The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-04
Southern judicial district Of California WIN.

| Southern judicial district OF California was
taken from the calendar, amended, and passed
The Senate took recess until s o'clocks~
At the evening session Mr. Allison, from the
committee on appropriations, reported bill APP
propriating $50, 900 for the compensation and
expenses Of the Mississippi river commission
and $4,000 for the Missouri river commission
Passed.
The committee on education and labor was
directed to continue ard complete the investiga-
ton of the relations between labor and capital
Mr.. Cullom moved to proceed to the considera-
ton of the joint resolution authorizing the Sec
rotary of War to accept certain lands near Chi
cago. Ill Rejected.
The Senate then took up the conference re-
port on the sundry civil appropriation bill
Some opposition to the report was made by
Messrs. Conger. Teller and Hawley for the rea-
son that the Senate conferees had yielded in
part to the House on the question of appropria-
ton for schools in Alaska; but Mr. Beck de-
tended the conference action, declaring that the
Senate conferees had had difficult work in re-
tanning any portion of the appropriation.
Mr. Edmunds also opposed the reduction of
the approximation. He rather anxious TO
see the green hills of Vermont but he would
rather stay here until December than yield on
this oueetlon-not for the purpose Of forcing the
House of Representatives to do what it did not
desire to do. but in order to persuade it that
honor, justice, humanity and public policy re-
quired that liberal provision should be made for
school purposes in Alaska. He was opposed to
letting the matter drop because it was late in
the session, and to postpone 1t until the House
of Representatives should be educated to apprs-
ciate the value of education.
Mr.. Vest regretted that the conferees had
yielded to the House in the matter of providing
for the salary of the superintendent of the Yell
lowstone National Park. he took occasion to
deny statements made in the House yesterday
by Mr.. Henderson, of Iowa. intimating that he
Mr.. Vest was interested in the Yellowstone
Park because the present superintendent was
ncfyt Tx1n rE ~1wx <a1r
for the motives which instigatad the attack upon
him he had the most unmitigated contempt.
1t could only arise from small
politician, whose ideas were bounded
by a small desire for Office. He also
referred to the remark made by
Representative Glover. of Missouri, stating that
the superintendent of the park had become in
terested in coal mine on the margin of the
park and that Immediately thereafter Senator
Mr.. Vest had introduced a bill which cut off
that portion of the park. That thought Mr.
Glover, indicated jobbery. He Mr.. Vestl de-
nounced as absurdly false the intmation that
there was any jobbery in the matter The bill
land in this statement he corroborated by
Mr.. Teller had been recommended by the In
terror Department. and he had introduced sim
liar bill in 1884, long before the appointment
OF the present superintendent There Were
undoubtedly members of the Senate and
the House who honestly believed that
| the National Park should be abolished but there
were other men who wished its abolition for base
motives For those men, and their motives he
had only the same feeling that he had for any
| other loathsome object, and he would waste no
words upon them; but with all his breath and
strength he would devote himself to reversing
the conference report which struck down the
Yellowstone Park
After further debate. the report was adopted
yeas q, nays IA
On motion of Mr.. Allison a bill was passed
making an additional appropriation of $50. 900
for the purchase Of a site for the Congressional
Library
session.
At IL p. Nj. the doors were reopened and the
Senate adjourned.