The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-30
TN THE SENATE.
Vests Address on the Admis-
sion of Dakota.
yHE 1xDIAN PROPOSITION.
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SENATE

WASHINGTON, January 29.-Walthall
.,asented the credentials of the re
s,sction Of George, as United States
senator from Mississippi. The creden-
tails were read and filed.
ingalls,, from the committee on judi
c;arv reported favorably bill relieving
rom political disabilities George s.
storrs. of Texas, and on ingalls, motion
the bill passed: se
Among the bills introduced was one
nv Call. at the request, he said, of the
Governor of Florida, to authorize the
Secretary of the Treasury to settle and
nav the claims of Florida, on account of
sT6enditures made to suppress Indian
SostiIites. In introducing the bill, Call
Ssid that similar bill had been before
tbe Forty-Eighth Congress. but at the
-a0uest Of the Governor of Florida. was
allowed 70 remain Enacted upon be-
csose Washington claim agent, named
wales. claimed commissions amount
ING to s62, 900 for services in connection
With it. AS the amount of cash allowed
BY Congress was only S92, 600 there would
be little money left. after paying the
commission. Call regarded it as re-
faction upon members of the Senate
and House that money should be paid
or contracted to be paid for services
never rendered in connection
with legislation, while soldiers who had
rendered hard service to the State, and
widows and orphans Of such soldiers
vent unpaid and unproYided for. I'm
der any circumstances he regarded it as
g public scandal that a vast sum of
money .should be paid to lawyers, or
pretended lawyers or agents, for votes
10 be given in Congress. The idea of
paving $62 900 out of States claim of
1900, should receive public condemna-
ton, and Call desired from his place in
he Senate to give public expression to
hisoplnion. There we're no services to
berendered Call said in connection with
such bill. The question was one well
settled by the history of the
country, and the legislation on it vas
nothing new. He believed; however,
that government should pay interest
on the claim of the State.
Platt submitted a resolution for refer
euCe to the commit zee on rules, and it
was so referred, providing that the ex
ecutye nominations shall hereafter be
considered in open session.
The resolution offered by Edmunds
vas agreed TO- directing the Secretary
Of the Navy to transmit to the Senate
copies Of drawings and ;epcrt of
81 the recent survey of the Nicaragua
Canal route, made by the Chief En-
ginesr.
Proceeding to The calendar, the SEN
sta resumed consideration OF the bill to
divide the Sioux Indian reservation in
Dakota.
Logan said if his, (Logan's) PROPOSE
ION OF ten years age in this Senate had
5een agreed to, there would have been
20 Indian wars after that time. His
proposition then was that it be made a
penal oitense for anybody to sell a gun
orpoWder or bullet to an Indian. That
vas what was the trouble in our Indian
Affairs.
In he course of the debate, Teller
'a'd ne had RECENTLY met a lady who
lad QUILT and organized free schools
dMong the Indian tribes, one of which
cost $4,000, and she kept up the schools
oy private contributions. furnished by
phlanthropic people. Teller thought
ILAhb ClbL-
@ehs should be required to contribute to
indian education, while the government
4au itself undertaken that task. If the
secretary If the Interior were en-
covered to take Indian boys and girls
alo put them into manual labor
saools, whether their parents were
Wiling or not, the children would have
voaSatuted hostages and would have
hfeFented further Indian war. Fifty
Apache children placed in such a school
lars.
At2 o'clock Vest took the floor on
.ae Dakota bill. He disclaimed any
hostility, personal or political, to the
.eoople OF Dakota, and claimed himself
% Oe western man and proud OF the
SeStern country and its magnificent
development.
vest could show that many brave ex-
uuIon veterans, who were now residing
-. ~ dakota, were earnestly opposed to
ue measure reported from the Senate
sIumlttee on Territories. He insisted
Nai Congress was the only power that
WIG say when States should come
Ivy me Union, and took the broad
s,Ound that no ordinance or treaty
sse ~ could hamper or bind Congress in
At, ae matter of so fundamental q char.
S so.gt as this. Mr.. Vest compared the
AZ gSi .In assumed by Dakota with that
9ontaaa. to show that the latter
gnIltOry had acted in re-
,ipse5euul and Constitutional manner.
co ,nouSh he said he should be
oi TPened to vote against the admission
At ,aaoEntana, until It had population
ion 80 .. equal to the unit of representa-
IN n conclusion, Vest said that he You'd
rj vsegIter submit proposition to divide
ana Ierrltory by a line running north
9a 1r south on the hundred and first
or r. T Jae OF longitude, SO as to provide
Taateeping the unsettled western side in
ifeIrltorial condition. '-Oo IL
y Tb Tor q motion to adjourn i' O"' gave
,., ne Senate accordingly sd;o,,,od
'a1 Monday. ''s's so'oufhed