| Show GAllONS LATEST IDEA Wants a Ground Map of the United States Constructed Near Washington S I HOT TIME IN THE SENATE I Brown Refers to a Palpable Steal Clan and Unvarnished Bond Resolution Temporarily Postponed Post-poned Hut Stewart Issues u Notice That When the Time Comes There Will lSet Contest to the End We Will Stand to i EveryDay Every-Day to the End A Pointed Question Ques-tion By Stewart to Allison and the Reply WASHINGTON April 20With the thermometer standing at SO degrees less than twenty senators were on the floor when the president pro tern Frye called the upper house to order During the morning hour a joint resolution reso-lution for the appointment of General Franklin Representative Steel General Bale and Genetal Henderson as members of a board of managers of the National bate Soldiers home was adopted without de CANNONS LATEST Cannon Rep Utah introduced a bill for the construction near Washington of a ground map of the United States on the scale of an inch to the mile Mitchell Rep Oregon gave notice that on Wednesday next he would ask to take up the bill concerning pension survivors of the Indian wars Allison Rep Iowa followed with a report of the sundry civil appropriation bill and said he would seek to take i up at the earliest possible day The Indian appropriation bH was taken up on motion of Pettigrew The pending question related to sectarian schools I Carter Rep Mont had offered an amendment striking out the provision that appropriations be made to sectarian schools Peffer made a further amendment directing di-recting the secretary of the interior to provide temporary schools for tny Indian In-dian children cut off from school facilities J by the S I CLOSING OF SECTARIAN SCHOOLS SCHOOL This amendment was adopted Cokrel Dem Mo offered a substi tate for the entire proposition The substitute sub-stitute provides for contracts with the existing schools for 1897 to the extent of 50 per cent of the contracts of 1895 I adds the following S And it is hereby declared to be the set tied policy of the government to make no appropriations whatever for the education edu-cation of Indian children in any sectarian school just as soon as i is posiblo for provision to be made for their education educa-tion otherwise and the secretary of the interior is hereby directed to make such provision the earliest practical day not later than July l 198 Further consideration of the sectarian schools amendments was deferred owing to the absence of Carter THERE WAS SHARP CRITICISM on the appropriation citing various amounts to 130 lawyers in connection with the settlement with the western Cherokee Indians I Chandler pointed out the peculiar fea I pcular tures of the proposed payment Brown Rep Utah declared it was not only a fraudulent scheme but wa a pal pable steal clean and unvarnished Palmer Dem Ills also asked for an I explanation of what he thought to be a I palpable fraud on the face Gray Dem expressed a wish to learn the method of arriving at the value of I lobbyists services Platt Rep Conn said the lawyer S re ferred to as Lobbyist Peabody never lobbied a day but performed legitimate services legitmate ul the course of a lengthy discussion length3 Mr Pettigrew in charge of the bill ex plained that the Cherokees had Set aside 35 per cent of their claim of 5800000 against the government for the services of J 1 Bnan and pthers The Indians had received all their share and this was divided into the 35 per cent wa Teller gave a detailed explanation of the claims with which he was personally familiar After wa personaly THE INDIAN DISCUSSION had proceeded for some time Mr Peffer asked to have the bond resolution laid before the senate Pettigrew insisted on continuing with the Indian bill contnuing wih This promised to bring a test on displacing dis-placing the resolution and Peffer to avoid this sought an agreement for a I vote on the bond resolution I is utterly impossible said Call to say when the senate will conclude as several senators have indicated a purpose to speak For that reason It Is Impossible to agree now as to a time for a vote and he refused several requests to name a limit for debate Allison chairman of the committee on appropriations appealed to Mr Peffer to defer the bond resolution until the appropriation ap-propriation bills were out of the way and Mr Peffer was about to assent saying that Mr Allisons statement was evidently evident-ly in good faith but Mr Stewart objected ob-jected to delay WOLCOTT APPEALED TO STEWART to yield saying that the friends of the bond resolution would certainly gain by accepting the suggestion of Allison a the resolution would thus secure the added support of those who were now urging appropriation bills as against the bond resolution Stewart yielded reluctantly turning to Mr Allison behind him saying I mght as well be known that when the time comes there willbe a contest to an end on this subject We will stand to it every day to the end I Will be no childs play The administration is fight ing it Now when the fight comes will the senator Allison be here I am likely to be in this neighborhood neighbor-hood answered Mr Allison The unanimous agreement was thereupon there-upon made to postpone temporarily the bond resolution until appropriation bills now reported were disposed of The debate on the Cherokee claims in the Indian bill then proceeded At 415 pr the senate adjourned |
