Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-27

WASHINGTON, Jan Ex-senator IngaN
offered the following: That the Senate b.
ready to receive the House of Representative!
in the Senate chamber On Wednesday, Februar1
9th, at 70 NJ, for the purpose of being pres
ent at the opening and counting OF the vote;
for President and Vice President of thC
Uuited States, and that two persons be ap
pointed tellers, and that the Senate make q
list Of the votes for President and Vice Presi.
dent OF the United States as they shall be,
that the result may be delivered to the President
OF the Senate, who shall announce The vote,
which shall be entered in the journals, and if
it shall appear that the choice has been made
constitutionaIly, such entry on the journals
shall be deemed sufficient declaration
thereof.
Senator White objected 10 present considera-
lion and the resolution was laid over.
Senator Harris reported favorably the bill
relating 10 quartermasters' stores furnished
the forces of Gen. Lew Wallace during the
Morgan raid through Indiana and Ohio.
Senator Window said he had proposed to
call up the naval appropriation bill to-day,
but would defer il till tomorrow if the SEN
ator from Texas, Coke, believed the pending
Indian land in severalty bill would be disposed
Of to-day.
Senator Coke replied in his opinion final
vote could be reached to-day.
The postoflce appropriation bill was re.
ceiyed from the House, and referred TO the
committee on appropriations.
The consideration of the land in
=everalty bill was then resumed,
the question being on Morgan's
amendment adding proviso to the amend
ment OF HOar, comforting citizenship on
Indians taking lands III seyeralty, under the
provisions of the bill Senator Morgan with
drew his amendment temporarily.
Senator Teller, in opposition to the bill,
remarked that ciTlliZing Indians by giving
them lands in severalty, was the pet theory Of
the secretary of the interior, and quoted also
from reports covering a period of twenty
years upon this point, that the severalty
system had been abandoned bya large number
Of Indian tribes after a trial, and they had
gone back to the communal system.
Senator Hoar's amendment was rejected.
Ayes u, nays 80
Senator Plumb moved TO amend the fifth
section which provides for issuing of patents
for land In the namo of the allotters, and that
the lands shall be lnalienable and free of taxa
ton for twenty-h 'e years by adding proviso
that the lands may be leased for such time, and
on such conditions as may be prescribed by the
secretary OF the interior.
Senator Dawes opposed the amendment as
making the Indian landlord with tenantry, and
as designed TO utterly destroy the bill
lengthy colloQuy ensued between Plumb,
D'wes and Hoar, on the record of Massa-
chusetts in the early history of the country.
In connection with the alleged extinction of
Indians within her borders Senator Plumb,
replying to Dawes criticism, said he inferred !
from the Senator's remarks the Massachusetts, |
people were not willing others should observe
the same rule in the treatment of Indians they |
had observed themselves, but that having ex-
tinguished the Indians in their own State, in |
their own way, they conceived they were, on
that account better entitled to be heard on the |
matter than people among whom the Indians |
now existed.
Senator Herman moved an executive session. |
Senator ingalls, remarked that the Indian |
question had now been under debate 260 years, |
one month and four days. He had hoped it |
might be finally and definitely settled to-day, |
but apprehending that some one would want |
10 continue the dabate for another day. he |
would yield for the motion for an executive |
session
Senator Thurman, pending Kernan's motion, |
moved an adjournment Negatived; yeas, 10;
nays, 26. Kernan's motion was then agreed |
to and the Senate went into executive session, |
and when the doors reopened, adjourned.