Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02
PAID. FOR HIS CLAIM.
Superintendent Pratt, Of the Indian
School at Carlisle,
CUT $1,000 A YEAR BY CONGRESS
For Reiterating by. Wire His Charges
Against Catholics.
THE SENATE TAKING THINGS QUIETLY

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The Catholic
Church and the charge that it maintains q
lobby at Washington to manipulate appro-
priations in behalf of Indian seotarian
schools were the subjects of three hours &C
rimonious- discussion in the House to-day.
The Indian appropriation bill was the meas
ure under discussion, and the immediate
cause of the religious discussion was the
section making an appropriation for the
Carlisle Indian school 1t was stated in the
House that Captain R. H. Pratt, Of the
United States Army, superintendent Of that
school, in speaking of the attack made in
the House against the appropriation for the
Indian school, had said: 'eThey were made
through the Catholic Church, in paying
Congressman to attack the national schools,
because they are detrimental to their pa
rochial schools, which are given three times
the amount by the Government that other
denominations receive"
The Attack on Captain Pratt.
Congressman Mansur, of Missouri, Stock
dale, of Mississippi, and Pendleton, of
West VIrginiay who were understood, by
implication, to be the Congressman referred
to, made lively attack on Captain Pratt,
and demanded as q penalty for his utter
ances that the s., 900 appropriation which
be annually receives as superintendent of
the Indian appropriation bill. The House
was powerless to express its displeasure in
any more forcible way than this, as, Captain
Pratt being an officer in the United States
Army, his rank and pay as captain are
beyond the reach and regulation of Con-
gress.
The superintendent Of the Indian school
had many valiant defenders in the House,
however, and it was more his reiterated
declaration by telegraph to-day than the
original newspaper statement that finally
led the House to adopt the amendment cut
ting of his salary as superintendent. Sew
eral of his Congressional friends who doubted
whether the superintendent had made the
statement attributed in the Associated Press
dispatches telegraphed him to-day to know
his exact declarations.
A Bad Matter Made Worse
The answer which was wired back, and
subsequently read in the House, was about
marks" telegraphed Captain Pratt, 'were
that Catholics got more than double as
much Of the Indian School appropriations
as all other denominations combined; that
they maintain powerful lobby in Wash
ington, and manipulate politics to accom-
plish their purposes. These were the gen.
eral statements. having no bearing what
ever on individual members of Congress,
much less to Mr. Mansur, In whose general
views concur"
This was quite satisfactory to Mr.. Mansur,
but it was not very consoling to anybody
else, and its reading had the effect of caus-
ing the House to promptly adopt the
proposed amendment.
Mr.. Bynum, of Indiana presided in the
committee of the whole when the considers
tion of the Indian appropriation bill. was
resumed, and the attack on Captain Pratt,
first begun last night, was revived in a mo-
tion of Mr.. Mansur to strike out the 81, 900
extra annual allowance to Captain Pratt as
Superintendent of the Carlisle school.
After long debate the motion to strike out
was agreed to-93 to 37-and the committee
rose and reported the bill to the House.
Tho Indian Bill at Last Passed.
The previous question having been Or