The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-03-05
CLOSING HOURS
OF THE 4aTR CONGRESS AND The
REPUBLICAN, ADMINISTRATION.
The Houses Hold all Night Session
and Wrestle with Bills.
General Grant To-day Placed on the
Retired List.
That Well Deserved Tribute Passed
Amid laundering Applause.
The President Attaches His Name and
the Senate Unanimously Confirms.

the Senate Unanimously Confirms.
Vice-President Hendricks Assumes the
Duties of His Office,
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 3.-Dawes
called up the conference report on the
Indian appropriation bill. The two
houses. he said, had agreed on the bill
so far as all the items of property per
tanning 70 appropriations and bills were
concerned. The senate had struck out
all the items for general legislation, on
these however, the house insisted.
Since the bill passed Dawes added that
the senate seemed to have weakened on
its position as to general legislation.
Some provisions in the Indian appropri
alton bill were in open violation of Our
treaty obligations, ss we'll as unconsti-
tutional. Sherman said the senate re-
garded the house legislation as il II
were q senate rule, that it should not in
terfere with it II unwise and unsound
the senate should not recede, no matter
what the consequences.
Plumb said we were confronted with
a possibility, TO say nothing more, of an
extra session of congress, growing out
of the action OF the house. The course
of that body had shown the magnificent
will power of one man to produce such
q result. 1t was pregnant, as Plumb be-
lieved 1t to be, with gravest consequences
to the people of the United States. The
exceedingly defective form of legisla-
ton found in the Appropriation bills
60 In.rr nN ;,,,E1
opposed to yielding, SO far at least as
related to important legislation. No
more gross confession of legislative in
competency had ever been seen than has
been manifested within q stones
throw of the senate chamber
within thirty days. The bill
approprIating millions of dollars had
been passed without consideration and
then sent to the senate within two days
of the close of the session. Plumb char
acterized the river and harbor lump ap-
preparation as q criminal waste OF the
peoples money.
I6galls: By Democratic secretary of
war.
Plumb would not give the debate a
political turn, but the question was be-
coming serious, not only as to the pres
ent. but the future.
Beck thought there should he a rule
requiring appropriation bills to be pre-
pared early enough to afford full con-
sheraton IN both houses.
In order to bring the question to
point and get an understanding Senator
Dawes moved, though he said he would
vote against his own motion, that the
senate recede as to the provision in the
bill relating to legal jurisdiction, as to
procedure in theI cases of crimes CON-
mitted by the Indians. The senate re-
fused TO recede, yeas 4, nays Al.
A message from the house announced
q disagreement with the senate on the
sundrY civil bill. The senate insisted on
its amendment and the chair appointed
as a conference committee Allison, Hale
and Beck,
Dawes explained the removing differ.
ences on the Indian bill TO be tie pro-
visions prohibiting carrying whisky into
the Indian territory, that dissrming In
dams and that relating to the Oklahoma
territory. These, Dawes added, were
good provisions, but were at present in
such fern on the bill as to do more
harm than good. Sherman explained
that the committee of arrangements ap
pointed By the senate to take charge of
the inaugural ceremony had not
Disseminated against the house in any
way but in the present instance, prece-
Q6lts Qdu DCcu SOAOWnob uCpoIbCO iHOh
ID favor of the house.
The matter of the Indian conference
report being again taken up, Dawes
moved that the senate insist on retain
| ing the amendments.
Henderson moved that the senate re-
cede Is to the amendment extending the
| time for payment for Indian lands.
Van WVck said the senate could not
agree to legislation provisions on the
| appropriation bill when put on by the
| house, but could itself put on such bill
as the Pacific mali subsidy clause, when
| it thought fit. John Roach, jay Gould
and C. P. Huntington had been defeated
at the other end of the capital but had
demanded that the senate should violate
its own rules. Van WICK supported
Manderson's motion. The senate by q
vote of is to SO, refused to recede.
| Vest hoped that the senate would
| agree with the house provision regard
ing the Oklahoma matter and moved
that the senate recede from its amend
ment.
Ingalls, did not believe the senate ap
preciated the full Significance of the
that within forty eight hours. 10000 per
sons by q concerted action would movt
on these Oklahoma lands to forcibly oc
cupy them and be prepared to maintain
that occupancy by force Of arms
He did not believe graver complication
could arise in the dawn Of the incoming
. administration, whose crepuscular 1igh
we already saw in the eastern sky, thai
.. that complication which is likely to aris
.. in this matter.
Cullom said he had received reliabl
|. information that 1000 men were read
and determined TO go on the lands re
!. ferred to on the 9TH of March.
Dawes inquired why on the 9TH
| March?
CuIlom could not say.
!, Ingalls, did not know whether this WI
pest hoe or propter hoe, whether caui
> or effect or coincidence.
Butler asked whether the commando
. in-chief Of the United States army hs
= not sent an armed force 70 put out ar
= keep out the people alluded to?
EIngalls said yes. but that the star OF tn
!. eminent commander wss about to 8
within q short time. The command
= that very majestic body of men know
a. the army of the United States won
soon have passed from the control of q
!: great general who now commanded 1t
= still greater general whose eoural
was still in the womb OF the future, o
undoubtedly there was an Inpre
sIon that after the 9th OF Mar
the troops would be withdraw
70 Ingalls, said there were no lands of d
x Oklahoma tract that were In any sen
% public lands. II has been said that co
tracts existed for the grazing OF cattle
the lands and the senate was standing
the way of the opening of the lands.
> gals denied that 9 single CO
tract OF the character nam
1t existed or that single he
ID Of cattle fed on the Oklahoma lane
We should make . declaration bros
clear and distinct, that no man shou
be permitted TO 60 on the lands fin CO
+ | PREVENTION Of Law. 1t may be, howev'
before the sun rose again mIsguided c
liens OF the United States might be
conflict with troops. He Ingalls) wou
regret the shedding OF blood, but the
was but one way In his opinion to avo
it, and that was for the senate not TO
Vlte people 70 60 there by promise th
n negotiations was about TO be entered
2 for the purpose Of opening the lands
an settlement.
Dawes felt entire confidence that 1
ye incoming administration would be fon
a. on the side Of the law.
Vest remarked thst the boomers
he garded the Oklahoma lands as COZ
Id prIsing about 100000 acres .
Ils land instead Of comparatively o Il
acres, comprising what was more G.
ia rectly Understood to be Oklahoma lam
Within the 1000, 000 acres referred
there were many cattle grazing.
o. Vest denied, a. . Democratic senat
that there vas any possible right of {
sumption or intinlation that the adm
"a istFafion of President Cleveland woT
tn be in any sort of sympathy. direct
d. or indirectly with violations
ny laws. Statements made to that eff
were inspired by the desperation of I
%, boomers and not by any person in
To- thority IN the Democratic party.
IN The senate insisted on its eEgume
and the chair appointed Dawes, Plui