Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-04-25
fIFTIETH c0AGREss
FIRST SESSION.
skyATH.

ence u nuinDer Oh 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 was taken up and Senator Farwell pro-
ceeded 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 and sill 10 national banks at par for
United States notes, United States 215 per
cent. bonds, redeemable 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. 1t
also directs the secretary of the treasury
to invest the surplus funds held in the treas
ury (ncluding the amount to be received for
these bonds) In the purchase of any United
States bonds in the open market, and repeats
all the sinking fund. The other amendment
authorizes the secretary Of the treasury In
order to enable national banks to maintain
and increase their circulation, and 10 prevent
the ultimate destruction of the banks by the
purchase or payment of the national debt 10
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 valne, bearing interes.
eft not less than per cent; such bones to be
received by the treasurer at not more than
oopf of fhafr No tba
approval of the secretary of the treasury,
treasurer of the United States and comp
troller of the currency shall have been en-
dorsed upon them.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE Riddleberger
esolution offered yesterday in regard 20 ex-
ecutive sessions was called up on motion of
Senator Edmunds. The galleries were cleared
and the doors closed.
In ten minutes the doors were opened, and
afser some routine business the Dakota bill
was taken up for consideration.
Senator Vest spoke in opposition. He
tainted Senator Spooner with having waved
the bloody shirt, and referring to his state
ment that there was no difference between
cbdtCo u W plCdh OuS Va TIC uulOu duu
trying to break in, said that if the southern
community had undertaken to do what the
people of Dakota had done there would have
been an cutlery Immediately only exceeded by
that in regard to Fort Sumpter, and the Sen
ator from Vermont would have proposed
piece of legislation equivalent to that cele-
brated legislation he had carried in 1876,
which put Hayes into the presidential chair,
and ITO arms, to arms!n would have been
the cry all over the north.
Senator Edmunds said with emphasis that
he believed and thought that nine-tenths of
the people believed that President Hayes 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 it energetically. The
Democratic senators were willing 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 Nebraska authorizing the
payment of $4,000, being ten annual Install
ments under 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 Indian
reservation.
The senate bill for public building at
Burlington, Iowa, 5000, passed.
Adjourned.
WASHINGTON, April 1S.-The land forfeit
ure bill went over as unfinished business and
at 2 O'Clock this afternoon the Dakota bill
came up and sssatcf Sherman took the floor
In its support. He replied In an impassioned
manner to Senator Vests allusion to the I'M
Hayes He claimed that every suspicion ever
cast upon the integrity of that proceeding
had been repealed and that it stood in history
as matter in which the Republican party's
position could not be impeached
Senator Sherman showed by the vote in the
senate that the electoral commission bill was
not a Republican but Democratic measure
Twenty-six Democrats had voted for it and
only twenty-one Republicans, while the votes
against 1t were fourteen Republicans, includ-
ing himself, and one Democrat, Mr. Eaton, of
Connecticut The Democrats we're therefore
precluded from assailing the bill as a rarti-
san measure. He declared his full conviction
that Hayes had been fairly and legally elect
ed; and that IL by some hocus pocus Tilden
had been inaugurated he would have been
Illegally elected.
He explained the incongruity Of Packard
not getting the governorship of Louisiana by
showing that that was subject to local laws
and decisions; and declared his conviction
that Packard had been Illegally deprived of
his office. The Democratic party had not
only by fraud and violence sought to control
the presidential election, but 1t had actually
succeeded IN depriving of their offices the
duly elected governor and members of the
legislature. Then he proceeded to read ex-
tracts from speech made In the late canvass
by Senator Eustis, in which he declared it to
be the determination of the white men of
Louisiana to solve the race question without
regard to northern sentiment. If that, said
Senator Sherman, was the desire and deter
mination. of the white people of Louisiana, the
of the United States would have
to be changed. When it was said that there |
must be white mans government In Lousi- |
ana it meant an unrepublican government
The people of the south, instead of seeking
20 win the colored people by kindness, had |
system of domineering crime
and violence. He had felt called upon to
make these remarks partly to correct the his
torical error into which many persons had
fallen and to show that not only did the re-
turning board Of Louisiana have sufficient