The morning call., 1890-07-25


of the law for the coinage of any silver ex-
cept that purchased before silver reached
that point. In view of what appeared to
be in the air, as well as on the land and sea,
in regard to the immediate future of the
country, he thought it would be we'll
enough to nave provision so that silver or
gold bullion would not be withdrawn from
the United States by other interested Gov
ernments and boarded up in their great
banking institutions.
The Senate resumed consideration of the
Indian Appropriation Bill.
The amendment which provoked discus
sion was the one increasing the appropria-
tion of 100000 for the support of Indian
schools to $4,000, including the construc-
tion Of a school building at the Blackfeet
Agency, Montana.
Vest opposed the amendment as the in
PRODUCTION OF system intended to abolish
UNCONVENTIONAL education among the Indi-
ans. He spoke of visit he made To an
Indian agency. six or seven years ago, and
OF his observation of the work of the Cath.
ollc Church in educating Indians. A school
building which had been erected by the
Catholic Church was standing unoccupied,
because the agent would not permit the
Jesuits to teach any OF the Indian children.
The Jesuits had succeeded better than any
other people living in the education of the
Indians. Whatever prejudice he might
have against the society Of Jesuits. he had
TO say that much as an educated Protestant.
Davis also opposed the amendment and
spoke Of the efforts of the Catholic mis-
sionaries at the Blackfeet Agency. Those
good people applied to those philan thrOpic
ladies, the Misses Drexel of Philadelphia,
and obtained $4,000 which they expended
in school building, which was recently
completed. These men were now to be
told not only that there was to be Govern
ment school put on that reservation IN COM
petition with them, but that they were to
have DO contract whatever for the educa-
ton of the Indians, as had been plainly
implied in the correspondence between the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the
persons in authority in the enterprise.
Vest eX lained his position to be that,
il the Catholics were doing better in edu-
eating the Indians than other denOmna-
tiOns he was in favor of the Catholics and
If the Presby terians or Baptists were doing
better, he was in favor Of them, but he was
convinced that the Catholics were far more
efficient among the Indians than any Prot
eStant denomination could be. No other
denomination could take their place, be-
cause the Indians, like all other people
emerging from barbarism, had received re-
ligious Impressions that were permanent.
He did not care whether it might be called
religion or superstition. The Indians were
Catholics and would remain Catholics.
There were some tribes. however, which had
received from some peculiar personal intiu-
tLCeS uIeCbIOu lOWdIu SUu6 particular
Protestant denomination.
The discussion was continued by Teller,
who also spoke of the Catholics as the most
successful educators of the Indians, and by
Jones of Arkansas, who gave figures to
show the great difference in the expense
between the Government schools for Indians
and those carried ON by religious denomn-
ations. He ridculed the idea put forward
by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs as
to the necessity of high education for
Indian children, and said it was much
more important for them to learn how to
carry on farms. build houses and raise
cattle.
After further debate the amendment was
agreed to.
An amendment appropriating So. 900 for
the erection of an Industrial School near
Flandreau, South Oak, was agreed to; also
a like amendment for an Industrial School
near Mandan, North Oak.
The next amendments we're TO strike out
two items, one Of $3.50, for the support
and education Of sixty Indian pupils at st.
Joseph's Normal School, Rensselaer,, Ind.
and one Of S12. SEQ, for 100 Indian children
at the Holy Family Indian School, Black
feet Agency, Mont.
Dawes spoke Of the relative large ap-
preparations made for Catholic Indian
schools, the amount for 1889 being $3.50, 900,
against $50, 400 for the schools of all other
denominations. There was very efficient
Missions in Washington City, which was
very earnest in pushing Catholic Indian
schools on the Government. The Indian
Bureau having declined to enter into a con-
tract for three new schools in Indiana,
California and Montana, this mission
obtained the insertion of the items.
The Senate Committee thought it would
allow the item for the California
school because it belonged to a mission,
which had been at work in Southern Cali
fornia for 125 years. If he wished to dis
cuss the differences between Catholic and
other schools he would want no better OBJ
ject lesson than the difference between the
Mission Indians in Southern California and
the aggressive Cheyennes and Arapahoes.
The Mission Indians had been under the
influence of the Catholic Church for 125
years and were to-day as incapable of self
support as so many babes. The Committee
on Appropriations shrunk from doing any
thing that might awaken religious discus
sion. That was why the committee recon-
mended striking out the items for schools
in Indiana and Montana. If they were
kept in, the Episcopalians, the Methodists
and Baptists would say they had not been
fairly treated.
At2 o'clock the Tariff Bill came up as un-
finished business and was laid aside till to-
morrow.
After further discussion on Indian
schools vote was taken and the amend
ments rejected-yeas 49, nays 27. So the
items for the Rensselaer,, Ind, Banning,
Cal. and Blackfo0t Agency, Mont, are re-
tanned in the bill.
Pettigrew offered an amendment appro-
prlatlng $4,000 fol the Santee Tribe of
Sioux at Flandreau, 5. Oak, being an al
lowance of 81 an acre for the land to which
they are entitled in the Sioux Reservation.
Agreed to.
On motion of Pettigrew an item of $50, 600
was inserted for thirty school buildings for
the Sioux Indians, also the item TO pay the
Indians OF the Standing Rock and Chey-
enne River agencies for ponies taken from
them in 1876.
On motion of Power the item for school
building at the Baekfoot Agency, Mont,
was amended by fixing the limit at S25, 900.
The bill was then reported to the Senate
and all the amendments agreed to by Com
mittee OF the Whole and the bill was
passed.
VOORHEES,, by request of the Labor AL
lance, introduced a bill to secure consttu-
tional rights and freedom of trade, speech
and press within the limits of the public
domain, and asked that, insview of the re-
spectacle source from which it emanated,
it be printed in full in the Record.
Sherman objected to its being printed in
the Record as unusual.
V0orhees-The alliance will take notice
OF the objection and where it came from.
After an executive session the Senate ad-