Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-20
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.

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 SENATE.-A bill was reported authorizing the President to appoint and retire John O. Fremont as major general United States army.
 MT. Hoar offered resolution, which was referred to the committee on foreign rela- tions, providing that the official reporter shall be admitted to report the debates and proceedings of the Senate when the fisheries treaty shall be under consideration, the re- port. or such part of it as may not require secrecy, to be published if the Senate shall so order.
 The Senate then resumed consideration of the bill tor the admission of the State Of South Dakota and was addressed by MT. Plumb, of Kansas, in support of the bill
 Mr. Allison defended the division of Da- kota as an entirely regular and constitutional procedure, for which there have been numer- ous precedents. He asserted that the oppo- sition was purely partisan. MT. Butler de- clared that the Democratic senators were pre- pared now and would be prepared in the fu- ture to admit Dakota into the Union as State. He opposed the so-called South Da- kota moevment because in his judgment it was political trick to get supremacy in the Senate.
 The debate drifted off again to southern election frauds, carpet>bagger outrages, the national election of 1876 and other topics of kindred bearing on the question of making South Dakota State. Messrs. Berry, Call, Sherman, Edmunds, Vest, Pascoe, Chandler and Hoar participated.
 Mir. Platt made the closing speech in favor of the bill, after which the Senate voted on the substitute and then on the bill. The sub stitute was defeated-yeas 23 nays 26-and the bill passed; yeas 26, nays 23-a strictly party vote. The bill declares the State of South Dakota State of the United States of America and ratifes and confirms, subject to certain provisions, the constitution which the people of South Dakota have formed for themselves. It fixes the boundaries of the State and gives the State concurrent juris- diction of the river Missouri and every other river bordering the State. Until ment South Dakota is to have two repre- sentatives in, the House of Represen- tatives. It appropriates $25, 900 to defray the expenses of the constitutional conven- ton that has been held; sets apart two sec tions in each township for school lands; buildings at the capital, ninety sections for an agricultural college and twenty sections for 8 nitentiary-exempting all minor lands from such grants. The grants are to be sold only at public sale and at not less than $5 an acre and not exceeding one-quar- for United States co2rts and for division of the public debt of the former territory of Dakota. The portion of the former territory not within the State of South Dakota is to continue as territory under the name of North Dakota, with Bismarck as it's capital.
 MT. Platt gave notice that he would at an early date call up the other territorial bills
 The Senate at $40 adjourned till Monday.
 HoUsE.-At the suggestion of MT. Mills an understanding was had that the committee on ways and means would yield the floor for the day to the appropriation bills and that the debate on the tariff bill would be resumed on Tuesday of next week. The House then ..-A~ 4 T.-l ation bill.
 Amendments were adopted appropriating $12,000 for the support of eighty pupils at the Cherokee training school at Cherokee, N O., and $20, 900 for the education of Indian pupils in Alaska. An amendment was also adopted striking out the provision for an in spector of Indian schools and providing for a superintendent of Indian schools to be ap- pointed by the President, who shall. subject to the approval of the Secretary of the In- terior, hsye full charge of the education of the Indians.
 the payment of the Choctaw judgement hav- ing been reached MT. Blount, of Georgia, raised the point of order that it was 8 matter over which the committee on Indian affairs had no jurisdiction and that it had no place upon the bill. The provision for the pay msnt of judgment was only in order upon the sundry civil or deficiency bill, over which
 
 diction. The committee on appropriations could report the clause upon these bills and if it saw fit to exercise the power, which did not belong to it, of withholding the judg- ment ft was competent for any member of the House to move the clause as an amend ment and he (Blountl would take pleasure in giving it his assent.
 After discussion the chair overruled the point of order on the ground that the judg- ment of the United States Supreme court was based upon treaty stipulation and that the subject matter of the appropriation had properly been referred to the committee on Indian affairs.
 Mir. Bayne, of Pennsylvania, offered an amendment providing that in Indian day and training schools where church organizations are assisting in the educational work the Christian Bible may be taught in the native language, if in the opinion of the persons in charge of the schools it is deemed conducive to the moral welfare of the pupils; adopted.
 The committee then rose.
 Mir. Randall moved to strike out the Choc- taw judgment provision and the previous question was ordered on this motion and the final passage of the bill. The matter went over until tomorrow and the House at 6 o'clock adjourned.