The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-29
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE,

WASHINGTON, March 26.-The
Senate took up the bill reported from
the Committee on Indian Affairs
providing for the allotment of lands
in severalty, to Indians OIL several
reservations and extend the prOtec-
, ton of the laws OF the states and ter
: ritOries over Indians.
Dolph moved an amendment to
that clause of the Till which provides
for the sale of surplus lands on a res
ervatioa and the payment of the pro-
ceeds to the tribes or its investment
for their benefit. Dolph's amend
ment provides that the principle of all
sums agreed to be paid by the United
States as the purchase price Of any
portion Of reservation, shall be pay
able only to the Indian tribes from
whom the purchase was made by the
express authority of Congress after
the expiration of Is years from pur-
chase of said lands, but the same
shall In the meantime be placed In
the treasury to the credit of the tribe
or tribes of Indians entitled thereto,
and In the meantime and till such
principal sum shall be paid over or
expended for the benefit of id In
dians, the United States shall pay in-
terest annually on said principal
sums at the rate of five per cent per
annuln, which SUN shall be paid
with Interest for the benefit of the
Indians and shall be used for the
purpose of educating and preparing
them for selr-support, etc. Agreed
to. After further debate the bill
passed.
The Education bill was then taken
up: Vance spoke ut length on the
bill. He said that Massachusetts re-
leased slaves when slavery became
Improbable to them, sold their ne>
groea to the South and sung the Dox-
OlOgv through their noses aud
thanked God they were not response
BILE for acts Of iniquity.
Dulph con1uIreu in the main with
the purposes of. the pending bill,
though not with its details. ALL the
northern. western and Pacific states
could educate their children. The
Southern states would voluntarily tax
themselves as much as the people Of
Portland, Oregon, had done, and
they would be able to give a their
people as good an education as the
majority Of the members of the U. S.
Senate had received in their child
hood.
HOUSE.
Keifer introduced q bill for the
erection 1T q pedestal for the statue
to the late President Garfield; in
Wa.hin gton. Re'erred.
The House went into a committee
of the whole, with DJrsheimer In the
chair, on the Bonded Extension
bill.
Pusey, Mccormick, J. D. Taylor,
Brown, Warner of Ohio, and Cox of
North Carolina opposed the meas.
ure.
Worthigton favored the bill, and
thought it somewhat surprising that
high tariff men and temperance men
should combine to defeat it.
Dunn MADE a severe attack on the
measure, in which he said his obser-
walton had proved to him that it was
favored by only thee members of the
Ways and Means Committee, Morri
son, Hurd aud Blackburn. BY what
operatiOn was this thing taken so un-
timely from that committee aud
brought into the House. The Demo-
cratic party, by solemn measures en-
tered int" last night, (he was not CIV
ing any secret away rs this was pub
lished Ia the papers) proposed to re-
duce the revenue $3l 1000 O.; it pro-
D. sed to sweep out the tobacco tax of
S23, ,0OO, 900 more; it proposed that this
bill give away SIS, 900, 900; 1t proposed
to pension Mexican veterans, and
that would take So, ,OOO. 600 more than
had been estimated, The committee
rose informally for the purpose of linn
iting general debate. Blackburn
moved thai it be closed in one hour
and half Tomorrow.
Ellis, from the Committee on APP
propria,ions, reported joint resolu-
ton providing $l25, 900 for the relief
of the destitute in the districts over
flowed by the Mississippi and its
tributaries.
Rice opposed this resolution In the
Democratic caucus last night.
Carlisles' resolution abolishing the
tax on tobacco ana reducing the tax
on brandy distilled from fruit was
adopted by SO to q and not SS to 81
rs reported.