Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-07-25
In THE SENATE.
4 Bill introduced Fixing the LiLlit
Of Value and Prorid-
ins For
THE FREE COINAGE OF SILL
YER.
The Homestead Presumption Contest
Case Of the Central Pacific
r. r. Company.
The PRESIDENT AND THE Ma
TIoNsI GUARD.
4 Bridegroom Suicides on the Eve
Of his Marriage, in
Florida.
TIE FREE COINAGE OF SILL
YER.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE Ma
TIoNAI GUARD.
By Telegraph 70 the NEws.l
SENAIE.

By Telegraph to the NEws.l
SENATE.
Morgan Introduces n Bill n 10 the
Free Coinage of silver.
WASHINGTON, July 2i.-In tn,
Senate. Morgan introduced bill q
, fix the limit Of value and provide
for the free coinage Of silver. Re
ferred TO committee ON finance. II
recites that the market value Of sill.
yer bullion is rapidly approaching
the value Of gold on the standard re-
latiOn fixed by the laws Of the
United States, that there is no pro
vision Of law for the coinage OF
standard silver dollars or the pur-
chase Of silver bullion by the gov
eminent when the value Of silver
bullion exceeds one dollar for 81 :
grains Of pure silver. 1t therefore
provides that the unit Of value in
the United States shall Ice n dollar
Of 4I2l grains Of standard silver, or
| 25.S grains OF gold; that those coins
shall be legal tender for all debts
public and private; that any owner
Of silver or gold bullion may deposit
at any mint TO be formed into dollars
or bars for mis- benefit without charge.
He called the special ate utiOn Of the
finance committee to the bill.
which. he said, was the same rs
had already received majority Of
seventeen in the Senate. He hal
introduced it because he was con-
WINGED that, in the rapid advance Of
the Price Of silver bullion in the
markets Of the world the time was
NOT FAR DISTANT.
to say the least, when silver and
gold hulliOn would be on a par with
| each other. When that time did
arrive the law. rs it now stood,
would not permit the government to
buy silver bullion If there were any
shade q appreciation in its price
beyond the price Of gold, and there
was no provision OF law for the
coinage OF any silver except that
purchased before silver reached that
point. In view Of what appeared TO
Toe in the air, rs well aS on land aud
On spa. in regard to the immediate
| future II the country, he thought il
would lie well enough 10 make pro-
vision So that silver or gold bullion
would not lie Withdrawn from the
United states by other interested
governments and boarded up in
Ineir graf banking institutions.
The Senate resumed consideration
OF tine Indian appropriation bill.
An amendment which provoked
discussion was one increasing the
an: rOpriatiou OF 500. 600 for the sup
pOr: II indian schools to Sl5O,ubh, |
including construction II a school
buiidingat BlackfOOt Agency, Mon
tana.
Vest opposed the amendment as
an introduction Of a system intend !
81 10 abolish UNCONVENTIONAL educa-
ton among the Indians. He spoke
Of visit he made TO
An INDIAN AGENCY
seven or eight years Ggo, and Of his |
observation Of the WORK 0f the Cath |
Ollie Church in educating the In
dianS. The school building, which |
had been erected by the Catholic |
Church. was standing uuOccupied |
because tine agent would not permit 1
the Je.uits 10 teach any Indian /
children. The Jesuits had Succeci-
ed better than any other people liv-
ing in the education Of Indians.
Whatever prejudice he might have
against the society of jesuits, lac
considered their missionary work
most cOmmenuable.
Davis also opposed tire amend
memt, and spoke Of the efforts Of tine
Catholic missionaries at BlackiOOt
Agency. Those good people ap-
piled 10 those philanthrOphic ladies,
the Misses DreXel Of Philadelphia,
and obtained $4,000, which they
expended in the school building re-
Gently completed. These men were
now 10 Ice told, not only that there
was 10 be government school put
on that reservation in competition
with them. but that they were 10
have no contract whatever for the
education nf the Indians, as has
been plainly implied in the CORES
pOudeuce between the commissioner
Of Indian affairs AMI persons in au-
thority in the enterprise.
Vest explained his POSITION to be,
that If Catholics were doing better
in educating the Indian, than other
denominations, he was ia favor Of
Catholics, and if Preshyterians ami
Baptists
WERE DOING EETTER
he was in favor of them. But he
was convinced that the Catholics
were far more efficient to work
among the Indians than any PrOtes-
tant denomination could be. No
other denomination could take their
place, because the Indians, like all
other people emerging from baTbar-
ism, have received religious i'm
pressiOns that were permanent. He
aid not care whether il might be
called religion or superstition. In
dams We're Catholics and would re-
main Catholics. There were some
tribes, however. which had received
from some personal influence a di-
rection towards some particular
Protestant denomination.
The discussion was continued by
Teller, who also spoke Of the CathO-
lies as the most successful educators
Of ! Indians, and by Jones (Ark. J, who
gave figures TO show the great differ
enCe in expense between govern
ment schools for Indians and those
carried on by religious denOmina-
tons. He Tidiculei the iGel put
forward 10y the commissioner of
Indian affairs as 10 the necessity of
education for Indian children. and
said il was much more important
for them TO learn now to carry on
farms, build houses aud raise cattle.
After further debate tine amendment
was carried.
Dawes spoke relative to the large
appropriations made for
CATHOLIC INDIAN SCHOOLS,
the amount for 1889 being s258. 900.
against S2O4, 900 for the schools of
all other denominations. There
was a very efficient aud active I
Catholic bureau Of missions in
Washington City, which was very
earnest in pushing Catholic Indian
schools on the government. The
Indian bureau having declined to
enter into contract for three new
schools in Indiana, California and
Montana, this mission bureau had
gone to the House and obtained the
insertion OF this item. The Senate
committee thought it would allow 1t
fer the California school, because it
belonged to a mission which had
been at work in Southern California
for lbs years. If he wished TO dis
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