| Show I SYMPATHY WITH GREECE IN THE SENATE Senator Cameron Introduces a Resolution Which is Unanimously Unani-mously Adopted LABOR COMMISSION ALSO A THEME RELEGATED TO TH BEAR I FAVOR OF THE INDIAN I Discussion of the Bill in Favor of the Red Men Gives Allen A other Chance to Boast Justice Shims for His Change of Fronton Front-on the Income Tax Decision Shi ras Owes it to the Country to Explain rs Cout plain Why He So Suddenly Flopped Flop-ped Much Money Spent on Indian dian Schools With Mighty Small Besults Objection to Catholic Teachers Washington Feb 20The Cretan uprising up-rising against Turkey was recognized and encouraged by the senate of the United States in the unanimous adoption adop-tion of a resolution offered by Mr Cameron Rep Pa extending sympathy sym-pathy to the government of Greece in its intervention to free the people oC of foreign oppressors Crete from the tyranny foreig with the pressors and to restore peace of Christian civilization to blessings Christan lvmzaton that distressed island A bill which was passed by the house last session and which has been on the senate calendar for some time authorizing the appointment of a labor commission was taken up today on motion of Mr Quay Rep Pa and was likely to lead to a long and animated ani-mated debate when Mr Allison chairman chair-man of the committee on appropriations appropria-tions interposed with a motion to take up the Indian appropriation bU and that motion was agreed to by a majority ma-jority moton thus relegating the label commission Kill back to the calendar l A committee amendment to the Indian In-dian appropriation bill making temporary tem-porary appropriaton prislon for contracts with denominational schools for Indian public pub-lic schools brought up quite a long and interesting discussion of that much vexed question Senators Lodge and Gallinger queston the attack against the amendment and Senators Pettigrew Hawley and Teller defended i Mr Hoar spoke as an eulogist of the Catholic church in this country for its recognition of the constitutional principle prin-ciple that all sects shall stand on a equality before the law and quoted with particular commendation a farewell fare-well speech made in Worcester Mass by the Rev Dr Conaty who after residing there 23 years had recently been appointed head of the great Catholic Cath-olic university at Washington The vote on the amendment went over until 1 oclock on Monday and after n brief i executive session the senate at 530 p m adjourned f The Proceedings I Washington Feb 20The following resolution was offered by Mr Cameron to without objection Rep Pa and agreed ob jection Resolved That the senate of the United States being mindful of the sympathy of the people of the United States expressed for the Greeks at the time of their war for independence now extends a like sympathy to the with its Intervention on government wih Is interventon behalf of the people of the island oC Crete for the purpose of freeing them from the tyranny of foreign cppressora and to restore peace with the blessings lof Christian civilization to that distressed dis-tressed island I On motion of Mr Quay Rep Pa the senate took up for consideration the bill passed by the house last session I I ses-sion authorizing the appointment of a nonpartisan committee to collate Information In-formation and to consider and recom formaton mend legislation to meet the problems presented by labor agriculture and capital Mr Platt Rep Conn opposed i a the most remarkable bill both in its details and purposes ever presented to congress I proposed to offset the government by injunction by a government by commission That commission was to be composed of three men representative represent-ative of labor three men representative I of agriculture three men representative I representa-tive of manufacturing and three men I representative of business This involved I in-volved an expenditure of 90000 a year for officials alone Mr Allison Rep 10 chairman of the committee on appropriations interrupted in-terrupted Mr Platt with a motion to lay the bill aside and proceed with the appropriation bills Mr Quay objected to that he had called the bill up at the request of the great labor organizations of the government gov-ernment which believed i to be a measure of great magnitude and importance Mr Allison said he felt it his duty ta test the sense of the senate on the motion to proceed with the Indian appropriation ap-propriation tion bill He made that mo tionMr Mr Quay by way of compromise asked unanimous consent that the vote on the labor commission bill be taken 1 on March 1 at 330 p m Mr Hawley Rep Conn objected After further desultory talk Mr Allison Al-lison moved that the senate proceed to the consideration of the Indian appropriation ap-propriation bill Mr Hall wanted the ayes and nays J and expressed the hope that the i friends of the labor commission bill J would vote down the motion The motion mo-tion was agreed to yeas 34 nays 2 The senate then proceeded to the consideration of the Indian appropriation appropria-tion bill When the paragraphs were reached to pay to the Pottowattamie Indians various sums in silver under the rules j made as far back a 1795 Mr Allen Pop Neb said he should like to have the members of the appropriations J appropria-tions committee explain why they were guilty of the crime of imposing ion i-on the benighted Indians a money worth according to some senators but 50 cents on the dollar A dollar that j was dishonest for the white men ought j to be dishonest for the red men This question provoked considerable discussion dis-cussion in the course of which the decision of the supreme court In the income tax case was brought in ques tion Mr Allen said t f Mr Justice Shiras owes It to the country to say why he so suddenly i changed front on that subject The change was so radical and so extreme that the man will go into history u O > < = aJ der a cloud unless he explains to the country what motives influenced him to change his position on the Income tax cases The tonsideratSon of the bill was r proceeded with The question of Indian In-dian schools came up onthe item appropriating ap-propriating t200 for that purpose to which lh committee on Indian affairs had reported an amendment amend-ment providing the secretary of the interior may use 3000 for the education > edu-cation ofT 1ans in Alaska provided t a1 the secretary of the Interior may make contracts with contract schools apportioning thfc amount among schools ofvarlous denominations but shall only make such contracts at places where nonsectarian schools cannot be provided and to an amount not exceeding 40 per centum of the amount so used for the fiscal year i 1895 provided further that the act I o shall not apply to public schools or to schools specifically provided for I Mr Lodge Rep Iass opposed the amendment as something which I might entirely undo the work of last session in return to sectarian Indian schools The amendment was defended 1 by Senators Hawley Rep Conn and 1 Teller Rep Col on the ground that I the schools would have to be continued for another year or the children would I have to be turned away Mr Gallinger Rep N I in the course of his said that f coure remarks every t church but one in the United States I refused to take money from the government I gov-ernment for sectarian education What church does not refuse to take I It Mr Allen Pop Neb asked t The Roman Catholic church Mr Gallinger replied I do not mean to arraign that I church but I am absolutely irrevocably i irrevoca-bly and eternally opposed to voting a dollar for education in sectarian or religious schools relgous Mr Hawley defended the amendment 1 He was not a Catholic he said but it was a faith honestly held by an immense im-mense number of people I was a church of tremendous organization and executive power The two houses last session were a little merciful in the matter In permitting Indian children to f learn to read under Catholic priests for a little time until other schools could be organized That was aU that was proposed in the amendmentthat the Indian children should not be Idian chidren t turne out of school and In the meantime mean-time efforts should be made to establish estab-lish nonsectarian schools He never A j had such prejudice against Catholic schools that he would not prefer to see his child go there rather than have him 1 run the streets a a loafer i Mr Pettigrev Rep S D chairman of the Indian committee defended the amendment and declared himself tired of the contemptible prejudice of the Indian rights association asociaton Mr Wilson Rep Wash said that after the government spending fifteen millions on Indian schools he had yet to see a single Indian who had received i the slightest benefit from them and f he called upon Mr Gallinger to say whether that statement was correct i am m haOfe fh Gallinger admitted that it was t Mr Palmer Dem I argued that the senate should not permit itself tb bo drawn into a controversy about the miserable question of the denomina His I tional control of Indian schools I own feeling was that the good men and good women of various churches who had done such praiseworthy work among the Indians should not be abandoned I aban-doned by the government but that the secretary of the interior should be permitted per-mitted to make contracts with such I religious schools a existed among the Indians Mr Lodge said that he did not think j that congress ought to appropriate I money for Presbyterian schools Episcopal i Epis-copal schools Methodist schools or Baptist schools And he waited for i any senator to say that he was attacking attack-ing those sects He wanted to see an I exhibition of that sensitiveness which i was displayed when he claimed that congress ought not to appropriate I money for the only church which now received government money for its schools He no more attacked the Roman Ro-man Catholic church than he attacked the Baptist or the Presbyterian or the Episcopal or the Methodist church He I said that no sect a such should receive re-ceive government money and he believed be-lieved in that principle He was not to be deterred from saying so by the outcry I out-cry that he was Illiberal Mr Teller denied the statement of I Mr Wilson that the large amount j df teJ atll eha sacnt on Indian education had been witbout good result and Mr Petti grew sustained Mr Tellers view sayIng say-Ing that there were now In the gallery some highly educated Sioux Indians Mr Hoar Rep Mass eulogized the Catholic church for Its adhesion to the constitutional right of all Chris I tion bodies to stand on an entire quality qual-ity before the law He understood that the leaders and the great authorities author-ities of that church recognized that policy He had heard tie eminent pulpit pul-pit orator who had just been called to the head of the great Catholic university univer-sity in Washington Dr Conaty declare I de-clare in a farewell speech to the people of Worcester Mass where he had been living for 2 years his devotion I to the authority and principles of the constitution of the United States and say that he owed his right to be a I Catholic and his right to advocate his religious faith to the humane and just urovisions of the constitution of the United States which declared all Chris I eaualitv bodies han on an eaualty Mr Mantle Rep Mon argued against appropriations for sectarian education and offered an amendment apDronriatins 1000000 for the purchase pur-chase lease repair and construction of school buildings and for the purchase of school sites for Indian pupils Mr Gallinger modified the qualified assent which he had given to Mr Wil I sons assertion that there was not an educated Indian in the United States He did not mean to be so understood I What he meant to give his assent to was that for the very large expenditure I of money made for Indian schools the rest was disappointing Mr Allen ridiculed the idea of payment pay-ment of denominational schools as a union of church and state and said that just as well might the payment of a Union general who rode in the storm of battle at the head of his troops and who was a CathoUc be called a union of church and state The bill waslaid aside without action on the school amendment unanimous consent being given to have the vote taken on Monday at 1 D mIr m-Ir Platt Rep Me mentioned a bill relating to legal procedure In the territories which he wanted to have passed a few days ago but to which Mr Hill had objected He expressed the hope that Mr Hill would not object ob-ject to it on Monday next when he would again call it up a i affected the ol four who were case men sentenced I sen-tenced to be hanged in the Indian Territory Ter-ritory next Tuesday The senate bill to grant the right of way through the Fprt Spokane military I mili-tary reservation in Washington to the St Paul Minneapolis Manitoba Railway Rail-way company was passed The senate then went into executive Mondav session and at 530 adjourned until I |
