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Show WASHINGTON. The Carson Cniuuge The I u-tliuu u-tliuu Uurt'uu, Washington, 22. Director Linder-man's Linder-man's teh-gram to a Virginia city journal that the nwnsary appropriations appropria-tions for the Carson mint have b.-en agreed upon is pronounced as very erroneous by Congressman Wuod-burn. Wuod-burn. An appropriation will be made for the salaries of the superintendent superin-tendent and otiier oilicers, but even the small increase of $20,000 promised prom-ised by the appropriation committee on the amounts first reported for wages and materials, will nut, according ac-cording to the present intimations of the chairman (Randall) be all granted. He shvs these items will not be materially increased. Wood-burn Wood-burn will move in tho house for an increase of 3U70.000 to bring them up to the lull amount of last year's, llu says that Lindermun's recommendation recommenda-tion before the committee for the continuance ol coinage at the Carson mint was of the most leeble character. char-acter. One of the most eloquent and effective speeches in advocacy of tbe transfer of the Indian bureau to the war department was that of Representative Repre-sentative Lane of Oregon. Ha argued that the trausfer to the army .of the management would tend to maintain peaca and secure additional addition-al protection to the lives and property prop-erty of our citizens and materially reduce the expenses of government, and in no wiie injuriously affect, even if it did not improve, the con- ,li(inr. rtf II. a Tiii-li-iiio Whil.-i flinf naa. ing the question of economy be dexterously called attention to the vast amount of good which a portion of the money thus saved could eflect by the opening to navigation of the Columbia Colum-bia aud improving the harbors of the coast, so as to develop the natural wealth and manifold resources of Oregon. Ho administered a severe rebuke to Cox of New York for as persingthe character of frontiersmen and eulogized their gallantry, magnanimity magna-nimity and intelligence. He vividly pictured tbe horrors of Indian barbarities bar-barities in Oregon and Utah, and showed tbe justness of tho complaints against the present system of Indian management. Lane also showered ridicule on Cox's account of his observations of the French policy at Algeria and his sentimentality concerning con-cerning tbe "noble red men" of the forest ; and attributed it to a studious perusal ot Cooper's romances and bis experience as a Tammany chieftain. This wily and forcible extemporaneous speech has given Lane a high rank among the debaters of the house. Luttrell's speech, advocating tho bill, dealt largely with the abuses which he stated had come under his own observation in California. He detailed frauds which bad been publicly pub-licly charged there as perpetrated by tbe Round valley and Boopa agents, and asserted that large appropriations made by congress (or the Klamath and other Indians h1' never reached them, and described the swindles in blankets, etc., practiced prac-ticed oh the Modocs before their outbreak. out-break. Hs considered that nine out of ten of the Indian agents are not competent business men, aud for these and other reasons he earnestly advocated the placing of tho Indian management under military contiol. Page said that, despite tbe request of the legislature, he could not Uvnr the bill. It had not been shown that it would save the government a dollar; dol-lar; on the contrary, supplies are purchased more cheaply under the present board of Indian commissioners commission-ers than they are obtained by the; army. The treatment of the Indians, by the military would be les humane and their civilization would be retarded. re-tarded. This was the tcilimony of the civilized Indiana of the Indian better thinking class of men throughout through-out the country. A discontinuance of the present peace policy, aided as it is by the military power, would lead to hostilities and endanger or interrupt inter-rupt the overland railroad, and the enaction of the bill meant simply further injustice to the Indians and (heir speedy extinction. All the Pacific coast members, except Pago, voted for the patstge ol the bill. |