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remark created much merriment.

Cox opposed the proposition 10 sit duriD
the holidays, and said; "The harvest
pnst, summer Is ended, and We are nc
: saved" [Laughter1
22d to January 3D. was lost--ycas, 10
nays, 1913.
Robson introduced q resolution pre-
scribinp fine OF 500 upon any member 10
each days absence during the holida!
week.
Robeson's resolution, imposing fine o
$50 day on absent members during thu
holidays, was adoDted.
The house then adjourned out of respec
to the memory of late Representative Orth
rowing TO the resolution for holiday re-
cess coming up as a priviledged question
and ID the long debate thereon, as well as
to the fact of the early adjournment of the
house, neither the states were called fol
bills nor committees for propositions to
suspend rules, circumstance which is also
without precedent since the adoption OF the
new rules.
COMMITTEE WORK.
The senate finance committee this morn
ing authorized Mr.. Sherman to report to
the senate the bill prepared by the treasury
department and recommended by Mr.. Fol
ger, to extend for two years the period with.
In which parties having whiskey in bond
must pay the internal revenue tax on the
same.
The consular and diplomatic BILL as
amended by the senate committee, in
creases the aggregate appropriation $685.
600. AS adopted 1t calls for appropriations
of 81 ,3l6,7 1852,
| SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 Mr.. Sherman
presented memorial of q tract society OF
Cincinnati, asking that their monthly pub
| lications be carried by mail at the same
rate as their weekly batch.
A petition was presented for an increase
of pensions to the one-armed and one
legged soldiers.
a number of bills were introduced and
referred. Among them was one by Mr..
Harris to repeal the tenth section of the
act to prevent the introduction OF conta-
gious diseases.
| [NoTE-Owing to interrupted telegraphic
communication shortly after the reception
of the afternoon report, it became neces-
sary to receive the press from distributing
point other than the customary one. Hence
the "break'' in the congressional report.
The Indian appropriation bill Is evidently
before the senate.-ED.
Mr.. Plumb offered an amendment pro-
viding that the appropriation for the edu.
cation ofIndians at Carlisle shall cover also
the cost of their transportation. In his re.
marks upon the amendment, he expressed
the opinion that the government was edu-
eating these Indians upon the wrong plan,
and that education given does not materi-
aily increase their capacity for self-support
The true plan would be to teach them the
arts and employments of civilized life and
then let them go out and be absorbed in
the community instead of sending them
back to the reservations where there is no
useful occupation for them, and where
their common school education is useless.
Mr., Dawes contended that education at
| 10 rl;o1a opd HamptOn ia Of q practipal
character, and said every Indian educated
in those schools and sent back among his
people is silent teacher OF civilized ways
and pledge of the peace.
Mr.. Logan did not believe in sending
teachers to the Indian tribes, but he was in
favor of teaching the young Indians useful
trades and then sending them where thev
ought to be absorbed into the community
as citizens. He would also have them en-
ter the army. He thought they would be
good soldiers. AS to the tribes, he would
give them sheep and cattle, so they might
lead a pastoral life and learn to live in
houses and gradually become civilized.
He had visited some agencies last sum-
mer and had been convinced that the at
tempt to maintain schools there was waste
of money. at one agency. where it was
said there had been school for four years,
he could not find an Indian, man, woman
or child, who could speak English. At
another agency where there was large
school house of hewn stone, amply fur,
nished the chief told him the school did
harm by =. spoiiing the children
aud making them dissatisfied with their
surroundings at home. At another place
the school was twelve miles from an Indian
town. The record showed seventy-five
scholars in attendance. The chief, how
ever, said there had never been five on
any one day, but they had some of the
| ,uop,ap and nhildrau Uo in and link at the
pictures, AMI had entered them as pupils.
The government was also paying to matt :
| tain a farm" at the agency. He stepped
into the farm" and found it to be just
ninety steps square ard contain crop of
three rows of corn. Laughter He mad
also thirty-five pounds OF stone taken from
a barrel of sugar supplied for Indians.
Mr.. Saunders said he had had much ex-
perience among the Indians, and he be-
| iieved the present system would result in
good to Indians and no harm to the whites,
| but he concurred in the view that the
teaching oftrades should precede the teach
Ing OF letters.
Mr.. Plumbs amendment was agreed.
Mr.. Dawes offered an amendment appro-
prlating 5000 to enable the secretary of
the interior TO complete negotiations with
the Sioux. Agreed to.
Mr.. Call offered an amendment, which
was AGREED to, providing the Seminoles still
remaining in Florida shall receive their
share of the "oney appropriated TO pay
tions.
Mr.. Logan offered an amendment, pro-
yiding that any disbursing officer, or other
person, who shall present any voucher, ac-
count or any claim to United States Off
Ger for approval or payment, containing
any material Misrepresentation of facts.
shall not receive payment or credit for nny
nfss nj al
TO penalties prescribed by the existing
laws. Agreed TO.
The bill was then passed.
The unfinished business, the civil service
bill, came up.
Mr.. Sherman obtained unanimous con-
sent TO lay il aside 10 take up the bill re-
purted by him yesterday from the commit
tee on finance, extending the time for the
withdrawal Of distilled spirits in bonded
warehouses.
Mr.. Cobger thought the tendency Of the
bill would be TO encourage overproduction
Of whisky. IL was 9 measure OF interest TO
the whisky men, and at the end Of this ex-
tension another would be asked.
Mr.. Ingalls, moved TO amend the bill IN
sertiDg the provision that from and alter
expiration Of three years from entry OF any
distilled spirits now in warehouse per
cent. Interest shall be collected upon such
spirits, TO be computed down TO the time
OF withdrawal. he asked MI oherman
what effect the bill would have upon the
revenue for the n xt tgO years. lie under
stood that on the 30th OF June last, there
wsre $4,000, 600 gallons Of whisky in bond,
Of which about 600, coo gallons were held
in Kentucky alone.
Mr.. Sherman said il was true about the
amount stated held In bond in the state Q
Kentucky. but il was not owned there. IL
was sold In bond and owned all over the
Union.
Mr.. Bsysrd said the applications for re-
lief BY the passaRe OF this hil had come
quite as much from other parts Of The COM
Try Is from Kentucky.