Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-07-25
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Indian Appropriation Bill Is
Passed BY The Senate
After a Long Discussion Oh Several
Important Amendments.
House Passes tho Bankruptcy Bill by
Vote Of III to 8f.

| WAsnIscroS. July 24.-Morgsn intro
dueed q bill in the Senate to hx limit
value and provide for 1.-The free coinage of
silver, aad il wac referred to the committee
on finance. He recited that the market
value of silver bullion vas rapidly ap-
preaching the value Of gold on the standard
relation fixed BY the laws Of the nited
States and there vas no provision in the
lsS in force in standard silver dol
lars or the purchase Of silver bullion bv
the government when the value of silver
bullion eIcseds one dollar for 81 IL grains
of pure silver. Ii provides that the uni.
value 10 the | nited States shall be dol
lar Of il2 l2 grains of standard silver or
25 $40 grains of gold. Those coins shall
be legal tender for all debts, public and
private, and any owner Of silver or gold
bullion may deposit it at any mint to be
formed into dollars or bars for his benefit
without charge.
The Senate resumed consideration of the
Indian appropriation bill. the pending
question being upon the insertion of the
item of i0o00 for the prosecution of q
suit of North Carolina 10 enforce certain
rights Of the Cherokee Indians in that
State.
| Dawes modified the amendment to ap-
| propria,e 5000 to pay the legal expenses
already incurred in the suit Ii Was sgreed
to.
An amendment increasing the sppropria-
ton of $4,000 for the Support OF lndian
schools TO Sl5, 200, including the construc-
ton of school building ct sBlackfset
agency, Mont, was opposed by Vest ss ths
Introduction of sys TEN intended to abol-
| ish denomlt attonai education among ln-
dians. lie spoke of an official visit be
made to an Indian sgency or years ago.
and of his observation of the work of the
Csthoiic chnrch in educating Indians. \
school building erected there by the Cath
| Ole church was then standing unoccupied
because the agent would not permit the
,iesuts to teach the Indian children. The
.iesuts had succeeded better thau auy 9th
er people living in the education of Iud i
aus.
| Davis opposed the amendment, and spoke
| Of the efforts and good results Of the Cath
| oiic missionaries at the Blackfeet agency.
| The discussion was continued by Teller,
who spoke of the Catholics as the mos,
| successful educators of the Indians and
Jones of Arkansas. who gave figures to
| show the great difference IN expense be-
| twee the government schools for Indians
and ihose carried on by religious demon
| nations.
Dawes aid no one would object to the
| u,most scrutinv Of the government Indisn
school. and Il ,,v s,,r,y.g.ncs s,,.,ed
i, ,hou a.,rs., aso,, .hnr5 ha I'D 80
oar,ac, Tho ayiI W
Rlair rema,ked itxa, very c,ea, f,or
tho di.cn.sion that tho I,a;.n cbiid,an ot
| ms conn,,v were m,,.b hs,,o, "a In ,h,
m,t,er az e,nsndi,n,s Co.. sdr,.,;or ,h.n
the white and colored children. Amend
ment agreed to. The mex, amendment to
| provoke a discussion were to strike an item
of S., $50 for the support and education Of
60 Indian pupils at st. Joseph Normal
School at RENSSELAER,. Indiana, and sl2 500
for 100 Indian children at the Holy Fami.
| ly Indian school at Black Feet agency,
| Montana.
Dawes stated that the committee desired
not to go fnrther than the present condition
of affairs in appropriating government,
money for the maintenance of schools par
| ticu!ar 10 any religious denominatais II
the amendment wa, adopted the existing
state of things in that particular would be
| precisely what it was last year. Every
| contract with the various denominations
had been renewed on the old terms, except
at one school. the reason why the contract
with that school was not renewed WAS be
cause IL hsn taken pay Tor sixty students
while II had only forty.
DAVIS inquired what denomination the
| school belonged.
Dawes SAID that he had abstsined from
making that inquiry.
At2 o'clock the tariff bill came up as
| unfinished business and was laid ASIDE until
| tomorrow
Dawes spoke of the relative large appro
priatons made for the Catholic Indian
| sch ,ols, the amount for 1889 being 1856.
900 against S2Ol 900 for schools of ALI
other denominations. When the present
mapagement of the Indian bureau came
| into power he had encountered the public
sentiment in reference to the great dis
cIepapcy which had come 10 near precipi-
tatlpg the yery angry unavoidable inform
nate discussion of the areat question of
whether the government should be connect.
ed with the psrochial schools at ali Th,.
present Iodian bureau is in favor of d.
vorcing the government absolutely ,from
| them all but found it impossible. In or.
der to avoid such discussion the polit y
wa, adopted maintaining the Indians
things as they were. but not enlarolng the
connection of the government with demon
national schools
| That policy was supposed to have have
allxyed agitation on ali sides but II vas the
very effclent. urgent and active Catholic
Bureau Mission, At Washington CITY which
were yery earnest in pushing the Catholic
| Indian schools on government money. The
| Indian Rnr.su having declined IN enter in
| to a contract for the three schools in Indt.
ana. California, ard Montana. tbi. Mission
/ Bureau had zone 10 the House and obtained
the insertion OF those three items. The
| Senate committee on appropriation.
/ thought il would allow the i,em for the
! California school. because IL had belonged
| to a Mission which had been At work in
Southern California for 1875 wears. II he
| wished to discus, the difference. between
1 Cat lie aud other schools, he would want
| no better obiec, lesson than the difference
| between the Mission Indian. of Southern
/ California and the aggressive Cheyennes
/ and Arspaboes.
! The mission Indians had been under the
/ influence of the Catholic church l25 Years
and today are a. incapable of self support
a. so many babes.
| The comui,,ss oo .n,,o,,;.,;o, .h,r,l
/ from, L., .n,,h;n, ~. r,;an, .~.ran
religious ascension on the ,nbieet of In