Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-03-19
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Urgent Deficiency Bill Before
the Senate.
Further Discussion on the Pension Up.
preparation Bill in the House.
Senator Hale Secures Relief for the
Turtle Mountain Indians.

wAsHIsGros, Mar. is-In the Senat,
today the committee on finance reported
substitute for the bill against trusts PLACED
on the calendar
| The Senate then resumed consideration
Of the urgency deficiency bill. An amend
ment was offered by Hale authOriziog ,hs
use Of S. 900 Tor the relief of the Turtl,
band Of Indians at Devils Lake agency.
| Teller said the country where the Turtle
| Band Indians were had never been Chip
| pewa land. It had been Sioux land, pur-
chased by the United States years ago
When be was Secretary of the Interior he
| invest gated the case of the Turtle mountAi1
band Of Indians. then but three hundred OF
them mostly half breeds. That number
now, according to the published staten, nts
had srelled to over 800 These are not
American Indians. they were Manitoba
Chippewas Ii doors of general distribu-
tion were thus opened TO them all the Chip
pc Eas in that country would flock into the
United States. British Chlppe~as now on
this side should be sent back to where they
belonged. Every foot Of land the Sioux
Owned in that region was paid for by the
government. which had given them splen-
did reservation in Minnesota White Earth
reservation. He wanted 10 pu. on record
his denial Of the statement (whether it
came from the pulpit or anywhere else J
that those Indians had been improperly
treated by the government of the United
States. The government paid them for
their lsnds and is now supporting them in
idleness and vice, not where they ought to
be supported, but where they selected to
go. While DO not object. said Teller, to
this appropriation, | object To the state
ment that these people are suffering be-
cause of mi-government, and the man who
makes ii, whether from the pulpit or in the
press, is either ignorant of the facts or a
wilful fslsiier.
Davis said lie had some doubts shether
il was wise to send SO coo TO the Turtle
Mountain Indians, because the money would
20 70 feeding of Indians belonging to the
British Provinces. If somebody would 60
there, and feed three hundred In'ians that
the United States government should take
care of. and send the others home, he
should like to see that done. Said he should
not oppose the anne endment but thought a
good deal of money would go where it
ought not to. Amendment agreed to. The
other amendments were agreed to, and the
bill was passed.
Blair Educational Bill.
The Blair educational bill was taken up
at as untinished business.
HawIey addressed the Senate in opposi-
ton. He said 22 Northern States did not
want the bill. Seven Southern States had
two Senators each opposed to the bill and
dist nctiy expecting TO vote against it. That
made 29 States that did not need the bill !;
left IL or l3 more 10 be accounted for. OF
the Is Southern States seven had both Sen
ators opposed TO the bill, the other nine di.
vided. The majority Of the Senators from
States formerly slaves States and for which
the bill Was Intended, today opposed the
bill As to the appropriation of 81, ,000, 900
for the construction of school hou ses, Haw-
ley said the pleasautest way tv keep school
in the South was to keep it out doors. All
that WAS wanted was shelter from rain. The
bill was verdict against that theory that
State and dtral governments as under
stood for a hundred years was n failure
He asked what the central legislature
body could 10 better in managing the af-
fairs than forty two local congresses could
bt, EtEHt hiGoilk lttii htlAhOOtss w as
there surplus of revenue in the treasury
that Congress did not know what to do
with? 1t seemed that Congress lacked the
courage or wisdom to cease raising that
surplus revenue. As Congress did not
govern SO we'd it should not undertake to
do anything. IL did not know how to get
along wi h tie steam railroads in the Dis
ttict of Columbia, which occupied the
streets without permission and wihout
compensation. There is not school houses
enough in the city of Washington (whe:e
Congress hal exclusive jurisdiction) so a
large number OF children had 10 ride and
tie, half ats nd school in the forenoon and
half in the aiternoon. Congress
showed that it could not run the com
mon schools OF the District of Columbia
He found Congress vas not success in
the managt ment Of Indians. Congress was
imbecile as far as the coast defeDces Of the
country were concerned. He found Su
preme Court loaded down with neglected
business. 80 there was practical denial of
Justice all over the United States, as Con-
gres, was not able or willing to re-organlze
and release that court In short, he found
everywhere proof that Congress was not
absolutely wise.
Moody offered some amendments to the
bill which he said. would render it fsirer
to South Dakota and made brief speech
in support of the bill.
Chandler argued in favor of the bill
Iliteracy existed in large measure in the
United Sfafes, no. only ia the South but in
the North. II vas not on decrease but
he believed the census of 1890 would show
Ill
There was a large surplus of revenue and
q committee in Congress was try ing to find
way Of reducing it. 1t wss an approdriate
occasion to take some of the surplus revenue
and send it through the country for the
purpose OF graphing with and reducing
Il at gigantic evil He secuted the idea of
any possibility of money being misappro
priated or used any way contrary 10 the
spirit and letter of donation.
At the close of Chambers speech, Call
obtained the floor, and the bill went over
VI I'll tomorros.
The House amendments to the Oklahoma
bill pre- sented to the Senate. was nor con-
cured in and conference was asked
Senators Plat, Cullom, and Jones of
Arkansas, were appointed conferees on the
part of the Senate.
Among the bills passed, was one increas-
ing TO $50 a month the pension of the widow
of rear Admiral Terry
For public building at Houlton,. Maine,
$50 600 For public buildings at Dover.
y. H.. 800. 900; Nashua, n. H, ESQ 900.
Granting a pension of $50 month to the
widow of Gen William s. Harney. Ad-
journed.
Pension Appropriation Bill in the
House.
When he morning hour lad expired. the
House went into a committee of the whole
(Burro~s of Michigan in the chair on the
pension Appropriation bill.
Morrow of California. in charge of the
bill. (which Appropriated s9s, ,427 ,46i. }
said it might safely be assumed that the
number of pensioners would reach its max.
imum about July /, 1894, when the ex-
penditure would be SIP 600 000 On that
taie under the existing law, the number
Of pensioners on the rolls would be $50 600.
Savers of Texas discussed the pension
system a. effected by both the acts Of con-
sress and the administration of the service.
! He severely criticises the administration Of
the pension office and thought there should
be thorough investigation # the system. in
! order that complete justice be done to the
/ men rho fought for their country, and tha
the bounty jumpers, men who had beer
( lsggards, might be stricken from the roll
90 that place on the roll might be evidence
Of loyalty, bravery, and service to tbs
couatry.
Peters of Kansas defended the admins
tration of the bureau, asserting that no.hini
unreasonable in the increase of pension
! had hsen made Ard While be cnuld not de