Show LATEST TELEGRAMS FORTYSIXTH CONGRESS LABI SESSION SENATE A bill for a bureau of animal in dustry was ordered printed and committed com-mitted Logan renewed bis motion to take up the Grant retirement bill Lamar favored it saying he supposed sup-posed no one would have objected to Grants retirement with the proper rank at any time when he was in the service He ought not now to be deprived de-prived of retirement because he had left his place as general to become President The principal ought even to be extended Logans motion was defeated 25 to 28Davis Davis of Illinois voted with the republicans McPherson was absent The bill to pay additional expenses of the census passed Pendleton spoke on the Indian severally land bill Edmunds from the Judiciary committee com-mittee reported back the resolution of January 27th 1880 instructing the committee to inquire whether any discrimination or differences of treatment treat-ment had been made in the settlement settle-ment with certain railway companies under the act of February 27 1875 providing for the settlement of matters mat-ters in dispute He said the committee commit-tee bad heard the executive officers of government and counsel for the particular railway company interested I inter-ested in the question and were of the opinion that no discrimination or difference dif-ference of treatment under the law had been made with reference to contracts con-tracts by the executive officers The committee was discharged from further fur-ther consideration Pendleton argued against Hoars amendment conferring citizenship upon Indians receiving lands in everalty under the act and trusted hat no amendment conferring citizenship citi-zenship on Indians would prevail The purpose of the committee which framed the bill bad been strip it of all extraneous questions and direct attention at-tention solely to the tenure by which fntliana should hold the lands He did not think any legislation in regard re-gard to the citizenship of Indians eould be passed which would be entirely en-tirely logical reasonable and satisfactory satisfac-tory for the reason that territorial laws and constitutions had been passed for the government not of Indians In-dians but of white citizens and at a time when the former were treated oa quasi foreign nations with whom treaties were made Under the fourteenth amendment they were entitled to protection He argued that the provisions of the bill found their value and strength in the idea that it was intended to encourage en-courage in the Indian the love of nome family and fireside making all attractive and beneficent by the means of individual property The Indians must change their mode of life or be exterminated and in order that they may change their modes of life we must change oar policy I Vest opposed the amendment believing be-lieving the Indian had now all the rights which it proposed to give him When the Indian left the reservation ho subjected himself to the jurisdiction jurisdic-tion ot territorial courts and had all the rights of a white citizen Afnraftn rffprml and ndrnnntnrt as a substitute for the amendment a provision that the right to vote with his tribe under whatever regulation regu-lation Congress may prescribe 03 to the disposition of their claims held in common shall not be forfeited by an Indian upon bis receiving his lands in severally nor shall he forfeit his right to any annuity in consequence thereof Coke opposed the amendment as I i antagonistic to one of the main objects ob-jects of the bill in getting rid of the communal land system Morgan argued that unless materially materi-ally amended the bill would prove one of the most dangerous in theory ever laid < 1 before the Senate The ninth section was substantially a grant and contract covering lands which in all treaties had been regarded as held by the Indians as mere occupants occu-pants and not aa owners in fee simple sim-ple Commenting on the fact that the Ute commission report bad not been presented he intimated that it had been nurnoaslv withheld until thn pending bill should be disposed of and expressed the conviction that it would show that the Ute legislation of last year had proved a signal failure Without action on the amendments the Senate went into executive ee sion aud then adjourned HOUSE Washington 25The Senate amendments to the military academy bill were concurred inKing in-King said he would call up the inter ocessnio canal resolutions on Wednesday The House went into committee on the poitoffice appropriation bill Alter an ineffectual attempt t by emp y Dwight to get through an amend m nt to pay two years salary to postal emploj6j killed on railroad cars while serving the idea being to re lieve the families of postal clerks burned in the Quaga accident Up tons amendment increasing the ap propropriation for inland transportation transporta-tion by steamboats from 900000 to 1000000 W8s rejeoted Haskells amendment increasing the Star route appropriation from 7875000 to 8260000 was opposed by Cannon because the committee bad appropriated 500000 more than the nresent annrnnriatinn HA and Blackburn ntia ked the d attacked the second assistant as-sistant postmaster general The amendment was rejected Davis oflered an amendment to authoriz3 the postmaster general to pay the colonies of New Zealand and New South Wales so much of the cost of overland transportation of the British closed mails to and from Australia aj be may deem just not to exceed half of said cost and appropriating ap-propriating 40000 for that purpose Davis advocated the adoption of his amendment mentioning the importance im-portance of maintaining relations with those colonies During the past year the exports American products I i Australia had amounted to 800 100 while the imports from it amounted to only 100000 and it was politic for the United States to continue upon friendly term with that colony The amendment agreed to61 to 27 The committee rose I and tho bill was passed The minority and majority reports on the Yeates Martin election case were ordered printed The House adjourned by a ccm bination of republicans and democrats demo-crats to prevent consideration of the electoral count resolution |