Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-04-01
p0RTYSBVgSTH CONCRESS.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, March 81.
A resolution to REIMBURSE Mr.. Ingalls, 49,.
1876 for expenses incurred by him in the de-
Tense of the title to his seat. was adopted.
A bill for the selection of site and cree
ton thereon of building for United States
government uses at Columbus, Ohio, at q cost
not exceeding $3.50, 900, and appropriatine
500, 900 therefor, was passed
An order for adjournment from today until
Monday, was adopted.
bill for building . post office at Hot
Springs, Ark, II an expense not exceeding
ESQ, 600, was passed.
Mr.. Rollins introduced bill for the pur-
chase of site or sites for additional build
ings for the accommodations of the interior
and post office department.
On motion of Mr.. Cameron, of Pennsyl-
vania, the Senate bill for building for the
United States government offices at Erie, Pa,
At q cost of not over 600. 600. and appropria-
ting 500, 600. was passed.
The Indian appropriation bill was then pro-
ceeded with.
Pending the amendment offered by Mr..
HOar as a substitute for the committee amend
ment appropriating 81 600 for the education
Of Indian children at schools other than those
provided for in the bill, was temporarily with
drawn, and the latter adopted. Mr.. Hoar
then submitted modification of his PROPOSE
ton for the education of Indian children gen.
orally. so to provide for the appropriation of
$500, 900 instead of S2,0O0.OOO.
Mr. Bayard favored the amendment
Mr.. Dawes, in charge of the bill. confessed
to some embarrassment between his duty to
the committee on appropriations to maintain
the bill in its integrity, and his personal in
clination to support the amendment. He
enumerated the provisions of the bill. and
expressed the belief that every dollar expend-
ed in education al purposes was dollar saved
from the outlay for subsistence and care OF
the Indians.
Messrs. Hale and Beck regarded the prOpo-
sitiOn as an experiment in the right direction,
but preferred elimination of the amount,
and after some further discussion by Messrs.
Hoar, Maxey and Salisbury, Mr.. Hoar ac-
cepted the modification suggested by Mr..
Window, fixing the appropriation at $780,
600. The amendment as modified was adopt
ed-yeas %, nays Is.
At this point, the debate was temporarily
suspended. and on motion of Mr.. Allison the
House resolution granting the use of the rO-
tunda for a reception in aid Of the Garfield
Memorial Hospital, the first Saturday in
May, was cOncurred in.
The House joint resolution authorizing the
sippi overflow, was passed.
Mr.. Brown asked and obtained an indefinite
leave of absence for his colleague. (HilD.
The accounts received of that Senator's con-
dition were favorable, but the physicians
could not saw when he would be able to re-
turn to the Senate.
The debate was resumed and Mr.. Teller,
replying to Mr.. Hoar's argument of the pre-
vious day, defended the people of the border,
and particularly in the troubles of late years
unprovokedly attacked the friendly tribes.
The amendment by Mr.. Hale appropriatins
$4,000 to continue'the Indian commission.
was lost. and the item on the subject adopted
as amended by the committee. The bill was
reported from the committee of the whole
and passed.
Adjourned till Monday.
HOUSE.
After some unimportant business the House
went into committee of the whole on the army
appropriation bill.
Mr.. Butterworth explained the provisions
of the army appropriation bill, pointing out
the increase in the amount appropriated and
the changes made in the existing law. Be.
fore he concluded his speech the committee
rose.
Mr.. Randall offered a resolution granting
the use of the rotunda and adjacent rooms,
to the Ladies' National Aid Association for
the Garfield Memorial Hospital, for the first
Saturday in May, for the purpose of holding
a reception to raise funds. Adopted.
joint resolution was passed appropria-
ting 500, 900 to enable the secretary of wal
to issue rations to persons rendered destitute
by the Mississippi river.
The committee then resumed its session.