The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-04
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS
senate.

Senator Evarts presented petition
of S07 people in New York praying for a
suspension. of the silver coinage. His col
league, Warner Miller called several sena-
tors attention TO it, and they laughed hearth
ly at Mr. Evarts's known embarrassment ON
this subject,
Senator Dawes presented the memorial of
Henry FaXon and 20 others in Massachusetts
in favor of female suffrage,
The senate, after talking for q long time
upon the bill to keep outsiders oil the Indian
reservations, took up the Dakota bill, ana
discussed it,
Mr., Sherman introduced a bill to discon-
tinue the coinage of the silver dollar and to
provide for the purchase of silver bullion In
bars not less than 2000,000 ounces nor more
than 4, 000, 900 ounces per month at its market
price, and for the issue in payment therefor
of coin certificates of no less denomination
than $40 each, the bullion to remain in the
treasury as security for the payment OF the
certificates
The bill providing for the admission of Da-
kota was taken up, Mr., Buffers substitute
for the committees bill was read. II is an
enabling act providing for the admission 81
the Territory of Dakota as whole as state
when an election shall have been held under
this act, and constitution, republican IN
form, shall have been adopted by the people
of such Territory. After a brief debate the
bill went over A message from the house
announced the death of the Hon. Reuben
Ellwood, late a member of that body from the
State of Illinois. After eulogistic addresses
by Mcssrs. Cullon and Logan, the senate, out
of respect to the memory of the deceased al
journed
Mr.. Platt offered resolution providing for
the consideration of nominations i'll open
session.
Mr., Hoar submitted an amendment to the
electoral count bill which he proposes to o!fer
when the bill again comes up for considera-
| ton.
a resolution, offered by Mr., EdmundS,
was agreed to directing the Secretary OF the
Navy to transmit to the senate copies or the
drawings and report of the recent survey of
the Nicaragua canal route made by Chief En-
ginecr Menocal.
A resolution, offered By Mr.. Eustis, was
agreed to directing the Secretary OF the
Treasury to inform the senate whether any
instructions had been issued 10 the assistant
treasurer at New Orleans to refuse to receive
silver dollars on deposit and issue therefor
certificates, or whether he had been instructed
to receive only a limited amount of such sill
yer dollars, and, if such instructions had
been issned to inform the senate the reasons
upon which they were based.
sumed consideration of the bill to divide the
Sioux Indian reservation in Dakota. lncourse
of the debate Mr.. Teller said he had recently
met lady who had built and organized free
schools among the Indian tribes, one of which
cost SIG, 900, and she kept up the schools by
private contributions furnished by philan-
thropic people. Mr. Teller thought it burn
ing shame that individual citizens should be
required to contribute to Indian education,
while the government had itself undertaken
that task.
| AT two O'Clock Mr.. Vest took the floor on
the Dakota bill He asked why repeated
references had been made in debate by repub-
leans to party feeling. Why had reference
| been made to the fact that the people OF
! Dakota were largely composed of Union sol
| diers and that that fact might account for
their restiveness in their present political
condition. But he denied the right of any
man to peculiar privileges in this country
because of having fought under one flag,
| because of having espoused any cause, be
cause of having done his duty to his primer
pies and convictions as he understood them
Justice should be done to all men.
| Mr. Vest severely animadverted upon the
course pursued by South Dakota in this mat
ter of its proposed admission as state. he
sent to the desk and had the clerk read sew.
eral editorial articles from Dakota news
papers insisting that there was no law tc
forbid the people from gov rning themselves
One such article inquiries: "Shall the SCARED
veterans who put down the rebellion nov
submit to the rebels We say thousand
times no; you have once conquered rebel'
with guns in their hands; you will again con
quer the 'rebs in congress having votes II
their hands, Mr. Vest insisted that congrcS,
was the only power that could say whet
states should come into the Union. If th'
ordinance of 1887, which provided that
new states should be admitted when lopu
lation of 10000 should be reached, was tht
only authority on the question, the debate
would close at once. Dakota had not evincec
proper respect for the supreme court of thu
United States. Its people had entered into
conspiracy to nullify a decision of that cour
in regard to the territorial bonded indebted
ness. By the vote on the constitution nov
presented, Mr. Vest continued, $50, 900 persons
residing in North Dakota were disfran
chsed, and had not taken part in the election
In conclusion, Mr.. Vest said he would here
after submit a proposition to divide the terri
tory by line running north and south on tn
one hundred and first parallel of longitude
so as TO provide for the keeping of the un
settled western side in territorial condition