The advocate., 1891-01-07
remarkg. said:

also bAtho the SHOWS OF th0 northwest WIN
the blood OF our brave sOldior and officers,
as revolving In the oxtr0me. Instead Of SIT
ting here debating election bills and force
bills, we should DO huuyinR anxiou8ly,
eagerly, 10 prOvidofor. these starving people.
Senator Voorhees, quoted from an In
terview had with General Nelson A.
Miles, who has thus remarked:
Those hostile Indians have been starved
into Sighting, and they will prefer 20 die
fighting rather than starve peac0ably.
The United States election bill was
taken up and Senator Turpie, Of Indiana,
in the course of his speech said:
No means, no power could to-day accom-
Dlish tho return OF a cOlOr0d man TO Con-
gress from any district Ia either Of the states
OF Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania, which
contain quarter OF q million OF colOred
people. The choosing OF q Representative
In Congress under our political system iB
not a sudden, single, instantaneous OK mo-
mentary act.
The House passed the copyright bill
by a vote Of 130 10 05; Messrs. Kelley,
Morrill,, Perkins and Peters, Of Kansas,
voting nay; the other Kansans having
been absent.
December 4.-The Issue Of arms TO the
northwestern states joint resolution, was
passed with an amendment including
Wyoming, as were several private pen
sion bills by the Senate. The House
considered In the committee OF the whole
the pension appropriation bill for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1892, for the
sum OF S13S,l73,O95. Mr.. Morrow, Of
California, estimated that this sum Of
money would be distributed TO 654,7l5
pensioners, and that IL was the largest
number Of benefciaries ever provided
for in any single term In United States
statute. President Harrison laid before
the House a message which contained
communication from the secretary Of the
interior on the CesslOn Of lands OF Chey-
enne and Arrapahoe Indians.
December 5.-The House passed the
Senate joint resolution for the Issue Of
arms TO the northwestern states and II
added Montana thereto.
IL took up the pension appropriation
bill and in the committee Of the whole
Mr.. Peters made cot speech. He
said that under the old law there would
be 5O2,71S upon the pension rolls, and we
propose TO add thereto $4,000 during the
present year. He remarked:
want the Fifty-seOOnd Congress TO pass
through this House the sub-trOasury bill,
q free coinage bill and q service pension bill
and unless the democracy will do all these
things they will And that this wave Of the
farmers alliance will sweep II away and
wipe IL from the face OF the earth.
The pension bill was passed without
division. In the Senate, Mr.. ingalls,,
from the committee on the District Of
Columbia, reported eight bills for the In
corporation OF certain security and trust
companies. They were indefinitely post
poned by reason Of the adoption Of the
general law on that subject last session.
Senators Gray, Of Delaware, and Pugh,
Of Alabama, spoke upon the election
bill, and Mr.. Pugh said;
The republican party draws no draft for
money on protected republican manukac-
turer8 for use in elections that is not hon
Orod and the manufacturer pays no draft
that Is not returned hundred fold from
tariff legislation. The objectionable Gin
charged against the white voters Of the
south, for which no punishment 10 withheld
by the republican party, 10 che solid repre-
sentatiOn they send 10 Congress against the
protective tariff fostered by the republican
party,
December 6.-The House Of Repre-
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