Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-01
INDIAN BILL PASSED
McCumber Amendment as to
Schools Adopted.
THE FOSTER LEASE
CONFERENCE REPORT ON DIPLo-
MATIC BILL AGREED TO.
Long Evening Session Held - Consid-
Grafton of the Post Office Bill
Begun by the Senate.
THE FOSTER LEASE

e'iO oSSSAoH lHtO lIle UlRnI lnaI
pose There was quite an extended discus
sion of the committee amendment pro-
hibiting the use of tribal funds in the sup
port of sectarian schools
AT late hour the Senate passed the In
dian appropriation bill and began tie con-
sideration of the post office appropriation
bill.
Messrs. Gallinger and Lodge stated that
while they had originally been favorabl
impressed with the McCumber amendment.
they had since reached the conclusion that
It's adoption would have the effect of de-
stroying the committee provision
BY vote of 81 to 26 the McCumber
amendment, allowing members of tribes to
use their proportion of funds in support of
such schools, was agreed to-
As amended the provision reads:
nat no portion of the funds appro-
priated by this act, nor the principal nor
interest of any Indian trust tribal funds
held by the United States for the benefit of
any Indian tribe, shall be available nor be
expended for the support of any sectarian
or denominational school; provided how
ever, that the individual owner or bene-
hclary of any interest in such fund who
may desire to educate his ward child or
children in any school other than govern
ment school may, by written order signed
by him, direct that any portion of the inter-
est accruing to him, or which would be al
lotted to him on such fund, be paid to the
school in which such child or children may
be educated"
There was a long and technical legal de-
bate on the committee amendment author
izng the cancellation of leases in Indian
territory when they are obtained by fraud
or for grossly inadequate consideration"
The debate turned upon the effect of the
last three words, which ultimately were
stricken out. The amendment was then
adopted.
{ In connection with another feature of the
1anf har
bate of the leasing question, which was
participated in by Messrs. Bailey, McCum-
Der and Hepburn.
Mr.. Hepburn declared unmitigated evil
had arisen out of the leasing system the
principal result being that of making loaf
ers of the Indians. He expressed the opin-
ion that they should be made to work their
lands. He said that in the northwest many
of the Indian landholders lived as barons,
hiring white men to till their land.
Mr.. Bailey took the opposite view, ex-
pressing the desire that philanthropists
might be raised up to bring the Indians to
do their own work. I'm Indian territory"
he said, Il think they would make a saint
of the man who would undertake it before
he made farmers of them"
The amendment was further amended so
as to strike out the provision prohibiting
the subleasing of the estates of minors.
Extending the Foster Lease
The amendment extending for ten years
the Foster lease on the Usage Oil lands in
Indian territory was agreed to.
Mr.. Bailey suggested an amendment au-
thorizing appeals from decisions of the
citizenship court of the Chickasaw and
Choctaw nation to the Supreme Court of
the United States, and in argument in
support of the provision said that 1900
cases involving $4,000 coo in property
would be affected by the amendment if
adopted.
At pm. the bill was temporarily laid
aci1 10 tn to t. !
other business.
Conference on Diplomatic Bill
Mr.. Hale reported and the Senate adopt
ed the conference report on the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill.
Messrs. Hale Perkins and Martin were
appointed conferees on the naval appro-
priation bill.
Miscellaneous Bills Passed.
The following bills amending the laws
regulating the inspection of steam vessels
were passed: Providing for an annual
meeting at Washington of the inspectors
of steam vessels.
Directing annual inspections of all steam
vessels providing penalties for failure to
comply with requirement and also provid-
ing punishment for officers of vessels
through whose careleSSneSS accidents NAV
occur.
Prescribing requirements concerning the
character of inspectors and defining steam
vessels and sail vessels.
Prescribing tests for boilers; regula ting
signals and directing other precautions
against fire.
Fixing the number of inspectors and their
salaries in each of the districts
Regulating the number of licensed officers
and the character and complement of crews
of vessels.
The following bills also were passed: Pro-
viding for clerks of the federal courts of
North Carolina.
Prohibiting the selection of lands in lieu
of lands held in forest reserves.
Authorizing the construction of a dam
across Rock River at Lyndon, Ill.
Increasing the pensions of soldiers who
lost limbs in the service.
Requiring street cars in the District of
Columbia to be equipped with vestibules
for the protection of motormen.
At 5:57 pm. the Senate went into execu-
tive session and few minutes later took
recess until pm.
Evening Session.
At o'clock when the evening session
began a bill was passed authorizing the
Borderland Coal Company of Nolan, w.
Va, to bridge the Tug fork of the Big San
dy river. near Nolan, w. Va.
Consideration of the Indian appropriation
bill was then resumed. with an amendment
by MIR. Bailey under discussion to allow an
appeal in the case of +. II. Bounds and
others against the Choctaw and Chickasaw
nations. 1t provljeS that decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States should
relate only to the questions of law involved
in the appeal, which shall be raised by
proper assignments of error.
Mr.. Stewart made point of order against
the amendment and Mr.. Bailey declared
that if the point were insisted upon he
would make a point of order against every
provision of the bill, when the bill gets
into the Senate. "Well, all right, / will
not withdraw it, said Mr.. Stewart.
The chair sustained the point of order
and Mr.. Bailey appealed. The chair was
sustained by vote of % to 20.
Against the next amendment read Mr.
Bailey made the point of order, but almost
Immediately withdrew it, saying that he
was not disposed to mutilate the bill. The
amendments relating TO interests of claim
ants to citizenship were then agreed to.
The provision for the payment of $500 900
from the funds of the Chickasaw tribe for
the payment of outstanding school war;
rants was amended by adding a provision
for the payment of SIS, coo of the outstand-
ing indebtedness of the Creek nation.
The provision paying $1SO,000 TO the ex-
ecutor of the late c. N. Vann and William
P. Adair, due under the resolution of the
national council of the Usage Indians, was
stricken out.
Mr.. Plat Comm had discussed in a hui
morous vein a claim for the payment of
Pretty Bear and numerous other Indians of
fanciful names, who, in 1862, rescued Mrs.