The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-24
DOODLE FOR THE INJUNS.
THE SENATE SPENDS THE DAY
ON THE BILL.

An huOrt TO Kun the oeSSlOn into tna
Night Causes a Growl-A Vote Dis
closes Lack of a Quorum-Edmunds
Scolds a Little and Cockreu Takes
Him to Tesk.
WASHINGTON, July 23.-The Senate met
at II o'clock this morning, and considera-
ton Of the Indian appropriation bill was
resumed. The paragraph appropriating
5000 to the Indians in Minnesota full
and mixed blood heretofore belonging to
the Medawakanton band of Sioux Indians,
and who have severed their tribal con-
necsion, gave rise to discussion, in the
course of which Mr.. Dawes gave an inter-
ing history of these Indiana They had given
notice to the whites of the intended Sioux
massacre in Minnesota in 1862, and had
aided in protecting white women and chill
dren on that occasion. They had then sepa-
rated from the hostile Sioux, who had been
to the number Of q, 900 located by Gen.
Harvey and others in a territory compris-
ing Al 900 square miles, and where it was
then thought they would be forever remote
from white settlements.
CROWDED OUT BY CIVILIZATION.
Not an acre of that immense area was to
be par ed with by the Indians except with
the consent of their bands, and yet, within
fifteen years thereafter, they had been SUR
rounded by civilization aud crowded and
pressed until il has become evident that the
vast domain Rad TO be cut down to more
moderate dimensions. But that had in
volved the necessity of getting the consent
of all the bands, some Of which we're 400 on
500 miles apart. In that attempt, four or
five years had been consumed. Commis-
sions and committees of the Senate had
gone out there for the purpose of negotiate
ing with the Sioux. A fair aud
honest plan had been submitted to
the bands and voted down because
it proposed to pay them only so cents per
acre for their land. Finally an agreement
had been made that they were to receive
S. 25 for their lands. This constituted a
very large fund which is now in the treas
ury and is To be used in the best way to
elevate and educate them.
A proposition was made by Mr.. Teller
that Indians who bad severed their tribal
relations and for VIII m the proposed ap-
proptiation was intende should be paid
out of tue funds held for the Sioux, but Mr..
Dawes and Mr.. Davis argued that this
could not be done and Mr.. Teller withdrew
the proposition.
IMPRISONMENT OF DIAz.
The discussion was temporarily suspended
and Mr.. Morgan from the committee on
foreign relations, reported a substitute for
the resolution heretofore offered by Mr..
Pasco. The substitute was read and agreed
| TO, as follows:
RESOLVED, That the President be, and hereby
| Is, respectfully requested df not incompatible
with the public interestJ to communicate TO the
| Senate any information in his possession
| touching the arrest and imprisonment of A. j.
| Diaz by the authorities Of Cuba, and what
action, if any, has been taken in respect thereto
After further discus ION the pending
paragraph in the Indian bill was somewhat
IN dlfied md was then agreed to.
An amendment inseI ting an item sof
$40, 900 for the prosecution of suit by the
United States, as trustee and guardian or
the Cherokee Indians reiding in North
Carolina, against William II. Thomas and
others, to settle and enforce certain rights
Of those Indians gave rise to a long discus
sion.
LACK OF A QUORUM
A vote by yeas and nays resulted in Is
yeas to 20 nays-less tnan a quorum. Tee
roll was called and only forty-two senator's
answe ed to their names.
A motion was made by Mr.. Edmunds di-
recting the sergeant-at-arms to request the
attendance of the absent members.
The motion was agreed to, and the names
Of the ebsentees were furnished to the SER
geant-at-arms.
Pending execution of the order Mr.. Cor
man moved to adjourn, but the motion was
defeated. Mr.. German said that he had
moved to adjourn supposing that that was
in accord with the wish Of the gentlemen in
charge Of the bill 1t was now 8 o'clock
and the senators had been in the chamber
| since IL o'clock in the morning. He had no
idea that the motion would be made party
matter.
EDMUNDs sCoLDs.
Mr.. Edmunds said that the Senate had
some important business to transact relative
to the interest of every farmer, every manu-
facturer, every tradesman, every importer
and every laborer in the United States.
That bill had been on the calendar for a
month or more. The end Of the last fiscal
year had been passed with several appro-
priation bills still undisposed of. II the
Senate could not get on with its business,
and could not get quorum to attend to it,
he wished that fact to be understood SO that
the rest of the senators might go home.
cocKRELL MAKES A LITTLE SLIP.
Mr.. Cockrell remarked that he had been
in the chamber since IL o'clock, and had re-
gretted all day the absence of the distiu.
guished senator from Vermont. 1t was
painful to him that the senator had not been
present TO assist In the discussion of the In
dian appropriation bill aud in the trans
action of business, but now that senator
came in fresh from his slumbers and rest.
and would compel the rest OF the senator's
to stay all night.
Mr.. Cockrelps remarks to him was quite
unjust. He had been at the capitol since 10
o'clock this morning attending TO business
in his committee room and coming into the
Senate chamber to vote whenever a vote
was being taken.
Mr.. Teller expressed the opinion that 10
was unwise for the Senate to remain in
session after o'clock, and said he would'go
home to dinner daily at that hour. He
moved that the Senate do now adjourn.
The presiding officer (Mr. Ingalls, de-
clined to entertain the motion on the ground
that no business had transpired since the
Senate had refused to adjourn. He also
refused TO entertain an appeal from that
ruling on the ground that there was no
quorum present. Finally he did consent to
recognize a motion ordering the sergeant
alarms to compel the attendance Of absent
senator's, and as the making of the motion
constituted business a motion to adjourn
was made, entertained and agreed to, and
at $3.50 o'clock the Senate adjourned until
tomorrow.
Special Census Agents.
WASHINGTON. July 23.-The following