St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-19

Against L. - Galiinger Says
There Is Storm Gathering in
This Country Against Using
Money for Sectarian Purposes.
WASHINGTON, July 18.-In the sem
ate today the house joint resolution was
passed authorizing the secretary OF
state to accept from e. F. Watts. r. A.,
painting entitled Love and Life"
exhibited by him at the worlds fair"
I MIR. Carey called up the senate bill to
reserve for ten years in each OF several
states LOCO, 900 acres Of arid lands to be
reclaimed and sold In small tracts to
actual settlers, and 1t was passed. The
] bill applies to the same states as the
desert land law. and also to Kansas and
to the states that may be formed out of
the territories Of Arizona. New Mexico,
Oklahoma and Utah when admitted.
The Indian appropriation bill was
then taken up.
A petition from citizens of various
counties in Pennsylvania protesting
against the violation of the American
principle of separation of church and
state involved in the appropriations for
sectarian schools In the Indian appro.
priation bill, was presented by Mr..
Quay. who also moved that further con-
sideration Of the bill be postponed for
two weeks. so that the Order of Patriotic
Sons of America might be heard upon
it. The motion was lost
The paragraph appropriating 81. 1885,
600 for educating the Indians provoked
the criticism of Mr.. Plat, of Connect
cut, against the policy of giving aid to
INDIAN CONTRACT
UNCONVENTIONAL schools and the estab-
lishment OF government schools in their
stead.
MIR. Call said that the government
recognized no sect. but finding that
various charitable organizations had
established themselves Oh the Indian
reservations. had made contracts with
them to save the expense of erecting
schools without considering whether
they were Episcopalian or Methodist,
or CONGREGATIONAL or Catholic.
MIR. Gallinger (Rep.. N. H. protested
against government aid to Sectarian
schools, especially when one church
received so much more than the others.
There was already gathering storm
in this country against appropriating
money for sectarian purposes, and that
storm would break before long on the
people aud the congress of the United
States.
MIR. Call agreed that government
schools should supersede sectarian
schools whenever it was possible to do
so, but If government school were set
down beside sectarian school there
was nothing to compel the children to
attend it.
The committee amendment was then
agreed to.
An amendment offered by Mr.. Quay,
Increasing the appropriation for the
Carlisle school from 100000 to $4,000,
was agreed to.
An amendment was agreed to appro-
priatihg LOCO for the repair of the
church and building used
FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES
on the San Xavier reservation in Ari.
iona.
The conference report on the naval
appropriation bill was presented and
agreed to.
An amendment was proposed by Mr..
Dubois (Rep., Idaho) and agreed to,
directing the secretary of the interior
u COuIIdCt lOE lil6 construction OF an
irrigating canal on the Fort Hall Indian
reservation i'll Idaho, the cost to be paid
outof the money belonging to the Fort
Hall Indians.
An amendment was proposed by Mr..
Piatt (Rep., COMM directing the secre-
tary OF the interior to thoroughly ex.
anime the claim Of w. B. Munson, of
De9ison, Tex, against the Chickasaw
nation, for S91, 500 in lieu of the provis-
ion of the bill subtracting the sum from
money due the nation without invessi-
CATION, agreed to.
The appropriation for building and
repairs of buildings at agencies was in.
creased from SIS. 900 to S44, 900, and an
additional paragraph appropriating s1S,-
$50 for the st. Joseph Indian industrial
school in Wisconsin was agreed to.
The house having disagreed to the
senate amendment to the agricultural
appropriation bill, Senators Call, Brice
and Cullom were appointed conferees
on the part of the senate.
An amendment was proposed by Mr..
Squire (Rep.. Wash.) authorizing the
Puyallup Indians holding lands in sew
crafty on the reservation near Tacoma,
WASH, to sell sufficient portions of their
lands to raise enough money to i'm.
prove the remainder.
At 6:10 the senate went into eXecu-
tive session without acting on the
amendment, and at 6:20 adjourned.