Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-13

thorizing the committee 20 inquire int
the facts forming the basis of the bil
recently introduced by Garland &
amend the Thurman Art, relating &
Government claims against the Uniol
and Central Pacific railroads. The COM
mistee was authorized to send for per
sons and papers
Van WICK moved 10 take up his reso
lu.i,n directing tbs S@crrtsry of the In
terror u withhold from tie Northern
Pacific Railroad the patents to certain
land grants Agreed to.
Congvr said there was legal question
involved. He thought the resolution
should be referred - tue Judiciary Com
miftee for It's opinion. Besides, u wa'
Questionable whether the Senate shoule
direct an executive officer not TO ex
ecute the law.
Van Wick expressed surprise thai
there should he any opposition TO his
restitution. In reply TO question PM
by Van Wyek to Conger. the latter sid
that, with the approval of his constIts.
ents. he had advocated the land gran,
To- the road referred to. The develop
ment of that road would be of great ad
vantage to the State of Michig n. He
characterized Van WICK as self CON
stituted champion of the public lands
he matter went over. and tue Chair
laid before the Seaate the unfinished
business. being B-ck's appeal from the
decision of the Char on Harris point
OF order that a committee of conference
cannot be appointed on the shipping
bull until the House shall specifically
disagree To the amendments of the SEN
ate P-ndtDg this Question the Indian
appropriation bill was taken up.
The pending question WAS on dswley 8
motion to increase to SIS coo the appro-
prlstioA for education III Alaska.
Hawley supported his molten.
Vest Sail he would favor tke highest
amount the SITUATE would appropriate
for Indian education provided bo- b
sexes were educated. 1t Was usual To
edncate indians and to leave the Indian
girls without education. The youth
attend school few terms, 60 back to
their tribes, and are jeered at and ridi-
Guile 4 for their white accomplishments,
and wind up by becoming more sarbar-
oos, cruel and unciviliZed than the
prominent men of their tribes. Though
Protestant himself, Vest felt CON-
PEELED to say that the Jesuits have
shown the only real saccess in the edu-
cation and civilization of the Indians.
Two things had contributed TO that
success one, that when their teachers
went among the Indians they did not
look back to civilization, but devoted
the whole period of their life to their
work the other, that they educated
both sexes. Boys and girls equally ed
ucated and civilized grow into manhood
and womanhoOd with the prospect and
anticipation of Christian marriage.
They did not go back to their tribes,
bat became part and parcel of our civ
ilization. This result could never be
reached by the education of one sex only
Ingalls, said he had been an observer
OF Indian education for 25 years. In
dian education produced phenomenal,
rather than practical results; there were
individual instances of extreme interest
shown by it, but it did not make an ap-
probable change in the Indian charac-
ter. The societies of civilization and
philosophers were not made: they grew;
they were Developments. A thousand
years ago, the Anglo Saxon race, to
which We belong, was as savage and
untameable as anyIndians were at pres
ent. They were not raised by the eff
forts of others; their development had
been a growth from within; develop
ment OF inherent forces. Ingalls, thought
the best thing that could be done TO the
Indian would be TO make him amen
able to law, which he was not now. He
had heard enough of rather stale denun
Citations of the government for its ex-
termination of the Indians. There had
been no sneh determination; there were
AS many Indians on the continent tnday
as IN 1892. The government had, on the
contrary, always shown leniency to the
Indians
Hoar replied to Ingalls, by reading
from the report of the Chief of the
Cher Okee Nation, in which be thinks the
tribe are converted To the government
OF the United States for its effort 10
award the Indian civilization. Hoar
supposed the Indians bad cost the gov
eminent in wars and losses of all sorts
over thousand million dollars; but
there were only about 10000 of them.
These wars and losses unquestionably
had been brought about ia the first
place by the wrongs perpetrated by the
whites upon the Indians.
Dawes said the Senator from Kansas
(lpgalls) was mistaken AZ to history,
mistakes as to fact, mistaken as to the
philosophy of mans being. aud was
guilty of libel on the whole human
race when hs intimased that any of it,
members were incapable Of being trained
and educ,t-d.
Frye moved that the Shipping bill be
taken up IN order TO retain its place his
unfinished business. Agreed to.
Adjourned.