Show LATEST TELEGRJs o FORTYSIXTH CONGRESS e REGULAR SESSION SENATE Washington 26A resolution was adopted authorizing the committee to inquire into the reports that the secretary of the interior intends to educate certain Indian children without with-out their parents consent and whether legislation is necessary to protect Indiana in possession of their children During the discussion in the Senate of the bill for patting noncommissioned noncommis-sioned officers on the retired list Allison moved an amendment that in addition to the number of cadets at West Point Academy now authorized author-ized by law the President shall each year appoint two colored cadets at large Allison said under the law passed last year it is impossible for the President to appoint any cadets for three years to come urleiis this amendment is adopted Mazey said the amendment would be appropriate on tae West Point bill It hd nothing t > do with this billAllison Allison said the West Point bill had been already passed This was the proper place for the amendment Burnsido favored the object but desired de-sired eeparate consideration of the amendment by the committee The bill under consideration was one for establishing a retired list of noncommissioned noncom-missioned officers Teller said if the amendment was I intended to place the negro on an equality with tho white it didnt go far enough It should make the number twentyfive or thirty But in view of the late experience ex-perience at West Point it would be wtll for the Senate not to provide for anybody to be educated there Kirfewood Or mutilated Teller believed if the Sonata failed to appropriate for West Point and sent tbe young men home they would do good service to tho country Saulhbury thought the amendment intended to break up the academy and if adopted likely to accomplish that object He heard it proclaimed a few days ago that there was no association as-sociation there between white and colored cadeta This was natural and would occur everywhere the too races were thrown together Tho fact is i enforced association is impossible impos-sible If you send colored cadets to West Point in any consider I able number the consequence wili be that parents will withdraw their I sons or that the Huns themselves will withdraw If the academy is intended to promote love between the races it might as well be dispensed with but if to promcte the efficiency of the army I think we ought to legislate in a way that will accomplish that purpose pur-pose Tbis feeling in my judgment is utterly ineradicable It way be I prejudice bat is implanted in their bosoms it is in their being What is the use of our attempting by forco of ttitutes to do that which persons theniEelres do not desire to do Enforced En-forced association does not promote the comlort of either race It was an act of cruelty to send Whittaker there knowing he would be isolated however how-ever much the professors did so as to make comfortable Ihe interests of both races requires that there should ba distinctions between them in the north as well as in the south in their ttnitnnQ Hn h1 n ra1in against tth colored man = He thsn opposed the bill iteelf Aircon caid he oQered the amendment amend-ment in good faith to secure a declaration decla-ration us to ino Suture pulley ui Trust Point Why not admit the colored Youths to West Point as to all cthei colJegsa in tuo oruLitry Up would have Congress state affirmatively that thay shall not be excluded Mazey Hereford Harris BaoSr Kernan and other democrats interrogated interro-gated Allison for the purpose of bring ing out the fact that the law now permits per-mits tho President to appoint colored cadets and to create the inference that republican presidents had not deemed it wise to appoint any number num-ber of them Allison said he did not know that the President npedsd to be coerced Co krill sarcastically ezpres ed ant priee that Allison would come here and take the President by the throat and compel tim who had attested his love for the colored people by receiving re-ceiving them appoint cadet IIOUSS Washington 2G Severn bills were introduced one by Cox inquiring inquir-ing of the secretary of the treasury tbe number of persons who lost their Jive in rescuing life and property oil CO lit tf By Thomas tazing oleomargarine Blacaburn watt appointed speaker pro tern Randall being absent Singleton introduced a bill for tbe relief of Major Reno Warner from the coinage com aiittee reported a bill authorizing the secretary ot the treasury to transmit trans-mit through the mails aubeidimv silver coin Calendar The House in committee of the whole considered the District of COLumbia COL-umbia appropriation bill After discussion toe committee reported re-ported tbe bill tD tbe House The amount appropriated is 3423000 half payable from the treasury and I half from the District revenues The vote resulted yeas 117 nays 28nJ quorum McMahon Cobb and Monroe were t appointed a conference on the pacia I deficiency bill Adjosrned |