The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-07-26
WORK OF CONGRESS-
RESUME OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE
SENATE AND HOUSE.
Record of the Important
Tran actions of Our National I.n1v-
Ma1&crs-Thc Work Done In Both
Branches.

Washington, July 19.-The Indian az
preparation bill was taken up in the sem
ate to-day. A petition from citizens of
various counties in Pennsylvania pro-
testing against the violation of the
American principle of separation Of
church and state involved in the tappro-
priations for sectarian schools in the In
dian appropriation bill, was presented by
Mr.. Quay, who also moved that further
consideration 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 ap-
propriating $1,O95,O 900 for educating the
Indians provoked the criticism of Mr..
Plat of Connecticut against the policy
of giving aid to Indian contract denomi-
national schools and the establishment of
government schools in their stead.
Mr.. Gallinger Rep., N. H. protested
against government aid to sectarian
schools, especially when one church re-
ceived so much more, than the others.
There was already gathering a storm in
this country against apIropriating money
would break before long on the people and
the congress of the United States.
MI. Call agreed that government
schools should supercede sectarian schools
whenever it was possible to do so. But
If a government school were to be set
down beside a Sectarian school there was
nothing to compel the children to attend
it.
by unanimous consent bills were passed
by the house to-day authorizing the con-
struction of a bridge across the Missouri
river at Lexington, Mo-; also, a resolu-
ton calling on the secretary Of war for a
report on the government Improvement
at Sagatuck harbor, Mich.
Washington, July 2l.-The house, with
out division adopted a motion to insist
on the house disagreement to the senate
amendments to the tariff bill and the bill
was sem back to conference, the speaker
appointing the same couferees. Previous
to this action Chairman Wilson, of the
ways and means committee, sent to the
clerks desk and had read a letter he had
received from President Cleveland. The
letter was in the presidents vigorous style
and was a stirring tribute to the Wilson
bill and a direct blow at any surrender
to the senate bill. The president insists
that the Democratic party should not lose
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country t:nif reform. Hc says that Demo-
cratic principles should not be surren-
dered. While the Wilson bill is not what
every sincere tariff reformer would like,
an abandonment of the principles upon
which 1T rests means party perfidy and
party disho Tor. The letter says that the
party is pledged to provide free raw ma
~terials, and says that placing the wool
Of the farmer on the free list and taxing
the iron ore and coal Of the capitalist is
an outrageous discrimination and a viola
ton of Democratic principles. He
says that while no tenderness
should be shown trusts and that while in
present conditions this is a delicate SUBJ
ject, we are in no danger of running
counter to Democratic principles by plac-
ing a tax on sugar .He#concludes by
depreciating the incorporation in the bill
of the income tax feature, but a that
in matters of this kind, which do not
violate a fixed and recognized Demo-
cratic doctrine, we are willing to defer
to the judgment of a majority of our
Democratic brethren.
The Republicans jeered the sentence in
the letter stating that the taxation of
sugar is q delicate question. Chairman
Wilson then spoke in favor of the house
bill, and after a few remarks by Mr..
Reed the motion sending the bill back to
conference was adopted.
In the senate the report of the dis
agreement was received and went over
without action.
The feeling is generally expressed by
Democrats and Republicans alike in both
houses that President Cleveland, by writ
ing the letter to Chairman Wilson, has
precluded any possibility of the passage
Of a tariff bill at this session of con-
gress. They claim that the senate can
not now recede without humiliation and
disgrace and that the house annot recede
owing to having the president with them.
The indications are Cor a deadlock. Pres
ident Hill said today: II prefer to say
nothing at this time as to the propriety
OF. wisdom of the letter. It comes rather
late, and may complicate the whole situa-
ton and defeat all tariff legislation what
ever. If the president, instead of writ
ing a letter, had exercised his influence
to assist me in getting votes for free raw
materials When I was making the fight
therfor in the senate, the prcsnt un-
fortunate complication might not have