The Dickinson press., 1884-05-17
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

In the Senate, Wednesday,, q bill was in
PRODUCED BY Mr. .Edmunds to place Gen.U. S.
Grant on the retired list of the army. Mr.. Hill
made 2 speech in favor Of the bill to declare
Baton Rouge & vicksburg Railway company.
The discussion Of the shipping bill was re-
sumed, and 9 substitute for one section was
snpmntted by Mr.. Vest, and accepted by MI.
Frye, author Of the bill, abolishing all tonnage
United States ports only retaining such dues
on vessels of foreign countries discriminating
in like manner against the United States.
In the house the bill for the relief of Fitz
S1ha Porter came up with senate amendments.
ate amendments. Mr.. Balm moved concur
renee. Mr., Keifer opposed the bill, declaring
it unconstitutional. Mr.. slocum said
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gentlemen would be glad of it, because he
would regard what the gentlemen said against
him as . compliment, and it would be SO re-
garded by the country. He (Slocum) had only
been surprised that the gentleman from Ohio
to sustain his course as he had dom a few days
ago. Applause IN the Democratic side
and misses on the Republican sidel
MI. belford said he would take Grants words
the words Of Mr.. Keifer OF any other party on
the fioor The motion to refer the bill to the
committee of the whole was lost, and the sem
ate amendments nonconcurredin.
The iron-clad oath which was provided for
at the outbreak of the war and has never been
repealed although numerous attempts have
been made to strike it from the statue books.
has at last been abolished. The house on
Wednesday, concurred on the bill which passed
me ea senate aaos som ne time ago for the purpose, and
become q law. This oath has always been ad-
mustered IN congress, and in courts to per-
sons who did not take part in the rebellion.
while those who did have taken what is known
as themodifed oath,
Senator Van Wyck offered q resolution,
which, at, the suggestion of Conger, was laid
over one day, directing the secretary of the in
terror to withhold the granting of patents to
or recognizing any, claim made by the North
of what is known as the Puyallup branch,
built many years ago, until this congress shall
take action on the question of the forfeiture of
Kindergarten said road. A resolution was
adopted calling on the secretary of the interior
Tor information regarding the cowboy who
shot at Black VOLTS hat on Lame Deer creek,
Mont. This refers to the recent ranch burn.
ing by Black VOLTS band.
In the house, Thursday. On motion of Mr..
Eils all prior bills were set aside, and the CON-
bill appropriating 81, 200, 600 for the celebration
of the worlds Industrial and cotton centennial
exposition at New Orleans. Mr.. Ellis briefly
explained the provisions of the bill and pointed
for the return of the appropriation to the
United States out of the receipts.
After further debate, on motion of Mr.. His
cock an amendment was adopted providing that
the sum appropriated shall only be paid on the
treasurer Of the United States being satisfied
that $4,000 has been contributed by the
Worlds Industrial and Cotton exposition. The
bill p~assed..yeas ia, nays 81.
Among the bills reached on the speakers
table the eth inst, was the senate bill to author
ize the secretary of the interior to ascertain
the amount due citizens of the United States
for supplies furnished the Sioux or Dakota In
dams of Minnesota subsequent to August,
1850, and prior to the massacre of August, 1852,
bill was referred to the committee of the whole
on the state of the Union. AS it Is among the
last bills on this calendar it's chance for pas
sage is exceedingly small.
II subcommittee Of the house on Indian at.
fairs. having in charge tho senate bill to open
the Sioux reservation, have with some amend
ments agreed to the bill, and will report it to
the full committee this week. Tho most I'M
portant amendment is with regard to tho torn
Of the treaty with the Indians. That portion
of the bill which provides for the conveyance
tho subcommittee recommend shall be stricken
out Inaslnuch as the bill provides that the lands
may be allotted in severalty to the Indians,
and that at the end of twenty-five years patents
n%otfavor pa'cnting auyland to different tribes.
The other amendments proposed Ly the con-
mittee are Lnir1po-tant, and with tho exception
named, the bill will be reported practically as
it came from the senate.
The bill granting additional pension to the
widow Of Gen. Francis 7. BLAIR passed the
house. It grants her S. O for her husbands
services in organinS troops AMI increasing her
pension to $50 a month.
Mr.. Hewitt introduced a tariff bill in the
house on Monday, which was referred to the
committee. 1t makes moderate reductions all
round, but no expectations are entertained of
it's passage:
of Missouri is as follows: Whereas, the OK
listing tariff taxes on articles of food increase
the cost of living to the people and produce a
large surplus of revenue, therefore be it enact
ed that from and after July II, 1884, the fol-
lowing named articles be exempt from duty,
viz: Raw sugar not refined, molassess, salt,
rice, rye and barley, potatoes, oatmeal, cur
rants and raIslns, prunes. peas and beans, but
ter and cheese, live animals, vegetables and
chicory. Mr.. O'Neill estimates that the bill
will accomplish q reduction of $57, 600, 600 in
the revenues.
The senate on Monday, the 10Th, considered
the Indian appropriation bill Mr.. Dawes
made a long argumen in reply to Mr.. Plumb's
AuoAy TX WudU were tu0 ITullS OF the
Z efforts to c%ivilize and educate the Indians. Mr..
Dawes pointed out the good work which was
being done at the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa,
where many Indian boys had been taught such
trades as sh%oemaking, h~arnessmaking, and
other self-sustaining employments, besides OBJ
tanning o good common school education, while
the Indian girls were taught dressmaking and
sewing. A good many of the graduates were
now on the reservations from which they were
taken, and were plying their vacations among
fhn IlS2 cIvII1ZaI mnm harl 0f }hn %rshoo With
good effect. Mr.. Dawes thought that many
more such schools should be established. He
also said that the Indian scholars at Carlisle
raised all the food used at the school, and he
had eaten bread that was baked by an Arrapa-
hoe Indian boy who was taken from the most
unruly portion of that tribe.
IN the debate in the Senate Indian education
bill Senator Ingalls, of Kansas said he knew in
dlvldual instances of extreme interest shown by
it,b4titdid not make any appreciable change in
as far as possible, to ameliorate the condition
of the Indian tribes; but if an educated Indian
returned to his tribe he found himself an alien
and %outcast. His last condition was worse
than his first; yet if he came into competition
with a white man he was lost Tho best thing
that could be done for an Indian would be to
make him amenable to law, which he
was not He had hard enough
Of the rather stale denuncia-
Indians, There had been no such extermina-
ton. There were as many Indians on the con-
tinent to-day as in 1882. The government had,
on the contrary, always shown leniency to the
Indians. 1t was as absurd and futile to teach
Indians the Greek alphabet and d%ifferential cal
culus, serve him dinner in courses and show
him how to wear q high hat and gold watch, as
1t would be to go among a herd of Texas broad
horn steers and endeavor to turn them into
Durhams and thoroughbreds by reading Alex
ander's herd book in cattle pens.
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