The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-20
Action of the House on the Bill Reported
by Mr.. Voorhees, and Notice Given
that 1t Will Be Considered To-Day.
AN ARKANSAS DEM. HONORED
Clifton r. Breckenridge Appointed
Minister to Russia.
Andrew ID. Whites Retirement Due to
Illness-Speculating Senator Saidto
Be Threatened with Arrest.

WASHINGTON, July 19.-When the SEN
ate met to-day Mr.. Allen introduced reso-
luton calling on the Secretary of State for
information as to whether any office or
bureau has been established Ellis
island, New York harbor. any other
property of the government for the pur-
pose of furnishing information to Italian
or other immigrants relative to employ
ment, and whether the expense of the bu-
reau is borne by the United States. 1t
was sent to the committee on immigra-
ton.
The Senate agreed to the conference re-
port on the diplomatic and consular appro-
priation bill.
The Indian appropriation bill was taken
up and the question required on the amend
ment of Mr. Squire, removing the restric-
tons to the sale of the lands Of the
Puyallup Indians. A motion by Mr.. Harris
to lay the amendment on the table was
carried.
Mr.. Voorhees,. the Senate manager of the
conference on the tariff bill, rising to a
privileged question. asked that the House
message on the tariff bill be laid before
the Senate. Mr.. Voorhees, stated that he
was commissioned to say that the bill had
been under full and free conference and
the conferees had not agreed to the amend
ments adopted in the Senate, and that The
Senate conferees insisted on their amend
ments. Having consulted with gentlemen
on both sides. he said, he should ask to
have the bill lay on the table, to be taken
up for consideration tomorrow Immediate
ly after the reading of the journal
Mr.. Hill thereupon gave notice that at
that time he should move to instruct the
conferees to place coal and iron on the free
list and that he would, at the time,
submit some remarks on the question,
Mn nd fnfr xxhn her
not also a communca ton from the
President on the subject.
None that l have replied Mr.. Voor-
hees and the motion To lay on the table
was then agreed 10.
When the tariff bill had thus been dis
posed of, the Indian appropriation bill was
again taken up. The most important amend
ment was offered by Mr.. Shoup, under in
structions from the committee on Indian
affairs. directing the President to appoint
three commissioners TO allot in Severalty
the lands of the Uncompahgre Indians in
Utah and to negotiate with Uintah indians
in Utah for the allotment of their lands in
severalty and the REIMBURSEMENT of all
lands not needed for this purpose An
amendment was agreed to directing the
Secretary of the Interior TO inquire into the
propriety of disseminating the Indian con-
tract schools as rapidly as possible with
out interfering with the education of the
Indian children and TO report at the next
session of Congress an estimate of the cost
of substituting government schools for all
the contract schools now existing. A fur
5.6S6 due the Wyandotte Indians, to pur-
chase lands in severalty from the Quahpah
Indians in Indian Territory for absentee
Wyandotte Indians. The bill was then
passed.
At 5:45 p. m the Senate went into execu-
tive session and shortly thereafter ad-
journeu.
The proceedings in the Senate tomorrow
are expected to be of unusual interest. 1t
is hardly probable that many of the Sem
ators will express any personal resent
mQnt- there aXnQPfad n he nraa
very emphatic declarations against a
change of front by the Senate, especially
from the conservative Senators who are
regarded as responsible for the most pro-
Dounced increase made in the bill 1t was
understood before the letter made its APP
pearance that several of these Senator's;
Brice, had announced a purpose to state
to the Senate that only the Senate bill
could pass, and to say in giving their rea-
sons for this view that the bill had been
the result of the most careful deiberation
or the part of the members of the Sena te
that it had been found TO be the only bill
that could pass when the Jones amend
ments had been arranged in the Democratic
caucus, and that an attempt to change it
mat at TINS late day would prove
timent since that time Senator Hill has
announced intention to take advantage
of the Presidents position and influence
sion by the Senate from it's amendments
for a duty on coal and iron ore, and he
is said to believe that he will double the
vote which his proposition received when
first advanced. During the afternoon there
were several conferences among the DEM
o9cratic leaders, and at first there was
the tariff bill. This was advised by quite
a number who felt very much aggrieved
at the course taken in the House. The
Republican steering committee has held a
meeting, and the general opinion was eX-
pressed that it was good policy to allow
the Democrats to do most of the talking
on the subject.