Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-19
INDIAN APPROPRIATIONS Occupy tb E. treater Part of the
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 Z. Speakf = Crisp Again at His PlaC2 cT the HouSe-ThingS s'se', Military.
FINAL ACTION.
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WASHINGTON, July IS. In the absence of the vice president, who has gone to his home in Bloomington, H.. the senate was presided over by it's president pro.tem. MT. Harris.
 The Indian appropriation bill was taken up. As it passed the house it appropri- ated y6, 735 ,51S; as reported to the senate from the committee on appropriations it is increased by g, ,595, SIS, making an ag- gregats of S9, ,327 1886, as against s7, S54, 240 for the fiscal year of 1894. It was taken up at o'clock D. m. aud was considered un- til s, when it went over without final ac- tion until tomorrow.
 Ii appropriates about S9, ,500, ,000, which is S1, 800, coo more than the amount appro- prated for the fiscal year 1891. The bill gave rise to very little discussion, that little being on the subject of the education of h. dian children and of the disproportionately large share of the money which has gone in recent years to the Catholic church. No change was made in those provisions of the bill, S1 ,000, ,000 being appropriated for the support of Indian day and industrial schools, and for other educational pur- poses.
 All the committee amendments were dis posed of, and the only obstacle to the final passage of the bill was the offering of in- dependent amendments and the discussion to which they gave rise. With the passage of the Indian bill there will be cnly two other appropriation bills left to be passed by the senate and those two have not been reported from the committee on appropria- tions. They are the sundry civil bill and the deficiency bill.
 The conference report on the naval ap- propriation bill was presented and agreed to.
 Several bills were passed, including one to encourage the reclamation of arid lands and their cultivation and sale in small tracts to actual settlers.
 After a short executive session the sem ate, at 6:15, adjourned until tomorrow.
 IN THE HOUSE.
 Speaker Crisp returned to Washington today and reappeared in his seat. Bills were passed authorizing the coDstruction of bridge over the Missouri river at Lex-r ington, Mo-, and adding the towns of Manchester, Vernon and Rockwell to the 5 astoms district of Hartfo-t, Conn. V / interesting and somewhat animated --L. @ O, participated in by Messrs. Reed, one ia eykrkansas, ,tfchardson of TeDnes- see and the speaker, sprar E up over state- ment by MT. Baker, republican, of New Hampshire, correcting the record of yester- days proceedings, which showed him, ac- cording to the report of the tellers, to have been present and not voting, while in fact he was not present. This gave MT. Reed an opportunity to contrast the efficacy of the system Of counting quorum In vogue in the Fifty first congress with that re- gently adopted by the house. He insisted that the experience of mankind demon- strated that the former was the better. Speaker Crisp defended the present system, asserting its superiority over any that had gone before it; that 1t eliminates the lia- biity of intern ational error.
 The house then proceeded to consider measures reported from the military com- mittee, and the senate bill to regulate en- ]istments in the army was passed.
 Bills authorizing the board of managers on nationa soldiers' homes to employ as surgeons at the homes ovi.er persons than soldiers disabled in the late war, aIa di- recting the secretary of war to prepare and present medals of honor to the state militia and volunteers who came to the defense of Maryland and Pennsylvania after the bat tie of Gettysburg, were discussed and with drawn in the face of opposition.
 The agricultural bill was sent to confer ence, Messrs. Hatch, Foreman, democrat, of Illinois, and Waugh, repub blican, of In diana, being the members on the part of the house.
 Mir. Hatch promised to take the sense of the house before agreeing to the senate amendment appropriating $1 GOO 900 for the extermination of the Russian thistle.
 Upon the passage of a bill directing the appointment Of commission Of three army officers to report upon the amount of damages sustained by certain citizens of Lauderdale county, Alabama, by the con- struction of the Mussel Shoals canal the point of no quorum was raised, the vote being s2 to IS in it's favor.
 A yea and nay vote failed to show quo rum present and the house at 5:15 ad- journed until tomorrow.