Evening star., 1898-12-13
WORK OF COMMITTEES
Opposition to tn. Senate osnsu. Bill in
Evidsnoe
Appropriationst Tor Indian Schools
Secretary AlgNF at the Capitol
Rivera and HarbOrs.

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ing today decided. % create a separate bu-
reau for the purHoee Of taking the census
and directed Chairman Hopkins to draw a
substitute for the Senate bill. The Senate
bill provides that the census Office shall be
included in the Department of the Interior.
Some data will also be collected by the
committee regarding several provisions of
the BILL Some of the points upon which
inquiry will be made relate to the number
OF persons to be employed and their sal
aries, the work of expert statisticans and
now the census can best be taken, whether
by counties, townships or congressional
districts, or whether this shall be left to
the superintendent of census. Nothing was
'i'ld as TO whether the bureau should be
placed under the civil service.
Inc committee adjourned subject to the
call of the chairman and the time when
the committee will again meet depends up
on how long 1t will take to draft the sub
stitute bill.
Money for Indian Schools.
Representative Bingham and Superin-
tendent Gibbon of the Lincoln Institute.
Philadelphia, appeared before the House
committee on Indian affairs today to ad-
vocate the retention of an appropriation
1or that place as an Irdian school. The
institute was a sectarian school and there
fore not entitled TO government aid. The
question was not decided today.
II was decided TO increase tie appropria-
tion Ior Carnsie Indian school from S12l .0U
to $l5o,OOo, upon the understanding that at
east l, 600 Indians viii be provided for ani
number of Improvements made to the
scnool. rms was done upon the recon-
mendation of Superintendent Pratt.
Tams Bixby, the chairman, told of the
contemplated proceedings of the Dawes
commission. and ask ed that $50, 900 be made
aValiabie for work during the balance of
the year and S123OOO be apFropr. .ated for
work under the provisions of the Curtis
act next year. The commission Is ready
to make the Seminole anotments. They
VIII soon take up the work Of Identifying
the Mississippi Choctaws in order that the
Choctaw allotments can be made. The
Choctaw census will also be taken and
necessary surveys made.
The appropriation for the pay of secre-
tary and traveing expens Cf the citizen
commissioners having supervision of some
branches of Indian business had been
stricken from the proposed bill, but, on
motion of Mr.. Barrows of Massachusetts,
it was restored
Appropriation for the Army.
Secretary Alger, Assistant Secretary
Meklejohn and Chief Clerk Tweedale were
before the Senate subcommittee of appro-
priations committee, giving some informa-
llon conc ernlng the estimates carried In the
war deficiency bill. The hearing was brief
Secretary Alger wants immediate action
On the bill which he had prepared appro-
priat ting S,050tS0 to meet pressing con-
tingencies following the war.
Rivers and Harbors
The river and haEbor committee of the
House today gave hearing to a delegation
which urged he Importance of deep water
at Miami, Fla jim view of the prospective
growth of our shipping e. gagged in the West
Indian trade. 4 new line of steamers is to
run from Miami to Havana. The water
there has been increased from eight to
twelve feet, at cost of about S1GO000, all
expended by private individuals. A bout
twenty feet is desired, and for that pur-
pose about $5o0.4Jo will be required
Representative Tongue of oregon also ap-
peared before the committee in behalf of
the Willamette Falls project.
Protection to Photographers.
The House committee on patents today
agreed to report faporably the bin intro
duced by Representative Mitchell of New
York, to give additional protect ton to pho
tographers. The bill was pushed by lead
ing photographers in various parts of the
country.
Terms of Courts In South Carolina.
The House committee on judiciary today
agreed to report favorably bill to change
the times for the terms of the United States
courts in South Carolina The bill was in
dorsed by the United States judges in South
Carolina.