Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1888-03-02
The Establishment of Schools on In
dian Reservations and COmpul-
sorry Education Authorized.
The Pension Bill Again Discussed in
the Senate-Hot Words and
Broad Assertions.
What Senator Vest Would Have
Done eff God Had Blessed
Our Cause.''
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.-ln the senate on
motion of Mr.. Hoar the bill to establish
national art commission was taken from
the calendar and passed, the only discus
sion of it being remark by Mr.. Plumb
that the commission would develop into
considerable institution and would cost the
governmental before long 100000 year.
EDUCATION OF INDIANS.
The bf4t0 provide for the compulsory
education Of Indian children was taken
from the calendar and discussed. Mr..
Vest declared that it is utterly useless to
attempt to educate Indian children at any
schools, from which they returned to
spend the remainder Of the day in their
tepees. Mr.. Dawes, who had charge of the
bill, approved the substitute for the bill
that was offered by Mr.. Vest when the bill
was last under consideration, and it was
amended and passed. 1t makes it the duty
of the secretary of the interior to establish
under such rules and regulations as he
may think proper, an industrial boarding
school on every Indian reservation upon
which there may be located any Indian
tribe numbering 500 or more adult Indians.
The pupils are to be taught in the
branches of useful labor in addition to the
usual studies in primary schools. Mr..
Hale reported the urgency deficiency bill.
THAT PENSION BILL.
The senate then resumed consideration
Of the bill granting pensions to ex-soldiers
and sailors who are incapacitated for the
performance of manual labor and provid-
ing for pensions to dependent relatives of
deceased soldiers and sailors. Mr.. Wilson
of Iowa moved an amendment to insert the
words "fr0m the infirmities of age" so as
to pension all ex.soldiers suffering 'sfrOm
the infirmities of age or from mental or
physical disability" Replying to remarks
by Mr. Plumb concerning federal soldiers
in almshOuses, Mr.. Vest said they were
not there. He was tired and sick of the
insinuations of robbery and pretense and
hypocrisy in the name OF the true and gal
liant soldiers of the union. He had true
and personal friends among them and he
would give to every disabled or dependent
soldier of the federal army and the wild
ows and orphans of those who had lost
their lives in the service the last acre of
land and the last dollar. He would have
done the same for the confederate soldiers
if "God had blessed our cause" Why the
talk that congress had not done enough
for the union soldiers when the country
had paid out since 1865 1888, 900 600 for pen
sions-a liberality unparalleled in the his
tory of the world? The senate had been
told to-day that the country owed the
soldiers debt of eternal gratitude because
they had not with mailed hand seized the
government A great military and polit-
ical organization, the Grand Army of the
Republic. had thrown its lance into the
debates of congress and had sent bills to
their accredited senators for the purpose
Of being enacted. When the president of
the United States had honestly and bravely
discharged his duty and vetoed an enact
ment which he considered improper, he
had been threatened by the officers Of that
organization with personal insult if he
dared to make his presence known in the
city where it held its annual Meeting
There was limit to human endurance.
He had voted for pension bills, coerced by
his position because he had been confed-
crate, because he was honestly anxious for
the honor and glory Of the country. He
had voted for them because he wanted to
evidence to the world that the men with
whom he had acted in the unfortunate
strife respected the fair and gallant
soldiers Of the union and were willing to
give them even more than they demanded,
but, he repeated with strong emphasis,
there Is limit and have reached it and I
will be driven no further by claim agents
and plunderers in the garb of soldiers.'
Mr.. Vest run over the list of those forcing
the bill attributing to each q desire to get
the soldier vote for president Mr.. Teller
replied to Mr.. Vest II there was some
little diversity Of opinion, he said, among
republicans as to who was to be their
standard bearer, his democratic friends
were not In that position. Their standard
bearer was selected for them whether they
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