The San Francisco call., 1897-01-29
Humorous and Acrimonious
Speeches on Altgeld and
Secretary Morton.
Agricultural Bill Was Sidetracked
Differences en- the Purity of
Ohio Election.

dull session, during which the consldera.
ton of the Indian appropriation bill, be-
gun on Monday last, was concluded, and
the bill passed with some material
changes, all reducing the scope of the
measure.
Wadsworth (R.) of New York, chair
man of the Com mittee on Agriculture, had
called up the bill making appropriations
for the agricultural department for the
wear 1898, and following Sherm ans
course in the management of the Indian
bill, yielded the floor to Grosvenor (R.) of
Ohio. That gentleman used the oppor-
tunities thus accorded him to defend the
State of Ohio from what he termed the
false charges of ex Governor Altgeld,
made in the latter's speech at the recep-
ton given him last week. Other speak
ers defended Altgeld.
During the day Grout (R.) of Vermont
reported the appropriation bill for the
District of Columbia.
Thomas (R.) of Michigan gave notice
that on Wednesday next he would ask the
House to consider the report OF Election
Committee on the contest of Cornett
VS.. Swanson. from the Fifth Virginia Dis
trict.
The Speaker laid before the House a
mum Der of private bills with Senate amend
meuts, which were agreed to. Other
bills which the house had amended were
sent to conference, the Senate refusing 10
accept the House amendments.
By unanimous consent bill was con-
sidered and passed to extend the time of
the construction by the East Nebraska and
Gulf Railroad Company of its line through
the Omaha and Winnebago reservation,
Nebraska.
To half dozen others, mostly private
pension bills, objection was made and
they went over.
Grout (R. of Vermont reported the ap-
preparation bill for the District of Colum-
bia. Calendar.
The House then went into com mittee of
the whole to further consider the Indian
me0 .dtely under consideration was that
providing for the salaries and expenses of
the Dawes Indian Com mission.
Sherman (R.l of New York offered an
amendment changing the phraseology of
the paragraph TO meet the objections
raised by Cannon (R.) of Illinois and also
$43. 900. Agreed to.
On roint Of order made by Cannon an
item of $4,000 for the irrigation of the
southern Ute allotments was stricken out.
Murphy (R. } of Arizona offered, through
Curtis (R. Of Kansas, an amendment at
the suggestion of the Bureau of Ethnology
forbidding the removal or destruction of
antiquities on reservations In the western
country under penalty. Agreed to.
The nr0Vi Sion inserted nv the com nit.
tee that hereafter where funds appro-
priated in specific terms for a particular
object are not sufficient for the object
named, any other appropriation general
In its terms, which would otherwise be
available, NAV be used to accomplish the
object for which the specific appropriation
was made. met the prompt objection of
Dockery CD OF Missouri, and being new
legislation was rejected.
An amendment proposed by Curtis (R.) }
of Kansas was agreed to providing that
the children of marriage between W hite
man and an Indian woman should have
the same rights to the property of the
tribe to which the mother belonged as any
other mem Der of the tribe.
The proposition to abolish the offices of
Commissioner and Assistant Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs and to appoint
board of Indian Commissioners to do their
work went out on point of order.
An item of $40, 900 for the erection of a
bridge across the Big Wind River on the
Shoshone reservation, Wyo., went out on
a point of order.
The paragraph removing all restriction.
against the leasing, sale or conveyance of
the allotted lands OF the Puyallup Indians
in Pierce County, Wash, also went out
on point of order.
The appropriations for schools ($225, ,OOO)
and for employees S5000), at the Sioux
agencies, which had been questioned by
Cannon, were agreed to, he having with
drawn his objection.
An amendment was agreed to appropri-
ating $4,000 to repair the bridge over Big
Wind River, Wyo.
The last sixteen pages of the bill in
which were set out the terms of the agree
ment with the Shoshone and Arapahoe
tribes of Indians in Wyoming and with
the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa
Indians, North Dakota, with the declara-
ton that they be ratified and con firmed,
were stricken out on the ground that the
ratification had no place in a general ap-
preparation bill.
The com mittee rose, the bill was re-
ported TO the House, the various amend
ments agreed to, and as thus amended the
bill was passed.
The conference report upon the bill
authorizing the purchaser of the Atlantic
ana EdCluC hdllTOdu, uuQer foreclosure OF
the mortgage, to incorporate the com pany
was presented by Powers (R.) of Vermont,
and he gave notice that he would call it
up for consideration tomorrow.
The House again went into committee
of the whole 10 consider the agriculture
appropriation bill. Debate was limited to
an hour, half of which was occupied by
Grosvenor (R of Ohio, in reply to the
speech by Ex-Governor Altgeld, at the
recent banquet given in his honor at the
close of his gubernatorial term. Altgeld
had declared that, in the late election.
Bryan was defrauded of victory by stuffing
the tallot. boxes in certain States named.
One of these was Ohio, in which he said
"a. 600 fraudulent votes had been counted
for Mckinley. If there had been a fair
election, Altgeld had asserted, Bryan
would have carried the State by over
40, 900 plurality.
Grosvenor said he would have supposed
that Alteeld would be the last man TO
drag out from the rapidly closing waves
OF oblivion the facts of the late election.
for it was his understanding that one of
the most potent factors in the Republican
victory was the desire to defeat a party
that had him for one of its leaders.
Grosvenor declared that no State in the
Union had fairer elections or better elec-
ton laws than Ohio He reviewed the
table OF votes at recent elections in OHIO.
which showed that the Republican vote
i'll 1896 increased over tnat OF 1895 by
100 600 while the Democrat tic vota showed