The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-03-07
Tor the transfer Of Indians, $4,000. Sis

Tor the transfer of Indians, $1,000. Sis
seton and WahpetOn Indians at Devil
Lake, for lands excluded from their res
ervation, $SO,OO0. The committee alst
transferred from the middle to the end o.
The bill all treaties inserted by the house
and added those THAT have already passeC
the senate with Grosventres and Si>setOr
and WahpetOn) in order to secure actor
by this congress.
The senate took up the Indian apprO
priatiOn bill. A provision for the pur
chase of irrigating machinery in ArizOns
and Nevada for the use of Indian reser.
vations was amended by addition of the
states Of Idaho and Montana. The ap'
preparation for the support Of Indian
schools was increased from 100000 to
81, 600, 200. On motion of Mr.. Dawes
(in charge of the billy, all the amend
ments recommended by the com
nlltee on appropriations reduc-
ing per capita the rate for
the support of Indian pupils at various
schools throughout the country to $l67
to $3.50. were disagreed to, he explaining
that the committee had changed its view
in respect to the matter and had author
izpd him to recommend a disagreement.
The only exception was rs to the Indian
school 1t Fort Totten, N. d.. where the
former rate per scholar was preserved.
Sanders argued against the proprfety of
making that exception. Plumb expressed
the conviction that an average of $3.50 a
year for Indian pupils wat much too
high; and also that no permanent advan-
tages derived from the system of Indian
training which o cost SO, OOO, 900 a year.
He did not believe that it had advanced
The Indian one single iota In the march
of civilization. The Indians who had be-
fore been kept on reservations and had
had no schooling were far better Indians
than those who had had what was sup
posed to be the advantages of education.
He described the Indians as being taken
by the nape of the neck and "yankpd'
to pane of civilization
where they we're like seed sown
on untertile ground, which, whenth sun
came out, was parched and wlthered.
There was not a single living evidence,
said, of permanent usefulness of such
IA system of education. Education IF the
Indian meant nOthing but refined loafer-
ism.
On motion OF Pettigrew the rate of in
to he paid to Sisseton and Wahpe-
ton Indians was increased from 3 to 5 per
cent. The proposition by Pettigrew to
the settlement price of the Sisse-
ton and Wahpeton lands to 81 25 per
lcre instead of $3.50 as proposed in the
substitute was the subject OF ONE dis
Finally it was arranged the
should be agreed to, the bill
was reported to the senate and then the
whole matter will 20 I'VE till tomorrow,
when amendments can be offered. The
of the bill was closed at about
10 clock, when it was laid over till to-
The shipping bill as passed by the house
IS radically different from the measure
sent to that body by the senate. 1t merely
authorizes the postmaster general to
inter into such contract for not less
han five nor more than ten
Years with American citizens, for
mails on American steamships
United States ports and foreign
ports Canada eXcepted) as will subserve
promote postal and commercial IN
of United States mail service to
,e equitably distributed among the At
antic, Mexican gulf and Pacific
Vessels contracted with must be
If American build and differed by Amer
can citizens.
The senate today passed the Legislative,
and judicial appropriation bill.