| Show L mttt9tl 1lti I CONGRESS SENATE WASHINGTON March > > 3Dawes called I up the conference report on the Indian I appropriation bill The two houses he said had agreed on the bill so far as all items properly pertaining to the appropriation appro-priation bill were concerned The Senate had struck out all items of general legislation legis-lation and all items for depredation claims Upon those however the House insisted Plumb said the Senate was confronted with the possibility to say nothing more of an extra session of Congress growing out of the action of the House The course of that body had shown the magnificent mag-nificent will power of one man to produce such a result Pregnant as Plumb believed be-lieved it to be with the gravest conse sequences to the people of the United States the exceedingly defective form of legislation found on appropriation bills tended to make him Plumb immovably opposed to yielding so far at least as related re-lated to important legislation No more gross confession of legislative I incompetency had ever been seen than L had been manifested within a stone LI throw of the Senate chamber within the last thirty days Bills appropriating millions mil-lions of dollars had been passed without consideration and then sent to the Senate Sen-ate within two days of the close of the session Senator Plumb characterized the river and harbor lump appropriation as a criminal waste of the peoples money In order to bring the question to a point and get an understanding Senator Dawes moved though he said he would vote against his own motion that the i Senate recede as to the provisions of the bill relating to legal jurisdiction and procedure pro-cedure in cases of crime committed by Indians The Senate refused to recede yeas 4 nays 47 HOUSE WASHINGTON March 3There were hardly a dozen members in the hall when the session was resumed this morning morn-ing The Sundry Civil bill had in the meantime come over from the Senate heavily loaded with amendments Randall Ran-dall asked unanimous consent that this bill be taken up and the Senate amendments amend-ments nonconcurred in and sent to the conference committee but objection came from Kepburn and then there was a call of the House which showed tho I presence of only fortyfive members I Randalls motion was then renewed and agreed to and Randall Forney and Ryan were appointed conferees on the part of the House After various ineffectual in-effectual attempts to have bills taken up by unanimous consent and it being plainly impossible to have any public business transacted the House adjourned adjourn-ed until 11 oclock A message from the House announced its disagreement with the Senate on the Sunday civil bill The Senate insisted on its amendments and the chair appointed ap-pointed as a conference committee Allison Alli-son Hale and Beck Vest hoped the Senate would agree with tho House provision regarding the Oklahoma matter and moved that the Senate recede from its amendment Ingalls did not believe the Senate appreciated ap-preciated the full significance of the Oklahoma difficulty He had no doubt that within 48 hours 20000 persons by concerted action would move on these Oklahoma lands to forcibly occupy them and prepared to maintain that occupancy by force of arms He did not believe graver complication could arise in the dawn of the coming administration than the complication likely to arise in tins matter Cullom said he had received reliable information that 2000 men were ready and determined to go on the land referred to on the 5th of March Butler asked whether the commander in chief of the U S Army had not sent an armed force toput out and keep out the people alluded to Ingalls said yes but Star that eminent commander was about to set out within a very short time The commander of that very majestic body known as the army of the United States would have passed from the control of the great general gen-eral who now commanded to a still greater general whose course was still in the womb of the future but undoubtedly undoubt-edly there was an impression that after the 5th of March troops would be withdrawn with-drawn Before the sun rose again misguided citi zens or tne united States might be in conflict with troops He Ingalls would regret shedding blood but there was but one way in his opinion to avoid it and that was for the Senate not to invite people peo-ple to go there by a promise that negotiations negotia-tions were about to be entered on for the purpose of opening lands to settlement The Senate insisted on its amendment and the Chair appointed Dawes Plumb and Ransom a committee of conference on the bill After further discussion of the appropriation appropri-ation bills the Senate adjourned and the legislative day of the 3d immediately I began Credentials of Leland Stanford and L G Eustis Senatorselect were laid before the Senate |
