Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-05
THE FIFTY-FrRsr CONGRESS.

10 INC kSIectiOn BIl-Work of thu
House.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 4.-Amone
the numerous petitions presented and re-
ferred was one by Mr.. Hiscock from bank.
ers, importers and merchants of New York
city asking for an extension of time for the
withdrawal of goods from bond under the
former tariff rates.
The resolution reported yesterday by
Mr.. Hawley to issue arms to the states of
North and South Dakota and Nebraska was
taken up.
Mr.. Hawley said that if anything was to
be done in the matter it should be done
quickly. He hoped that if possible any
elaborate discussion of the Indian question
would be postponed
Mr.. Voorhees, said that all the senators
| were acquainted with Mr. Foster, who had
recently served on an important Indian
commission, and his views ought to have
| and doubtless would have great weight.
| Mr.. Foster said in an interview in the Gin
cinnati Enquirer: ''In my opinion the diff
| ficulties might be easily avoided. n
The whole matter has been brought about
by combination of bad policy and of the
incompetency of some officials. ~ y y
The Sioux are starving. Give
the Sioux plenty to eat and there will be be
further trouble" That statement, Mr..
Voorhees, said, came from a man of great
experience and it justified what he (Ir
Voorhees) had said yesterday. That was
the reason why he had said that he would
rather vote for the issue of rations than of
arms.
Mr.. Dawes commenting on the interview
with Ex-Governor Foster said that there
was nothing in it which failed to corrobo-
rate his statement yesterday as to the cause
of the Indian trobles. 1t rather supported
what he had said. 1t was true that there
were 5000 or 5000 Indians there in q
starving condition, and the peril to the
peace and to the lives of white people
there was just as great, whether it arose
from one cause or another, and it had to
be met and guarded against by supply of
food. In that peril it was perhaps unwise
to take up time in inquiry into the cause.
There was habit, Mr.. Dawes said, of
solving the Indian question every once in
a fortnight by column of newspaper or
an interview with somebody, made up
principally of charges of in
justice and fraud on the part of
the government. 1t seemed to him
that people were misled in that
TUT Iuo AhSt lcu VI uIl6en years
the Indians had been in the main treated
fairly and squarely. He knew and ap-
preciated Governor Foster, but that gem
tleman was not quite SO well acquainted
with the condition of things among the
Sioux Indians as were men who lived
among them and had charge of them. Mr.
Foster had been connected with the Indian
commission of which General Crook was
a member, but he had had up to that time
no more knowledge of the dealings with
the Indians than any other intelligent and
broad-minded man in the country.
Mr.. Reagan asked Mr.. Dawes whether
any communication had been received
from the executive department of the gov
eminent on the subject of the Sioux In
dams.
Mr.. Dawes answered in the negative
Mr.. Blair asked Mr.. Dawes whether any
application for food had been made to the
government by the Indians.
Mr.. Dawes-Not by these hostile Indi-
| ans. But the government thinks that as a
matter of precaution against an outbreak
that it would be better to feed them just
as sometimes in case of war the enemy has
to be fed.
Mr.. Blair-Is there any difficulty in
these starving Indians first applying to
the government and making known their
Mr.. Dawes-Not bit.
Mr.. Blair-If they are hungry and want
to be fed would they not naturally apply
for food instead of making ware
Mr.. Dawes-I believe that Sitting Bull
and Red Cloud have awaited themselves of
the present conditions to draw on these
Indians, making use of the prevalent de-
fusion as o means. This Sitting Bull il
the most pious hypocrite in this country,
| and that is saying good deal.
Mr.. Reagan assumed that if there was
danger of an Indian outbreak, some COM
| munication would have been made to con-
gress from the executive department, and
he said that he was not prepared to as
sumo that the executive was derelict in
its duty. Either one thing or the other
| was true that the executive department
had failed to perform its duty, or that
senators were attaching undue Importance
to the condition of things among the
Sioux Indians.
Mr. Hawley said that the secretary of
war had sent q communication asking for
authority to distribute arms to the gov
errors of the states where Indian hostili-
ties were feared.
The debate was carried on at great
length and finally the joint resolution was
passed.
At o'clock the election bill was taken
up and Mr.. Pugh addressed the senate in
opposition to it.
Mr.. Pugh said that the country could
not fail to understand the true character
and nature of the proposed legislation. 1t
was never intended to be put in operation
in republican districts. 1t was founded on
one distinct, substantive proposition-that
state election officers might be watched,
guarded and 0verruled because they were
n hot
alone it was unsafe to trust them. Under
| its operation alone there would not be q
single district in the United States from
which democrats were elected that would
not be subject to supervision by partisan
republicans The whole election machin-
cry of the United States would become
| partisan and necessarily corrupt. The
| whole conception of the bill was a trans
parent and audacious scheme, having no
| other end or purpose than the capture of
democratic districts and their transfer to
the republican party in congress to be
used in perpetuating it to supremacy in
| defiance of the peoples will. He declared
that the intelligent white people of the
south would prefer the rule of army Off
GERS and white soldiers to the intolerable
| rule of the infamous hordes that would be
turned loose upon them through the
outrageous election machinery provided
in the bill. On his responsibility, as q
man and as a senator he expressed his
conviction that there was not state il
the south in which as a rule it was not
the honest and earnest desire to hav,
fair and free elections for members o.
congress and for presidential electors ant
that there We're not SO many exceptions
to the rule in southern state
and districts as there were in northern
states and districts. If the system of loca
self-government was not an established
failure, then it was manifest that the intel
ligent andlmoral white people of the south
and the state governments which were i'm
mediately interested and sorely Athlete,
by these miserable race complications
would have to be allowed to meet to miti
gate the evil 80 far as possible. He under
took to say that the black people of tn
south were better treated than they woul
be in the north under like conditions. II
declared that the wisest and safest cours
flor both races was to trust to the policy o
non-interference by the federal govern
mont.
After brief executive session the senat
ct 4:45 p. m. adjourned till tomorrow.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Atkins of Pennsylvania called u
military and naval claims against th
United States for pay bounty and allow
ances
Pending action the morn ing hour 81
pired and the house went into committe
of the whole on the pension appropriate
bill.
After debate, in which Messrs. Morro'
, of California, Cooper of Indiana, Sawye