Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-02
CRITICISED ROME.
Words That Cost Capt. Pratt a
Thousand Dollars.
AN INDIAN SCHOLARSHIPS ERROR

He Charges the Roman Catholics With
Lobbying at Washington and the House
Cuts His Appropriation S1,OOO-Pros-
poets of the Tariff and Silver Debates
Law Proposed to Fit Cases Like the
New Orleans Mob-The National Debt
Statement-Spring Improying-Om-
ciaI Notes.
WASHINGTON, March 2-During the de-
bate yesterday on the Indian appropriation
IN the house, Peel Of Arkansas asked that
q provisi IN for an allowance of 81, 900 to
Captain Pratt, in charge of the Indian
schools at Carlisle, Pa, be passed over.
Monday charges bad been made that Cap
tain Pratt had criticised Roman Catholic
methods and said there was Roman
Catholic lobby at this city, and Peel
wanted to give the captain time to refute
these charges. The matter came up again
when Wilson of Washington sent to the
clerks desk and had read a telegram from
Captain Pratt stating that his remarks
were that Roman Catholics got more than
double as much of the Indian school ap-
preparation as all other denominations
combined. That they maintained pow
srful lobby in Washington and manipu-
lated politics to accomplish their purposes
His statements were general and had no
reference to members OF congress.
Pendleton Down on Pratt.
Pendleton of West Virginia thought
Captain Pratt was not a fit person to be at
the head of the Carlisle Indian school. He
read from the report of the commissioner
of Indian affairs for 1855 giving extracts
from report of Captain Pratt in which
the latter stated that the Roman Catholics
had abused him for giving the Bible to
the Indian pupils. He there stated that
the Roman Catholics were getting more
money for industrial schools than all the
other churches put together. and by I'M
derhand methods, and that the menace to
the country was ROmanism; the Roman
Catholic bishops had bulldozed the In
dian children.
Bullock and Pendleton Agree.
Pendleton said that a person who was a
blgot IN religion was not proper person
to be at the head Of this or any other
school. He did not believe that a man of
this kind should be continued in his pres
ent office Captain Pratt was a chaplain
In the army, and he had better resume his
duties in that connection Bullock of Iowa
said that man who lacked a level head
should not be in charge of these Indian
schools. If the expressions quoted ema-
mated from Pratt he was wholly unworthy
TO preside over any school
Allen Makes Them All Laugh.
Allen Of Mississippi said that as a MEM
Der OF the committee on Indian affairs he
wished to disclaim any sort of sympathy
with the sentiments expressed by Captain
Pratt None of the gentlemen who had
spoken on the bill were paid to speak
ll1aughter.I The gentleman from West
Virginia (Pendletonl got in his talk be-
cause he was behind in that sort of thing.
the Republicans having "fred" him un-
tremendously last session. daughter.
His colleague from Mississippi Stock
dale had an annual job on his hands with
the Indian appropriation bill, to explain to
ms negro constituents how hard he had to
work to provide for the Indian while they
suffered. Loud laughter Everybody
knew that Mansur did not have to be paid
before he would talk
No Reflection on the House.
lie then showed a cut from a newspaper,
depicting the fight between the dog and the
parrot. The latter had but one tail feather,
one wing, and one eye. He read the solilo-
guy: Polly, Polly, play foole;,Polly talkee
too much" Loud laughterl This picture
had reference to Captain Pratt, and did
not apply Eto the members of the house.
II $1,000 were taken off from Captain
Pratt's salary he might feel that he was
not exactly in the condition of the parrot.
but he would not talk quite so much.
CONTINUED laughterl
Costs the Captain 81 900.
Stockdale Of Mississippi said that if it
were true that the Roman Catholics had
powerful lobby here the congress of the
United States was disgraced before the
people of the civilized world If legisla-
tion was manipulated by the Roman
Catholic or any other church the house of
representatives stood DETAINED. Captain
Pratt was on the skirmish line in a re-
iigious fight. Individually he had right
to express his own opinions on religious
matters, but as an officer of the govern
ment he had not this right. The clause
hppropriating 81, 900 as an allowance to
Captain Pratt was then stricken out