The San Francisco call., 1898-01-26
POLITICAL : DEBATE IN
 THE HOUSE Wide Scope of Talk on an Appropria-
 ton Bill. Arguments as to Whether Prosperity Returned
 to the Country. Democrats Declare It Has Not, While Republicans Show
Democrats Declare It Has Not, While Republicans Show
 the Reverse.
DINGLEY'S LAW AN AID.
Smith of Arizona Attacks the Present Policy of Educating the
 Indians.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
Call Office, Riggs Honse,

Washington, Jan. 25.
 Under the parliamentary fiction of discussing the Indian appropriation bill the House devoted almost the en- tire day to a political debate in which the main question was whether pros perity had come to the country, as a result of the advent of the present ad- ministration. As speeches were limit ed to five minutes many members par ticipated, and partisan spirit kept the interest keyed up to a high pitch. The acrimony which usually characterizes such debates was almost entirely ab- sent, and, although good-natured some hard knocks were given and re- ceived. Smith, the delegate from Ari- zona, made an attack on the system of educating the Indians, and Walker moved to strike out the appropriation for the Carlisle school. No vote was taken on the motion to-day.
 When the session opened a bill was passed granting an American register to the foreign-built steamer Navajo.
 The House then went Into Committee of the Whole and resumed consideration of the Indian appropriation bill. The House consumed a considerable portion of the afternoon in a discussion of industrial conditions. Republicans af- frming and Democrats denying that prosperity had returned.
 Richardson CD) of Tennessee adduced some figures and financial authorities to prove that prosperity had not yet ap- peared.
 If prosperity has not returned" asked Stone CR.) of Pennsylvania, how does gions men are employed and that they are not supported by charity as they were under the Cleveland administra-
 The trouble with the gentleman" re- piled Richardson, "is that his premises are all wrong. Labor is not employed in all the industrial regions. In New En- gland l25,OOO workers are now out on strike"
 Grosvenor, Stone. Dingley and other confusion Richardson called out that he 1 had no desire to interfere with Stones gubernatorial boom.
 ."I am glad to have the indorsement of that side, replied Stone, smiling Grosvenor cited the wool-raising indus try as an example of what the Dingley
 Cookery DD of Missouri, In discussing | the cotton mills strike, contended thai | the strike had been urged bv the onerat i their surplus stock. The trouble was we | were enormously over-producing in this | country ana In the face of that fact, the | Republican party was restricting and | narrowing our markets.
 The political debate continued for an | hour, the Republicans maintaining and | the Democrats denying the existence of | prosperity.
 Smith (D.) of Arizona made an attack | on the present system of educating the Indians. He declared that the Carlisle
 and Hampton schools were a mistake, | that an Indian could not be civilized by | teaching him to read and write and sing | a psalm. The Indian he said must re- ceiYe an industrial education, but it must
 be given him in the vicinity of his home,
 not in the East. In this Dill, he said, s2,- | 900 was wasted " | Walker (R.) of Massachusetts agreed
 with Smith that the present policy was ! unsatisfactory. illogical and Impractical | ble. He moved to strike out the appro- | priation for the Carlisle school Without | voting on the amendment, the committee 1 rose and at 5:20 p. m. the House ad- | journed.