Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-01
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS IN THE TWO HOUSES
YESTERDAY.
What the Nations Representatives. ara
Doing and Talking
About.
WASHINGTON, February %, 1883.
senate.


and yool-manufacturing industries and
were referred TO the Committee on FL
nance.
! Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on
Foreign Relations. reported bill to
amend the acts relating TO Chinese i'm
migration, and said he would as soon as
practicable ask the Senate to take action
ON il. Placed on the calendar.
The bill TO provide for the compulsory
education Of Indian children was taken
from the calendar. MIR. Vests bill OF
last session having q similar object was
substituted for it and it was passed after
/ having been amended, on motion OF Mr..
/ Call. so rs TO include the Indians OF
| Florida within its provisions The bill
makes it the duty of the Secretary OF the
/ Interior 10 establish under such rules
and regulations as he NAV think proper
an industrial boarding-school on every
Indian reservation upon which there may
be located anv Indian tribe numbering
/ 800 or more adult Indians. The Secre-
/ tsrv is TO cause an enumeration OF the
children OF such Indians between
the ages OF eight and eighteen
wears 10 be made Mt least once
in every two years and to cause such
children 10 be placed i'll schools SO es-
tablished, and there kept for period
not exceeding five years Children so
placed in such schools are to be taught,
! in addition to reading, writing, arithme-
/ tic. and geography, useful labor. The
males are to lie instructed in Ogricul-
/ tnral pursuits. the care and management
of stock, poultry, and general farm
work. and are also to be taught some
useful mechanical trade, and the girls
are 10 be instructed in household work,
sewing, the care of poultry, and
other employment suitable to their sex.
The Secretary of the Interior may, when
the parents or natural guardians OF such
children refuse or neglect TO send them
to the schools established or controlled
by the Interior Department, and to keep
them there in accordance with the rules
ard regulations made by the Secretary,
withhold rations and annuities from the
parents or natural guardians OF such
children or from the tribe until there
shall be a proper compliance with the
rules prescribed by the Interior Depart
mept. Nothing in the bill contained Is
10 prevent the education OF Indian chill
dren in schools outside the reservations,
with the consent of their parents OF
guardians, and 10 provisions of the act
are to apply to the five civilized tribes
nor to the Usage Indians of the Indian
Territory. The provisions of the bill art
I I Al, oil "A
dams of Florida.
The dependent pension bill was ther
taken up. Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa, moyec
An amendment to insert the words fo'
the infirnities of age" 50 as to pension al
ex-soldiers suffering "from the mfr
mites of age or from mental or physlca
disability" 81,
In the debate which took place on the
amendment Mr.. Plumb delivered an elo
quent eulOgy on the army, referring par
ticularlv to the fact that when the wal
closed the army could have placed one o.
lts leaders at the head Of the Govern
ment and could have dictated its owl
terms. bnt had asked nothing except tC
be permitted to disband and return t
peaceful avocations. He did not believe
that any patriotic man, any man VINO
looked with patriotic fervor on that por
ton Of the country's history when 2,UOU,
COO men sprang to arms to MAINTAIN th'
Government would ever be willing tC
oppose the enactment of any law where
bv any of the men should be draw
from the ban of poverty and giycI
at least decent livelihood. Ih'
bill as it came from the committed
was perhaps step in the right direction
1t was not what it ought to be, and he
had sought to make it better There
was 10 be. he said, no iDsinuation III the
Senate or elsewhere that Union soldiers
we're to be benefciaries under the bill II
the sense Of being supplicants or un
worthy persons. lie did not think thai
partisanship would 90 that far, and If !
did he believed that the American PEG
ole would refute it. Congress was moi
now dealing with slender resources, bu
was dealing with abundance. less thar
the pending bill proposed would not bt
lust more was not asked for.
MIR. Vest said that he had not had the
slightest idea when he spoke to Nj
Wilson's amendment of producing th'
burst of patriotic, fervid eloquenc
which the Senate had just listened to
They had heard good deal about aims
houses and veteran soldiers. In tn
State of Missouri there were no Fedora
soldiers in the almshouses, and he wa
proud to say that there we're no Con
federate soldiers in the almshouses either
When General Lee surrendered ut App0
mattox there were bat 5000 muSket
left of that splendid army which hat
faced the world in arms, and which ha'
been battered and beaten back by over
whelming numbers. Out Of companle
which had gone into that terrlbl
struggle from 125 to 100 men strong
only ten had gone back to their klndre
and their homes. The South to-day Wa
covered with manned and crippled sol
diers who had been shot and shelIed an
sabre struck for their honest convictions
aud they asked no pension and woul'
not take it. [God be blessed. The.
were not in almshouses, and none O
them had ever been seen begging TO
bread. Whence. then, came the talk
Federal soldiers in almshouses ? The.
were not there. He was tired and SIC
of insinuations OF robbery and pretenc
and hypocrisy in the name of he tru
and gallant soldiers of the Union
lie had personal friends anon
them, and (as he had sal
before) he would give to every DISABLED
! or dependent soldier of the Fedora
army and the widows and orphans o
those who had lost their lives IN tn
service the last acre of land and tn
last dollar. He would have done tn
same for Confederate soldiers iii Go
had blessed our cause" Why talk tina
Congress had not done enough 10
Union soldiers when the country ha
paid out since 1865 1888, 900, 900 TO
pensions-liberality unparalleled IN tn
history of the world? The Senate ba
been told to-day that the country owe
the soldiers debt OF eternal graft
tude because they had not wit
mailed hand seized the Government
The great military and politics
organization. the Grand Army c