The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-05-10
NGRESSION
SENATE

D0lph introduced . bill to provide
for the construction of = harbor of
refuge st Port Oxford, on the Pacific
coast. Referred.
The chair laid before the Senate a
resolution offered yesterday by
Van Wyck. directing the
Secretary of the Treasury to
withhold patents for lands on the
Pyallup branch of the Northern
Pacific railway until Congress de
cides the question of the forfeiture of
such lands.
The Senate then took up the In
dian appropriation bill and Dawes
briefly recapitulated its provisions.
Its estimates for the year, he said,
were SIS, 468, 500; the amount of the
bill as it came from the House, S.
456, 3S9; amounts to be proposed to
that amount, S757.4l3; total reported
to the senate for Indian service for
the coming year, $685. O2. This
exceeds the Indian bill of last year
$40, 147. The chief element of in
crease, Dawes said, was the amount
for Indian schools.
The bill was considered by sections
and considerable progress was made
without debate, except upon the APP
preparation for education in Alaska.
The Senate Committee had reduced
the amount from SIS 900 allowed by
the House, to $4,000.
Hawley moved to make the
amount $3.50 0.
Plumb opposed the motion. He
thought the education of the Indian
was costing a great deal too much.
It was merely spending money with
out any practical result. The
churches were doing work at much
less than the government was pay
ing. Tie education Of Indians
should be of q practical character.
1t was no use trying to educate an
Indian up to the idea that he was q
prince of the blood. Plumb ridiculed
the efforts of interested parties to in
6uence Congress to appropriate
money for schools in Alaska.
COnger defended the Indians and
the work of their education. It was
a work, he said, in which many
noble philanthropic men and wo-
men were engaged and should be
encouraged. He favored liberal ap-
preparations for it..
Pending debate on the amendment
the Senate went into executive ses>
sion and when the doors reopened,
adjourned until tomorrow.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, May 9.-The bill
granting additional pension to the
widow Of General FIR ncis G. Blair,
passed. 1t grants her $1,000 for her
husbands services in organizing
troops. and increases her pension to
$50 a month.
The House went into committee
of the whole, Cox in the chair, on
the private calendar.
The Gains of Willis A. Arnold
aud Hiram Johnson and others, of
Henderson, Tenn, for damages re-
ceived in the rebel raid of November,
1862, which have been pending many
years. were first considere |. The
first was reported favorably from the
committee on war claims and the
others unfavorably. Arnold claims
to have been a loyal citizen end was
damaged $4,000. The others were
disloyal and were assessed for dam
ages at the time. The money re-
naming after paying damages was
turned into the United States Treas
ury and these claims ask that it be
distributed pro rata among them.
The committee of the whole, after q
long discussion, decided to substitute
a bill for the former, and so reported
the House, which took no action.
Follett, from the committee on ap-
preparation, reported back the Dis
lrict Of Columbia appropriation bill.
Referred to the committee of the
whole.
1t was ordered when the House
adjourn to-day it be to Monday, and
the Speaker requested members to
assemble in the House tomorrow in
order to attend in a body the unveil-
ing of the statue of Chief Justice
Marshall.
The Speaker laid before the House
q communication from the Secretary
of War recommending an additional
appropriation of 500, 900 for the re-
lief of sufferers from floods in the
lower Mississippi valley. Referred.
Recess until 8 o'clock this eve ming, .
session for the consideration of PEN
sion bills.