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DOMESTIC NEWS.
Washington Notes, fr0m Our own Core.
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
Washington Notes, frOm Our own Core.
spOndent.
WASHINGTON, January 17th-The Senate
to day passed Booths bill TO restore the lands
included in the Fort Reading military re-
seryation to the public domain, with an
amendment, also offered by Booth, extending
It's provisions to the Fort Crook reservation.
The bill, besides restoring these lands, con-
firms all the patents heretofore issued to any
of them, and declares that "the rights of all
settlers on said reservation to acquire title
under the homestead and presumption laws
are hereby recognized and affirmed TO the ex-
tent that such settlers would have acquired
by settling on public lands" The bill now
goes to the House of Representatives for con.
currence.
The Senate Committee on Appropriations,
in reporting the Indian appropriation bill,
strike out the House items for salaries of
agent and interpreter at the Malheur (Ore-
gon) reserv alton, and insert an appropriation
of So 600 for the subsistence and civilization
of the Malheur Indians hereafter at the Yo-
kima reservation.
Representative Whitaker to-day introduced
bill to authorize the construction of
bridge across Snake river, between Grange
City and Taxas, Washington Territory.
The vote on Saiisbury's motion in the SEN
ate to-day to set aside the Holiday bill in
order to take up the Kellogg case, was sub
stantially fair test of the sentiment of the
Senate concerning the proposition to unseat
Kellogg, and the result shows that ne
will not be disturbed. Davis of Illinois
and nine Democrats, as follows,
voted no with the Republicans
Bayard, Butler, Grover, Lamar, Pendleton,
Thurman, VOORHEES,, Williams and Whyte
VOORHEES, and Williams might possibly have
voted differently on naked proposition to
take up the Kellogg case, but the other eight
are fully committed to vote in favor of Kel-
logg's right to his seat in any event.
The reply of Delegate Cannon to the
points made by the contestant for his seat has
been printed in pamphlet form. In regard
to the allegation that he is not a citizen, he
declares that he was duly naturalized on the
7th of December, 1854, but Dgues that
whether he is citizen or not, the Governor
of Utah has no right to go behind the returns
which gave him the election.
Senator Sharon occupied his seat to-day
for the first time this session.
Sometime ago Representative Bedford de-
sired Speaker Randall to place him on the
list for recognition some Monday, to make a
motion to suspend the rules. his purpose be-
erection of Government building at Dan
yer. He accordingly sought the Speaker,
and, it is alleged, the latter told him to let
him see what he had to offer, and if he (1he
Speaker approved of it he would recognize
him. Bedford refused to submit to the pro-
cedure. and quite a spicy correspondence be-
tween the Speaker and Mr.. Bedford followed,
in which it is said the latter sharply criti-
cised the practice of the Chair insisting on
an inspection of matters of legislation under
such circumstances, and remarked, among
other things, that in his opinion the Speaker
is simply the organ of the House, and the
House is not the organ of the Speaker.
The New AppOrtiOnmcnt Bill.
WASHINGTON, January 17sh.-The appor-
tionment bill introduced by Representative
Cox to-day fixes the number of Representa-.
tfves at sol, and apportions them among the
States as follows: Alabama s, Arkansas ),
California 5. Colorado l, Connecticut f.
Delaware /, Florida l, Georgia 8, Illinois 49,
Indiana II, Iowa 10, Kansas 6, Kentucky TO-
Louisiana 6, Maine 4, Maryland 6, Massa-
chusatts IL, Michigan 10, Minnesota 5, Miss.
issippi Z, Missouri 13, Nebraska 8, Nevada l.
New Hampshire 2, New Jersey7 New York
81, North Carolina s, Ohio 10, Oregon 1,
Pennsylvania &C. Rhode Island 2, South
Carolina 6. Tennessee 8, Texas TO- Vermont
z, v lr9lilld y, w c5b iSIuid tut w ibcUH-
sin s. As compared with the present num-
Der of members, this bill makes the following
losses and gains Arkansas, California, Iowa,
Michigan, Mississippi, South Carolina and
West Virginia gain l each Kansas gains 3;
Texas a; Minnesota and Nebraska gain 2
each Pennsylvania 6; New Hampshire
Maine, Indiana, Tennessee. Florida and Yer
mont lose 1, and New York loses 2.
west Point Military Academy-Interest.
ing Reports.
WASHINGTON, January 17th.-Senator Gar
land, on the part of the Congressional mem
hers of the Board of Visitors to the West
Point Military Academy, to-day submitted a
report signed by himself and Representative
Phillips, another signed by Senator Ed
munds, and still another signed by Repre-
santatives Mckinley and FELTON,. Senator
Garland's report was accompanied by bill
amendatory of the laws relating to the Mill.
tary Academy.
Senator Garland and Representative Nc
Kinley devote considerable space to consid-
Grafton Of the question of the admission of
colored cadets to the Academy. They say
they spent some time in examining this ques.
ton. and in so doing took the testimony of
several witnesses touching the late trouble
with Cadet Whitaker. In this investiga-
ton they were led back to consider, to some
extent, the conduct, bearing, association, and
in fact the general status of the other colored
cadets that had been at the Academy. This
was done only for the purpose of ascertainipg
whether the Academy would prosper by the
mingling together of cadets of two different
races. No solid reason, they say, can be as
signed, why colored boys should not receive
full and equal advantages in the way of edu-
cation, military and all other kinds, with
L,,E ~, +ba fhe IL avar,,
son that they should. 1t is fact, however,
that the mingliug of white and colared cadets
on terms of social equality is subject to con-
tinued drawbacks and trouble, which are 80
for inherent that, in their judgment, 40 regu-
lation of law can control them. Ii 1t be
deemed expedient to continue further this CO.
education in the same institution, this dis.
turbing cause, while depressed 81 far as wise
discipline can touch it, must after all be left
for its cure to time and experience, which
NAV result in q mitigation or separation of
the two races il. their military education
Senator Ednunds, in his report, EXPIRE sses
the opinion that the standard of admission
ought to be raised. The investigation made
by the committee convinced him that youths
of the African race have not received the
same treatment, at least from their fellow
cadets, that they would have received had
they been of the white race but each col
ored boy had found himself continually iso-
lated from his fellow cadets prisoner in
solitary confinement in the midst of his fell
low cadets. tits obvious, he continues, that
under such circumstances colored boy could
not succeed nearly 30 well as other boys in
his studies, and in competition for the honors
OF the school. or in fitting himself for future
usefulness. The tendency Of such treatment,
be thinks, would be to repress the good and
develop the evil qualities of his common hu-
man nature. There is no reason, he says, why
the two races can1ot succeed together in this
institution, as they do in many schools
and universities il this and other countries.
The officers and cadets of the Academy all
come from every phase of American life, and
meet On equal ground and while it may be
conceded that no law can rectify the evil re-
ferred to, he believes such course Of prac-
tice as hiss existed towards colored cadets is
unjust, unreasonable and inhuman, and that
il deserves the severest condemnation. Re-
ferring to the Whitaker inquiry, Senator
Edmunds says that the conduct Of the case
was such SIS to place Whitaker in false po
sition in the beginning. II the white cadets
can be excuipated on their mere declaration
that they were free from completely in the
outrages. the same ought 10 apply to cadets
Of the cslored race, unless it is assumed that
there can be no presumption in the existence
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