Show SPATS the merthem pacific land L ana grants the indian education quention Quei tion n or vitera Vi tern A aress to the washington may alay 12 mcmillan from committee on judiciary offered a resolution which was agreed to authorizing thor izing the committee to inquire into the facts forming the basis for the bill recently recently introduced by garland to amend a act et relating to the claims of the government against the union and central pacific reads roads the committee is authorized to send for persona persons and papers van wyck moved to tako take up liia ilia resolution directing tho the secretary of the interior to withhold from the northern pacific railroad patents to certain certai a land grants agreed to conger said there was a legal question involved he ila thought tho the resolution should bo be referred to the judiciary committee for its opinion besides it is was isas as questionable whether the senate should direct an executive officer not to execute van wyck expressed sur surprise r ii i I e that there should be any opposition to his resolution in reply to the th c question put by vrin wyck to conger tho the latter said with the approval of his constituents he had advocated the land grants to tho the road referred to the development of that road would bo be a great advantage to the state of michigan lie ile characterized vanwyck as the self constituted champion of public lands the tito matter went over and the chair laid before the senate unfinished dished business beine becks appeal from the te decision of the chacron ch airon harris point of order that a committee of conference cannot be appointed on the shipping bill until thol the louse shall specially disagree disa greo to amendments by the senate pending this question the indian a appropriation bill was taken up tho tho pending question was on haw 11 a w le leys Is motion to increase to 23 tha appropriation for education in alaska hawley supported this motion vest eaid said he lie would favor the highest amount tha the senate would appropriate for indian education provided aided pom both sexes were educated it was a al he lie aid laid to educate indian boys and leave the indian girls without education they attend school for a term and go back fo their tribes tribe sare are jeerer at aland and ridiculed for white accomplishments and wound up by becoming more barbarous cruel and uncivilized than prominent ezit men in their tribes although althou k a protestant himself vest felt compelled to 93 say the jesuits jesu its have shown tho the only real rea success in the education and civilizes civi lizas tion of indians two thines thin s had contributed tri buted to that success one that when their teachers went among tha the indians they did not look back to civilization but devoted the whole period of their lives to the work tha the other that the they y educated both sexes see boys and girls were equally educated and civilized till they grew grow into manhood and womanhood we with tha the proa pros pett pet and anticipation of christian marriage they did net not go back to their tribes but became part and parcel of our civilization this result could never be reached by the education of one sex only ingalls eaid said ho lie had been an observer of indian education for thirty fiyo five years indian education produced phenomena rather than results there were individual instances of ex extreme interest shown by it but it did not make an appreciable change in the indian character societies civilization and philosophies were not made they grow they were de 1 A thousand years ago the anglo saxon race to which wo we i belonged was as savage and untamable I 1 as any indians were at present they wore ivere not raised by the effort of others their development had been a growth from within a development cevelo of inherent forces ingalls thought the best thing tiling that could be done for tho the indians would be to mako make them amenable to law which they aro are not now he ile had bad beard heard enough of rather stale denunciations of the th e government for its extermination of the indians there had bad been no such extermination there were as many indians on the continent today as in 1492 1402 the government had ton ion the contrary always shown leniency to tho the indians hoar replied to ingalls by reading from a report of the chief of chero keo nation in which ho thinks tho the tribe is beholding to the government of oatlie the united states for its efforts toward indian civilization hoar supposed tho the indians had cost the government in wars and losses of all sorts lt 1 but there were only a about of them these ward wars a and nd losses in ases unquestionably had been brought about by wrongs perpetrated by whites upon tho the indians he lie thought it better to endeavor to adapt indians for civilization than to follow up any farther the policy that eo so long had prevailed lawes dawes said the senator from kansas ingalls was mistaken as to history mistaken as to fact mistaken as to 0 philosophy of mans being and was guilty of a libel on oil tho the whole human race when he lie intimated that any of its mer obera were incapable of being trained and educated frye moved that the shipping bill betoken betaken be taken up in order to retain its place as u unfinished n uy nish ed business agreed to adjourned |