The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-17

I savings Dank system. SuCn a system
would, in his opinion. insure greater
| comfort in the homes of the plain peo-
/ pie of the land. as great ma jority of
/ them would certainly become deposit
ors in such banks This would cult
| vate among them thrift and economy,
and enable them easily to provide for
| themselves in illness and in old age,
which was another argument in favor
! of such a system. Mr.. Butler said that
/ if the system were established there
would never be another issue of bonds
/ by the government in time of peace.
Excepting the reporting of the leg
islative and executive and judicial APP
! preparation bill, which is to be consid-
cred to-day, the house did no public
! business yesterday. The entire ses-
sion was consumed in adjusting per-
sonal dispute between Mr.. Hepburn,
of Iowa, and Mr.. Norton, of Ohio.
1t involved the renewal of a con-
troversy that occurred between the
! two gentle men during the debate on the
| pension appropriation bill last week
! over the word most" or many" in
reference to soldiers on the pension
roll 1t was claimed that most" was
used, but the speech when printed
was changed to many" Mr.. Hep
burn insisted that the use of the word
many" placed him in false light and
he was sustained after two hours de-
| bate.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-The work of
the senate so far as it has been mapped
| out for the week includes the consider
alton of the immigration bill, which
stands on the calendar as the unfin-
ished business. the probable debate of
the census bill and the pronouncing of
eulogies upon the late Representative
! Holman, of Indiana The general
opinion among friends of the measure
is that there will be no very strenuous
opposition to the immigration bill and
that it may be passed after brief de-
bate. When similar bill was before
the senate last session it had its princi-
pal opponent in Senator Gibson, of
Maryland, and, as he has retired from
| the senate, the friends of the bill are
| hopeful that no one will be found who
will feel called upon to champion the
opposition. By special arrangement
| between Senators Carter and Lodge, in
| charge respectively of the two bills,
! the immigration bill will be Temporal
rily displaced on Tuesday in order to
give Mr.. Carter an opportunity to call
up the bill providing for the next cen
sus When this agreement was made on
| last Thursday, Senator Carter eX-
pressed the opinion that very brief de-
bate would be necessary to get the bill
through, but there are now some indi-
cations that the civil service question
will be raised in this connection, and
if it should a prolonged debate may
be inaugurated. The friends of an
neXation on the committee on foreign
relations are now expecting to ask the
senate to take up the treaty during the
week, though quite well aware of the
impossibility of securing final action
before the holidays. They are decid-
ed also upon taking the treaty up as
such instead of attempting to secure
legislation on joint resolution.
The week in the house promises to
be made memorable by the formal in
auguration of the war against the civil
service law. The legislative, eXecu-
tive and judicial appropriation bill,
which will be taken up on Tuesday,
contains the regular appropriations
for the civil service commission and
whether or not all the members who
favor the repeal or modification of the
law unite to strike down the provision
for its maintenance as the quickest
and the most direct method of Grip
ping its operation, undoubtedly some
will advocate this course and the
whole civil service question will be
dragged into the arena of debate. To-
day Chairman Hit, of the foreign af-
fairs committee, will again seek to Sc
cure the passage of the bill to prohibit
pelagic sealing by citizens of the
United States. There is some very
strong opposition to the passage of
this measure in its present form, and
the whole question of the Behring sea
negotiations may be precipitated when
it is called up.
INDIAN TERRITORY LEGISLATION.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-Secretary of
the Interior Bliss has telegraphed
Tams Bixby, chairman of the Dawes
Indian commission, to come to Wash
ington to confer with the house COM
mittee, and notified the house commit
tee on Indian affairs that he expected
the commission to be here in time for
next Thursdays session. This meet
ing will be a significant one. The re-
port the commission makes to congress
on the results of its labors among the
five civilized tribes and the status of
the negotiations and latitude of the
tribes will largely affect legislation
about to be shaped to settle the prob
lens The indications are that this
congress will pass bill for the entire
rehabilitation of the Indian territory.
The measure as now planned is to
make it embrace everything that has
sought to be accomplished in the past
by the Dawes Indian commission. The
bill will cover all the questions of citi-
zensbip, allotments of lands, DISPOSE
ton of townsites, mineral lands, full