Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-18

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ross, OF California, to be District Judoe ~. :.
S1s southern District OF California;. oT
n af.an brooks. of California. to he AZ =, -
"ey 'or tne Southern District OF Alaha~"
Al cne nLnate to-day the bill Rranf;nc :
pennnon 70 Mrs. Barbara Frischs, the stsn
ns'S ySue. a OF soldier. was opposed by Coci
wes es1a Dhsh'ng a new principle. and
was q defended by Messrs. Edmunds R1a;' In
and Platt The bill was paased and n,a,l s1sa
nays SO. ''u ieas IL
4 Mr. Van Wyck moved to make q sn.,;.,
uIoer lor the second Tuesday in Lama.
'he OIL ior the relief OF settlers and n,,y.
u chasers OF lands in Nebraska and Kansss
i o.I'n'nH rosJ T tne Denver and st. Joseph Rail
The s.n. ne motion was agreed to.
business OF yesterday, being the hill TO ,ua rol
peal the tenure OF Office act. Edmunds aS
bill. 0ppo''''on 10 tne
> george made q constitutional and b;s-
torlca! argument in favor Of the bill.
Mr.. Eyarts addressed the Senate. STATING
Cnat ne would vote for the bill and ths .
: uIs OF constltutionality would not
cover his vote, but that the grounds ~ ey0
pediency would. At the close Of Evarts,
speech the Senate went into executive ses.
SION. and when the doors were re-or,ened
adjourned. p0n0o
ine House Committee on Military offic.
e!s To-Day completed the army appropria.
tlon bill and the measure will be rennrte,
10 tne House tomorrow. It makes a total
appropriation OF $23, ,557. .238. Estimates
!0r the service aggregated $25, ,528, ,5S7 and
ene sne appropriation @ for the current year was
HSo; 4.oOl. New legislation included in
the bill is intended to limit mileage i mar
cent. per mile, to keep the number of
norses for cavalry and artillery use below
the number of enlisted men and scouts
IN mounted service; to secure purchases
only through competition and ADVERTISE
ment; to the reduction to 5000 OF the
number OF draught animals in use and to
hmltto $500 the expenditure that may be
made without the approval OF the Secre-
1ary OF war upon any building or military
post The bill also provides that not more
than 81 200, 900 Of the total appropria-
tlon shall be paid for the service of civil.
ian employees in the quartermaster's de-
partment and that no employe paid from
the appropriation for supplies, transpor-
tation and incidental expenses shall re.
ceive q salary of more than $50 per
month, unless specifically fixed by law It
| Is also provided that of the l,15O,OOO an
proprlated for clothing and equipage there
shall not be expended at Fort Leav-
enworth military prison q sum in excess of
$4,000.
The Secretary OF the Interior, in response
to letter from Senator Edmupds, chair.
man OF the Senate judiciary Committee,
asking for information as to the supposed
difficulty or want of harmony in Utah con.
cerning an item in the Miscellaneous Ap-
preparation bill passed at the last session
OF Congress- appropriating $4,000 to aid
in the establishment OF an industrial home
mol l,as IL =
Utah, has transmitted to the Judiciary |
Committee the annual report of Hon. |
Caleb w. West, Governor of Utah, which |
contains a reference to an Industrial home, |
and a copy Of the letter from Mrs. Angie F. |
Newman. Of Lincoln, Nebraska, in which |
she vigorously protests against Cow Vests |
Interpretation of that portion OF the act |
making the appropriation. MIS-. Newman
writes that the wishes OF the members of
the Industrial Christian Home Association
OF Utah, through whose active instrumen-
tality the appropriation was secured, have
been disregarded by the board of control
contrary I o the spirit OF the law. She also
crit cises the methods thus far pursued by
the board, and intimates thatall the abor
and money expended by the promoters OF
the enterprise are in danger of being eacri-
feed to msjudgment and mismanagement.
Mrs. Newman asks for q legal construction
of the text of the act as to its intentiou 10
include the management of the. home asso-
citation above referred to. The present
board of control consists of the Governor,
Justices of the Supreme Court and the
District Attorney OF the Territory.
The Speaker laid before the House to-
day another report from the Comptroller
OF the Currency, ex.officio Commissioner of
the Freedman's Savings and Trust Com
pany, of the affairs of that institution.
Tho chnxva fhof nocon1 hor dth
there was balance on hand OF $7,719.
The Comptroller makes a strong plea in
favor of the assumption by the govern
ment of the liabilities of the institution to
it's depositors. He quotes at great length
his predecessors on the subject and says:
''More than {, 900 depositors had to their
credit at the time OF the failure of the
bank, only $5 or So each, and it may be
necessary that these should be sought out
and paid with as little cost to them as
possible, while thousands of Others have
still to their credit amounts SO small as to
like share and consideration" He says
it would seem proper to allow at least
three years for the presentation and audit
ing OF these claims and suggests January /,
1890 aa the time of final liquidation.
The House this afternoon passed the bill
in relation to Indian lands. As amended.
the bill provides that in all cases where any
tribe OF Indians is located upon q reserva-
tion eated for it's use, either by stipulation
by virtue of an act of Congress or executive
order, the Secretary of the Interior is au-
thorized, whenever in his opinion, any
reservation of such Indians is advanta-
geous for agricultural and grazing purposes
to cause said reservation to be surveyed,
if necessary, and to allot the land in said
reservation in severalty to the Indians
located thereon, on their application, in
quantities as follows: To each head OF
family, one quarter Of a section; to each
single person over 1S years OF age, one
eighth OF a section; to each orphan child
under 1S years OF age. one-eighth OF Sec
tion; to each other person under IL years
of age, oneeighth of q section, provided
that in case there is not su'hcient lana
in any such reservation for each Indian
of the classes above named in guam
Titles as above provided, then lands
embraced in such reservations shall be
each auJs'e' of " said class pro rata
in accordance with the provisions of this
act. The rights and privileges OF citizen
ship are conferred upon every Indian
within the territ'.ry OF the limits OF the
limited States to whom allotment has been
made and upon every Indian who has vol
unfairly taken up his residence and adopt
ed the habits of civilized life. The provls.
ions of the bill do not extend to the terri
torv occupied by the Cherokees. Creeks,
Choctaws, ChicIasaws, Seminoles and Os,
ages. Miamis and Peorias and Sacs and
Foxes in the Indian Territory, nor in any
reservation OF the Seneca nation OF new
Work Indians in the State of New York,
nor to that strip of territory in Nebraska
adjoining the Sioux nation on the south,
nor does the bill authorize the abolishment
of anv reservation until the consent OF tne
majority of every male Indian FL years oil
ACE shall be first obtained.
Burns, Of Missouri, called up the Urgent
Deficiency bill for public printing, reported
Yesterday from the Committee on APplo
nriations. The bill was passed an1 S,e
RHn',se went into Committee of the Whole,
aI MOuoe af Gaoroia in the chair on the