The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-04-27
fIF1Is1H CONGRESS
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WASHINGTON, April l6.-After the refer
ence OF number Of measures the conference
reports on the bill to divide the great Sioux
reservation into separate smaller reservations
was agteed to.
On motion the Farwell bill providing for
the Investment Of certain funds in the treas
lry v'as taken up and Senator far@ell pro
cecded to address the senate on the financial
question. He gave notice of his intention to
offer two amendments to the bill. One OF
them directs the Secretary of the treasury TO
issue aud sell to national banks at psr for
United States notes, United States 21s per
cent. bonds, redeenable after fifty years, to
be used by the banks as security for
their circulating notes, the notes to be Is
sued to the full par value Of the bonds. It
also directs the secretary Of the treasury
to invest the surplus funds held in the treas
ury Qncluding the amount to be received for
these bonds) In the purchase Of any United
States bonds in the open market, and repeals
all the sinking fund Tie other amendment
authorizes the SECRETARY OF the treksury in
order to enable national banks to maintain
and increase their circulation, and to prevent
the ultimate destruction OF the banka by the
purchase or payment Of the national debt, to
receive from banks to secure their circulating
notes, state, county or municipal bonds, upon
which interest has been heretofore promptly
paid, and whose market value is equal or
greater than their par vaine, bearing ntcrcs.
st not less than per cent; such bones to be
received by the treasurer at not more than
rs per cent. Of their par value, nor Until the
approval OF the scefetsfy 81 the treasury,
treasurer of the United States and comp
troller Of the currency shall have been en-
dorsed upon them.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE Riddlcbcrger
cselution offered YESTERDAYS in regatd IS e4-
ecutive sessions U.s. eslied ub. On inetiYii of
Senator hamunds. Tie gaiieFiss HeEe ti.attd
and the doors closed.
In ten minutes the doors were opened, and
afser some routine business the Dakota bill
was taken Up fof consideration;
Senator Vest spoke in opposition. He
taunted Senator spooner with having waved
the bloody shirt, and referring to his state
ment that there was no difference between
states trying to break out Of the Union and
trying to break In, said that II the southern
community had undertaken to do what the
people of Dakota had done there would have
been an outcry Immediately only exceeded by
that in regard to Fort sumpter, and the Sem
ator from Vermont would have proposed a
piece of legislatlon equivalent to that cele-
Grated legislation ht had carried III 1876
which put Hayes into the presidential chair
and ITO arms, to armsl" would have been
the cry all over the north.
Senator Edmunds said with emphasis that
he believed and thought that nine-tenths CT
the people believed that President HaSes WAS
lawfully and fairly elected by the votes of the
states.
Senator Vest took issue with this state
ment. AS to the purpose Of the Democratic
opposition to the bill being the keeping out
of the three electoral votes Of south Dakota,
Senator Vest denied 1t energetically. The
Democratic senators we-e *,lllng to admit
the whole territory, but were not willing to
| divide it.
| The senate bill for the relief OF the Omaha
| tribe of Indians in Neoraska (authorizng the
| payment of $4,000, being ten ANNUAL install
nents under a treaty. was amended by au.
thorizing the secretary OF the interior to ex
| tend the time for the payment OF the purchase
money for lands sold on the Omaha Indar
| reservation.
The senate bill for public building a
Burlington Iowa, 81, 900, passed.
Adjourned.
WAsuISGToN, April l8.-The land forfeit
ure bill went over as unfinished business ant
at O'Clock this afterhoon the Dakota bill
came up and Senator Sherman took the foo
in its support. He replied in an impassionet
manner to Senator Vests allusion to the un
fair methods in the election OF Presiden
Hayes. He claimed that every suspicion eve
cast upon the integrity of that proceeding
had been repelled and that 1t stood In histor
as matter in which the Republican party
position could not be impeached.
Senator Sherman showed by the vote In tn
senate that the electoral commission bill wa
not Republican but Democratic measure
Twenty-sx. Democrats had voted FOR It ali
only twenty-one Republicans, while the vote
against it were fourteen Republicans, inclut
ing himself, and one Democrat, Mr.. Eaton, {
Connecticut. The Democrats were therefor
precluded from assailing the bill as . part
san measure. He declared his full conyictio
that Hayes had been fairly and legally elec
ed; and that II by some hocus pocus Tide
had been inaugursted he would have bee
Illegally elected.
He explained the incongruity Of Packa,
not getting the governorship of Louisiana
showing that that was subject to local Ia,
and decisions; and declared his convictlt
that Packard had been Illegally deprived
his Office. The Democratic party had n
only by fraud and violence sought to contr
the presidential election, but it had actual
succeeded In depriylng of their offices t
duly elected governor and members of t
legislature. Then he proceeded to read {
. tracts from speech made In the late snvi
by Senator Eustis, in which he declared 1t
be the determination Of the white men
Louisiana to solve the race question withc
regard to northern sentiment. II that, e,
Senator Sherman, was the desire and det
mination of the white people of Louisiana, I
constitution Of the United States would hs
to be changed. When 1t was said that tn,
must be white mans government in Lou
ana it meant An unrepublican gsvernme
The people of the south, instead Of SEEK
] to win the colored people by kindness, t
4 maintained a system OF domineering cri
and violence. He had felt called upon
make these remarks patty to correct the
torical error into which many persons !
!. fallen and to show that not only did the
} turning board Of Louisiana have suflici
= evidence before them of fraud and viole
and outrage In the election of 1876, but t
the present governor Of that state and one
its senators had confessed all and more Il
ever had been claimed by the return
board. If ever anybody had any doubt of
= election Of Hayes that doubt had been
- moved by the admission of thh very men
;;*Zss had participated in the wrorg OF that da
pa Louisiana.