The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-25

WASHINGTON, July 24.-Morgan intro
duced bill to fix the limit of value and
provide for the free coinage of silver Re-
ferred to the committee on finance 1t re-
cites that the market value of silver
bullion is rapidly approaching the value of
gold on the standard ratio fixed by the
laws of the United States and that there is
no provision of law for the coinage of
standard silver dollars or the purchase of
silver bullion by the government when the
value of silver bullion exceeds 81 for BIZ
grains of pure silver. 1t therefore pro
Vides that the unit of value in the United
States shall be a dollar o. 4l2lZ grains
standard silver, on % $40 grains Of gold ::
that those coins shall be legal tender for all
debts public and private; that any owner
OF silver or gold bullion NAV de-
post it at any mint to be formed
unto dollars or bars for his benefit
without charge. He called the special at
tention OF the finance committee TO the bill
which he said was the same as had already
received majority of II in the Senate
He had introduced it because he was con
svinced that in the rapid advance of tae
price of silver bullion in the markets of
world the time was not far distant TO saw
the least, when silver and gold bullion
would be on par with each other When
stood, would not permit the government to
buy silver bullion if there was any shade
of appreciation in its price beyond the
price of geld, and there was no provision
of law for the coinage of any silver except
that purchased before silver reached that
point. In view of what appeared to be in
the air as well as on the land and on the
sea in regard TO the immediate future of
the country, he thought it would be well
a ISL hot ell
gold bullion would not be withdrawn from
the United States by other interested gov
ernments and hoaroed up in their great
banking institutions.
An amendment which provoked discus
sion was one increasing the appropriation
of Sl0O,UOO Tor the support of Indlan schools
10 3la0,J0J, including the construction OF a
school building at Blackfoot agency, Mon
tana.
Vest opposed the amendment as the in
PRODUCTION of a system intended TO abolish
uynominalOnal education among the In
cians. He spoke of a visit he made to an
Indian agency seven or eight years ago and
of his observation OF the work OF the Cath.
olic church IN educating the Indians The
school building which had been erected by
the Cathoiic church Was standing uuoccu.
pied because the agent would not permit
the JeSults TO teach any Indian children
The Jesuits had succeeded better than any
other people living III the education of the
Indians. Whatever prejudice he might
have against the society OF esuits, he Lao
to say that much as an educated Protes.
tant.
Davis also opposed the amendment and
spoke of the efforts of Catholic mission
aries at Blackfoot agency. These good
people applied TO those philanthropic ladies
the Misses DreXel, of Philadelphia.
and obtained ,00O which they expended
IL i
These men were now TO be told, not only
that there was to be a government schoo
put on that reservation in competition with
them, but that they were to have no con.
tract whatever for the education of the Ia
dams, as has been plainly implied in the
correspondence between the commissioner
of Indian affairs and persons in authority
in the enterprise.
Vest explained his position to be: That. il
the Catholics Were doing better in educating
tie lnaians THAN other denominations. he
was in favor Of the Catholics; and ii The
Presbyterlaus or Baptists were doing bet
ter, he was III favor of them. But he was
convinced the Catholics were far more eff
iicient among the Indians than any Pro
bestant denomination could be- No Other
denomination could take their place, be
cause the Indians, ike al other people
emerging IRON baroarisn, have received
religious Impressions that were permanent
he did not care whether it might be called
religion or superstition. The Indians were
Catholics anu would remain Catholics
There were some tribes, however winch
HAD received from some peculiar persona
influences, direction towards some parti
cUlar Protestant denomination.
The discussion was continued by Teller
who also spoke OF the Catholics as the mos
successful educators of Indians, and b,
JONES' of Arkansas, who gave figures /;
show the great difference in the expense
between government schools for Indi an:
anc those carried Oh be religious denomina-
tions. He ridiculed the idea put forward
by the commissioner of Indian affairs as II
the necessity Of education Tor Indian chill
dren, and said it was much more import
ant for them to learn how 10 carry OF
farms, build houses and raise cattle After
further debate the amendment wa.
agreed TO.
An amendment appropriating S25, 900 fol
the erection of an industrial school neal
Elandreau, South Doketa, was agreed to
= Also a like amendment for az industrial
school near Mandan, North Dakota Tn.
amendments were to strike out two items