People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — Indian Appropriation Bill Passed. [ARTICLE]

Indian Appropriation Bill Passed.

Washington, Feb. 26. The house Tuesday promptly passed the Indian appropriation bill as amended. No one demanded a separate vote in the house on the Linton sectarian school amendment as agreed to in committee of the whole. The house also passed the bill authorizing the secretary of the treasury to take and kill all the seals while on their feeding grounds on the Pribylof islands, in case the modus vivendi could not be concluded.

Off«r to Furnish Charts. Washington, Feb. 26.—The Venezuelan boundary commission has received through Mr. Tehane a letter inclosing one from Sir Clement Markham, president of the British Geographical society, offering to furnish the American commission with all the charts and information in its possession touching the location of the true boundary between Venezuela and British Guinea.

Finance Committee Tied. Washington, Feb. 26.—The greater part of the time of the meeting of the senate committee on finance Tuesday was devoted to the consideration of Senator Bacon’s bill to prohibit the further issuance oi government bonds without the authority of congress, but as there was a tie vote upon it, Anal action was postponed.