The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-01-29

yiding for salaries and the expenses Of
the Dawes Indian commission.
MIR. Sherman, Republican of New York,
offered an amendments changing the
phrassology of the paragraph to meet
the objections raised by Mr. Cannon,
Republican of Illinois and reducing the
amount from $50, 600 to So. 600, which was
agreed to. On point of order an item
Of S25, 600 for tho irrigation OF the
Southern Ute allotments was stricken out
An amendment suggested by the bureau
of ethnology, forbidding the removal or
destruction OF antiquities on reservations
in the western country under penalty,
was agreed to. An amendment was
agreed to providing that the children Of
marriage between q white man and
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 commissioner
of Indian affairs and appoint a board OF
Indian commissioners to do their work,
went out on point of order. The ap-
preparations for schools, 1926, COO, and
employees, sS5, 600, at the Sioux agencies,
questioned by Mr.. Cannon, were agreed
to, be having withdrawn his objeotion.
H6 lttSb SlAUeGu tEtEO0 VI viz Olll III
which were set out the terms OF the
agreement with the Sboshoue and
Arapabo tribes of Indians in Wyoming,
and the Turtle Mountain band of Chip
pewa Indians, and North Dakota with
the declaration that they be ratified and
confirmed were stricken out on the
ground that a ratification bad no place
IN q general appropriation bill. The
committee rose ana the bill was reported
to the House.
Various amendments were agreed to
and thus amended the bill passed.
The conference report upon the bill
authorizing purchasers of the Allan tic
and Pacific railroad under foreclosure of
mortgage was presented by Mr.. Powers.
He gave notice thatsshe would call it up
for considerations tomorrow.
The House again went into committee
of the whole to consider the agrioul urhl
appropriation bill General debate was
limited to an hour, half of which was
occupied by Mr.. Grosvenor in reply to a
speech by ex-Gov. Altgeld at the recent
banquet given in his honor at the close
of bis gubernatorial term.
Altgeld declared that in the late cleo
ton Bryan was defraaded of victory by
the stuffing of ballot boxes in certain
states named. One of these was Ohio.
If there had been % fair election. Aitgeld
asserted, Bryan would have carried the
state by over 49, 600 plurality. Mr..
Grosvenor declared that no state in the
Union had a faireF election or bstrer
election laws than Ohio. The SANDER of
Altgeld, Mr.. Grosvenor said, had not
been repeated or endorsed by single
Democratic leader or Democratic news
paper in Ohio.
Mr.. Dearmcnd, Democrat of Missouri,
read from newspaper All article printed
shortly after the November election
which went to show that Altgeld's
charges regarding the vote Of Ohio were
we'll founded.
Mr.. Wadsworth stated that tire bill
carried total appropriation otsSs, 1852, 753,
net Increase of S1O2, $50 from the appro-
priation for the current year. For the
bureau of animal industry an increase of
S25. 600 was provided to extend the in.
spection of meat provided for in the act
of March 8, 1891. to numerous abattoirs
and packing houses which had requested
such inspection and which had not re-
ceived it. The committee rose
HsMr. Steele, Republican of Indiana, in
troduoed and had passed resolution
calling hpon the secretary of agriculture
for statistics of the production and ex-
portation of castor beans The House
then adjoHgned.