The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-19

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rejected, and after considerable debate he
bill was passed.
MARCH l5.- enator Hoar called up the
electoral count bill, to-day, but yielded to
Mr.. Van Wyck, in order that the senator
might call up the house bill increasing the
pensions, of widows and dependent rela-
tives OF deceased soldiers.
On motion of Mr.. Van Wyck that bill
was taken up. The bill as Ii came from the
house increased the pensions of widows
and dependent relatives from So to Sl2 q
month. The senate amended the bill SO as
to increase the pensions of minor children
from So 10 S4 q month. Mr.. Van Wyck
said the senate had already been wrongful
ly charged, he thought, with neglect of its
duty III not mere speedily increasing the
classes OF pension provided for by this bill.
The bill, he said, ought TO be passed at
once. He had an amendment which he
would propose, to extend the time on PEN
slonS for insane or minor children, SO as TO
cover the period of such insanity or idiocy.
Mr.. Sewell said the house amendment
was SIMPLE proposition to raise the pen
sions Of widows and dependent relatives
from IS to Sl2 month. The senate COM
mittee had thought it germane to the bill to
increase the pension for minor children
from 81 To ~ n month, and to provide that
the time for the continuance of the child's
pension should be extended from 16 years
OF age 10 Is
Mr.. Van Wyck could see no improperly
in attaching to the bill whatever was ger
name to 1t. lie then formally moved his
amendment, providing that the pensions Of
children who are ldiotic OF insane should
continue during the eXlstence OF such idiocy
Or insanity.
Mr.. Van Wycl's amendment was agreed
tO-yeas %, nays %.
Among the petitions presented and re-
ferred to committees were a number from
local assemblies of Knights of Labor
throughout the country favoring thebuild-
ing OF The Hennepn canal; also memorials
OF the Knights of Labor protesting against
the denial OF the extra pay which had been
provided for by law for workingmen in the
government service who worked more than
eight hours per hay. In presenting one of
these memorials Mr.. ingalls, said the COM
plant was Just one, and the nation had
been disgraced by the violation Of the law
complained of in the memorial.
Mr.. ingalls, presented joint resolution
proposing Il constitutional amendment pro-
viding that the 30th of April shall be the
day for the beginning of the successive adj
mlniStratlOnS OF the government hereafter
instead of the 4th of March. 1t was re-
ferred to the committee on judiciary.
Senator Morrill, introduced q bill to APP
propriate $500, 900 for the erection of an eX-
tension of the executive mansion south of
the present structure of equal and similar
exterior character, and 10 be connected
with the executive mansion by corridor.
MAltClt lC.-ln lilS lociltJe IO-uuy UIlc OH
increasing the pensions OF soldiers widows
was taken up All amendments were then
agreed to and the blll was passed as it came
from the House. 1t now needs only the
Presidents signature to become n law. 1t
increases the pensions of widows and de-
pendent relatives from IS to Sl2 month.
Senator Blair, from the Committee on
Pensions, reported u bill to provide that
every person specified under the several
clauses enumerated under section 4,6g3 of
the Revised Statutes who was over six
months i'm the military or naval service DUR
ing the war OF the rebellion, and who was
hOnOrably discharged, who is or shall be-
come disabled from any cause not the re-
suit of his own gross careleSSneSS, shall,
upon making proof of the facts, be placed
upon the pension roll and receive pension
during the continuance OF such disability,
such pension 10 commence at the date of
filing OF tho application. The highest rate
of pension granted under this section is
fixed at S24 for total incapacity to perform
manual Labor.
House.
MARCH 10.-During a debate over the In
dian appropriation bill in the house to-day
Mr.. Cannon CID opposed the education OF
the Indian as ineffectual to civiliZ1 him and
favored the granting of land in Severalty 10
Indians. In his opinion the man who still
favored this reservation system was rend-
erlng the future OF the indian cCrtain-cer-
tain destruction.
He then went On to criticise the president
for n failure to obey the acts of congress
authorizing him to appoint commission to
negotiate for the opening up of the Okla
homa land strip. The presidents attention,
he said, had been called time and again to
this law, and time and again he had refused
to take action. He had sent the army to
put the poor settler out of Oklahoma, but
he had allowed the cattle kings to hold
100000 acres which the law said he should
have tried TO open to settlement He was
not there, he said, to say that the president
was controlled by this or that mot ve--it
was not necessary. The law itself and the
presidents action was more severe criti-
clsm on the president than he could make
if he had the most bitter tongue of the most
bitter man that lived on the face OF the
earth.
Mr. Holman Qnd) suggested that the
last secretary of the interior had given n
quasi approval to the leases of land to cat
tlemeD.
Mr. Cannon replied that to hide behind
the petticoatS of the last administration
was no excuse for the failure of this admins
istratiOn to carry ont the law.
MARCH 11.-Alr. Weaver entered upon
criticism of the present Indian policy. The
whole Indian question should be over
hauled by Congress, and overhauled at
once. The Indian Territory constituted
one of the fOuleSt blOts on the civilization
of the country and called for speedy reme-
" eaver charged that the Cherokee Strip
Live Stock Association had procured
lease from the Cherokee Nation of the ell
tire Cherokee strip for which it was paying
annually 100000. But the association had
sub-leased the lands to other cattle cOmpa-
MES and was receiving from those sub
leases about S50000J year,
1t was no longer q question whether the
red man or the white man should occupy
the Cherokee strip. The white man already
occupied it in violation of law. The real
battle was whether the homeSteader of
this country should have the right to go
there and build churches and school houses
or whether he should be excluded by the
rich foreign and domestic syndicateS that
were there in violation of law.
Mr.. Cutcheon. OF Michigan, criticised the
present administration for failure TO APP
point the Oklahoma Commission, declaring
that the explanation assigned for this fail
ure was ali explanation that did not ex-
plain. Pending further discussion the
committee rose.
MARCH 12.-Mr. SwOpe, from the COM
mittee OH Invalid Pensions, reported favor
ably to the House the bill granting to the
widow of General w. S. Hancock pension
of So, 600 per annum. The bill was placed
on the private calendar. A report accom-
,,opuiuar tho hill Uaya n hriaf and Ura n IL