Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — DOINGS OF CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. At the Nation’! Capital What la Being Done by the Senate and House—Old Matters Disposed Of and New Ones Considered. The Senate and Honse. The debate on ihe wool schedule made no visible progress In the Senate Wednesday. A bill to disapprove the treaty heretofore made with the southern Ute Indians for tbetr removal to the Territory oi Utah and providing for settling them on lands under the severalty act was passed by the House. At 12:40 p. m. the Indian appropriation bill was taken up. Delegate Flynn, of Oklahoma, obtained the adoption of an amendment waiving the restrictions to the sale of lands owned 1n severalty by Indians over 21 years of age so far as applies to the citizen band of Fotta w atom les except when such Indians are residents of Oklahoma. An amendment was offered by Mr. Holman Increasing the appropriation for support and civilization of the Apaches. Kiowas, Comanches, Wichitas and affiliated tribes on reservation* from SOO,OOO to SIOO,OOO. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, offered another amendment Increasing the appropriation for Shoshone Indians In Wyoming from SIO,OO >to $15,003. At 4:35 the House adjourned. ’ • •

The Senate resumed its alleged discussion of the tariff bill Thursday. Ten minutes after meeting the House went Into committee of the whole on the Indian appropriation bill. An amendment by Mr. Pickier appropriating $5,003 for artesian wells at Pine Ridge. Rosebud and Standing Bock agencies was agreed to. An amendment by Mr. Johnson, of Indiana, raising the salary of the superintendent of Indian Schools from $2,500 to J 3.000, was defeated by 86 to 94, after it bad been the cause of hot words and almost a fight between Mr. and Mr. Maddox, of Georgia, who were kept apart by the Sergeant-at-arms. The old sectarian question In connection with the Indian schools was raised by Mr. Gear,, who offered an amendment providing that “it Is the purpose of this act that no money herein appropriated shall be paid for education in sectarian schools, and the Secretary of the Interior Is hereby authorized and required to make all needful rules and regulations to prevent the use of said funds In sectarian schools." A point of order whs made against this amendment by Mr. Tracey on the ground that it changed existing law and the Chair sustained the point. The House at 4:56 adjourned. Considerable progress was made In the tariff discussion In the Sanate on Friday. '1 he dulless of proceedings In the House was pronounced. An event somewhat out of the ordinary wan a personal explanation by Mr. Richardson in reply to allegations made In a Washington newspaper that he had been using bls position as a member of the Committee on the District of Columbia to further the Interest ot an overhead trolley syndicate to whom he had sold real estate Indirectly. He denied the charge In toto. the Indian appropriation bill was again considered and a rule adopted to brlhg it to a vote. The section ot the bill providing for the sale of certain State bonds crellted to the Indian trust funds was struck out on a point ot order after a sharp debater At five o’clock a recess was taken till eight o’clock. The night session was devoted to private pension bills. 'lhe Senate. Saturday, continued Its Investigation of the sugar scandal and consideration of the ta-lff bill. The House decided that the Indian Warehouse sbould remain in New York, instead of being removed to Chicago. General sentiment was in favor of its removal, and on the score of economy that was a desirable measure. But the bill authorizing it was in the nature of new legisiatlop, and under the rules of the House this was not permitted. The Indian appropriation bill was amended providing that the Pueblo and .Tacarilla agencies, in New Mexico, should be abolished and consolidated with tbo Southern Ute agency in Colorado. An amendment was offered by Mr. Coffeen, of Wyoming, providing for the appointment of a commission to negotiate with the Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians for the sale of certain of their lands. Agreed to. The Indian school at Mount Pleasant. Mich., 150 pupils at $l5O a year, was provided for Instead of 100 pupils at $167. The bill was passed, 157 yeas to 33 nays, and at 4:40 p. m. the House adjourned. The Senate on Monday, with the mercury at 81. entered upon the twelfth week of the tariff debate. Several schedules were disposed of. A fight was started over Mr. Hill’s proposition to put coal on the free list, and the amendment was lost, 7 to 51. Mr. Durborow’s bill authorizing railroads to sell “joint Interchangeable 5.000-mlle tickets’’ was passed by the House. The Senate bill, granting a right of way to the Eastern Nebraska and Gulf Railway Company through the Omaha and Winnebago Indian reservation in the State of Nebraska, was passed, and Mr. Hatch’s anti-option bill occupied the balance of the session. In the Senate, Tuesday, Mr. Aldrich attacked the antl-optlon bill. Afterward, the tariff bill occupied the time. The bill to amend the act for the relief of the civilization of the Chippewa Indians In the State of Minnesota passed the House. The bill provides that the pine lands of the White Earth and Red Lake reservations and other reservations, when the Indians upon It have been allotted lands In severalty. shall be surveyed, examined and appraised to the amount of at least 100,000 acres, after which they shall be offered for sale. The House bill authorizing the Pittsburg and Mansfield Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Monongahela River at the cltr of Pittsburg was passed. There was also passed a House bill to donate certain lands belonging to an abandoned military reservation to the city of Newport. Ky.. for a public park.