The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-25

what it was last year. Every contract with
the various denominations had been re-
newed on the old terms except as to one,
and the reason why the contract with that
school was not renewed was because it had
taken pay for sixty students while it had
only forty.
Mr.. Davis inquired to what denomination
that school belonged.
Mr.. Dawes said he had abstained from
making that inquiry. He did not desire to
know to whom it belonged.
At o'clock the tariff bill came up as the
unfinished business, and was laid aside till
tomorrow.
DAWES CORRECTS HIS STATEMENT.
Mr.. Dawes went on with his statement.
He corrected the remark which he had
made that the adoption Of the amendments
would leave the status quo the same as last
year, and said that would be the case ex-
cept for the intervening item of S12, 500 for
eleven Indian pupils at st. Boniface's in
dustrial school at Banning, Cal. The COM
mittee had thought it proper to leave that
item in for reasons which he would afterward
state. Mr.. Dawes went on to speak of the
large appropriations made for the Catholic
Indian schools the amount in 1889 being
$56, 900. as against $204 600 for schools of all
other denominations. When the bureau
had come into power it had encountered
public sentiment in reference to that great
discrepancy which had come verv near pre-
cipitating an angry and Improbable and
unfortunate discussion Of the great ques-
tion whether the government should be
connected with parochial schools at all.
POLICY OF THE PRESENT BUREAU.
The present Indian bureau was in favor
OF divorcing the government absolutely
from them all, but had found it impossible
to do so. In order to avoid such discussion
the policy had been adopted Of maintaining
the condition of things as it was, but of not
ment with denominational schools.
That policy had been supposed
to have already caused agitation on
all sides, but there was very urgent and
active Catholic bureau of missions in Wash
ington which was very earnest in pushing
Catholic Indian schools on the government.
The Indian bureau having declined to enter
into contract for three new schools in
Indiana, California and Montana, this mis-
sion bureau had gone to the House of Rep
resentatives and had obtained the
insertion of those three items. The
Senate committee on appropriations had
thought it would allow the item for the
California school because it belonged to a
mission which had been at the work in
Southern California for 1875 years.
AN OBJECT LESSON.
If he wished to discuss the differences be-
tween the Catholic and other schools he
would want no better object lesson than
the difference between the mission Indians
in Southern California and the aggressive
Cheyennes aud Arapahoes. The mission
Indians had been under the influence of the
Catholic church for 1875 years, and were
to-day as incapable of self-government as
so many babes. The committee on appro-
priations, Mr.. Dawes went on to say,
had shrunk from doing anything
that might awaken religious discussion
on the subject. 1t could do no good. That
was the reason why the committee had
recommended the striking out of the two
items for the public schools in Indiana and
Montana. II they were kept in the bill
the Episcopalians and Methodists and Bap-
fists would say that they had not been
fairly treated. If the bars were let
down the government would be Civ
ing up the position taken that the status
quo should remain, and would be throwing
into the arena of the discussion an element
that would do more harm than it could
possibly do good. He had no desire in the
matter himself whether those items were
retained or were struck out. He had only
desired to place the matter fairly before the
Senate and to let the Senate decide.
REAGAN OPPOSED TO IT.
IuTs IS0dkdu QoClttIcu ulLllbclL OppOSod W
any connection between church and state
and to all denominational schools He
would have all the Indian schools carried
on under the control of the government.
AS to the argument that the work could be
done cheaper and better by religious de-
nominations, he said that if that argument
were to prevail it would apply to the COM
mon schools of the country. That was an
admission that ought not to be made.
NJ I'D f,,I1x h..
taken by Mr.. Reagan in opposition to any
scheme by which the money of the people
of the United States would be appropriated
to any particular denomination for the pur-
pose of christianizing the indians.
GALL STANDS BY THE CHURCH.
Mr. Call as member of the committee
on appropriations, declared himself opposed
to striking out the two items for schools in
Indiana and Montana. He regarded the
church organizations as the very life of free
Institutions. There was no war, he said,
between the denominations in regard to the
Indian schools. 1t was only that the Cath
olics had been in the period of time
since the first settlement of the
country in advance of all others in sending
missionaries, and in the matter of Indian
education they had taken the lead. All
religions were great agencies of civilization
and Improvement, and the Indians were
not going to be hurt whether they were
educated by Catholics. Episcopalians, Pres
byterians or any other denomination. The
movement was, he said. a blow at the
Catholic church, and had originated in
prejudice. 1t was a step by the govern
ment against the Catholic church, and, as
such, he was opposed to ir.
THE ITEMS RETAINED.
Finally vote was taken and the amend
ments were rejected by 27 nays to 10 yeas.
So the item for the Rensselaer, school in
Indiana and the Blackfeet agency in Mon
tana is retained in the bill
There being no further amendments re-
ported by the committee on appropriations
the reading of the bill was continued with
out any discussion or interruption. The
bill was then reported to the Senate, and
all the amendments agreed to by the
committee of the whole were concurred in
and the bill was passed.
Mr. Voorhees,, by request of the alliance,
introduced bill to secure the constitutional
right and freedom of trade, speech and press
within the limits of the republic, and he
asked, in view of the respectable source
from which it emanated, that it should be
printed in full in the Record.
Mr.. Sherman objected to printing it in
the Record as being unusual
MIR. Voorhees-The alliance will take no
tice OF the objection and where it came
from.
The tariff bill was laid before the Senate
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