Show CONSIDER ALASKAN BILL House Devotes Eight Hours to Moos I uro Slow Progress Made Washington May 21 The llouso practically devoted eight hours today to the consideration of the Alaska civil government bill but progress was slow Two amendments of importance were adopted One of them authorised the Secretary of War to Issue permits to excavate or dredge for gold below low water mark on the beach at Cape Nome Tho Secretary has heretofore Issued permits but the bill as II passed lie Senate canceled them The House j also struck out the chapter relating to arrest and ball which permitted arrests ar-rests In certain civil actions INDIAN SUPPLY BILL The conference report on the Indian appropriation bill was adopted Mr Fitzgerald of Massachusetts called attention at-tention lo time fact that by the terms of the bill Congress for the first time since Gen Grants administration refused I re-fused a cent for contract schools Pie I charged that this was due to the cam I I palgn of bigotry waged in certain sec lions of the country against these con I 1 tract schools most of which were Catholic The result of the legislation he mild would be that 2U70 Indian children chil-dren would be denied schooling until Government schools could be built BOND OF CENSUS OFFICIAL A bill was passed requiring the disbursing dis-bursing ofllcer of the census to give an additional bond of 250000 for faithful faith-ful performance of his duties during the year ending June 30 1901 At 525 p in the House took a recess until S p m kNIGHT k-NIGHT SESSION There was only about two dozen members present at the night session All Items which Involved opposition were passed over After disposing of 1SS of Uc CIO bills the House al 1020 adjourned until 10 oclock tomorrow morning |