The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-21
GOT VERY MAD.
Debate on the Indian ApprOpri-
alton Bill,
Engendered a Great Deal OF
Bad Feeling.
MAKING A "HORANG."
Bowers of California Made
Great Spectacle.

Every days debate on the Indian appro-
priation bill made the debaters moro fu-
rious until they got into state Of mind
and INDUCED in a loose expectoration of
speech which seems to have laid the foun-
dalton OF some permanent an1moS1tles. 1t
As not easy to classify the different fac
tions, but in a general way the division
between the two parties is but a cross by
the long standing divisions between the
men of the east and the men of the west
the humanitarians and the men of the
bOrder-those who believe that education
will do everything for any race of people
and those who start on the old theory of
superior and inferior races and hold that
book learning is thrown away on the in
ferior unless it goes along with a much
larger amount of practical education in
agriculture and tho mechanic arts. Judge
Holman has said from the start that he
expected a furious attack on this years
bill, and assuredly he has not been disap-
pointed. The elimination came on the
schedule fixing the salaries of superintend-
ents and teachers, and the two days bat
tie thereon reminded old habitues of the
gallery of the scenes in war times. Hon.
Henry u johnson of Indiana made an
attack on his colleagues so frantic and
venomOus that il had to be reduced to its
lowest terms before appearing in The
Record, and even then it was bad enough.
Mr.. Quigg of New York followed with
one of his dry and sarcastic yet somewhat
sophOmOrical speeches, in which he wen
tured to hope that the Democrats would
vote for the amendment of the gentleman
from Indiana Mr. JOhnsOn) in spite of
his language in reference to his colleague
(Mr. Holman). And this completed the
job of making Mr.. johnson perfectly fu-
rious. As to just what followed no two
spectators agree, and of course The Record
does not show it.
Indian Appropriations.
RI savt .bnf, WAS "a
rising on both sides of the house and a
crOwding toward the right center, where
Mr. Maddox of Georgia sits, who had criti-
cised the critic. As Mr.. johnson advanced
toward him with uplifted handsome say
with clinched fsts-Mr. Cannon, with
peculiarly dry smile, interposed with some
cOnciliatory remarks in q low tone, and in
less time than it takes to tell it there was
a human Whirlpool in front of the speak
err desk, and the thing was not straight
ened out until tie chairman peremptorily
ordered a rel call on the amendment.
About this time Mr. Bowers Of California
lost his head, as he often does under ex-
element, and delivered what one member
called "horang." His delivery was sc
vehement that nobody could hear what he
was saying, and the word ran around the
galleries, Bowers is making a holy spec
tacle of himself" Among the reporters
the question was, Ibid you ever see him
so full?'' By the time he concluded mem
and there was mock applause ON tho floor.
1t is charitably supposed that no had taken
a drop too much, but from what followed
it appears that he had been making an at
tack on the appropriations for the Hamp-
ton and Carlisle schools. A Pennsylvania
member rose and very politely told him
that he didn't know what he was talking
about. Mr.. Quigg then went over the
items showing that the salaries of super
intendents had been reduced from $1,000
to 5000 each and after all there was only
picayune saving"
Frantic Fury.
The Democrats in nearly every instance
stood unflinchingly by their committee,
and the net result is that the apprOpri1-
tiOns for the Indians are very materially
reduced Some interesting facts were
brought out by the discussion, chief among
them the concession. by western members
that Indian wars are practically ended and
that hereafter nothing worse than slight
local outbreaks are to be expected The
great question to whether Indians ought
to DO educated on their reservations or in
distant schools was argued with very great
ability by some members and by others
with a frantic fury and denunciatiOnS that
were laughable- 1t was clearly proved
that 1t was of very great benefit to the civ
iliZed tribes of the Indian Territory to have
their leading men educated in the east,
but as to the 6emicivilized and nomadlc
tribes it was finally conceded that home
education was the better.
Judge Holman's theory has long been
that young Indians of the plains when ed
ucated in the east almost invariably re-
lapse into the ways of their people when
they return to the reservation, and on this
point Tom Reed fully agreed with him.
There has been in the debate a deal of
high philosophy on the distinction be-
tween practical and theoretical education
for Indians and incidentally for other peo-
pie. Mr. Everett of Massachusetts took
the bold ground that it is very easy to ed
ucate people too much for their position in
life If this bill is to be taken as a prec-
edent and if the opinions expressed in re-
gard to it are to rule, hereafter the Indians
will be educated at home
A Free Trade Argument.
The discussion was so long and good
deal of it so heated that for a wonder the
most anxious Democrats succeeded in for
getting the tariff bill for awhile, but just
the same the senate was doing its share in
the line of furnishing sensations and sur
prises- Perhaps the greatest surprise for
many days was that furnished by a dele
cation of the skilled workers in the Tren-
ton potteries. They appeared before the |
committee and declared that they wanted
the wares they were manufacturing put
on the free list the only way to bring
their employers to terms They asserted
that at the time the factories were shut
down there were more orders than could
be filled, and that The latest cut of 25 per
cut in wages would, if submitted to, put
their compensation 10 per cent below that
paid in England for the same work. They
presented figures showing that salaries of
SIP per week had been reduced to So, and
that as rents and other expenses now are
they could not live upon their wages. All
this was denounced, of course, by the other
interest as palpably false and foolish, but
lust the same IL, furnishes the Orr1osincr