Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-15
POLITICAL NEWS.
Plumb Attacks the Post
office Department.
MANY COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Important Proposition introduced
Regarding the Sioux
An. Reservation.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

lA6Oc1ated PresS dispatches 10 the HERALD !
WASHINGTON, February A. The
resolution for inquiry into the cause
OF inefficient mail service was taken
up in the Senate to-day and Mr.,
Plumb said that if Reagan's argument
yesterday in defense of the Postmaster
General meant anything it was that
that officer pleaded the baby act in
claiming that he was burdened with
Republican clerks. There was no re-
straint on the Postmaster General as
to the dismissal of clerks. No Re
publican asked to have them retained.
That the service was bad, inexcusably
bad, bad beyond any previous record,
there was no question at all.
Mr.. Plumb sent to the Clerks desk
and had read several extracts from
Kansas newspapers showing the de-
fective mail services in that State.
Platt said that the trouble was not
confined to the West, and that scarcely
a day passed without his receiving
letters from Connecticut making such
complaints.
Reagan said that if the complaints
which were sent to the Senators were
sent to the Postoffice Department they
would be investigated and correctives
applied, but they were intended for
political effect, and the speech of the
Senator from Kansas was in the same
direction.
Plumb disclaimed all intention to
introduce any partisan matter into
the discussion.
Manderson expressed his surprise
at Reagan's suggestion that that the
complaints had been made to the
Postoffice Department without effect.
After further discussion the resolu-
tion went over without action.
STEWARDS MINING BILL.
Senator Stewart, from the Com
mittee on mines and mining, to-day
reported bill to amend the Alien
Land Law, by providing that it shall
not in any manner affect the title
to mineral lands or mining claims in
the Territories, which may be ac-
quired or held under the mineral
land law of the United States, nor to
mills or reduction works in the Ter
ritories.
He also reported favorahly from
the Committee on Mines and Mining,
a bill introduced by him to amend
the mining laws.
Senator Blair introduced resolu-
ton which recites that the so-called
3sMaxwell Land Grant" is required to
be treated as public land, but that
this tract is now being treated as q
private land claim. It directs that
inquiry be made into the matter by q
committee of the Senate, with view
to the relief of the settlers.
INDIAN EDUCATION.
The bill to provide for the compul-
sory education of Indian children was
taken from the calendar and discussed
at much length by Dawes, Teller,
Cockrell and Vest. Teller, who in
troduced the bill declared-in opposi-
tion to popular idea-that there was
no instance in history where Indian
aborigines were treated so literally
as the American Indians had been
treated; nowhere else had their right
to the coil been recognized; here their
lands had been bought and paid for,
but the American people had not
been wise in their dealings with the
Indians. If they had been, there
would be no uncivilized Indians to-
day, the Indians would have been
Incorporated in a body polite.
Without disposing of the bill the
Senate adjourned.
Among the bills introduced and re-
ferred was the following: For COM
pensation for services of female nurses
during the war Of the rebellion.
Blackburn offered resolution de-
claring it not in order Except by
unanimous consent) for the Committee
on Appropriations to report bill
without having had it under consider
alton ten days or more. Referred to
the Committee on Rules.