The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-08

The Senate concluded the impeach-
ment trial of Judge Swayne Monday by
acquitting him of all the charges made
against him. The conference report on
the army appropriation bill, which car
ries the provision relating to the retired
army officers and affecting the pay of
General Miles, was agreed to. TIL naval
bill was passed, with amendments linn
iting the cost, exclusive Of armor and
armament, of each of the golfers and
scout cruisers to $1,450, 900, and directing
the Secretary of the Navy to make an
inquiry as to the cost of armor plate
and an armOr plate plant. Senator Bailey
introduced an amendment to the Indian
appropriation bill for creating one State
of Oklahoma and Indian Territory, and
Senator Dubois a joint resolution for a
constitutional amendment prohibiting
polygamy and ~polygamous cohabitation.
After clearing away a number of District
of Columbia bills, the House agreed to
the conference report on the army appro-
priatiOn bill, which passes the measure.
The sundry civil bill was passed after
long discussion in committee, and a live
ly parliamentary wrangle in which Mr..
Burton of Ohio forced a minor amend
ment on Chairman Hemenway of the APP
preparations Committee and twice sue
ceeded in having the presiding officer
overrulSd. Among the amendments de-
feated was one providing for placing the
several military parks under control of
a single commission. Mr.. Hemenway,
chairman of the Appropriations Commit
tee, reported the general deficiency bill.
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Almost the entire day and a night ses-
sion of the Senate Tuesday were spent
in consideration Of the Indian appropria-
ton bill, which finally was passed with
out division. After a lengthy debate on
the committee amendment prohibiting
the use of tribal funds in the support Of
sectarian schools, the provision was
amended by Mr.. McCumber to permit
Individual members of tribes to use their
proportion of funds in support Of such
schools. Mr.. Kearns Of Utah made an
impassioned attack on the Mormon
church. Mr.. Bailey announced that he
had decided not to offer his promised
amendment for the admission Of Oklaho-
ma and Indian Territory as a State. A
half dozen bills were passed intended to
remedy defects in the laws governing in
! spection of steam vessels. The postofice
appropriation bill was laid before the
Senate and the reading begun for COM
mittee amendment. A large number of
bills was passed by the House and a
heated debate was precipitated by the
bills authorizing an a%mend.nent TO the
homestead laws to permit the entry by
settlers of $40 instead Of 100 acres of
land in Colorado and South Dakota. The
bills We're sent to be engrossed. In the
gist of bills passed was one providing for
an additional circuit judge in the Sew
enth judicial District Indiana, Illinois
and Wisconsin,; the appointment of an
additional district judge in the Northern
District of Illinois; creating a new dis
trict in Illinois TO be known as the east.
ern district and providing for the ap
pointment of a judge for that district
The general deficiency appropriation bill.
was taken up, Mr.. Hemenway Qnd.).
chairman of the committee, putting par |
ticular stress on the provision drawa
nv the mmit TO curtail the abuse of