St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-25
After a SQuabble the Senate
Passes the Indian Appro-
priation Bill.
1t Carries a Big Sum OF
Money for Educational
Purposes.
Judge Toprey's Bankrupt
Bill Runs the Gauntlet Of
the House.
Secretary Noble Decides That
Aliens Have No Rights
On Public Lands.

WASHINGTON. July I'm the senate
the Indian appropriation bill was finally
passed, most of the day being spent in
the discussion of the question of demon
national Indian schools. The amend
ment that provoked discussion was one
increasing an appropriation of 100000
for the support of Indian schools to
$4,000, including the construction of
school building at Blackfeet agency.
Montana. Mr.. Vestopposed the amend
ment as the introduction of system in
tended to abolish UNCONVENTIONAL edu-
cation among the Indians. He spoke OF
an official visit which he had made to
an Indian agency seven or eight years
ago, and of his observation of the work
of the Catholic church in educating the
Indians. A school building which had
been erected there by the Catholic
church was then standing there unoc-
cupied, because the agent would not
permit the Jesuits to teach any of the
Indian children. His opinions on the
subject were fixed. The Jesujts had
succeeded better than any other people
living in the education of the Indians.
Whatever prejudice, if that was the
proper word, he might have against
LIE SOCIcty O1 cetIklS
he had to say that much as an educated
Protestant. Mr.. Davis also opposed the
amendment and spoke of the efforts of
Catholic missionaries at the Blackfeet
agency. These good people (he said)
had applied to those phllanthrOpic la
dies, the Misses DreXel, of Philadelphia,
and had obtained $4,000 which they
had expended in a school building re-
Gently completed. These men were
now to be told not only that there was
to he government school put on that
reservation in competition with them,
but that they were to have no contract
whatever for the education of the In
dams, as had been plainly implied in
the correspondence between the com
missioner of Indian affairs and the per-
sons in authority in the enterprise. Mr..
Dawes suggested that the discussion
would more properly take place on
some subsequent amendments. Mr..
Vest explained his position to
be: That if the Catholics
were doing better in educating the In
dians than other denominations, he was
in favor of the Catholics; ana that if
the Presbyterians OF the BaptistS were
doing better, he was In favor of them.
But he was convinced that the Catholics
were far more efficient among the In
dams than any Protestant denomination
could be. No other denomination could
take their place, because the Indians,
like all other people emerging from
barbarism. had received religious i'm
pressions that we're permanent.
Mr.. Dawes stated that it was the
desire of the committee to keep
the appropriations within the amounts
now appropriated so far as possible in
dealing with
Denominational Schools.
He referred to the controversy when
he present management OF the Indian
bureau came in brought about by the
inquiry made by other denominations
as to the discrepancy between the
amounts spent On their institutions and
the amounts spent on Catholic schools.
The present bureau favored divorcing
the government from parochial schools,
but found that this was not feasible.
The committee had thought it best not
t o enlarge the contract of the govern
ment with these institutions. The In
dian bureau had refused to enter into
contract for the three new schools in
Indiana, California and Montana. The
mission bureau had then gone 10 the
house and had these three items in
serted. The California school the SEN
ate committee had thought 1T best to
leave in the bill because it be-
longed to the mission which had been at
work in Southern California for 125
years. If he wished to discuss the diff
ference between Catholic and other
schools Mr.. Davis said he would wis h
no better Illustration than the difference
between the mission Indians of South
ern California and the aggressive Chey-
ennes and Arapahoes. But the senate
committee had shrunk from doing any
thing to precipitate religious discussion
which could do no one any good. The
senate discussed and agreed to amend
ments appropriatlng $4,000 each for
Indian industrial schools near Elan
dreau, S. D., and Mandan, n. D. On
motion of Mr.. PettigreW an item of
$4,000 was inserted tor
Thirty School Buildings
for the Sioux Indians; also an item to
pay the Indians of the Standing Rock
and Cheyenne River agencies for ponies
taken from them i'll 1876. On motion of
MIR. Power the item for school build
ing at Blackfeet agency, Montana. was
amended by fixing the limit at S25, 900.
The bill was then reported to the senate
and all the amendments agreed to by
the committee of the whole were con-
CURED in and the bill passed. After a
short executive session the senate ad-
journed.
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