The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-15
HALLS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate and House OF
Representatives.
INSUFFICIENT MAIL SERVICE
lava for the Red Men-COx Resigns
f.om the Committee OF Terri
tortcs-Other Matters.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, February 14.-Among
Ahe bills introduced and referred were
the following:
BIZ Cullom-For compensation for
services OF female nurses during the
war of the Rebellion.
By Mitchell-ro amend the laws re-
leting to DRAWBACKS OF duty on manu-
featured tin.
Blackburn offered a resolution, de-
claring it not IN order Except by un-
animous consen) for The committee
on appropriation TO report bill with
out having had it under consideration
for ten days or more. Referred TO the
committee on rules.
The resolution for an inquiry into
the causes OF the inefficient mail SER
vice, was taken up and Plumb said
that if Reagan's argument yesterday,
in defense OF the :er-General
meant anything it was that that
officer pleaded the baby act; that he
was burdened with Republican clerks.
There was no restraint on the Post
master-General as to the dismissal of
clerks. No Republican asked him to
have them retained. AS to the fact
that the service was bad, inexcusably
bad, bad beyond any previous record,
there was no question at ali. He sent
TO the clerks desk and had read
several extracts from Kansas news
papers, showing the defective mail ser
vice in that State.
Platt said that the trouble was not
confined to the west, and that scarcely
a day passed without his receiving let
tiers from Connecticut, making similar
complaints.
Plumb, resuming, said that the ques
ton was not partisan one. WHAT the
people of Kansas wanted was faithful
service.
Reagan said that if the complaints
which were sent to Senators were sent
to the postofice department they
could be investigated and corrections
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 my partisan matter into the
discussion.
Henderson expressed his surprise at
Reagan's suggestion that the de>ire
was rather to maze political capital
than to correct, earnestly and honestly,
an existing evil. As to the statement
Congress, but to the postoffice depart.
ment, he said that complaint had been
made to the department without effect.
After further discussion the resolu-
ton went over without action.
The Senate bill to provide for an In
dian school at Carson City, Nevada,
was passed.
The bill to provide for the compuI-
sorry education of Indian children was
taken from the calendar and discussed
at much length by Dawes, Teller, Cock
rell and Vest.
Teller, who had introduced the bill,
declared, in opposition to the popular
idea, that there was no instance in his
tory where the Indian aborigines were
treated so literally as the American
Indians were treated. Nowhere else
had their right to the soil been recog-
nized. Here their lands mad been
bought and paid for, but the American
people had not been wise in their deal
ings with the Indians. If they had
been, there would be no uncivilized In
dams to-day. Tie Indians would have
been incorporated in the body polite.
Without disposing of the bill, the
Senate adjourned.