The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-04-01
FOrfy-seyenth Congress First Session.
WASHINGTON, March 81, 1882.
SENATE.

DINA
A communication was received from the
Attorney-General, IN response TO a resolu-
| ton OF the 18th instant, transmitting CORE
spondeuce with Dallas Sanders. Tempo
rarily laid over and ordered to be printed.
On motion OF Mr.. Butler. resolution
was passed reimbursing Mr.. ingalls,, OF
Kansas. for expenses in defending his title
| TO his seat TO the amount OF $3.50.
On motion OF 1ir. Jonas, Senate bill for IA
public building in Shreveport, La, and APP
propriating 100000, was passed.
On motion OF Mr.. Garland. House Joint
resolution authorizing the issue OF rations
in the district Of the Mississippi overflow
was passed.
| Mr.. Brown asked and obtained indefinite
leave OF absence for his colleague, Mr.. Hill.
| He said the accounts he had received OF
that Senator's condition were favorable, but
that his physicians could not say at what
time he would be able TO return to the scii-
ate.
The Senate resumed the consideration OF
the Indian appropriation bill.
Mr.. Hoar Withdrew his two-million-doi-
| lar educational amendment, and offered a
substitute calm. for half million dollars
for the same purposes; and the debate on
this proposition proceeded.
! A long debate ensued, some members
/ inclning flvorably to Mr.. Hoar's PROPOSE
| ton as an experiment in the right dircc-
ton, but Directing TO the amount called
for.
Finally Mr.. Hoar accepted a modiiica-
ton suggested 10y Mr.. Window fixing the
appropriation at s2j0,O00.
The amendment as modified was adopt
ed-yeas, o. nays, Is. The amendment
as adopted Is as follows: ''The Secretary
OF the Interior Is further authorized and
directed to provide for the care, support,
and education Of all Indian children
dwelling west OF the Mississippi and moi
belonging to the five civilized tribes in
the Indian Territory, or so many thereof
as may be practicable, under such
regulations as may be approved by the
! President in any OF the States or Terrific
rics at a cost not exceeding 5000 per an
nun for each child; and for this purpose
there is appropriated $3.50, 900, or so much
thereof as may be necessary.
The bill was then reported from the com
mittee and passed. Executive session.
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
At 1885 i. NJ. the House went into
Committee OF the Whole on the army APP
preparation bill.
The committee rose temporarily, and on
motion of Mr.. IIiscock, OF New York. {
Joint resolution was passed appropriatine
100000 TO enable the Secretary OF War tC
issue rations to persons rendered destitut,
by the overflow OF the Mississippi river.
The committee then resumed its session
aud Mr.. Butterworth concluded his expla
nation OF the bill, which appropriate
g, 740, 500, being ST1S,29S in excess OF tho
appropriation for the current year.
Mr.. Houck. OF Tennessee, argued In op
position to that feature OF the bill transfer
ring to the Court OF Claims claims now pend
ing in the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES depart
ment, contcnding that such transfer would
work great injustice to claimants. particu
larly TO those the adjudication OF who's
cases had been about completed. The az
gregate amount OF claims remaining wa
about nine millions OF dollars, and h,
did not think that Congress should
change the whole policy OF the Govern
ment and erect new tribunal for the adj
Indication OF this class OF claims, aftel
having held ont for twenty years tina
the artermaster-GeneraPs department
was the tribunal to which claimants
should make their applications. IL j
were proposed to protect the Treasur,
against disloyal claimants, this manner
OF Quartermaster investigation should b,
kept up. II was utterly impossible for dis
LOYAL or dishonest claims to creep in undcl
the present system OF adjudication. Thes'
claimants had run every conceivable char
acter OF investigation, and had been heeces
once or twice by claim agents, ana ne pro
tested against giving claim agents ancsnel
opportunity to fleece them again.
The debate on this proposition occupied
the time until the committee rose, when tn
Uouse adjourned.