Connecticut western news., 1890-07-30
under the masquerading, fraudulent pro- cess of so called free sugar in alliance with high protection and gross subsidy.

under the masQuerading, fraudulent pro- cess of so called free sugar in alliance with high protection and gross subsidy.
 WASHINGTON, July 22.-The house agreed to the substitute for the original package bill and passed the bill by vote of 113 to D7. The bankruptcy bill was then taken up and debated at length without action.
 WASHINGTON, July 25.-The Republican members of the senate committee on priv lleges and elections have agreed upon form in which the Lodge federal elections bill will probably Le laid before the full committee and before the Republican eau GUS in the near future. The bill has been much simplified and moreover materially modified by the Republican members of the senate committee. The printing of the bill as ordered does not represent the final action of the Republicans. It may be modified in the future. As agreed to thus far the bill does not contain the domiciliary visit feature and the jury feature, which were so objectionable to the Democrats in the house of representatives, and the con- ferrees have modified very distinctly the character of the offenses under the law and the punishments prescribed for them. WASHINGTON, July 25-In the senate the Indian appropriation bill was finally passed most of the day being spent in the discussion of the question of denomina- tional Indian schools.
 An amendment increasing an appropria- tion of $10O, ,OOO for the support of the h. dian schools to $15O, ,OOO, including the con- struction of school building at Blackfeet agency, Mon., brought MT. Vest to his feet. He opposed the amendment as the introduction of a system intended to abol- ish denominational education among the Indians.
 Mr. Vest explained his position to be that if the Catholics were doing better in edu- eating the Indians than other denomina- tion he was in favor of the Catholics, and that if the Presbyterians or the 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 Protestant denomination could be. No other denomination could take their place, because the Indians, like all other people emerging from barbarism, had received religious impressions that were permanent.
 MT. Davis also opposed the amendment and spoke of the efforts of Catholic mis- sionaries at the Blackfeet agency. These good people, he said, had applied to those philanthropic ladies, the Misses Drexel, of
 Philadelphia, and had obtained $20,000, which they had expended in school
 building recently completed.
 These men were now to be told not only that there was to be a government school put on that reservation in competition with
 them, but that they were to have no con- l tract whatever for the education of the In dians, as had been plainly implied in the correspondence between the commissioner 1 of Indian affairs and the persons in au- l thority in the enterprise. Senators Teller | and Jones (Ark.) both spoke of Catholics as the most successful educators of In | dians. The amendment was agreed to. MT. Dawes said the present Indian bureau
 favored divorcing the government from
 parochial schools, but had found that this was not feasible.
 WASHINGTON, July 26.-In the senate
 l1r. McPherson moved that the tariff bill be recommitted to the finance commi ttee
 with instructions to report at the earliest
 practical moment bill to reduce the
 revenue and to equalize duties on imports
 bn the basis that the average rate of duty
 should not exceed the average ad val orem
 war tariff rate of 1864.