Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-25
CATHOLIC INDIAN SCHOOLS
The House Strikes Out the Provision Made
for Them.
Mr. Linton Leads an Attack on Ap-
preparations for Sectarian Schools
The Marquette Statue.

The House yesterday, In committee of
the whole, after an extended debate, by
vote of 93 to g. decided that none of the
appropriations in the Indian appropriation
bill for Indian schools should go to sec
tartan schools. The only sCctarian schools
to which money now goes are Roman
Catholic in denomination, and the fight
yesterday was led by Mr.. Linton, q Mich
fgan republican, who is the NEST pro-
nounced and openly avowed 4. =. A. men,
Der on the floor. In last years bill the
appropriation was cut down % per cent,
with the underst landing that it should be
reduced 20 per cent each year until it
ceased at the end of five years. The
committee on Indian affairs, pursuing that
policy this year, recommended that this
appropriation be again reduced 20 per cent,
but Mr.. Linton moved an amendment to
the effect that no portion of this appro-
priation should go to sectarian schools.
In his speech in support of it he :,ttrib-
uted the defeat Of many members two
years ago to their refusal TO abolish sec
tartan schools, and predicted disaster to
those who still stood out against their
abolition. He also referred to a statue
of Pierre Marquette, which is shortly to
be erected in Statuary Hall in the presence
of high dignitaries of the Catholic Church.
In the debate that followed Messrs. Cooper
Wis.), Watson (Ohio), Hainer (Neb), Nc
Lachlan (Cal) and Grosvenor (Ohio) sup
ported the amendment, while S1essrs. Ed
dy (Minn.), Gamble (S.D.), Walsh (N.Y.)
and Sherman On. W argued in favor CT
carrying out the policy of reducing the ap-
preparation by 20 per cent each year. The
latter recalled that General Grant had pro-
posed the system, and that for twenty
five years Congress had encouraged the
churches to carry on this educational work
among the Indians.
The Marquette Statue.
IN ref to ha Ia bar Ia
statue, now In Statrary Hall at the Capt.
toll, Mr.. Linton said:
Il presume that Father Stephan, who
labors so assiduously here for the schools
of his church, thinks it fitting time when
at this very moment In Statuary Hall, in
the room of the Capitol dearest to our
people owing to the associations of great
names connected with it, there is being
uncovered this marble statue, clothed IL
the cowl and gown of a Jesuit, with cruc.-
fix, rosary, beads and other paraphernalia
of his church, standing with map in on.
hand. the other grasping his robe-the
whole figure. includ ng pc estal. upon which
is engraved scenes OF church triumph and
the Jesutical letters $. j., is of an ecclesi-
astical character alone; in fact, so much SC
that devotees Of that society have stopped
in front of it, placed as it is in the maiI
corridor of the Capitol to make the sign
of their creed, causing a member of the
House. who may participate in this debate,
TO say that the interior has been trans
formed, and now the only thing necessary
to give the Capitol the appearance of a
complete cathedral is to change the ex-
terror but slightly by removing the God
dess of Liberty from the dome and substi-
tutfng figure of ST. Peter
and this statue of jealous priest, who
never knew the meaning of the precious:
word liberty, and never heard the name
or even dreamed of the great state he is
supposed to represent, has this day been
placed, and we are informed is to remain,
next to and lowering above the marble
form of a statesman the martyred Lincoln,
standing just beneath with troubled face
and bowed head, but the stroke of whose
pen freed 4,O0,OOO slaves; and, as we are i'll
formed in the extract just read, the I'M
yelling exercises of this. the first and only
statue of a churchman in the Capitol, vii
be attended by that eminent American,
60 Cardinal Satolli. and other high dig
ntaries of his church-this, l say, Fathe!
Stephan may consider a fitting time foi
Congress to present the schools of his
faith with a quarter of million dollars
House is in a temper to do it, and there
fore ask the adoption of the amendment
l offer. which will prevent such a msap-
preparation of public moneys"
Money for Sectarian Schools.
In the course of the debate Mr.. Linton
presented statement showing the amounts
appropriated by the government for educa-
ton of Indians in schools under private
control for the past eleven years. The total
allotment to each sect for that period was
as follows: