St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-23
A DAY IN WASHINGTON.
After the Transaction Of Miscellaneous
Business the House and Senate Ad-
journ for the Holidays.
The Chinese Embassy to Be Raised to the
Dignity of First-Class
Mission.
Election Cases Which Remain in
Statu Quo.-The Indian Supply
Question.
Benefits to the Country Accruing
From the Military Academy
The Tariff.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-The speaker
announced the appointment of Messrs.
Forney McAdoo and Hopkins as conferrees
On the bill increasing the annual apprOpria-
ton for the militia. On motion of Mr.
Toole (Montana) bill was passed granting
to the st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
Railroad company the right of way through
certain Indian reservations in Northern
Montana and Northwestern Dakota. Mr..
Warner (OhlO). from the committee on
pOStOtfices and post roads, reported bill
requiring all land grant railroad companies
to construct. maintain and operate tele-
graph lines. Committee of the whole. On
motion of Mr.. Sayers (TeXas) bill was
passed granting to tie city of San Antonio
Tex, certain portion of the military res.
eryatiOn adjoining that city. On motion of
Mr.. Holman. of Indiana, a senate bill was
passed for the relief of the Greensburg
Limestone company Of Indiana. Some of
Mr.. HOlman's colleagues who have suffered
from his objections showed disposition to
retaliate, but finally consented to allow the
passage OF the measure. On motion of Mr..
Love, OF Delaware, senate bill was passed
making Lewes, Del, port of delivery.
The house then in the morning hour re-
Sui1oQ IQ6 consideration OF
THE OKLAHOMA BILL.
Mr.. Barnes (Ga.) concluded his argu-
ment in opposition to the bill by an urgent
appeal in behalf of good faith toward the
Indians, and of the maintenance of national
honor by the government. Mr.. Springer
(Ill.) in advocating the bill stated that he
was not surprised at the gentleman from
Georgia appealing for good faith toward the
Indians. and especially toward the Chero
kees If any gentleman should appeal for
good faith toward the Cherokees,. it should
be a gentleman from the state of Georgia.
The Cherokees had formerly resided in that
state. and the ancestors of the gentleman'S
constituents after having broken faith with
them, had driven them from the state at
the point of the bayonet
Mr.. Barnes-It is unfair in the gentle
man to make an attack on my state. What
he has said is not true. and even if it were
true it would show that l have improved on
my ancestry and he has degenerated from
his. Laughter and applause.
Mr.. Springer expressed his qualification
at hearing that the gentleman had improved
upon his ancestry Otherwise he never
would have known it. Proceeding to argue
in favor of the bill, Mr.. Springer declared
tlIat lhc Si0dO opoudCIO W lio Pooodso VI
the measure was the lease of the Cherokee
strip to cattle company. That company
lesed it for $780, 600 and sub leased it for
$500, COO, leaving a margin of S40O. 900 with
which to corrupt the Indians and to send
powerful lobby by way of Washington.
The question to be settled now was whether
this land should be held for the white peo-
pie, or for the special benefit of large cattle
syndicateS. At the conclusion of Mr..
Springer's remarks the committee rose and
the matter went over, and the house at $3.50
adjourned until Jan. 4.