The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-29

which We're agreed to. Other bill
which the house had amended wer
sent to conference, the senate refusin.
to accept the house amendments. B!
unanimous consent, a bill was con
sidered and passed to extend the tim,
of the construction by the Eas
Nebraska & Gulf Railroad company o.
its line through the Omaha and Win
nebagO reservation, Nebraska.
To half dozen others. mostly priv.
ate pension bills, objection was made
and they went over.
Mr. Grout (Rep Vt.), reported the
appropriation bill for the district OF
Columbia. Calendar.
The house then went into committee
I Of the whole to further consider the
Indian appropriation bill.
The paragraph Immediately under
consideration was that providing for
! the salaries and expenses of the Dawes
Indian commission.
Mr.. Sherman (Rep. n. ", offered an
amendment changing the phraseOlogy
! OF the paragraph TO meet the objec-
| tons raised by Mr.. Cannon (Rep. H. },
/ and also reducing the amount from
/ $4,000 10 $4,000. Agreed 10.
| On point Of order made by Mr.. Can
non an item of S25,0 900 for the irriga-
/ ton of the southern Ute allotments
was stricken out.
Mr. Murphy (Rep. Ariz). offered
through MIR. Curtis (Rep. Kan.), an
amendment at the suggestion of the
bureau of ethnology forbidding the re-
moval or destruction of antiquities on
reservations in the western country
under penalty. Agreed to.
The provision inserted, that here
after where funds appropriated in
specific terms for a particular object
are not sufficient for the object named.
any other appropriation general in its
terms which otherwise would be avail
able may be used to accomplish the OBJ
Ject for which the specific appropria-
ton was made" met the prompt objec-
ton of MI Dockery Dem. MOI. and
being new, legislation was rejected.
CHILDREN RIGHTS.
An amendment proposed by Mr.. Cur
It's (Rep. kan.), was agreed to prOvid-
ing that the children of the marriage
between a white 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
sion of Indian affairs and 10 appoint
their work went out on a point of
order.
An item of $4,000 for the erection of a
bridge across the Big Wind river on
the Shoshone reservation, Wy. went
out on a point of order
The paragraph removing all restric-
lions against the leasing, sale or con
yeyance of the allotted lands OF the
PuyaIup Indians in Pierce county,
Wash, also went out on point OF
order.
The appropriations for schools (S225.-
eOO) and for employees (SS5. O00) at the
SIOUX agency, which had been oues-
aloned by Mr.. Cannon, were agreed to, I
he having withdrawn his objection.
An amendment was agreed TO appro-
priating $4,000 to repair the bridge over
Sig Wind river, Wy.
The last 10 pages Of the bill, in which
were set out the terms of the agree 4
ment with the Shoshone and Arapahos
tribes OF Indians in Wyoming with the
declaration that they be ratified and
confirmed, We're stricken out on tht.
ground that the ratification had no
place in = general appropriation bill.
The committee rose. the bill was re-
ported 10 the house. the various amend
ments agreed TO and, as thus amended, /
the bin was passed.
The conference report upon the bill
authorizing the purchase of the At
lantlc * Pacific railroad under fore
closure OF the mortgage to INCORPORATE
the company was presented by Mr.
Powers Qfep. VT. and he gave notice
nat ne would call it up for considera-
lion tomorrow
The house again went into committee
II the whole TO consider the agricul-
ural appropriation bill. General debate
vas limited 10 an hour, half Of which
vas occupied by Mr.. GrosvenOr (Rep.
)hio) in reply to the speech by ex-
Governor Altgeld at the recent banouet
given in his honor at the close of his
term. Mr.. Altgeld had
declared that in the late election Bryan
vas defrauded of victory by stuffins
he ballot boxes in certain states
FAMED. one of these was Ohio. in
Which. he said, 81 900 fraudulent votes
lad been counted for Mckinley. II
here had been fair election, AItgeld
lad asserted, Bryan would have car
led the state by over 10000 plurality.
IT. Grovenor said he would have sup
Osed that Altgeld would he the last
lan to drag out from the rapidly
losing waves Of oblivion the facts of
he late election, for it was his under
landing that one Of the most potential
actors in the Republican victory was I
he desire TO defeat party that had |
i'm for one Of its leaders. Mr.. Gros-
enor declared that no state in thu :
'niOn had faiTer elections or better t
lection laws than Ohio. He reviewed q
he table OF votes at recent elections in $
hio. which showed that the Republic '
p vote in 1856 increased over that OF L
$50 by l25 000 while the Democratic
0te showed an increase of 900. 000 50
lat whatever in the Republican vote
as beyond the comprehension of that o
lblic professional slanderer applies
it'll twice as great force to the Dem \
ratio vote" !,
referring to some statements. even G
Republican papers. relating to the o
cures of the vote Of the election OF Il
96. Mr.. GrosvenOr said that the cleo n
on resulted in increasing the abso- =
re majority Of the Republican vote :,
'er all the other states from 1900 in
vor OF Governor Bushnell in 1895 to
,0OO-"a glorious campaign" he said
ne SANDER of Atlgeld. Mr. Grosveno.
id, had not been repeated nor en- N
'rsed by single Democratic leader P
Democratic newspaper in the state d.
Ohio &c
Mr. Grosvenor's remarks were supple Il
ented by Mr.. BromweH (Rep. Ohi0) hi
no presented a table of the votes
st at state and presidential elections
Ohio since the Republican party
med its first presidential candidate. t
AIr. Dearmond, (Dem. MOD. dis -
timed any interest in the controversy 10 10
tween Ex-Governor Altgeld and the 20
preventative from the Athens dis ~
ct of Ohio (Grosvenor). continued
e general debate on the agricultural
J by reading from a newspaper ar
lie printed shortly after the Novern- la
r election which went to show that NJ
t2eld's charges ree-a riding tho ,-o+, IN