The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-23
IN THE HOUSE,
Indian Appropriation Bill Amended
and Passed.

Washington, Jan. 22.-In thu House
today bill passed to amend the
articles of the navy relative to punish
ment on conviction of court martial;
also to grant American register to the
(barkentine James H Hamlin.
A bill Offered by Mr.. Cooper of Tex
as, TO authorize the appointment before
March, 4, 1895, of a cadet to the naval
academy for each congressional dis
tTict not actually represented, encount-
cred considerable opposition, and a roll
cali was forced on the question of its
passage. The bill was passed, 161 to 81.
The conference report on the urgent
deficiency bill was adopted.
In the morning hour, Mr.. Sickles
Oemocrat), Of New York, of the COM
mittee on military affairs, called up
and had passed the bill to establish a
national military park at Gettysburg,
Pa, the bill providing for acquiring the
800 acres now owned by the Gettysburg
Memorial association, for the acquire
ment Of other lands OF the battle fields
and their proper marks, etc, by COM
| nlissioners. 1t carried an appropria-
ton Of 100000.
Indian Appropriation Bill.
! The House went into committee of
| the whole for the consideration Of the
| appropriation bill. During the progress
of the debate, Mr.. Brickner Demo-
craft, of Wisconsin, asked why proYis-
ion for several Catholic schools here
| tofore appropriated for had been
omitted from the bill.
Mr.. Picker Republican), of South
| Dakota, replied they had been omitted
in pursuance of the policy inaugurated
| of disseminating Sectarian schools The
| 6aTR117i atiOTa1 ecbnO1e xxya,sa 10 he dis
continued first, the commissioner of
| Indian affairs providing for them at
| a reduced rate until the period of five
years had elapsed, when all appropria-
tons for them should cease. Amend
| ments were adopted to add $4,000 to the
appropriation for the WyandCtte In
| dams and to authorize the secretary
| OF the interior, with the consent of a
| majority of the chiefs of the Pottawat-
cmie and Kickapoo Indians to sell their
surplus lands.
A provision fn the bill for the con-
| struction Of Indian industrial schools
at Chamberlain and Rapid City, s. D..
was ruled out on a. point of order.
Mr.. KeiferS Republican,, Of Mime
sofa, offered an amendment to pay tc
125 scouts and soldiers of the SissetOr
and Wahpeton Indians who took par
in the Sioux outbreak in 1892, 1865 each
and it was passed.
The provision containing the genera
appropriation for Indian schools wa:
amended so as to authorize the con.
struction and purchase of schools out
of this appropriation and was pass I'd.
An amendment to pay the Indian.
of the Pine Ridge agency for 5000
ponies under the treaty of 1868 VIA:
ruled out ON a point of order.
The last section Of the bill providing
that no Indian child should be SEN
from any Indian reservation to a schoo
beyond the state or territory in wllic1
they were situated without the volun
tary consent of the father or mother o
the child was stricken out on potn
of order.
The bill was then reported to TIN
House, the amendments agreed to, anC
the bill passed.
Mr.. Sayres gave notice he would cal
up the sundry civil bill tomorrow, ang
at o'clock, the House adjourned.