t was a
matter of surprise that the United States gov
eminent failed to manage the Indians as well
as the Canadian government, and year after
year had drifted away without establishing
any system which had looked to anything but
robbing the Indian and plunging the country
into war. The only fixed policy which the
government seemed to have was that which
drove him from the face OF the earth.
The bill was then read by sections for
amendments.
Hooker gave notice that he intended to
offer an amendment to the bill transferring
the Indian Bureau from the Interior to the
War Department. Then there would be
agents that would not only command the con-
fidence of the Indians themselves but of the
people they represented.
Haskell offered an amendment increasing
from $4,000 to $4,000 the appropriation for
the purchase of clothing for the Cheyenues
and Arapahoes.
E. SESSION..
The House went into committee Of the
whole, Stevenson in the chair, on the state Of
the Union.
The first bill on the calendar relative to the
navy was that providing a permanent con-
struction fund for the navy.
Thu amendment of Harris was adopted
that not over a million dollars shall be ex-
pended out of the permanent construction
FUND during any fiscal year without the au-
thority of Congress. The word permanent
was stricken out wherever it occurs in the
bill. The bill was laid aside with favorable
recommendation. Also the bill to equip an
expedition to the Arctic ocean.
Adjourned.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-On motion of
Senator Withers The pending and all prior
orders were postponed and the Senate consld-
cred the pension bills on the calendar which
wers favorably reported.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-After a number
of pension bills were passed Maxey, from the
postal committee, reported the post route
bill, which was ordered printed and recom-
United.
After the morning hour the Geneva award
bill was considered, the question being on
Hoar's amendment striking cut the provision
for the payment of the underwriters losses.
Senator Thurman said the adoption of this
would defeat the principal object Of the bill.
After a tilt between Blaine and Conkllng
regarding Humans complaint that the Sem
ate was violating the custom in making him
close the debate without hearing the objec-
lions to the bill from the other side, Blaine
made a long speech against the bill, and in
concluding asserted that in the history of the
present generation there had not been known
as do-nothiug and idle a Congress as the
present.
WASHINGTON, April Ex-senator Blaine
in concluding his attack on the Geneva Award
bill claimed that he had shown that the claim
for enhanced war premiums was first declared
by Secretary Fish to be of no consequence
and to be simply pressed for the purpose of
having it removed as a bone Of contention
between the two nations.
Adjourned till Monday.