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Show HOUSE. After the passage of some unimportant unim-portant bills and resolutions and the presentation ot a memorial praying :or the restoration of tho tax on sugar, the repeal of which had resulted re-sulted in the loss of fourteen million dollars of gold to the government, without any reduction in price to the consumer, tho Hsnncpin cana! bill, which was unfinished business from Saturday, was taken up. Hurl-burt. Hurl-burt. who haa charge of the bill, yielded the door to allow Poland to present a privileged report from the committee on the revision of the laws, which was considered at lengtb. After the passage of several hills from the committee on the revision ot the laws, an eifort was made to et contested elections :n the cape of delegate dele-gate Cannon, but the house refused to consider it. The Indian appropriation bill was thta taken un as in committed of tlie wholo, and all the parts of the bill, except the Choctaw and Chickasaw amendments, were considered - and agreed to. Parker, of Missouri, offered a substitute sub-stitute for tho amendment providing that the amount shall be invested in bonds and held by tho secretary of the treasury in trust for the Choctaw nation until tho individual claims of Indians are audited and certified, the interest meanwhile and that of any surplus to go to the support of Choctaw Choc-taw schools and government, and no claims of attorneys, contractors or claim agents to be recognized or paid. . Comings, also a member of the Indian In-dian committee, ottered a substitute similar to Parker's, except that it forbids the payment tJ any assignee but to tho individual Indian or his heirs. F'ord objected to all the propositions because they were presented as a rider to the appropriation bill, and hecailHJ? Hy -i." wuwi ui "Toe attorn tys and speculators. He knew ono attorney wtio had a claim of $120,000 for fees, and there sat a man in the gallery who had eaid within the past twenty four hours that he had taken stock in it to the amouut of $1,000. O'Neill, from the committee on appropriations, reported the peosion appropriation bill, which was made the special order for to-morrow. It appropriates thirty million dollars. Finally the discussion clos d, and tho first question was on Coming's amendment, which was rejected. Parker's substitute was agreed to and then the whole proposition was rejected, re-jected, yeas SS, nays, 137. The next amendment was pne to pav the Cruekasaws $260,000 arrenrs it Interest In-terest on trust bonds held by government govern-ment and it was rejected without division. The bill then passed, 162 to 02, afid tho house adjourned. |
