Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02

| on Sundays and the prohibition Of the sale
| OF 1ntoxicants there on all days would seem
| to take precedence over tariff and silver
matters, and over all the subjects Of legisla-
tion which State oranges and labor organi-
| cations take under their special cognizance.
| Senators from nearly every State In the
| Union have been presenting sheaves Of
| these petitions ever since the beginning OF
| the session. Mr. Sherman, in presenting
| one of them to-day, called attention to the
| fact that it was an old-fashioned, regular
| bona flde petition, written and signed by
| some respected citizens of an Ohio town,
| intin1ating thatit was therefore more worthy
| of attention.
THE resolutions on the silver question
| that were offered in the Senate yesterday by
| Mr.. Morgan, having been laid before the
| Senate by the Vice President to-day, Mr..
Morgan said that he did not wish to have
them taken up for action to-day, and would
| prefer that they should go over till Monday.
They were accordingly allowed to remain
on the table.
REPRESENTATIVE SAVERS, of Texas to-
day reported an urgency deficiency appro-
priation bill to the House. It aggregates
S952,630 of which $1,000 is to supply deflc-
| iencies in the appropriation for the collec-
esting item, however, is one of $24l, $50 to
supply with artificial limbs soldiers who lost
limbs in the war. For the eleventh census
an appropriation OF $4,000 is made.
AFTER the transaction of the regular
morning business in the Senate to-day the
Indian appropriation bill was taken up, and
Senators had the opportunity OF offering
amendments to it. An amendment offered
by Mr.. Villas to increase the appropriation
for an Indian school led to a discussion in
which Mr.. Allison, Chairman of the Commit
tee on Appropriations, criticised the Indian
Commissioner for writing long supplement
tary letters to Senators favoring increased
appropriations instead of recommending
them to the committee. The school ut Law
renee, Kan, was u case in point, the Com
missioner having written a letter to Mr.. Per
kns favoring an increase from $SS.OOO to
$l25 900. 1t had been discovered by the Com
mittee on Appropriatlons that slo,coo OF that nat
"outhouses'' was actually for the erection
OF a residence for the superintendent and
some teachers, and that $1,000 was for an
electric plant.
"What do they want with electric
plant?" Mr.. George asked. Cannot Indians
be educated except by electricity?"
To the first query, Mr.. Allison replied that
he supposed kerosene lamps were disagree
able. He added that he did not like the
methods of the Indian Commissioner.
MI. tllaS SAID the nation llQ almost WITH
out exception treated the Indians unjustly
He thought they should be educated and
generously dealt with.
Mr.. Hansbrough offered an amendment
Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians,
in North Dakota, for tile cession of the
right and interest which they claim in their
lands. Agreed to. Finally the bill was re-
ported to the Senate from the committee of
the whole Mr. Dawes moved to strike out
of the bill the provision for the assignment
agents, and consented that that motion
should go over till Monday. After short
executive session, the Senate adjourned till
Monday.
A TELEGRAM from the United States
Minister to Venezuela to the Department. OF
State contradicts the report that a battle
had been fought between the revolutionary
and Government forces near Caracas, or
anywhere in Venezuela. Both parties, are.
however, said to be preparing for hostillties.
THE young objector from Texas, Mr..
Bailey, of the Fifth district, again sub
jected the House to some embarrassment
this morning by his objections against the
consideration of measures involving the ex-
penditure of public moneys in the absence
of constitutional quorum. The novel
objections of MI. Bailey, although the source
of much discontinue to members who hope
to rush through bills of minor importance
during the early hours of the daily session,
are founded upon such tenable grounds that
no one has yet found the courage to asSail
his, position. The gentleman from Texas,
with consistency which might we'll excite
the envy of the venerable Holman, of
Indiana invariably objects to action upon
any resolution involving the expenditure of
public money. or to the House taking any
legislative action whatever unless there be
tbrss Tse te aen
men endeavored to get up measures in
which they had special interest this morn
ing, but they were each met by the unfatl-
ing objection of Mr.. Bailey. and the bills
were obliged to lie upon the table subject to
future action.
81 DESIRE to introduce the following
resolution for immediate consideration"
said Mr. Simpson, of Kansas, Immediately
after this episode. The resolution which the
Farmers Alliance gentleman from Kansas
desired to present was the verbal petard
formulated some days ago by Representa-
tive Watson, the leader OF the Peoples
party i'll the House; and which has served as
d bette noir to Speaker Crisp, and the Demo-
cratic members Of the Committee on Ju-
dietary ever since. 1t is but few words in
length. but it curtly directs the Committee
on Judiciary to report Mr.. Watson's anti
Pinkerton resolution, which has been
slumbering in that committee for the past
three months.
"The Chair will not recognize the gentle
man for that purpose" was the response of
Mr. Crisp, who probably OWNED the char
acter of the resolution which Mr.. Simpson
held in his hand, and which could only be
considered by unanimous consent. At this
juncture Mr.. Norton, of Missouri. called up
the bill providing for the erection of a motor
and wagon bridge across the Missouri river
at st. Charles, Mo.
81 object to the consideration of that BILL"
said MIR. Livingston, the Peoples party
Representative from Georgia, unless 1t is
amended SO as to provide that the rates of
toll shall be approved by the County Court"
(Laughter.)
Mr.. Livington has always maintained that
the rates of toll across streams that meander
the woods and mountains of Geor-
gia have been SO high that great inj ustice Is
thereby worked to the agrieulturalists who
their produce to the nearest |
''The bill already provides that the rate of
toll shall be approved by the Secretary of
cate the farmer member from Georgia.
II do not want the Secretary of War to be |
in the thing at ALL" persisted MI. Livingston. |
.T6en 1 will accept the gentleman's
amendment" said Alr. Norton. "but the |
bridge is in two counties Which County |
Court must approve it,"
"Both,n was the laconic rejoinder of Mr.. |
Livingston, and the House burst into roars |
of laughter. With this understanding the |
bill was taken up, but later on, it being ex- |
planned to Mr. Livingston that the con- |
of any measure by which Con- |
in the control of county Court would be |
called into question, the gentleman from |
Georgia waived the right of amendment.
In the Ellis Island inquiry to-day, Mr. |
Owen, Superintendent of immigration, sub