The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-03-01
PLUMB'S ELOQUENT APPEAL FOR
MORE PENSIONS.
Vests Description of the Political
Auction.
House Debate ON the Bond Purchase
siii-PostaI C,imes BilI-Mr. Eel-
ley's Question of Privilege.
SENATE.

| SENATE.
WASHINGTON, February 29.-Several
petitions and remonstrances were pre-
sented against any revision of the pres
| ent tariff, or any legislation tending to
| cripple the industries of the country.
They came from bodies representing iron
and steel, hat making and wool manu-
| featuring industries, and were referred
| to the Committee on Finance.
Mr.. Sherman, from the Committee on
Foreign Relations, reported the bill to
amend the acts relating to Chinese inn
migration, and said ne would ask the
Senate to take action on it. Placed on
the calendar.
| INDIAN EDUCATION BILL.
The bill to provide for the compulsory
education of Indian children was taken
| from the calendar Mr.. Vests bill of
last session, having a similar object, was
/ substituted for it and it was passed,
after having been amended on motion
of Mr.. Call SO as to include the Indians
of Florida within its provisions.
| BRON lSlONS Of IhE BILL.
The bill makes it the duty of the Sec
retary 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 five hundred or more
adult Indians. The Secretary is to cause
an enumeration of the children of such
Indians. between the ages of eight and
eighteen years, TO De made at least once in
| every two years, and to cause such chill
| dren to be placed in the schools so
established, and there kept for period
not exceeding five years. The children
50 placed in such schools are to be
| taught, in addition to reading, writing
| arithmetic and geography, useful labor.
| The males are to be instructed in agri-
cultural pursuits, care and management
of stock, poultry and general farm work,
mechanical trade, and the girls
are to be instructed in household
work, sewing, care of poultry, and other
/ employments 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 school, established or controlled by
| the Interior Department, and to keep
them there in accordance with the rules
| and 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
| ment.
Nothing contained in the bill is to pre-
vent the education of Indian children in
schools outside the reservations with the
consent of their parents or guardians,
and no 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 are extended
| to the Seminole and Creek Indians of
Florida.
/ DEPENDENT PENSION BILL.
The Dependent Pension bill was then
taken up. Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa, moved
an amendment to insert the words "from
infirmities of age, so as to pension all
ex-soldiers suffering from 1nfrmities OF
age or from mental or physical disabil
ity.
PLUMB GROWS ELOQUENT.
In the debate which took place on the
amendment, Mr.. Plumb delivered an ell
particularly to the fact that when tn,
war closed, the army could have placed
one of its leaders at the head of the Gov
ernment and could have dictated its OWL
terms, but had asked nothing except to
be permitted to disband and return tt
| their peaceful avocations. He did no
believe that any patriotic man, any mar
who looked with patriotic fervor on tina
portion of the country's history, wher
two millions of men sprung Il
arms to maintain the Government, woul,
ever he willing TO oppose the enactmen
of any law whereby any of those mel
should be drawn from the ban of pov
erty and given at least a decent iveli
mittee was perhaps step in the RICH
direction. 1t was not what it ought t.
be. and he had sought to make it better
There was to be, he said, no insinuatiol
in the Senate or elsewhere that Uniol
soldiers were to be beneficiaries unde
the bill, in the seraze of being suppliant
or unworthy persons. lie did not thin
that partisanship would go that far, an
if it did he believed that the America
people would refute it. Congress wa
not now dealing with slender resources
. but was dealing with am abundance
Less than the pending bin propose
/ would not be just; more was not aske
!, for.
, VEST ANSWERS PLUMB.
: Mr.. Vest said that he had not ha
the slightest idea when he spoke to Wi
: sons amendment of producing the burs
/, of patriotic, fervid eloquence which th
a Senate had just listened to. They ha
: heard good deal about aims house
E and veteran soldiers. In the State {
' Missouri til re were no Federal soldier
t in aims houses, and he was proud TO "a
E that there was no Confederate soldier
!, IN the aims house either. When Gel
Lee surrendered at Appomatox tlael