The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-12

SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, March 11.-Dawes
chairman of the Committee on In.
diam Adkirs, reported favorably and
! had placed on the calendar the bill to
accept and ratify the agreement with
the Shoehones, Bannacks and others
for the sale of = portion of their lands
Morgan, chairman of the Commit
tee on Public Lands presented a re,
port that the committee support q OH
| reported yesterday from the commit
tee by himself to provide q the set
Element by the rights of states, per-
cons or corporations Interested IN
land grants, which may hereafter De
| declared forfeited.
Bills were introduced and referred
| as follows:
Miller. Of N. Y, a bill providing
for the suspension of the coinage OF
standard silver dollars for two years,
and the issue Of one and two dollar
treasury notes.
Farley, q bill to provide for the
erection Of public buildings at Sac
Logan, by request, a bill to give
pensions to dependant relations OF
deceased soldiers.
Logan called up the House message
on the military academy appr0pria-
tion bill and moved nOn-concurrence
with the HOu -e amendments and for
the appointment Of = committee of
conference upon the disagreement Of
the House, which was agreed to:
Dawes called up the House bill APP
propriating S $500 to Louisa Boldly
Of Oregon, for her claim against the
Government for property destroyed
by the Modoc Indians in 1872, which
was passed.
The Senate then went into execu-
tive session for the further %considera-
ton of the Mexican treaty. Ad-
WASHINGTON, March II. Bills
reported to the House: A dill to au-
thorize the Cheyenne, Black Hills
and Mon+ana company to Construct q
road across the Fort Russell and
Laramie reservation; also reported
favorablv a bill to place Col. Geo. w.
Getty on the retired list as Major
General.
The House went into q committee
of the whole on the post0ffi.:e appro-
priations. Bingham opposed the bill
He said the recent reduction on
postage must not be made an excuse
for the appropriation. 1t was not his
purpose to demoralize it and to have
it go before the public. He claimed
that they had cut down the expenses
Of the Postofhce Department, but if
they did 80 it was without due regard
to the demands of the service.
Holman defended the bill, and de-
MED that it in any way tended to
cripple the service, but asserted, on
the contrary, that while the measure
was economical in its appropriation,
it was one calculated to make the
Postofice Department even more ef-
ficient than at present.
Townshend deprecated bringing
politics into the consideration of a
bill of his character. He compared
last years bill with the bill of this
year to show how the Republican
party of the last House had made
poor practice a remedy in order to
throw the necessity of the passage of
q deficiency appropriation bill upon
the present Congress. He then pro-
ceeded to ARA gn the Republican
party for past offences in the ad Intn-
istratfOn of the government for the
last fifteen years.
No American could read the
record of that party without his face
crimsoning with shame for his coun-
try. Many of the founders of that
party were honest, noble men, but
where we're they gone? When the
Republican party was converted into
spoil, had they left it and joined the
only political party which had patri.
otto ideas? Laughter, from the Re-
publican side. B 'utell advanced a
Query as to where PendletOn would
go.
Referring to an expression In
Horr's speech as to the! virtues of the
Republican party, Townshend ridi-
culed the idea that such a thing as
virtue existed In that party. 1t had
opened the treasury to the wickedest
rings that eve existed in q free coun-
try. The gentleman from Michigan,
Holr, in the face of a damaged rec
ord in the star ronte frauds, stood
up and prated about virtue. If the
gentleman was preparing q national
campaign for the next election he
could not aid the cause by bringing
up the record of bis party. II the
party should be tried on the issues on
which re, Townshend, had outlined,
1t would be convicted and con-
demned to everlasting oblivion.