Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-01-31

peal.
AFTER THE BONDS.
Among the additional subscriptions for
the new U. s. bonds made to-day are the
Hanover National" bank, 100000, and
the Peoples bank, 100000, making the
aggregate applied for from New York
$SG, l75,000.
ANOTHER MINISTER NAMED.
The president to-day sent to the senate
tho name of Thomas B. Ferguson, OF
Maryland, to be envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Sweden and
Norway.
To-DAY's HOUSE.
The house went into committee of the
whole to-day, the special order being the
whole internal revenue bill under the five
minute rule. Mr.. Tate, of Georgia, Of
fered an amendment to strike out Sec
tions 30, so and 81, the increased tax ON
whiskey. Mr.. Outhwaite offered an
amendment to amend increasing the
tax from 80 cents to 81, when in bond
and when in bond two years, $1.10; three
years, $l.3O, and bond period to cease at
this time. Outhwalte's amendment was
lost. Dingley's amendment to restore
the provisions Of the existing law was
carried. This leaves tho bond period at
three years and increases the tax from 80
cents to 81.
THE INDIANS AND MARRIAGE.
The government of the United States
has recently established an extensive
matrim onial agency, which appears to be
doing thriving business. One of the
great obstacles in the civilization of the
Indians 10 their persistent adherance to
tine savage custom of courtship and mar
riage, ard in the allotment of the Indian
lands in severalty it is difficult to deter
mine who are and who are not "heads of
families" in the eyes of the statutes;
wherefore the secretary of the interior,
upon recommendation of the commits
sioner of Indian affairs has decided to re-
quire Indians who apply for lands to show
evidence of marriage. He has offered
an inducement in the shape of chrome,
as it were, to all Indians who will 20 to a
parson and take the marriage vows in the
civilized fashion. 1t makes no difference
whether the couple are old or young, or
whether they have lived together as man
and wife or not. Every couple who go to
the agency missionary and get properly
"hltched" are entitled to most gorgeous
certificate as evidence of the fact free Of
charge, which, when presented at the Of
flee of the agent, entities the holders to
be considered as the heads of families in
tho Iiof frthptious cf lands
OBJECT or THE REsoLUTIoN.
The resolution reported from the com
mittee on Judiciary of the house does no
deny the authority of the secretary of tn.
treasury to sell bonds, but does deny hi
right to use the proceeds of the sale O
government. This is not the origina
proposition, but has been considerably
modified by the committee. 1t will no,
prevent the secretary from issuing the
bonds as he had planned, nor will it pre-
vent him from using the remaining bal.
ance in the treasury for current e1
penses. Mr.. Bailey, the author Of the
resolution, when asked what the commit
tee expected to accomplish by the passage
0f the resolution, replied that it intended
to compel the secretary to coin the silver
bullion in the treasury.
NATIONAL NOTES.
The senate will devote the week to thu
elections bill and Hawaiian question.
Even if the tariff bill passes the house
tomorrow 1t will have to go to the senate
finance committee, where it will stay foi
some time.
Under the plan laid out by the house
committee on appropriations 81 per cent
of the government expenditures next
year will be for pensions, and that will be
more than twice as much as all the rest
of the world together pays for pensiops