Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-19
CONGRESSIONAL.
N THE SENATE.


IN THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, March Isth.-Ia the Senate, to-
day, the Committee on Finance reported sub
straint of production. Piace&ion the calendar. |
Immediately after the morning business. con-
OF the urgency deficiency bill was
An item of 3, 600 was insested in aia of the In
dustrial Home Association of Utah Territory.
An amendment was Offered by Hale authoriz- /
ing the of S., 900 for the relief OF the Turtle
Mountain band OF Indians Ia the Devils Lake
Agency.
Teller said that when ne was Secretary of the |
Interior he Investigated the case of the Turtle !
Mountain Indians and there were then but 500 /
of them mostly half-bseeds, and that the num-
Der had now, according to published state |
ments swelled to over 900. but these were not /
American Indians. They were Manitoba Chip |
pewas, and If the doors of general distribution |
were thus opened 90 them, all the Chippewas IN
the country would fqck into the United States. !
The British Chippewss should be sent back
where they belonged. He wanted to put on
record his denial of the statement, whether it
came from the pulpit or elsewhere, mat III th4se
Government of the United States. The amend
ment was agreed to.
Amendments were also agreed to, as follows:
For agricultural experiment stations in Arizona,
New Mexico aud Utah. $50 600.
For preliminary investigation aud for arts-
sian wells for irrigation purposes within the
area west of the twenty seventh meridian and
west of the foothills OF the Rocky mountains,
$40 900.
Making an additional appropriation of $50 600
for the Fish Commission. All the amendments
having been disposed of, the bill was passed.
Blair's educational bi was then taken up.
and Hawley spoke in opposition tolt. Congress
does not govern SO well that it should undertake
to do everything said Hawley. There were not
school-houses enough in the city of Washing
ton, where Congress had exclusive jurisdiction.
Half OF the children had TO attend school IN the
forenoon and half in the afternoon. Congress
showed that it could not run the common schools
even the District of Columbia. He found, too,
that Con -ress was not q success in the manage
| ment of Indians, for he read every day ofcbarges
| that the Government was robbing the Indians,
| and he had read recently an eloquent protest
| from the chief of the Cherokees that they were
| being robbed out of their lands.
! He found also that Congress was an imbecile
\ so far as the coast defenses of the country was
| concerned. the Government had few cast
| iron guns and had DO protection against first
1 class or secoud-ciass ironclad. Three or four
| years ago there was nothing but the ruins of
former brilliant navy, some poor, old broken
down, ragged. crippled warships. Now the
| country was beginning to have a navy built.
| still it vas pactically defepseless. He found
| the Supreme Court loaded down with neglected
| business, so there was practically denial of
| justice all over the United States, and Congress
had not been able or willing to reorganize and
| relieve that Court.
| In short, he found everywhere proof that
| Congress was not absolutely wise. This bill
| was bad. 1t abar doned the original theory of
| the Government, and launched the Government
1
Moody and Chandler spoke briefly in support
of the bill, which then went over
The House amendments to the Oklahoma bill
were non concuned in, and conference was
ordered
The following Senate bills for public build
| ings were passed: Spokane Falls Wash, $780,
900; Walla Walls, Wash, $4,000; Tacoma.
| WASH, 100000: Seattle, Wash, 100000.
The Senate bill to establish certain ports OF
delivery in Alaska Territory-Mary Island,
wrangle. Huneau, Land Point, Kodiak and
In a O a cd
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON March ISth-A resolution was
adopted in the House to-day calling on the Sec
retaries ofWar and OF the Interior for informa-
ton whether saving in the public expendi-
lures can be made by transferring the Bureau of
Pensions from the Interior TO the War Depart
| ment.
resolution was adopted calling upon the
secretary of the Interior for data relative to the
payment OF pensions and an estimate of the
amount of money which will be required for
payment of arrearage in case the limitation OF
the arrears Act is repealed.
| bill was passed authorizing affdavits and
dispositions under the public land laws to be
made before Commissioners of the United States
Courts or Clerks of any Court of Record in the
county in which the land in question is stu.
| ated.
Stone of Missouri introduced for reference a
bill to abolish the Utah Commission and devolve
| its duties upon board consis. ing of the Gov.
ernor, Territorial Secretary and President OF the
Council of the Legislative Assembly.
The bill TO repeal the timber culture laws was
taken up. The bill provides that any person
who made an entry of public lands under the
| timber culture laws, and who has for four years
complied with the provisions of said laws, shall
pc entitled to make final proof and acquire title
| by the payment of 81 25 per acre.
Pending action on this measure the House
went into Committee of the Whole on the Pen
| sion Appropriation bill
| Morrow of California who is in charge of the
Dill which appropriates S3S427, coo, explained
| the provisions in detail.
In reference to the general subject of pen
sions, he said that it might safely be assumed
that the number OF pensioners would reach the
maximum about July l, .S94, when the expend-
iture would be s1l2,000,C00 annually on that
dne under the existing law, and the number
$50, 90.
Savers Of Texas discussed the pension system
as affected by both Acts of Congress and the
administration of the service. He cited statis-
tics to show that from July l. 1860 to January
|, 1880 the expenditures of the Government for
lures for pensions for the past fiscal year were
sS9, Isl 1858; that the expenditures for pensions
from March 4, 1853, to June. 1861, throughout a
| excess OF pension disbursements for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1889, over the pensions
from ON, 1889 to 1861, period of TN Yeas, was
He severely criticised the administration of
the Pensi'n Office, and cited many instances
| where, he claimed. the decisions of the bureau
were incorrect and improper. He wished to call
| attention to the manner in which the pension
system was being administered. he thought
there should be a thorough investigation of the
| sys EN- in order that complete justice could be
done to the men who had fought for their
country, and that bounty Jumpers should be
| stricken from the roll
Peters said that for the first time in the history
OF the country the House had before it careful
| ana concise estimate of what the expenditures
OF the Pension Bureau would be during the
next fiscal year. He defended the administra.
| ton OF the Bureau and while he did not defend
all the acts of Commissioner Tanner no oon1d
| only say that that officer had followed in the
| wake of his predecessor. General Black
| Pending further debate the committee rose
and the House adjourned.