Show co CONGRESS I 1 S senator 0 fintor yest pleads for the indians the house lie ile ejects tho the grant ke ile ti rement ment bill lr U wittem aava sd td ld bie alie ae 14 ATI washington peb feb ls 10 the chair laid baford senate A memorial of the tile legislature of arizona urging that certain coal fields in ili the white mountains indian reservation be separated from tho the re reservation and the right of discoverers thereof ho be recognized I 1 deferred Lef erred POST office appropriation bill was laid before tho the banate and referred after some discussion the senate proceeded prof ceded with tho the consideration of the indian appropriation bill vest read a letter from tho the governor of montana ritanA saying that notwithstanding the relief relie offered by the Go government verni the condition ot of tho the indians in some parts of montana from expos espos ure breand and starvation was pitiable piti ablo in the extreme it was useless in vests opi opinion hion to say let the indian work or die that was simply saying sayin 44 let them die 11 you might ag as well well 8 bay ay to a child in in the aradio crad leGo go to work or die wo we aro are under much more christian obligation mothese to these heath beath ens in our own territories chanto than to the he athens in asia and aud africa but no starving indian has ever been brought to a reali realizing zin g sense of christianity ti 11 after further debate vests amendment to increase the emergency fund from to was agreed to the contract labor bill mas was then formally placed before the senate but on dagess daft cas suggestion was unanimously laid aside to continue consideration of the indian appropriation bill I 1 HOUSE HOUSU feb 16 tho the house met in in continuation of fridays session slon and immediately went into committee of the whole on the legislative appropriation bill considerable progress had bad been made in reading the bill when the committee rose the house adjourned and the session sion of monday began when reagan offered a resolution requesting the secretary odthe of the treasury to transmit information with w ith regard to the range and ranch cattle traffic traffie of af tile west ern states and n d territories 17 err stories wit I 1 I 1 a special p ec reference to the beavines bea iines of that tr afflic on tile internal and foreign commerce of the united states referred tho the senate amendments to the army appropriation bill were non concurred in and a conference committee cittee wa was s appointed curn tinder instructions from the military committee moved to sm suspend pend the rules and pasa pass the senate bill for the tile retirement of general grant this is the ali first bill passed by the senate and specifically n names ames the tile officer to bo be retired horr and warner alii ohio 0 datu domai all dad a second the motion to suspend pend the rules was seconded to 72 the thirty debate allowed under the rules was wai opened by cum curn ili in bill this bill he haild proposed to place general grant in tho the samp same position no he lie would have occupied had he lie not lot on in accordance with tho tile will of the people of thu the country accented accepted the office of chief I 1 magistrate istrate Ss hi lp form and find language thia this bill was Trec precisely isely liko like ill all bills passed assed for purposes of this kind it liag has often been said that much lias has been done for general grant lut but nothing has been done for him by the he U S government beyond paying 11 alo hn the salaries to which he lie was ent entitled ditled by law lav I 1 1 the motion to sus penAl the tile rules and id pass the grant retirement wag was lost acas yeas nays nas not the requisite two thirds in the tl c affirms tive |