Show 2 In the Senate WASHINGTON Jan 10The VicePresi dent laid before the Senate the protest of r twentythree members of the Idaho legis ture against allowing Dubois to take his cat Referred to tile committee on privileges priv-ileges and elections Sherman reported from the committee on foreign affairs a bill proposing to issue bonds guaranteed by the United States for building The Nicaragua ship canal The I bill which was accompanied by a report was placed on the calendar Dolph from the committee on public lands reported the Senate bill to amend L the railroad land forfeiture bill of last session ses-sion so as to make the period of six months monts for the assertion of the rights of settlers setters Login to run not from the time of the passage pass-age of tho act but from the date of the restoration ks res-toration of such lands to settlement and sale and after an explanation it was passed Sherman from the committee on foreign relationsreport a bill toamend the act of r February b IbfcO incorporating the Nica raugua canal company authorizing the issue of bonds guaranteed by the United States It was placed on the calender and with the nccompauing report ordered to be printed The Senate then resumed considera ton of the finance bill and Morgan con tin ued the speech begun by him yesterday in snpport of tho free coinage amendment He soon yielded the floor temporarily and Dawes presented the conference report on the bill to carry out in part the provisions of the act to divide i the Sioux Indian reservations and in response to a question by Edmundst made an explanation I He said the commission of which General Crook was the head promised the Sioux Indians in the course of negotiations to negotatons 7 use his influence at Washington for a re dress or certain grievances The commission commis-sion subsequently met forty representatives representa-tives of the Sioux Indians from the reservation reser-vation where the present outbreak occurred to see to it that these outside assurances were carried out The Indian committees of both houses were also present and all being together a bill had present al carry out exactly the assurnnces as tho In mans understood them That bill passed the Senate in April last but from difficulties difficul-ties in the other branch of Congress it had not passed the House till last month and 1 that it contained a duplicate appropriation of 100000 The Senate struck out that duplicate appropriation and hence the necessity of a conference As tue bill now stood with the duplicate du-plicate appropriation struck out tne bill carried out to the letter not only the assurances of the commission as the commission com-mission understood them but also precisely is the Indians themselves understood them So then with the original bill and the pending bill all the stipulations of the ff agreement and all the assurances of the commission would be fulfilled and there could be no ground on which the Indians could complain of the government in any matter out of which the existing disturbance disturb-ance had arisen Tho conference report was agreed to The pension appropriation bill was reported re-ported and placed on the calendar Morgan then concluded his speech quot ing extensively from one made by the late Senator Beck The financial bill was then laid aside and a message from the Presi dent was read forwarding a memorial of the legislative assembly of Oklahoma for an appropriation for the relief of the desti tut people of that territory Referrcc to the committee on appropriations Ad iourned |