Show STATUS OF INDIANS bill in the senate gives rise to debate FREE SILVER A FEATURE the appropriation bill provided tor for ray baying raying ing indian annuities in silver which caused a threshing over 0 of old str wold awOld w old fight of 0 indian sectarian schools comes up xia in tho the house mcmillin of tennessee makes a sensational attack on S supreme it courts income tax decision washington feb SO 10 in the senate today on motion ot of mr air quay rep pa haq Z bill for a nonpartisan non partisan commas co tile pion blon to inquire into the problems of latier labor agriculture and capital v ties as taken vp up mr platt rep hep conn colin opposed the bill as Inea measure sura to select a con commission mis to instruct congress upon tho the character of legislation it should pass considerable opposition developed to the commission bill the appropriations committee 1 antagonized it and ay 34 to 28 succeeded in displacing ig it M ith the indian appropriation bill the first amendment thit caused iau ed debate was that providing that indian farmers should bo be chosen from the state in which a aerl refers r atlon was situ abed giving the preference to co competent mp indians it was opposed by mr Lt clelton hiton dem tex mr pettigrew Pett lerew pop S D sald said that the amendment was waa designated to pro pre lent ent the selection of farmers in G geor eor gle cla mississippi mid and other southern states to teach the indians ot of the north how 0 to o farm mr chilton moved to strike out cult the provision directing fit tho employment of tanners farmers from the state in which the Is located leaving to in the provision to employ indians it was lost 17 to 32 2 when thi item directing the payment of 0 the annuities to tile tho rotto potto in silver was reached mr allen alien pop neb mado it tho the text tor for it a speech on the silver question ile he wanted to know why UK the sc so s c called sound money men ot of the COM committee MUtee had insisted in paeng these benighted indians in fafty bent dollars several senators explained that this provision was to in accordance with treaty sir platt plait observed that by the efforts 0 of the republicans the allver b ier agirs dollars dollare were as as aa gold doll dollars mr mr wilson rep wash said the Nell nebraska senator had threshed over some ot of the issues of the tha late campaign ile he wished to say the freo free coinage of silver was not the only issue in the campaign and that a plank in that platform which excited much opposition was that which DIFFERED FROM SECESSION in degrees decrees only jefferson davis had said ill ailt take my state out of the union gov altgeld had said bald the united states shall not come into my state and the chicago Plat platform in doraen him the tha question of law and order entered into thu the campaign mr air allen alien replied by discussing the platform declaration the su prellie court which he be said lie ho in Ite ferring to tile the income tax lax decision lie said fautt it a justice of the supreme court owed it to the tb world to how why he charlca rout front on that case mr air allen alien declared that the justice would 6 co 0 o into history under a cloud unless he explained the question of 0 sectarian indian schools came up in fit connection with the item appropriating tl for school purposes mr lodge said the canate committee had proposed an amendment which reversed allo enilio policy as to sectarian ik schoola adopted I 1 abt ss t year the committee amend amendment in node Is ili as aa follows provided that tile sc tiec detary of the intel lor rilay may make contracts with contract schools apportioning as near alep r as may mav be the amounts amount so contracted for among amona schools of ar arloua arl loub ni denominations lor for tile the education of indian duiane the ilie fiscal ier estr ISM HW but shall only make still sui h mi contracts tracts at places where uon non sec larian schools cannot bo be provided for uch such indian and to an all amount not 40 0 Is por r vent cent or the lh alti so 10 used for the fiscal year ISM provided further that thal tho the forego lot big shall shah not apply to public schools or an liny y RAVI it territory county or city or tn ta hereto li or hereafter execl itally provided for mr air indge ahmid this sought to undo ak what hat congress had dp do allt determined upon as the fu cisro policy of Crin Krese for gradually sectarian schools after full last year tho the indian bill provided that sect tarlan arlart schoola wore were to he bo d after july 1997 mr air teller ind colo said he opposed SCHOOLS but he h supported the amendment because lt it was better to continue the sectarian schools for a year or two then hn to turn the indian school children bit out of school as the government ii was sa not lint prepared to furnish at rhonl hoof facilities s mr air gallinger rep N IQ II 11 said the sc was confronted with the same name old alex that the indian children would ile 1 turned out of school Il holland olland had willed settled this question three hundred years MO ago and yet the tha united states senate at tile tha close ot of the nineteenth century was threshing over the old question lon of chin chuilli c h and state how many centuries would it take to settle im alle tills this quee question tion every church denomination in tho the country save rave ono one refused to go TO on with this sectarian Pw tarlAn policy which 0 ono dors the senator refer to asked mr allen the roman koman catholic Cal holli church an cowered mr callenger 1 I have no con al ments I 1 do no not arraign that church but I 1 merely recite a ft fau of history mr pettigrew Pett lerew in charge of 0 tile the bill raid ald the amendment was in line with th ahe policy of 9 gradually abolishing see sectarian a an rehr schools wo we were approaching approach lne the end but by radical action tin t i thousands of 0 indian ch children ildron were I 1 to bf be turned out of school tile tho Spi bald tills this came from the indian nights asso association clatiOn which lid had its conter in massachusetts anel and h hf was wa wo s theod he be raid of tile the contemptible hypon ciry of f that amoc kWOn mr wilson said he h had soon corla considerable id of the indians seen tile th e dit I 1 re of about 1 I 0 or in aln education d under the present I 1 lit bye by tern tem and he believed indian children returned to the breechclout breech clout and the blanket after getting it smattering of education mr bir teller controvert ed the statement of the washington senator aLtor that educated indians went back 0 6 the breechclout breech brech clout and tho the tho the education li had bad done incalculable good frood it was agreed that ft a vote on tile the school chool item should be uta utan n at I 1 p m monday the tha indian bill was waa then laid aside the bill was wa passed granting grant lne a 9 right of f wy way through the fort Sp okalla military reservation to the st pul ilia manitoba nail railroad road company ea at t the ahr senate held a short executive session sc and thou then adjourned THE HOUSE mcmillin makes an attack on the supreme court washington feb 20 0 tho coimo spent the day in discussing the general deficiency deli clency bill which was not there was a debate over all 1111 amendment n t by jil sir ll hopping ailep to take 0 out u t the iho item of 1300 to pay liay members of 0 tile lie fifty third congress Con Kieba grebs tor for amounts Mith withheld held irom from tala nala its tor for absence in accordance accordi inco with will a ru rule ae ly by that Cou coutress ConR gress rein mr air said that speaker had ento enforced iced that fule to hold A clu quorum orum and Domo crati should not noi apply to a republican for reimbursement mr ali hopkins carried his ba point 11 to eq M N the item for paying to the southern pacific nall road funi pany it judgment tt of tile lie couil of 0 clatia 1 ing to tl brine being reat reached bed mr icat li layers kayo gave notice 6 an in amendment to strike oil nil claims or of the bond aided pacific ralf roads and their branches atom lorn tile hie bill thereupon mr air bartlett ani N Y announced that ile he aou would ld defend the supreme court and against altars aLtar kf made by alessde doar dear anond and mcmillin incidentally lie he served notice on the democracy of 0 tile the south and west acel that they could not expect to win so HO long ions as they insisted in advocating advocat lne an income tax that tell fell upon tho east and and in at al lacking the federal judiciary mr AlcA lIllin made a reply to sir mr bartlett Barl letl which fronted created something of a sensation referring to lo his previous remarks on justice lie he said mid 1 I intended it us as an attack atta clr and it if it it was not SUIn Clent I 1 stand eland ready to renew it at any alnie conlone lie he said 1 I hold that thero ra Is nothing in the ant antrican american rican government so eo bared that I 1 as ag a depre sonta tive of 0 the american pool people C ara an not nl at liberty to attack when it goes wrong wr oni turning to air lie he salt said 11 it it III becomes the from r N new ew aik I 1 oi oik k i n ho has ha taken ills his brie bag and boe bag rage out of 0 tho the democratic baily to dictate to tile me what policy I 1 should pursue I 1 rm am at the old camping gi cound fighting right lne the old bid battle democratic 1 lie he referred ret erred to justice shires ai 04 a 8 individual and balu no man ever at attacked taked tile the Ic bedr doral rat judicial y more strongly than did thomas jefferson and the american people made him president when a 0 president sends a veto deage to congress he necessarily criticizes criticises it a coordinate branch or of the government what I 1 said of justice shil otiliaa as wa was 4 that lie ile was the man who tore down the federal constitution and who took away irom from the american people the right light of one hundred years yeara to tax the wealth of tills this country and I 1 repeat tt it today end and I 1 am glad bind that I 1 have got through his thick tilde hide at last baat lie he understood that mr dalzell rep pa intended at a future time to make a defense of justice shiras and at that time lime mr air raid he would present some facts regarding the circum s atances alices under which justice shiras b biad d changed hla his mind for the present he mould vituld content himself with having read the dissenting opinion of justice harlan in the income tax lax case wai being read when mr jaillett Bail I 1 left lett interrupted e erupted to ask whether mr air int alln in would also ahre the major majority ltv opinion of the th court read oh I 1 do dont want such ruch slush lush read in my time mr mcmillin ex ox calmed at 1 p im the house adjourned |