The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-13
FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS-
SENATE.

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a resolution which was agreed ia
,auihOriZing the committee 10 inouir
into the facts forming the basis TO
the bill recently introduced by Gar
land, 70 amend the Thurman sct re-
lating to the claims Of government
against the Union ana Central p
citic railroads. The committee il
authorized to send for persons ant
papers.
Van WyCk m we'd to take ND hi
resolution directing the Secretary Of
the Interior to withhold from the
Northern Pacific railroad patents Il
certain land grants, agreed to.
Cons or said there was legal q9es
ton involved. He thought the reao.
luton should 90 referred to the
Judiciary committee for it's opinion
Besides it was questionable whethel
the Senate should direct an execu.iv.
officer not to execute.
Van Wyck expressed surprise
that there should be any opposition
to his resolution.
In reply to the question put by
Van Wyck to Conger, the latter
said with the approval Of his con
stituents he had advocated the
land grants to the road referred TO-.
The development of that read
would be a great advantage to the
State OF Michigan. He character =
lied Van Wyck as the seIf-consti~
tuted champion of public lands.
The matter went over aud the
chain laid before the Senate un
fnjshed business, being Beck's
appeal from the decision of the
chair on Harris point of order that
a committe of conference cannot be
appointed on the shipping bill until
the House shall specifically disag.es
to amendments by the Senate.
Pending this question, the Indian
appropriation bill was taken up.
The pending question was on
Hawley's motion to increase TO S25,-
600 the appropriation for education
IN Alaska.
HaWley supported his mo- ion.
Vest said he wO; Id favor the high.
est amount the Senate would ap-
propriate for Ind AN education, pro-
yided both sexes were educated: it
was usual, he said, to educate Indian
boys and leave Indian girls without
education. They attend school q
term and go back to their tribes,
are jeered at and ridiculed for W hite
aceomp lishments, and wound up by
becoming more bsrbarous, cruel
and unciviliZed than prominent men
in their tribes, although a Protest
ant himself, Vest felt compelled to
say the Jesuits have shown the only
ZEAL success in the education and
civilization of Indians; two things
had contributed to thaI success, one
that when their teachers went
among the Indians they did not look
back to civil ZatioD, but devoted the
whole period of their life to their
work; other than that, they |
both sexes, boys
and girls We're equally edu.
Gated and civilized till they
grew into manhood and womanhood
with the prospect and anticipation
Of Christian marriage they did not
go back to their tribes, but became
part and parcel of our civilization
This result could never be reached
by the education of one sex only,
Ingalls, said he had been an observer
If indian education for thirty~fve /
years. Indian education produced
phenomena rather than results. !
There were individual instances Of )
'Xtreme interest shown by it, but $
did not make an appre-
liable change in the Indian r
haracter. Societies, civilization, '
nd philosophers were not made f
hey grew, they were developments. Ii
"A thousand years ago the Anglo i
|aXOn race, to which we belonged, =
vas as savage and untamable as any
adams were at present; they Were =
lot raised by tie effort Of others.
heir deVelepmt n thad been a growth
rom within, development of in
erent forces. ingalls, thought the
'est thing that could DO done for the
ndiaDs, would be to make them G
to law, which they are not &
low. He had heard enough of u
ather stale denunciations of gov
rnment for its determination of the t
indians. There hal been no such {
determination.
There were as many Indians on the
ointment to day as in 1892 CIV
had on the contrary, al
Ways shown leniency to the Indians
1oar replied to ingalls, by reading
rom a report Of the chief of
,herokee nation, in which he
links the tribe is beholding
0 the government OF the United
tates fOr its efforts toward Indian
utilization. Eoar supposed the In |
ians had cost the Government in
vars and losses OF all sorts $1,000. T
10000; but there were only about
5000 of them. These wars and
,sses unquestionably had been
rought about by wrong perpe.
rated by whites upon the In
lans- He thought it better |
endeavor to aCa)t Indians fer
IviiizA;i II than to follow up anv
lrther the policy that so long had
revailed. Dawes said the Senator
ON Kansas (Ingalls) was mistaken
3 to history, mistaken as to
lct, mistaken as to philosophy
mans being and was guilty
libel on the whole human