The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-22
The Senate Gets Tangled Up In a NV
Difficulty.
SPEAKING OF THE SCHOOLS
Glib TonRued Patriots Told Yester-
day How They Love the Church
and Nation and How They
Long to Save Them Both.


high appreciation Of the senate as to the
| distinguished honors accorded by the
Mexican government on the occasion OF
the obsequies of United States Minister
Gray, and directing the secretary of state
to forward copies of the resolution to the
authorities of Mexico. Agreed. The
| house joint resolution was passed for the
suspension of certain features of the law
authorizing tho transportation of goods
through the United States to the free zone
of Mexico, SO long as the Mexican free
zone law exists.
Allen INDUCED in n sharp and personal
criticism of the financial situation as an
incident to Harris resolution for a night
session TO consider the bill to issue 5000.
600 sewer bonds for Washington, d. c.
I'VE are going bond crazy" said Allen.
1.-THE president wants bonds the secretary
of the treasury wants bonds, the senators
on both sides of the chamber want
bonds" In the course of his speech,
Allen referred to the reports that Teller
and Vest were populists and extended to
them n cordial welcome to the populist
ranks.
The income tax question ca me up next
on Germans motion to reconsider the
senate's approval of tho conference re-
port of the bill amending the law.
Morgan SAID singular feature had
crept into this conference report that had
not been considered by either house. 1t
changed the law so as to exempt corpora
tons from furnishing list of the sala-
ries of employees.
Vest defended the conference changes.
The employees had asked for it.
German referred to the remarkable at
titude of the other branch of congress on
the question of corporations and COM
pared the course of the house tariff bill
with the course of the house conferees
now.
Cha ndler said this disclosed the serious
dangers of conference committees. Legis-
lation was enacted which, neither branch'o
congress had considered. This change was
worked into" n conference report in the
interest O great corporations. One class
of these corporations employed was out
in the halls of congress to-day laborine to
secure the passage of the pooling bill. IN
doubtedly this was class of employees
the greater corporations did not wish to
report with the list of salaries for their
work about congress.
On a motion of Vest the motion of Cor
man to reconsider the change was laid on
the table, yeas 81, nays 10.
Consideration of the Indian appropria-
ton bill was then resumed. The confer
ence report on the pension appropriation
bill was agreed to. Ii retains the provision
making Sc the minimum for pensions. 1t
also retains the repeal of the present law
suspending the pensions of persons living
outside of the country.
The sectarian school question came up
when the Indian schools report was
reached.
Cocxrell explained that the appropria-
ton committee had sought to take out of
the bill everything that was Catholic,
everything that was Protestant, and thus
to separate the church from the state ana
eliminate denominational questions.
Catholic schools had heretofore been
omitted from the bill, and the committee
omitted the Lincoln school at Philadel-
phia and the Hampton school of Verginia
because they we're Protestant schools.
The bill also provided for the government
purchase of Indian schools now owned by
the various denominations.
Lodge said the secretary of the interior
had recommended the gradual abolition
of sectarian schools, and they had carried
out this policy.
Hawley urged that IN abandoning sec
tartan schools there should be no aband-
ment of Christian teachings in the gov
eminent schools. He would rather have a
school run by Jesuits than to have one
with no God in il at all
Cockrell, chairman of the appropriation
committee, said he was n Protestant of
the Protestants, but he would not deny to
the Catholics what he took for the Protes-
tants. Seven Catholic schools were
stricken from the house bill and two
rell said that in view os tho excitement
throughout the country on this subject the
committee had decided to make a clean
sweep of both Catholic and Protestant
schools.
Pettigrew offered an amendment spe-
C ifically authorizing the Indian officers TO
use S5500OO of the amounts appropriated
in buying the abandoned schools.
Teller said there was no warrant for the
statement that the present policy of aban-
doning sectarian schools would eliminate
and Christianity from the
schools. They might not be taught CAL
vanism or other denominational doc
trines, but a broad Christianity.
Glllinger read n prepared speech on the
separation OF church and state. An ave
and nay vote was taken on the abandon
ment of the Hampton and Lincoln
schools, which was regarded as somewhat
of a test, and the Abandonment failed b.
a vote of yeas, 81 nays. 81.
Lodge offered an amendment for the
gradual abandonment of denominationaI
schools within the next three years. This
amendment and others pending were not
acted upon when the bill was laid aside.
At s o'clock the senate took a recess until
O'Clock to consider the issue of Washing
ton, ID. C.. sewer bonds. The night ses-
sion was failure, no quorum being pres
sent. After waiting until . o'clock with
out a quorum, the senate adjourned.