Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-10
IN CONGRESS.


WASHINGTON, May 0.-The chair
laid before the senate the resolution
offered yesterday by Van Wyck direct.
Ing the secretary of the treasury to
withhold patents for land on the PAY.
All-Up" branch of the Northern Pa
ellie railway until congress decides the
question of forfeiture of such lands.
Pending action on the resolution,
Mr.. Dawes moved to take up the In
dian appropriation bill. Agreed to,
and the resolution was placed on the
calendar.
Before taking up the Indian bill the
chair laid before the senate
the pending appeal OF Mr.. Beck
from the d eclsion Of the chair regard
ing the motion of Mr.. Frye for a confer
ence committee on the shipping bill.
Mr.. Harris and Mr.. Frye were neces :
sarily absent from the city and had
expressed wish that the matter
might go over until Monday. The
matter went over accordingly.
The senate then took up the Indian
appropriation bill, and Mr. Dawes brief
" recapitulated its provisions. The esti-
mates for the year, he said, were S.
ACC, 500; amount of the bill as IL came
iiohi ZIG uouse, So,foo,oov, tbc oihShu
ment proposed by the senate increased
the amount S757, Alb; total reported to
the senate by the Indian service for the
coming year, S6,2l3, 500. This exceeds
the Indian bill of last year $50, l40.
The chief element of increase, Mr.
Dawes said, was the amount for Indian
education. The bill was consideredb 10y
sections, and considerable progress
made without debate, except upon tn,
appropriation for education In Alaska
The committee had reduced tn
amount from $4,000 allowed by tn
house to $4,000.
Mr.. Hawley moved to make III
amount S25, GOO.
Mr.. Plumb opposed the motion. III,
thought the education of the Indian
was costing great deal to-
much. 1t was merely spending
money without any practical results
The churches were doing the work a
much less than the government wa
paying. The education Of the Indial
should be of a practical character. j
was no use trying to educate a
Indian up TO the idea that h
was prince of the blood
Mr.. Plumb ridiculed the efforts of in
terested parties to influence congress
to appropriate money for schools II
Alaska.
Mr.. Conger defended the Indian
and the work of their educs
ton. 1t was a work, n
thought. in which many nobl
and philanthropic men and wome
were engaged, and should be enconl
aged. He favored liberal approprii
tion for 1t.
Pending debate on the amend
ment, the senate went in'
: executive session and whe
the doors re.opened adjourned II
tomorrow.
About / o'clock the senators wi
, proceed in body TO attend the III
yelling of the Marshal memoirs
, statue.
2 HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, May 9.-Mr. Will
presented a remonstrance OF the Loui
Vile board of trade against the enac
ment of bankrupt law. Referred.
The bill granting an additional pei
sion to the widow of Gen. +. +. Bia
passed. II grants her 5000 for h
: husbands services in organiziI
TROOPS, anu iuNituoto hSi PS
!, fifty dollars month.
The house then went into commits
of the whole. with Mr.. Cox of Ne
: York in the chair, on the private CO
endar.
Mr.. Follett from the committee
8 appropriations reported back the ~
{. trict of Columbia appropriation bi
d Referred to committee of the whol
It was ord red that when the hou
adjourned to-day it be till Monda
and the speaker requested the mel
d hers to assemble In the house tome
n row In order to attend In body =
o unwilling of the statue OF Chief JUST
a. Marshall.
+, The speaker laid before the house
h communicates from the secretary
r. war, recommending an additional
proprlation of 100000 for relief of 81
ferers by the floods in the lower M
sissippi valley. Referred, and :
house took recess until the evenil
session for consideration of pensi
y. bills. .s,
Il The house at its evening. sessi
q. passed twenty-eight pension biiis' a
az adjourned until Monday.
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