Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-01-12
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Saturday Vas Rather I Tire.
some Day In the Senate.

4 1os sAosAASA AAO
some Day In the Senate.
The H1ileil BID nd Indial Question
..-Llmy Appropriation Bill
Before the aouss-Upcls sam's Corn
Crop for 1880.
| WAsHrSGroS. D. c., Jan. 10.-The Vice.
President laid before the Senate . commu.
nication from Messfs. W. 81. Clsgett and
j X. Lamar, transmitting protest signed
by 20 members Of the Legislature OF Idaho
against allowing Hon. Fred T. Dubois to
take his seat in the Senate. The commu-
nication treats at length the fact ard
questions arising out of and leading up me
election of Mr.. Dubois. and quotes the
journals Of the two houses of the LegisIa
rure prior to the joint assembly and the
subsequent action taken by that body. Ths
communication wsa referred to the COM
mittee on privileges and elections.
Dolph, from the committee on public
lands, reported the Senate bill to amend
the railroad land forfeiture bill Of last
session so - to make the period of six
months for the assertion of the rights Of
settlers). being to run, not from the time of
the passage of the act, but from the date Of
| the restoration of such lands to settlement
and sale and, after an explanation, it was
passed.
| Sherman. from the committee on foreign
relations, reported the bill to amend the act
of February, 1889, incorporating the Mic.
arauga Canal Company authorizing the
issue Of bonds, guaranteed by the United
StateO. 1t was plsced on the calendar
and, with the accompanying report, ordered
| to be printed.
The Senate at lis resumed considera-
ten of the finance bill Cor of the anti-con-
| traction bill as Sherman termed it in his
notion, and Morgan continued his speech
begun by him yesterday, in support of the
free coinage amendment. He referred,
| with high encomium, to q speech made BY
| the late Senator Beck in support of . bill
introduced by him on the 18th Of March,
| 1888, the second section of which provided
| that, in all future issues of treasury ceftifi-
| Gates, "coin certificates" should be substi-
tutcu luI Aoiu CCItAuChtCs 1Au SuVcI
certificates"
Having read copiously from Beck's
| speech, Morgan yielded the floor tempora-
rily and Dawes presented e conference
| report on the bill to carry out, in part, the
provisions of the act to divide the Sioux
| Indian reservation.
In response to the question by Edmunds
Dawes said that the commission of which
Gen. Crook was the head had promised the
Sioux Indians, in the course of the nego-
tiations, to use it's influence at Washington n
| for the redress of certain grievances The
commission had subsequently met 40 rep
resentative Sioux Indians from the reserva-
ton where the present outbreak occurred
| to see to it that those outside assurances
were carried out. The Indian committees
| of both houses were also present, and, all
| being together, bill had been prepared to
carry out exactly the assurances rs the In
dsns understood them. That bill had pass
ID the Senate in April last, but, from diff.
cultief in the other branch of Congress, it
had not passed the House till last month.
| and then it contained duplicate appropria
tlon of 500 coo. The Senate had struck
| out that duplicate appropriation, and
hence the necessity OF conference.
As the bill now stood with the duplicate
appropriation struck out), the bill carried
ont to the letter, not only the assurances of
the commission as the commission under
| stood them, but also precisely "a the Indians
themselves understood them. So that. with
the original bill and with the pending bill,
all the stipulations Of the agreement and all
the assurances of the commission would be
fulfilled, and there could be no ground on
which the Indians could complain Of the
government in any matter out Of which the
existing disturbances had arisen. The
conference report was agreed to, aud
Morgan resumed the floor on the financial
bill, continuing to read from Beck's
speech on the point, principally Of the de-
monetization of silver.
The reading became so monotonus that
senators gradually withdrew from the cham
Der until there were not half dozen left
! and they we're either reading. writing or
engaged in conversation. As Morgan
! showed symptoms of fatigue, Pasco offered
to take his place and 20 on with the read
ing and the offer was accepted.
During an intermission Of this tedious
performance. the pension appropriation
bill and a bill appropriating $500 900 for
public building at Providence, r. /, were
reported and placed On the calendar.
At o'clock, Morgan, who had resumed
the reading. consented to q suggestion from
Cullom that the whole of Becks speech
should be considered as read, and be re-
published in the Record, aud he closed his
speech with these remarks;
While | regret that our party is net
unit on this great question, while l regret
| that that fact may lead the people of the
United States even to dispense with the
services Of very great men because of their
failure to come up to the demands of the
country on the financial question, may be
permitted to say that the people of the
United States have been struggling for
years and years together to have their will
and voice obeyed on this question. And
if the Congress Of the United States
should even make q mistake in yielding to
their demands, the people will have them
selves to blame, and not US, because they
have certainly in the most deliberate and
distinct way pronounced in favor Of the
restoration Of silver money as money of
la'ion of the country. u
We can no longer resist (if we would do
so) the demand Of the people. Their de-
mand is practically made. 1t is made be-
Cause of the long experience Of the country
we have adopted in our legislation this plan
| or device which Mr.. Beck first brought
before the Senate of the United States
| (the issue of coin certificates, 50
as to maintain the equilibrium of the
two metals, in spite of all efforts to get
| margin between them), feel that the
country will not only sustain Us, but that
| the demand will be pressed, from time to
time, upon cur duty, that We shall back to
the free coinsge Of silver, go that the coun-
try may be again restored to its former con-
dition Of prosperity and security; and so
that the confidence which the people of the
United States have in their own energies
and power and labor shall be realized in
the fruition of splendid results for ages to
come.
| The bill was then laid aside, and mes
sage from the President was read, forward
ing memorial Of the legislative assembly
of Oklahoma for an appropriation for the
relief CT the destitute people of that terri
tory. Referred to the committee on ap-
propriations.
Adjourned.
| In the House.