Show 11 A A BAY AT N T the silver discussion progresses ia in the senate the zui canal company under con iid ration passage or of the free coinage washington jan 10 the vice president laid before the senate a protest of twenty three members of the idaho legi against allowing dubois to take his seat referred Kel erred to the committee on privileges and elections from the committee on public lands was a reported the senate bill to amend the railroad land forfeiture bill of the last session BO so as to make the period of six months fur for aser assertion tion of the rights of settlers begin to run not from the time of the passage of the act but from the data date of the restoration of such lands to settlement and sale and after explanation it was passed sherman from the committee on foreign belati relations ons reported a bill to amend the a act ct of february 9 incorporating po rating the canal company and authorizing the issue of bonds guaranteed by the united states it was placed on the calendar and with the accompanying report ordered printed the senate then resumed consideration of the finance bill and morgan continued bis his speech begun yesterday in support of free coinage lie ile soon yielded the floor temporarily and dawes presented the conference i aport on the bill to carry out in part the provisions of an act to 0 divide the sioux indian reservation in n response to a question by edmunds fie be said the commission of which sen gen carrias the head bead promised the sioux indians in the course of the negotiations to use their influence at washington for the redress of certain grievances the commission subsequently met forty representatives of th tho sioux indians from the reserva ion ere the present outbreak occur ede eee see that those assurances were car led out indian committees of both houses were aleo also present and all being together the bill has been seen prepared to carry out exactly the assurances aa ag the indians understood them that bill passed the senate in april last but from difficult ie in the other branch of congress it t did not pass the house till last month and it contained a duplicate appropriation of the sanate struck out ont that duplicate appropriation pria tion and hence the necessity of a conference As the bill now stood with that duplicate appropriation struck out it carried outto out to tha the letter the assurances of the commission precisely as the indians themselves understood them so 80 with the original bill and anti the pending bill a all the stipulations of the agreement agre agreement emen t and all the 8 assurances of the commission would be fulfilled and there could be no ground oa on which the indiana indians could complain of the government in any matter out ol 01 which the existing disturbance had arisen the conference report was agreed to tire pension ampro aion bill was reported and placed on the calendar morgan then concluded his speech quoting extensively from oae one made by the late senator beck the financial bill was then laid aside and a from the president wag was read forwar forwarding dlag a memorial of the legislative assembly of oklahoma for an appropriation lor for the relief of the des destitute lt people of that territory referred hoople ferre to ane committee on appropriations adjourned |