The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-28


general deficiency bill, which is the last
80 get through and is therefore loaded
as much as possible in the hurry of the
closing hours.
The house committee on Indian affairs
has had what may justly be termed
high old time, not only in committee, but
III open house, but has managed to carry
It's point and in such a way that, aside
from those directly interested, it will
take an expert to find out just what has
been done. Two facts are prominent.
The appropriation for contract schools is
cut down fifth and such broad dis
erection is given to the commissioner of
Indian affairs as to show an evident in
tent that such schools shall soon be done
away with. Now, the fact that all such
schools to be terminated soon are Catho-
lie schools may be mere coincidence,
as some mem bers of the committee
claim. but outsiders generally take it as
a result of the A. P. A. movement. The
long cherished intention of Chairman
Holman that Indian children shall be
educated at their homes upon the reser-
vations will probably be the policy here
after, and finally the appropriation is
considerably below the estimate, being
less than 1000, 900, and the usual
promises are made that hereafter the In
dians will not cost US so much as here
tofore. The popular impression that
great areas of Indian land are to be
opened up is singularly at variance with
the truth. Indeed the only tract worth
mentioning is that obtained from the
Wichita Indians, and that only contains
700, 900 acres, and there is still ju-
dicial question to be settled before its
opening is certain.
The old and familiar Nicaragua canal
bill may be little nearer to final pas
sage than it was, but if so nobody can
prove it. With it go to limbo all the
other great canal scehmes, and the next
congress will have them to wrestle with
de novo. AS to railroads, the discussion
on the Pacific railway companies in
debtedness has broken out in new
form, and the latest proposition from
the reorganization committee of the
companies is that the interest shall be
reduced to per cent, and that in case
of foreclosure by the government the
reorganizers shall be preferred purchas-
ers. Another proposition is that the
stockholders be assessed a sum sufficient
to pay all the bonds which rest on liens
prior to that of the government, and that
the debt to the government be CONSOLE
dated into so year bonds at 2 per cent.
After listening to the evidence and argu-
ments before the house committee We
usually go over and ask the latest opin-
ion of Senator Cullom, who replies just
as he did year ago, with smile that
is childIike and bland: Don't worry
yourself. It is fixed that nothing at all
is to be done. :"
EIuding judicial Processes.
All that noble array Of measures from
the committee ON agriculture seem ap-
pointed for defeat, and even the bill TO
subject oleomargarine to the laws of
any state into which it may be import
ed, which bill had gained the right of
way, was euchred out of it by the adroit
minority and must now take its chances
in the general scramble. The committee
on patents and incidentally on copy
right is still chasing the elusive barn
stormer. There is such an interlock of
local laws, and in many states such an
absence of all law on the subject that
strolling dramatic companies can make