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Also. papers to accompany House bill No. 2137, to correct the ciety, A.caciemy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa., in ravor of military record of Jesse C. Allen, of Benton, Tenn.-to the Com a national park being made of the Calaveras grove of sequoias in mittee on Military Affairs. the State of California-to the Committee on the Public Lands. By Mr. NAPHEN: Petition of the stock fu·e-insurance com Also, reso'ution of the Keyston~ Association, Philadelphia, Pa., panies of Massachusetts. for the repeal of the war-revenue tux re favoring the pas. age of Hon ·e bill No. 687'>, providing thut the lating to insurance-to the Committee on Ways and Means. Allied Printing Trades label be ui~ed on all Government publica Al o, resolution of Frederick Becker Post, No. 21, Department tions-to the Committee on Printing. of M ssachnsetts, Grand Army of the Republic, in favor of House Also, petition of the executive committee of the 'l'emperance bill No. 7094, to establish a Branch Soldiers' Home at Johnson Association of Friends of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, for the Citv, Tenn.-to the Committee on Military Affairs. pas age of the anti-canteen bill-to the Committee on .Military Also, resolutions of the 'J,'ransvaal Committee of California, ex Affairs. · pressing sympathy for the people of the South African and Orange Free 8tate Republics-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Also, resolutions of a mass meeting of citizens of CharleRtown, SENATE. Mass., for the construction of gun boats and cruisers in the Charles town Navy-Yard-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. SATURDAY, Ap'I"il 7, 1900, By Mr. NORTON of South Carolina: Resolutions of the Wo Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. W. H. MILBURN, D. D. man's Christian Temperance Union of Anderson County. S. C., The Secretary proceeded to read the Journal of yesterday's pro against the sale of intoxicating liquors in the Philippines and ceedings .. Hawaii-to the Committee on Insular A:K'airs. Mr. KEAN. I ask unanimous consent that the further i·eading By .1\lr. RIORDAN: Petition of Harry G. Nast and others, of of the Journal be dispensed with. New York City, N. Y., in favor of the passage of House bill No. Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I bel'eve the practice of dispensing 4.351, for the classification of post-office clerks-to the Committee with the reading of the Journal is a very pernicious one. I think in on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. emergencies, where there is any reason why the time uf the 'enate By ~1 r. ROBINSON of Indiana: Petition of Modern Woodmen's should not be taken in this way, the reading may be dispen, ed Society of Orland. Ind., in favor of an amendment to the Loud with, but ordinarily the Senate ought to know, and it is the only bi 1 so as to admit fraternal papers at second-class rates-to the time the Senate has any means of knowing, what is the official Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. record of the proceedings of the day before. I hope the pra~ tice Also. petition of the Commercial Club of Fort Wayne, In
Saginaw; of the International Association ofMachinists of Grand · un~.~ a.n m--th0-sfate of Colqrado. remonstrating against the enact Rapids. and of Ci.~ar Maken;' Union No. 69, of Three Rivers, ment of legislation for the further prevention of cruelty to ani all in the State of Michigan, remonstrating against the proposed mals in the District of Columbia; which were referred to the cession of public lands to the severalStatesand Territories; which Comnlittee on the District of Columbia. were referred to the{)ounnittee on Public Lands. He also presented a petition of the Den-ver Chemical Manufac He also presented petitions of Typograph;cal Union, No. 154, of turing Company, of Denver, Colo., praying for the repeal of the .Ann Harbor; of Local Union No. 2.26, United Brotherhood of stamp tax upon proprietary medicines, perfumeries. and cos Carpenters and Joiners of America, of Traverse City; of Cigar metics; which was referred to the Committee on Finance. Makers· Union, No. 212, of Lansing; of the Metal Polishers, Buffers, He also presented a petition of sundry letter carriers of Denver, P1aters. and Brass Workers' International Union, of Grand Rap· Colo., praying for the enactment of legislation to provide for the ids: of Lodge No. 82, International Association of Machinists, of grading of substitute letter carriers; which was referred to the Detroit; of Local Union No. 67, Coopers' International Union, of Committee on Po&t-Offices and Post-Roads. Grand Rapid'!; of the committee of Trades Council of labor or He also presented a petition of Local Union No: 129, Cigar ganizations of Traverse (..'ity: of the Musicians' Protective Union, Makers' International Union, of Denrnr, Colo., praying that all American Federation of Musicians, of Saginaw; of Iron Molders' the remaining public lands be held for the benefit of the whole Union, No. 10-l. of Albion, and of the Central Labor Union of people, and that no grants of title to the same be given to any but Saginaw, all in the State of Michigan, praying for the enactment actual settlers and home builders thereon; which was referred to of legislation to limit the hours of daily service of laborers and the Committee on Public Lands. mechanics emp.oyed npon the public works of the United States; He also presented memorials of the Gilpin Observer, of Central which were referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. City; of the Medical Times, of Denver; of H.J. Johnson, of Glen He also presented memorials of Rev. F. W. Goodkin and sun wood Springs; of the Park County Bulletin, of Alma; of the Pho ary other citizens of Highland, of the Woman·s Christian Temper· nograph, of Lake City; of the Creede Candle, of (..,1.·eede; of the ance Union of Sa'em, and the Woman·s Christain Union of Silver titar, of Dolorns; of the Times, of Woodland Park; of the Capac, all in the State of Michigan, remonstrating against the Advertiser, of Fort Lupton; of the Daily Stockman. of Denver, importation, manufacture. and sale of intoxicating liquors in the and of the Mail, of Ophir, all in the State of Colorado, remon· islands acquired by the United States, and also agamst the further strating against the passage of the so-called Loud b1ll, relating to sale of liquor by the Government to members of theArmy,Navy, second class mail matter: which were refe1Ted to the Committee ' or other employees; wh ch were ordered to lie on the table. on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. · He also presented petitions of C.H. Hills, of Jackson; of the He also presented petitions of the congregations of the Presby Board of 'l'rade of Detroit; of G. E. Bardeen, of Ots go, and of terian Church of Monte Vista; of the Methodtst Episcopal Church the Kalamazoo Spring and Axle Company, of Ka1amazoo, all in of Monte Vista; of the First Baptist Church of Ste:mng; of the the State of l\licbigan, praying for the adoption of certain amend Central Presbyterian Church. of Sterling; of the Congregational ments to the interstate-commerce law; which were referred to Church of Fruita; of the l\lethodist Episcopal Church of Fruita, the Committee on Interstate Commerce. and of the Woman's Christian Temperance Unions of Pueblo and He also presented a petition of the Modern Woodmen's Society Silver Plume, all in the State of Colorado, praying for the enact· of Cassopolis, Mich., praying for the adoption of an amendment ment of legislation to prohibit the importation, manufacture, and to paragraph 4. section 5, of the so-callt>d Loud bill. relating to sale of intoxicating liquors and cont nue the prohibition of gam second-cla s mail m11tter; which was referred to the Committee bling and the opium trade in Hawaii; wnich were ordered to lie on Post·Offices and Post-Roads. on the table. Mr. PEN ROSE presented a petition of 127 citizens of Pennsyl He also presented petitions of the Stock Growers' Association vania, praying for the enactment of legislation to provide for the of Saguache, of the Stock Growers' Association of La Plata classification of railway mail clerks in first and second class post County, and of the Live Stock Association of Yuma and eastern offices; which was referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Arapahoe County, all in the State of Colorado, praying for a con Post-Roads-. tinuance of the free distribution by the Department of Agricul He also preRented a petition of the Federation of Trade Unions ture of blackleg vaccine: which were referred to the Committee of York, Pa., praymg for the enactment of legislation to increase on Agriculture and Foresti·y. the compensation of letter carriers; which was referred to the Be also presented a pet tion of Local Union No. 264, United Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. of Boulder, Colo., pray He also presented a petition of East Lemon Grange, No. 400, Pa ing for the enactment of legislation to limit the hours of daily trons of Husbandry, of East Lemon, Pa., praying for the adoption se1·vice of laborers and mechanics employed upon the public of certain amendments to the interstate-commerce law; which works of the United States, and ah:;o to protect free labor from was referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. prison competition; which was referred to the Committee on He also presented a petition of sundry dxuggists of MillhaU, Education and Labor. Pa .. praying for the repeal of the stamp tax upon proprietary He also presented a petition of Local Union No. 1, Job Press medicines. perfumeries, and cosmetics; which was referred to the men's Union, of Denver, Colo., praying for the enactment of leg Committee on Finance. islation providing for the printing of the Allied Trades label on He a!so presented a memorial of Local Grange No. 365, Patrons all publications issued by the Government: which was refe1Ted to of H uRbandry, of Colley, Pa.• remonstrating against the construc the Committee on Printing. tion of reservoirs or irrigating canals by the Government for the He also presented a petition of the North Side Woman's Club, irrigation of arid lands; which was referred to the Committee on of Denver, Colo., praying for the employment of women nmses in Irrigation and Rec amation of Ai'id Lands. the hospitals of the Army; which was referred tot.he Committee He also presented a petHion of Lo~al Grange No. 365, Patrons on Military Affairs. of Husbandry. of Colley, Pa., praymg for the enactment of legis He also presented a memorial of sundry citizens of Colorado, lation to prohibit the u e of shoddy in the manufacture of goods; remonstrating against the enactment of lPgislation to regu:ate the which was referred to the Committee on Manufactures. transportation of wild game from one State to another; which was He also pre ented a petition of Local Grange No. 365, Patrons referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. of Husbandry, of Colley. Pa., praying for the establishment of Mr. FAIRBANKS presented petitions of the Journal. the News, postal savings banks; which was referred to the Committee on the Press, tbe Sentinel, the Snn. and of Eli Lilly & Co., all of Post-Offices and Post-Roads. · Indianapolis; of the Demokrnt, the Journal Company, and the He also presented a petition of the Young People's Society of Courier Company, all of Evansville, and the Keefer Pharmaceu Christian Endeavor of PleaRantville, Pa., pTaying for the enact tical Company. of ~outh Bend, all in the State of Indiana, praying ment of legislation to prohibit the importation, manufacture. and for the enactment of legislation to protect manufacturers in the sale of intoxicating liquors in the new island possessions; which use of alcohol in the arts; which were referred to the Committee was ordered to lie on the table. on Finance. He also presented petitions of 80 citizens of Osceola, of the W o· Mr. KEAN presented a petition of the Veterinary Medical Asso man's ~hriscian Temperance Union of New Wilmington, and of ciation of New Jersey, praying for the e:-.tablishment of an Army the Young People's Society of l hristian Endeavor of Plea~ant veterinru·y corps; which was referred to the Committee on Mili ville, all in the State of Pennsylvania, praying for the enactment tary A:ffail's. of legislation to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in Army He also presented memorials of 35 members of the Distript Med canteens; which were referrljd to the Committee on Military Af ical Society of Mercer County, N. J., remonstrating against the fairs. enactment of legislation for the fmther prevention of cruelty to Mr. CARTER presented a memorial of sundry citizens of Mon an mals in the District of Columbia; which were refelTed to the tana, remonstrating against the leasing of the public lands to pri Committee on the District of Columbia. vate individuals and local corporations; which was referred to Mr. VEHT presented a petition of the board of dil:ectors of the the Committee on Agriculture and Fore try. 1\1issouri and Kansas Association of Lumber Dea1ers, praying for :Mr. TELLER presfnted memorials of the Lake County Med the adoption of certain amendments to the interstate-commerce ical Association of Lake County. of the Colorado State Medical law; which was referred to the Committee on Interstate Com Society, and of the Larimer County Medical Society, of Fort Col- merce. 3872 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 7,
-- -~-'-- He also presented the memorial of J. W. Bailey, secre ary of the M7 SCOTT, from tlle Committee on Public Buildings and Pacific Northwest Wool Growers' Association, remonstrating Grounds, to whom was referred the bill (S. 1982) for the erection against the leasing of public lands for grazing purposes; which of a public building at Allentown. Pa., reported it with an amend was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. ment, and submitted a report thereon. Mr. PLATT of Connecticut presented petitions of Madison Mr. QU.A.RLES, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grange, No. 122; Colchester Grange, No. 78; Hope Grange, No. Grounds, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3208) for the erection 20, and Webutuck Grange, No. 86, all Patrons of Husbandry in of a public building at Green Bay, Wis., reported it with an the State of Connecticut, praying for the establishment of postal amGndment. savings banks; which were referred to the Committee on Post Mr. SPOONER, from the Committee on Rules, reported an Offices and Post-Roads. amendment proposing an appropriation of $1,000 to pay HoraceC. He also presented petitions of Webutuck Grange, No. 86; Hope Reed for preparing an edition of the Senate Manual, int nded to Grange, No. 20; Colchester Grange, No. 78, and Madison Grange, be proposed to the sundry civil appropriation bill, and moved that No. 1~0, all Patrons of Husbandry, in the State of Connecticut, it be refetTed to the Committee on Appropriations and printed; praying for the extension of free rural mail delivery: which were which was agreed to. i·eferred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, Mr. F AIRB.A.i..~KS. On March 16 I reported from the Commit He also uresented petitions of the congregations of the Metho tee on Public Buildings and Grounds the bill (S. B211) to authorize dist Epi:~copal Church of South Meriden; the Trinity .Methodist the construction of an addition to the public building at Hartford, Episcopal Church, of Meriden; the .Methodist Episcopal Church Conn., and submitted a report thereon. I now beg leave to sub of Galesville; the Main Street Baptist Church, of Meriden; the mit a supplemental report, and I move that it be printed as part 2, FirHtMethodistEpiscopal Church. of Meriden, and of the Woman's to accompany the report already made by me. Christian Temperance Union of Meriden, all in the State of Con The motion was agreed to. necticut. praying for the enactment of legislation to prohibit the BILLS INTRODUCED, sale of intoxicatmg liquors in Army canteens; which were referred Mr. PENROSE introduced a bill (S. 4052) to correct the mm .. to the Commjttee on lVIilitary Affairs. taryrecord of Peter Philip J aclison Anderson, alias Philip Jackson; Be also presented petitions of East Canaan Grange, No. 136; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee Hope Grange, No. 20; Plymouth Grange, No. 72; Manchester on Military Affairs. Grange, No. 131; Westport Grange, No. 149, and Mattabesett Grange, No. 72, all Patrons of Husbandry, in the State of Con Mr. PETTUS introduced a bill The PRE~IDENT pro tempore1 The Senator from South Caro bill; which was referred to the Committee on Coast and Insular lina .requests that 1,000 additional copies of the bill and report be Survey, and ordered to be printed. printed for the use of the Sena.ta. Is there objection? The Chair .Mr. McBRIDE submitted an amendment proposing to appro hears none, and it is so ordered. priate $2,531,140.51 for the extension of the jetty at the mouth of 1900. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 387:.i the Columbia River, Oregon and Washington, including repairs The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa re and additions to the wharves, approaches, etc .• intended to be pro quests present consideration. posed by him to the sundry civil appropriation bill; which was Mr.WOLCOTT. Mr. President, I wish to say that that is one of ref erred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. the Spalding resolutions that has been handed to the Senators TRAVEL PAY .AND ALLOWANCES, from each State in a typewritten copy asking presentation by them respecting the State represented by different Senators, and that one On motion of Mr. WARREN, it was has been introduced for all the States, which was referred to the ·Ordered, That 1,500 copies of Senate Report, No. 813, Fifty-sixth Congress, I first session, on the bill (S. 3616) to authorize the payment of traveling allow Post-Office Committee, and suggest the rnference of this resolu ances to enlisted men of the regular and volunteer forces when discharged tion to the Post-Office Committee. by order of the Secretary of War and stated by him as entitled to travel pay, The PRESIDENT pro tempore. If there be no objection, the be printed for the use of the Senate. resolution will be referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and NATIONAL GALLERY OF HISTORY AND ART, Post-Roads. On motion of Mr. GALLINGER, it was Mr. ALLEN. Before the resolution is referred. I shOuld like to Ordered, That leave be granted to insert certain cuts and accompanying have it amended so as to take in the entire United States. text in the publication of Franklin Webster Smith praying an appropriation Mr. WOLCOTT. I will state to the Senator froi:n Nebraska of land for a site for a national gallery of history and art and for aid in the establishment thereof iii the city of Washington, D. C., the petition for which that the resolution introduced by the Senator from Alabama [Mr. was referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered t-0 MORGAN] does contemplate a return from the ;E>ostmaster-General be printed, on the 12th day of February, 1900. of the reports as to fomth-class postmasters throughout the JORGE CRUZ. United States. Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I submit a resolution, for which I ask Mr. ALLEN. Very well; then I have no objection to tho refer- present consideration. ence. . The resolution was read, as follows: The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution will be referrecl to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. - Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to transmit to the Senate a statement of the action of tile 'l'reasury Department in the case of READJUSTED SALARIES OF POSTMASTERS IN NEW YORK. Jorge Cruz, a rel'ident of Porto Rico, brought to N'ew York under contract to labor in the United States, together with all copies of all correspondence Mr. PLATT of New York submitted the following resolution; in the'case; and that he be further directed to inform the Senate what steps, which was referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post if any, have been taken to prosecute, for violating the alien contract labor Roads: law, the person, firm, or corporation entering into contract with said Cruz. · Resoh:ed, That the Postmaster-General be, and he hereby is, directed to T!J.e PRESIDENT pro ttmpore. Is there objection to the pres report upon a schedule to the Senate the readjusted salaries of all postmas ent consideration of the resolution? ters who served in the State of New York between July 1, 1864, and July"l, 1874, whose names as claimants appear in the Coru·t of Claims in the <"ase en The Senate, by unanimous consent, proceeded to consider the titled Bryant S. Palmer and others against 'fhe United State3, No. 18280, each resolution. such stated account to conform in all respects to the order of the Postmaster - Mr. CHANDLER. The resolution, I think, recites that this General pnblfahed by circular under date of June 9, 1883, and to the require ment of the act of March 3, 1883, as saia requirement was published by the man was brought under a contract to labor. Postmaster-General in the newspapers of the country under date of February .Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I am willing to change the resoiution 17. 1884; and with such report transmit to the Senate a full copy of the text so as to let it state that he was alleged or charged to have been of the construction by the Postmaster-General of the act of Miirch 3, 1883, bi·ought here under contract. embodied in the said circular and publication in the newspapers and in circu Jar form, No. 12"23. the text of each of which, under date of November 8, 1897, Mr. CHANDLER. Let it read" alleged to have been brought." was transmitted by the Postmaster-General to the Attorney-General for use The Senate does not know the fact that he was brought. The in the case of Jane Yarrington and others against The United ~:Hates, N o.16315. Senator from Arkansas may know it. PRESIDE~'TIAL APPROVAL, · Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I agree to the modification. . T}?-ePR~SIDENTprotempore. The modification will be stated. A message from the President of the United States, by Mr. 0. L . Tlie SECRETARY. After the words "Porto Rico" insert the PRUDEN, one of his secretaries, announced that the President had words •;alleged to have been." _ on this day approved and signed the act (S. 1475) to complete the · The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution will be so modi establishment and erection of a military post near the city of fied. _ The question is on agreeing to the resolution as modified. Sheridan; in the State of Wyoming, and making appropriation The resolution as ril~dified was agreed to. therefor. SANTEE SIOUX INDIAN LANDS. PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Mr. ALLEN submitted the following resolution; which was The PRESIDENT pro tempore. If there is no further morning considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to: busin!3SS, the Ch_air lays before the Senate the resolution coming · , Resolved, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed over from a. previous day. · · - · · io inform the Senate how many acres werEI originally contained in the reser- . vation set apart for the Santee Sioux Indians under and·by virtue of Article The Secretary read the resolution submitted by Mr. GALLINGER III of tho treaty of August 5, 1851, as modified by the Senate resolution in ex on the 5th instant, as follows: ecutive session June 23, 1851, and also Senate resolution of June 22, 1860; how Resolved, That the Committee on the District of Columbia be instructed many acres of said reservation were actually sold under the act of· March 3, to inquire and report to the Senate whether any teacher in the public schools 1863, at what price per acre the same \Vas sold, and if any, and what part of the District has been censured or taken to task by a. superior officer on · thereof, w~ sold higher than Sl.25 per acre; if any portion of said reservation account of the testimony given by such teacher during the recent investiga· is left unsold and th~ number of acres thereof, and whether the proceeds of the portion sold thereof is recognized as belonging to the Indians; and he is tion of the public schools. directed to furnish an itemized account of the proceeds of the sale of said The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing to lands each year from the passage of the act of March 3, 1863, to the present the resolution: · - time; how t.he proceeds were expended to June 5, 1870, for the four bands of Indians, namely, the Medawakanton, the Wahpakoota, the Sisseton, and the The resolution was agreed to. Wahpeton, now confederated and known as the Santee Sioux Indians, and HOlJSE BILLS REFERRED. what proportion.the Santee Sioux Indians w:ouJd have if recognized under their former tribal names;- the purpose or purposes for which said money or The bill (H: R. 60) to· create the northwestern division of the moneys were expended since June 15, 1870, and if any sum or sums derived northern district of Georgia for judicial purposes and to fU the from the sale of any said lands were used to fiilfill treaty obligation; and if so, to specify the same and what sum each of said tribes would be entitled time and place for holding court therein was read twice by-its . from the proceeds of said lands if the act of June 15, 1870, hail not been passed title, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. and the lands had been sold at $1 .25 per acre, according to section 3 of the act The bill (H. R.10311) to authorize the Shreveport and Red River of March 3, 1863. Vailey Railway Company to build and maintain·a railway bridge READJUSTED SA.LARIBS OF POSTMASTERS IN IOWA, across Red River at or near the town of Alexandria, in the parish Mr. GEAR. I submit, by request, a i·esolution, and ask for its of Rapides, State of Louisian·a, was read twice by its title:- present consideration. Mr. CULLOM •. I ask that the bill be referred to the Committee The resolution was read, as follows: .on Commerce; and I desire to call _the atten·tion of the Se-nator · Resolved, That the Postmaster-C'J"enera1 be. and he hereby is, directed to from Missouri [Mr. VEST] to it. I hope it tnay be reported back report upon a schedule to the Senate the readjusted salaries of all postmas ters who served in the State of Iowa between July 1, 1864, and July l ; 1874., to-day. · . · whose uruncs as claimants appear in the Court of Claims in the case entitled The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill will be referred to the E_beueze~· H. Rwinuey anu others against The United States, No. 18213, each Committee on Commerce. such stated account to oonform in all respects to the order of the Postmas ter-Gcucral published by circnlar under date of June 9, 1883, and to the re SENATOR FROM PENXSYLV.ANIA, quirement of tho act of 11farcb 3, 1883, as said requirement was published by Mr. the Postmaster-General in tho newspapers of the country under date of Feb THURSTON.- Themo~ning business beingconcluded~Iask ruary 17, 1884; nud with such 1·eport transmit to the Senate a full copy of the unanimous consent to proceed to the consideration of ·the Indian text of the constrnction by tl10 Postma!;ter-General of the act of March 3, appropriation bill. - . . _ . . 1883, embodied in the said circular and publlration in the newspapers and in PRESIDENT circular form No. 1:.!'2'J. the text of eaeh of which, under date of November 8 The pro tempore. The Senator from Nebraska 1897, was tmnsmitted by the Postmaster·General to the Attorncy-Geuerai asl The PRESIDENT pro t.empore. The Chair lays before the Sen the erection ot a public building thereon at Coioi-ado Springs, in ate the following resolution, under t.he unanimous agreement. the State of Colorado. The Secretary read the resolution reported by the Co1_ru:nittee The Secretary read the bill; and the Senate, by unanimons con on Privileges and Elections January 23, 1900, as follows: sent, proceeded to its consideration as in Committee of the Whole. Resolved, That the Hon. M~tthew S. Quav is not entitled to take bis seat The bill was reported from the Committee on Public Buildings in thi body as a enator from the State of Pennsylvania.. and Grounds with amendments. Mr. BERRY. l\lr. President, I should like to make an appeal The first amendment was in line 11, page 1, after the word "ap- to the Senator from Nebraska. There is a bill on the Calendar in paratus," to s~rike ont the word ''elevators;" so as ta read: . · That the S 1'0tary of the Treasury be, and he i hereby, authorized and 1·eaard0 to a bridge in the State of lississippi, and it is peculiarly directed to acquire, by purcha e, condemnation, or otherwis , :i. ite, and important.that the bill should be pa~soo at .once. There is n:o ob cause to be erooted thereon a suitable building, including fireproof vault , jection to it. The matter has been tied up m the courts, and.it has beating and >entilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches. for the use and accommodation of tha United. tate po t-ottice and other Gove:roment office • been very inconvenient to a lar~e number of people. r::i;he Com in the city of Colorado Springs and State of Colorado, the cost of said site and mittice on Commerce has unammously reported the bill, and I building, including said >ault heating and ventilating app~ratus, and ap should like very much if the Senator would yield to me and let proaches, complete, not to exceed the sum of $150,000. me have the bill passed. It will not take exceeding five minutes The amendment was agreed to. at the outside. The ne~t amendment wa , on page 3, to strike out lines l5 to 21 , Mr. THURSTON. I have no objection to that. I believe we inclusive, in the following words: can finish the Indian appropriation bill in an hour. No money shall be used for the purpose mentioned until a valid titlo to tho Mr. BERB.Y. If the Senator will allow me to haYe that bill site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State app~opriation of Colorado shall ha.rn ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over passed I will then help him to get the bill through. the same; during the time the United States shall bo or remain tht.l owner The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The appropriation bill is not thereof, for all purpoEes except the administration of the c1·iininal laws of before the .... enate. said State and the service of civil process therein. Mr. THURSTON. I understand that. 1 ask that the resolu The amendment was agreed to. tion concerning Mr. Quay be informally laid aside and that the The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend· Senate proceed to the consideratj.on of the Indian appropriation ments were concurred in. · · bill. The bill was orde1-ed to be engro sed for a third reading, read · Mr. CHANDLER. I object to that if anyone is ready to spea'k the third time, and passed. on the Pennsylvania l·esolution. I had supposed some Senator would be ready to speak after the notice which I gave the other RED RIVER (LOUISIANA) BRIDGE, day, and that Senators who intended to speak might properly be Mr. VEST. I ask leave to submit a report from the Committee asked to be ready and not to lon~er delay the Senate in the ~o~ on Commerce. I am directed by the Committee on Commerce, to sideration of this resolution. I W111 ask the Senator from M1ch1- whom was referred the bill (H. R. 10311) to authorize the Shreve gan if° he is ready to proceed th~ morning? . port and Red River Valley Railway Company to build and main Mr. BURROWS. I will nay to the Senator from New Hamp· tain a rai.1 way bridge aero s Red River at or near the town of Alex shire that I am not, and I do not know of anyone who is prepared andria. in the parish of Rapides, State of Lou1siana, to i·eport it this morning to proceed. We shall be ready next week, probab y favorably without amenctment. on Monday, to go on with the consideration of the resolution. l\lr. CULL0-1. There is quite an emergency in reference to Mr CHANDLER. If no one desires to speak at this time, I that bill, and I ask that it may be immediately put upon its certainly shall not object to having the resolution go over until passage. Monday morning, but I do insist that Senators who are ready to The Secretary read the bitl; and, by unanimous consent, the speak shall go on at that time, and I als? insis~ th.at Senators ~ho Senate, as in Commjttee of the Whole, proceeded to its consider· intend to speak shall get 1·eady to submit their views to the Sen a ti on. ate on that que tion, and some time next week; po sibly on Mon· The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered day, I shall ask to have a day fixed when the Senate will vote to a ·thfrd reading, read the third time, and pa sed. upon the resolution. . . . . The.PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without obJeotion, the Indian ME~SAGE FROlI THE HOUSE. appropriation bill is before the Senate. A message from the House of Representatives, hy l\lr. W. J . .Mr. BERRY. Does the Senator from Neb1·aska yield to me? BROWNIKG, its Chief Clerk, announced that tbe House had passed The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from Ne the concuITeut resolution of the Senate to print 4,500 copie of the braska y1eld to the Senator from Arkansas? report transmitted by the ecretary of State of the commissioner Mr. THURSTON. I yield to the Senator from Arkansas. for the United States on the International Pri on Commission on PEARL RIVER (MISSISSIPPI) BRIDGE. "crimes, misdemeanors, and penalties" in the United 8tate·. The message a•so announced that the House bad pa· ed the bill Mr. BERRY. I ask unanimous consent for the ~resent consid (S. 2679) declaring certain trestles of the Washington County eration of the bill {H. R. 8063) to legalize and mamtain the iron Railroad Company to be lawful structures. bridge ac1·oss Pearl River at Rockport, Miss. The message further announced that the House had passed, with The Secretary read the bill; and, by unanimous consent, the amendments, the bill (S. 222) to provide a government for the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, proceeded to its consider Territory of Hawaii, in which it requested th.e concurrence of the ation. Senate. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered The message also announced that the Honse had pas. 1900. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN.l\.TE. and provided for on page 42, in the proviso commencing in line in receipt of his report, dated the 26th instant, which gives the information desired. · 15, and running on to page 43. That proviso represents theopinion I have the honor to inclo e a copy of said report herewith. of the committee, as 1 understood it at the time. but during my ab Respectfully, sence there was a delegation here from tbe Indian Territory who E. A. HITCHCOCK, SecretanJ. Hon. JAXEs K. .TOXES, wanted to change it. I have ha.d no opportunity to examine the United States Senate. que tion. I am not satisfied that the plan now proposed by the amendment of the Senator from Arkansas is preferable to the one which was agreed upon by the committee when the bill was re DEPARTMENT OF THE hT'fERIOR, 0F.FICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. ported; and as the whole subject-matter is in the bill and will go lVash ingt on. March. 26, 1900 before tbe committea of conference, where a. change could be Sm: I am in receipt, by Department reference. of March 17, 1900, fo1• re made if it were found desirable, I hope the Senator from Arkan port, of a communication dated March 17, 1900, from Hon. JAMES K. JO!'i."ES, in sas will not press his amendment at this time. which he. requests to be advised as soon as possible of" the amount of money it has cost to survey and appraise each of the towns which have been ap Mr. JONES of Arkansas. .M.r. President, I ha-ve no dispo~ition praised and surveyed by town-site commissioners in the- Indian Territory, to press this amendment, especially if the Senator from Connecti antl. wba.t the sale of lots under such appraisement in each <':tse has amounted cut has any doubt a"hout the propriety of it. At the time it to; the total amount of money expended bl' your Department under this head, and the number of snrveys and appraisements completed, and the con· was proposed, as just stated by the Sena.tor from Connecticut. he dition of the work in 0th.er towns where not completed." was absent from the city, which I then very much regretted. In reply, I have the honor to report that from the records on file in this That there is an evil existing in the Indian Territory at thjs time office, it can not be definitely ascertained what it bas cost to survey, plat, appraise, and sell the lots in any particular town in the Choctaw and Chicka which ought to be corrected there can be no doubt. A subcommit saw nations. tee was appointed by the Committee on Indian Affairs to investi However, from an oxa.miua.tion of the quarterly cash accounts and the gate the complaints wr.de about the management of the town-site weekly reports rende1·ed. by Dr. Sterrett. the disbursing officer of the commissioners in the Indian Territory. A number of complaints Choctaw town-site commis ion, it is ascertained that the expenses of this commission from ~la.rch 13 to May 23-, 1B99. was approximately SML.86. This had come in public and private ways to me, and I presented a covers the period from the time Dr. Sterrett entered on duty, March 13, 1899, resolution to the Senate, which· wru; adopted, directing the Com to the date the comnri sion commenced the survey of the town of Sterrett,. which was about May 23, l '99 and includes D:::. Sterrett's salary and the ex mittee on Indian Affairs to inquire into those complaints. A sub penses incurred by him while-he was in Wasbtngton 1·eceiving instructions· committee was appointed and directed to take this matter UJ2. relative to town-site matte.rs, which covered the :period from March 13 to After an investigation made by the subcommittee, most of the April 6, 1.a99, and also the expenses of the commission while at Muscogee, members of the committee were satisfied that there should be Ind. T .• preparing. in connection with the Chfcb.£aw and Muscogee town-site commissiona; forms from which. to have record books. blanks, etc., printed. something done, and the amendmen·t offered by me was prepared The commission was engaged in this work from April 17 to .l\iay 23~ 1899. and sent to the Secretary of the Interior for his opinion. I have The Choctaw to"\'i-n-site com.mission commenced work at Sterrett, Choctaw in my hand a letter from the Secretary of the Interior recom Nation, about May 24, 1 99, and completed its duties at said town abou.t Sep tember 2, 1899, and the plat of said town prepared by said commission was mending the adoption of the amenlment, which I 'Yfil. without approved by the Department August 23, 1 99 .. objection. place in the RECORD for the information of Senators '.rhe total expen e incurred. by this commission in surveying, platting, ap-. who are intErested in the subject. praismg, and . el.ling the lots in the town of Sterrett was, as shown by the qua11:erly rash accounts and weekly reports of the disbursing officer of the Mr. PLATT of Connecticut. I wish the Senator would also commission, approximately $3,659.~- In the items of expense above men place in the RECORD the lett.er of the Com.missioner of Indian tioned is also probably included the cost of office furniture, smTeyors' instru Affairs, which I have not yet had an opportunity to read. I be ments, drafting material, etc. The lots in the town of Sterrett sold for au aggregate of $19,llil.'i6. . lieve he has written a letter on the subject. 'l'h.is co~sion commenced the survey of Atoka, Choctaw Nation, about Mr. JONES of A1·kansas. There is another letfor from the De &>ptem ber 3. 1 99, and completed the survey and platting of said town of partment, which I will also ask to have inserted in the RECORD, Atoka. about November 6, lw,), at an aggregate expense of aboutSl,Sil.17 as shown by the quarterly cash 3.C'.COnntB and weekly reports of the disburSlllg1 showing the pro.gress of the work done by the town-site commis officer or the commission on file in this office. The plat of Atoka prepared by sioners, the amount of work done, and the expense. It shows this commission was approved by the Department February 23, IUOO. The that in the twelve months in which this work has been in progre s, lots in aid town, so far as this office is advised, have not yet been appraised with one town-site commission in the Chickasaw Nation and one and sold. This commission commenced the survey of South McAlester November 7, in the G"hocta w Nati on. there have l.Jeen three town sites surveyed 1 00, and its expenditures since said date up to and including March 17, 1000, in the Choctaw Nation and two surveyed in the Chickasaw Na as shown by the quarterly cash accounts and weekly reports of the disburs tion. ing officer of the commission, have been, approximately, SJ,636.47. It is ex pected that the plat of South McAlester now being prepared by said com • From the statements of the witnesses who were before the com mission will be received in this office by May 1, WOO. Certain sundry ex mittee, I think there are from 40 to 50 t-0wns in each of these na penses, such as typewriter, stationery, etc., incmred by this com..mission tions. which would se~m to indicate that one commission can not have been paid through the Treaimry Department, amounting in all to the sum of $139.30. po sibly make ·an the surveys for a great many years to come. The expenses of the Chickasaw town-site com.mission from March 25, 1.... 99, There is another consideration which we thonght ought to have the date Samuel N. Johnson, chairman of the commission, entered on duty, some influence in this matter, and that was the advantage which to about May '?/, 1899, the approximate date said commission commenced work at Colbert, Chickasaw Nation, as shown by the quarterly cash accounts one town would get in being surveyed now, opened for settlement, and weekly reports of Mr. Johnson, the disbursing officer of the com.mission, and titles thereby being conveyed to persons who were residents were about $857.4L This item of expense seems to include Mr. Johnson's of that town, in comparison with other towns where a survey can salary and expenses while in Washington receiving instructions relative to not take place under the present management for five.or ten years his duties, and tho salaries of the commissioners and e~penses incurred by them while at JUnscogee, Ind. 'l'., which was approximately from March l3 to to come. It would be unfair in its operation; it would operate May t6, 1899. During this time said commission was assisting the Choctaw inequitably and unjustly. and Muscogee town-site commissions in the matter of preparing forms from I will p ace in the RECORD, by unanimous consent, first, the which to have record books, blanks. eta., printed. The · commission commenced th& survey of Colbert, Chlcka.ciaw Nation, letter of the Secretary of the Interior recommending the adoption about May 27,1 99,and completed its duties there about August 31,1899. The of the amendment proposed by me; then the letter of trnnsmittal aggregate expense incurred by this commission in surveying, platting, ap of the Secretary, together with the re.port of the Commissioner of praising, and selling the lots in the town of Colbert, Chickasaw Nation, as shown by the quarterly cash accounts and weekly repo1-ts of the disbursing Indian Affairs, which shows the work done by the town-site com~ officer of the commi&ion on file in this office was approximately $3.4:72.80. missions. ... There is also probably included in the items of expense above mentioned The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, the letters the cost of offioo furniture, surveyor's instruments, drafting material, etc. The plat of Colbert prepared by this commission was approved by the De referred to will be printed in the RECORD. partment August 14.1 !19. Tbe lots in Colbert, Chickasaw Nation, were sold The letters referred to are as follows; for an agip-egate of $5,072.25. This commission commenced wol'k at Ardmore, Chickasaw Nation, Sep DEPARTl!ENT OF THE INTERIOR, tember 1, 1899. The aggregate expense incurred by it from said date up to Washington, March$$, 1900. and including March 10, 1900, as shown by the quarterly cash accollD.ts and DE.AR SIR~ I am in receipt of your Jetter of even date, inclosing a proposed weekly reports of the diabursingofficer of the commission on file in this office, amendment to the Inman appropriation bill (page 42) and asking my opinion is approxrmately$1,121.77. It is expected that the plat of Ardmore will be' as to the advisability of incorporating the same in the bill. received in this office b:y May l, 1900. Certain sundry expenses of this com In reply I have to say that the amendment has my entire approval. and I mission, such as typewriter, stationery, etc., were paid through the Treasury trust it will receive favorable action on the part of the Senate and be incor Department, a.mounting in the aggregate to 117.77. porated in the bill. The amendment is herewith returned. 'fhe expense of the Muscogee town-site commission from At>ril 6, 1899, the Very respectfully, date the chairman, Mr. D. W. Tuttle, entered on duty, up to and including E. A. HITCHCOCK, Seci·etary. March 17, 1900. as shown by the quarterly cash accounts and weekly reports Hon. JAME K. Jo:r-.'Es, of the disbursing officer of the commission on file in this office, has been a,p United States Senate. prorimately $11.687.33. In the expenditure above mentioned there is included Mr. Tuttle's salary and expenses while in Washington receiving instructions relative to his duties, and that of the commission while assisting the other com.missions in DEPARTMENT OF THE IXTERIOR, Washington, March!'!, 1!JOO. the preparation of forms from which to have record books, blanks, etc., Sm: Referring to your letter of the 17th instant, requesting a statement printed. of the amount of money it has cost to survey and appraise each of the towns However. it can not be ascertained from the quarterly cash accounts and surveyed and appraised by town-site com.missions in the Indian Territory, the weekly reports rendered by the disbursing officer of the commission the amount of the sale of lots in each case. the total amount of money expended amount of such exvense!i. One typewriter for the use of this commission, at by the Department for this pm·pose, the nUIUber of surveys and appraise a cost of S&'), was paid for through the Treasury Department. It is eXJ?ected ments completed. and the condition of the work in the other towns where not ·that the plat of .Muscogee, prepared by this commission, will be received m this completed, you are advised that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs was di office not later than April 1, 1900. rected to make report concerning the inquiries abo•e set forth, and I am now The commission is now engaged in appra~g the town of Muscogee, Creek 3876 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APR.IL 7, Nation, and it is thought that such appraisement will have been completed by May l, 1900. · be some different arrangement from that proposed in the bill, but The expenses of the Wagoner town·site commi.c:;s ion from Augnst 8, 1899, I can hardly think it is necessary to have forty or fi fty different to the data Mr. H. C. Linn, chairman of the commission, entered upon duty, tpwn-site commissioners. It makes a great many officers. It up to and including December 31, 1899, as shown by the quarterly cash ac would make 100 town-site commissioners, more or less. It seems counts of the disbursing officer of the commission, Mr. Linn, have been about $!,3!0.28. to me the disposition of the matter can be arrived at in some way The expense of this commission subsequent to Decembe1· 31, 1899, can not without the appointment of such a large body of officers. be ascertained, for the reason that the disbursing officer has never rendered I have no present conclusive impression on the subject, and any weekly reports to the office, and his quarterly cash account for the pres ent quarter will not be received until after the termination thereof, which therefore I do not want to have the amendment adopted. I am is March 3l, 1900. very glad the Senator has withdrawn it. I will give my careful The Wagoner town-site commission is now engaged in a:ppraisingthetown attention to it afterwards. lots of Wagoner, Creek Nation. The plat prepared by said commission has been received in this office and has been transmitted for departmental action. Mr. JONES of Arkansas. In reply to the suggestion of the Sen It is expected that the appraisement of the lots in Wagoner will be completed ator from Connecticut, I want to say that I think in all probabil by a.bout April 20, 1900. ity there may not be any pressing necessity for a town-site com From the foregoing it will be ~een that the amount it has cost to survey, plat, appraise, and sell any particular town in the Choctaw or Chickasaw mission for every town. Still it does seem, when you look into the nation can not be definitely ascertained from the records on file in this matter very carefully, as if it would be desirable to have such a office; that the Choctaw town-site commi~ion has surveyed, platted, ap commission for every town, so as to facilitate the work and have praised, and sold the lots in one town in the Choctaw Nation, viz, Sterrett; it completed as early as possible. that the plat of said town prepared by said commission was approved by the Department August 28, 1899; that the lots in said town sold for an aggregate But the important matter carried by the amendment which I of 19,188.76; that the al(>proximate expenses incident to said work were have proposed is the provision that the towns may, if they see $3,6.19.48; that said commission has surveyed and platted the town of Atoka, fit, have surveys made at their own expense; and when so made Choctaw Nation, at an aggregate approximate cost of $1,841.17; that, so far as this office is advised, the lots in baid town of Atoka have not been appraised to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior, the town-site and sold; that the plat of said town of Atoka, prepared hy said commission, commission may be then appointed and an appraisement at once was approved by the Department February 23.1900; that said commission com take place. menced the survey and plat of the town of South McAlester, Choctaw Na tion, about November 7, 1889, and has been engaged in surveying and platting The length of time which these officers would ilave to exercise said town up to and including this date; that the cost of the work up to and their duties under these circumstances would be very brief; and including March 17, 1900, has been approximately$4:,636.47; that it is exJ>ected whether there be a larger or a smaller number would cut but lit the plat of said town, presumed to be in course of preparation by said com mission, will be received in this office by May 1, 1900; that the Chickasaw town tle figure if it would only take a short time to complete the work site commission has surveyed, platted, appraised, and sold the lots in <>ne thev had in hand. town in the Chickasaw Nation, viz, Colbert; that the plat thereof prepared Mr. COCKRELL. I should like to make some inquiries about by said commission was approved by the Department August 14, 1899; that the lots in said town sold for an aggregate of $5,072.25; that the approximated the town-site commissioners who are already out there. How are cost of surveying, platting, appraising, and selling the lots in said town was they getting along? Are they moving rapidly or slowly, or are $3.472.80; that said commission is now and has been since about September l, they doing n-0thing? 1899, engaged in surveying and platting the tovr.n of Ardmore, Chickasaw Na· .Mr. JONES of Arkansas. If the Secretary will hand me the tion; that the expense incurred by said commission since the date last above mentioned up to and including March 10, 1900, has been, approximately, letter which I have just 6ent to the desk, I can give the Senator the $7, 121. 77; that it is expected the plat of said town now being prepared by said official answer to that question. I have just asked to have this commission will be received in this office not later than May 1, 1900; that the paper printed in the RECORD for the information of the Senate. Muscogee town-site commission is now, and has been since about May 20, 1899, engaged in survbying and platting the town of Musco~ee, Creek Na I will not read the whole letter, because it will take too much tion; that the total expense of this commission up to, and including March time, but the summary can be given in a few words. I will first 17, 1900, has been approximately 811,667.33; that the plat of said town will state that the Chickasaw town·site commission was appointed probably be received in this office by AI>ril l, 1900; that it is understood said commission is appraising the lots in said town; that said appraisement will something like a year ago. I do not recall the exact time, but probably be completed by May 1, 1900; that the Wagoner town-site commis about then. This is the recapitulation of the Commii::s!oner·s sion has surveyed and platted the town of Wagoner. Creek Nation; that the letter: plat prepared by said commission is now before the Department; that the total expense incurred by said commission from August 8, 1899, the date the Choctaw town-site commission: chairman entered on duty up to and including December 31, 1899, has been ap One town, viz, Sterrett, surveyed, platted, appraised, andsolu · · proximately $4,Si0.28; that said commission is now engaged in appraising the for aggregate of ·----- _____ ------...... ------____ $19.188. 76 lots in said town, and that it is expected such appraisement will be completed At an estimated expense of ______·------·------3;U59. 48 by .April 20, moo. One town, nz, Atoka, surveyed and platted, at an approximated REC.A.PITCLATION. expenso of ____ .--·------·--. _____ ------____ --··------·-- 1,8il.17• Choctaw town-site commission: One town, viz, Sterrett, surveyed, platted, appraised, and sold It seems that nothing has been done except the sur1ey of that for aggregate of..----.-----.------. __ _. ___ ------. ----- $19, 188. 'i'6 town. They are- At an estimated expense of·------3,659.48 Now engaged in surveying and platting South McAlester; npproxi- One town, >iz, Atoka, surveyed and platted at an pproximated imated expense up to March 17, 1900. ------____ Si,638.47 expense of ______------·------.-----. ------1, 841.17 Now engaged in surveying and platting 8outh McAlester, ap- The survey and appraisement of one only has been completed proximated expGnse up to March 17, 1900 ______------4, 636.H and the sale made. In the others there has been no appraisement Condition of work at South .McAlester: made after the survey; but two towns have been surveyed in ad Expected plat will b3 received in this office by May 1, 1900. Chickasaw town-site commission: dition to the one where the survev has been made and the sale One town, viz, Colbert, surveyed, platted, appraised, and sold taken place. • 5 072 25 3, 472· Condition of work at South McAlester: foi:~;~~~~:t:J>~<>st·o:r-.-.-:::: ::::: :::::.-::: ::::::: :: :: : ::: :.-:: , · 80 Expected plat will be received in this office l>y May 1, 1900. ~ ~i1J:~;;~~~r~h1o~i~~ -~~~-~~-~~i~~- ~~~~~~:~-'-~~:~~~:~~ -/,121. '":7 That is the survey only- Condition of work at Ardmore: Expected that plat will be received in this office by May 1, 1900. Chickasaw town-site commission: :Musco~ee town-site commission: One town, viz, Colbert, surveyed, platted, appraised, and· sold Estimated expense of work at Muscogee to March 17, 1900______11,667.33 Condition of work: A~°:na~s~~t:dt~~{-c;f :::::::::::::: :::::: :::: :: :: ::::::::::;: :::: &~; ~f~: ~ Expected that appraisement of lots will be completed by May 1, 1900. . This town-site commission is the only one for the Chickasaw Wagoner town-site commission: Nation, and they are- Total estimated expense to December 31, 1899---····------·-··-· 4,340.28 Condition of work at Wagoner: Now engaged in surveying and platting Ardmore; estimated ex- From the reports of the chairman of the commission, it is ex pense to March 10, 1900 ---- .....• ------. ----· ------$7, 121. '17 pected that the appraisement of lots in the town of Wagoner Mr. PLATT of Connecticut. That is the largest town in the will be completed about April 20, 1900. · ---- Territory. · Total estimated expense of Choctaw town-site commission to March Mr. JONES of Arkansas. Yes, it is the very largest, I think. 17, 1900 ------·------·------11,098.28 Total estimated expense of Chickasaw town-site commission to They are now engaged in the survey, but that has not been com March.10, 190'.>. -----. ----- ______. ______·--______------.. _____ • 11,571. 75 pleted. Total estimated expense of Muscogee town-site commission to Condition of work at Ardmore: March 17, 1900. ------·------______.. __ -·---· ___ _ 11, 752.33 Expected that plat will be received in this office by May 1, 1900. Total estimated eXPense of Wagoner town·site commission to De- Muscogee town-site commission: cember31, 1899_ ------·-·--· ---·------·------·---- 4:,340.28 Estimated expense of work at Muscogee to l\Iarch 17, 1900. ------Sll,007.33 Total amount expended by all town-site commissions ______38, 762.6! That. is not completed. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Condition of work: _ W. A . JONES, Commissioner. Ei~~t.ed that appraisement of lots will be completed by l\Iay 1, The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. Wagoner town-site commission: Mr. JONES of A.rkansas. With that statement and with the Tutal estimated expense to December 31, 1899. -----· · ···--·-···-- 4,3!0.28 understanding which the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. PLA.TTj Condition of work R.t Wagoner: mentions, that this whole matter will be open in conference, I will From the reports of the chairman of the commission it is expected that the appraisement of lots in the.town of Wagoner will be withdraw the amendment from present consideration. completed about April 20, 1900 . . Mr. PLATT of Connecticut. It is very possible there ought to· 1900.. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. ·3877 Total estimated expense of Choctaw town-site commission to March Mr. COCKRELL. I offer the amendment which I send to the 17, HIOO. ------·-----. ----- ·------·------$11, 098. 28 de1:1k, to come in as indicated. 1'otal estimated expense of Chickasaw town-site commission to March 10, HlOO ______------____ ------ll, 571. 'i5 The PRESIDENT pro tern pore. The amendment will be stated. Total e timated expense of Muscogee town-site commissio!'l to March The SECRETARY. On page 73, after line 9, it is proposed to 17, 1900. ------11, 'i52. 33 Total estimated expense of Wagoner town site commission to De- insert: cemJ:?er 31, 189:> ------____ ----- ______------4, 3ill. 28 And all sales and con>eyances of lands of deceased allottees by their heirs which bave been duly made and executed by such heirs, and duly appro\'ed Total amount expended by all town-site commissions ...... ---- 38, 762. G4: by the Secretary of the Interior, arc hereby ratified and confirmed. Mr. COCKRELL. At the same rate of progress, about what The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amend year would they get through? ment proposed by the Senator from !\Ii souri (Mr. COCKRELL]. Mr. JONE3 of Arkansas. It would be impossibTe to finish this The amendment to the amendment was agreed to. work in less than ten or fifteen years, I should think, speaking Mr. COCKRELL. Now that that is incorporated in the provi· conservatively. I believe it will take longer. At the same rate at sion as an amendment, the Senator from Nebraska may move to which they are now progressing it would take very much longer. strike it all out. Mr. PETTIGREW. I should like to knowhow the commission Mr. THURSTON. I now move to strike out section 17 as is constituted. amended. Mr. JONES of Arkansas. Under the Atoka agreement there The motion was agreed to. was a provision that there should be one town-site commission for Mr. JONES of Arkansas. On yesterday I gave notice of an each of these nations-the Chickasaws and the Choctaws. One of amendment, which I asked to have printed, which I propose to the commissioners is to be selected by the chief of the nation, and offer on page 54. · If the chairman of the committee has nothingJ the other to be selected by the Government of the United States, else to sug~est, I will offer that amendment now. ·and in case of any disagr~ement they are to call in a third party. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Arkansas I understand the usual process is to go to a town~ employ a corps offers an amendment, which will be stated. of surveyors, and then begin the survey of a town site, the com The SECRETARY. The proposed amendment is on page 54, line missioners remaining in the town to determine where streets shall 17, after the word "Alaska," to insert: ' be located, the width of streets, their length and direction, and Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior ·may make contracts with what changes shall be made. They are to determine the confor present contract schools for the education of Indian pupils during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, but shall only make such conti·acts at places where mation and arrangement of the town, and after the surveys are the Governmentha.s not provided school facilities for all the children of school completed a map js made ll.nd sent to the Secretary of the Interior. age residing thereat, and to an extent not exceeding tbe number of children After he has approved that map, then the commissioners appraise in attendance at said contract schools at the close of the fiscal year ending the lots,•which are subsequently sold and the matter closed. June 30, 1900. . The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amend- Mr. THURSTON. Mr. President, I would make the point of ment as amended. · order against the amendment if I thought it would lie, but I am ·Mr. PLATT of Connecticut. The Senator from Arkansas with inclined to believe ·the amendment is germane. I am opposed, ·araws his amendment. however, to its adoption; and in opposing the amend.meut I have Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I have withdrawn it. only a very few words to say. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair was not referring Six years ago the agitation over the matter of sectarian schools to that amendment. The Chair was referring to the committee's for Indian pupils reached a climax. It resulted in comp1:0mise amendment as it has been amended. action by the Congress of the United States. under which it was Mr. PLATT of Connecticut. Excuse me. understood, and virtually agreed by both Houses of Congress, that The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on that amend we would, from year to year for a period of five years, reduce the ment as amended. appropriation for the support of our Jmlian-pupils in sectarian The amendment as amended was agreed to. schools, so that after five years we would make no further ap . Mr. THURSTON. Mr. President, I believe there is only one propriation for that purpose. In line with that, Congress and other matter passed over in the bill, the proposed committee the Department have been from year to year enlarging the In- amendment to strike out section 7. I think it was passed over at dian school faciU ties, until to-day the Commissioner of Indian the· request of the Senator from Missouri [Mr. COCKRELL], ·and I Affairs advises us in the most positive manner that with the schools call the attention of the Senator to it. The committee reported now in existence and the appropriations made there is no lack of an ameLdment to strike out section 7, for the reason that it con school facilities for the Indian pupils of the nation. . . sists entirely of independent legislation, having no reference in One year ago, after the expiration of the five years, the Appro any way to appropriations. priations Committee decided to continue the· last annual appro ·Mr. COCKRELL. Mr. President, the chairman of the commit priation for sectarian schools for one more year. In the discussion tee will remember that I offered an amendment to that provision, which arose upon that subject the Senator from New Hampshire and I understood that the committee had agreed to the amend [Mr. GALUNGER] took the position that he would oppose the pro ment, to come in at the end of line 9, on page 73. That amend posed appropriation unless it was understood that that was the ment was to add, at the end of line 9, on page 73, these words: end of the appropriation for sectarian school purposes . . The Sen And all sales and conY-e:vances of lands of deceased allot tees by their heirs~ ator from Iowa [Mr. ALLISON] having in charge the bill on that which have been duly maae and executed by such heirs and duly approvea occasion made the following statement: by the Secretary of the Interior, are hereby ratified and confirmed. Mr. A~L~SON. It was understood l~t Yf?a:i: that we would m~e that time, when we would educate ali our Indian pupils in our head there are 387 and no Government schools, At Tongue River own e~hools. In accordance with that, from year to year we hs.ve there are384 Indians of school age and the day school of 40 pnpils, been providing new school facilities, new buildings at different and no boarding school at all. points, enlarging our classes, and to-day, after extending the ap At Turtle Moantain, in North. Dakota, there are 672 Indians of propriation for one more year than was originally agreed upon, the school age, with day-school facilities for 140 children, and no board Secr2tarv of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs ing school. At Umatilla, Oreg., there are 200 children, and 75 advise us that they '!an take care of all the Indian pupils who are are provided for in boarding- schools. At Pine Ridge, S .. Dak., pTepored to attend sc:hool or who would attend school in the-schools there are 1,603, and 200 provided for in boarding schools and 1,085 of the United States · • in day schools, leaving 318 not provided for. At Rosebud, S. Dak., Mr. VEST. May I ask the Senator from Nebraska a question? there are 1,373 Indians of school age, and boai·ding-school facilities Mr. THURSTON. Certainly. for 200 and day-school facilities for 517. At Colville, in Washing Mr. VEST. When be speaks of Government schools does he ton, the cluldren of school age number 470, with day-school pro mean the day schools or the boarding schools provided by the vision for 80, and no boarding school. At Tulalip there are 291 Government? What system is it that he speaks of? Indians, with facilities for 110 day pupils. At Bayfield, La Pointe l\Ir. THOR8TON. The Government schools. I refer to both. Agency, in Wisconsin, there are 1,120 children, with 150 pupils in Mr. VEST. Can the Senator state what is the relative number Govemment boarding schools and 413 in day schools. At Green of the day schools provided by the Government and the boarding bay, Wis., there are 263 children, with 150 provided for in the schools? boarding schools. At Shoshone, Wyo., there are 377 children of Mr. THURSTON. I can not without a little examination. I school age, and 150 provided for in the boarding school, with no have not the figures in mind at the present ti.me. day school. · l\Ir. President, I do not care to discuss this at any greater Now, in the St-&tes in which these schools are located there are length. I think it is the true policy of the United States to con some Govern.men~ schools outside of the Indian reservations, built duct and carry on its own schools for the Indians without any re· for the purpose of educating these Indians, but those Indians mnst gard whatever to the religious question. I believe we are pre be taken a way from their reservations and carried to schools more pared to do it. The country understands that we are to do it. OT less remote from these different reservations if the capacityfor • .So far as I know, there•has been a generfil acquiescence throughout thel;'e pupils is filled. But I promised to call attention to the the United States in the settlement that was made of the question legislation. six years ago. We have reached the end of the appropriation Mr. KYLE. Will the Senator permit one question? under the agreement, and I do not believe it is wise from any Mr. JONES of Arkansas. Certainly. possible public standpoint to reopen this question and keep it be 1\:Ir. KYLE. Do I understand from the Senator's statement that fore the country as a matter of agitation any longer. he believes the Government is obligated to furnish schoolfacilities Mr. KYLE. I raise the point of order against the amendment for all Indian pupils of school age? • that it is new legislation upon an appi;opriation bill. I should :Mr. _JONES of Arkansas. I believe the Government is morally like to have that decided. bound to provide for the education of all these people. l do not The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The G1hair overrules the point believe in allowing these people to grow up in dense ignorance. of order If we have not present school facilities to take Qare of these chil Mr. JONES of Al:kansas. Mr. President, 1 hope Senators ·wlll dren it is our duty to provide them. and where I think an error pay a.,ttention to the exact phraseology of the proposed amend has been made by gentlemen who have thought this business ment. I am aware that there has been discussion about the pro should be terminated by this ti.me is in the fact that the gl'Owth of priety or impropriety of continuing permanently the contract the accommod~tions for these pupils has not kept pace with the schools, but the conditions presented now are conditions that reduction of the appropriations for contract schools. We have must be determined within thl-mselves. The propositions in this taken 20 per cent off the appropriations for the contract schools amendment, it seems to me, ought to commend themselves to the year by year, and we have notprovided adequate facilities to take good judgment of the Senate: care of this number of pupils when they are thrown on the hands of Provided, rhat the Secretary of the Interior may make contracts with the Government. present contract chools for the education of Indian pupils during the fiscal I think the Sem·etary ought now to be authorized to contract for year ending June 30, 1901, but shall only make such contracts at places where the Government bas not provided school facilities for all the child1·en of the education of these children, because we have not provided school age residing thereat, and to an extent not exceeding the number of Government schools to take care of them. If the Government ' children in attendance at said contract schools at the close of the fiscal year schools are at hand where these people can be reach1y sent, then I ending June 30, 1900. . . think the Secretary should make no contI·act arrangements, ancl There are a certain number of Indian pupil$ now in contract the Secretary will make no contl·act arrangements. schools. If the Government has facilities to educate these chil Mr. KYLE. The point I make, if the Senator will pardon me, dren in Government schools, then. this amendment will not be is that these chilch·en would not attend if the Government pro operative; but if it should turn.out that the Government bas no vided the facilitjes. Not all of the children of school age attend Government schools in which to educate those children'who·are school-not by any means. If there are 450 children of school age now in the contract schools, then the Secretary of the Interior at a certain agency and facilities are provided for 150, that will may, if in his judgment it is necessary to do so, make a contract accommodate all who wonld attend, probably. for continuing the children in the contract schools, not to exceed Mr. JONES of Arkansas. We have the official reports of the the number now in contract schools. It does not enlarge it; it Commissioner of Indian Affairs, showing the capacity of the Gov does not extend it; but it sunply proposes to provide for the chil ernment schools, and that report for this year shows there was an dren who are now in contract schools and ~or whose education attendance of more than 600 beyond the capacity of the schools. there are no adequate Government facilities provided. That is :Mr. KYLE. That is taking in the sectarian schools. . all there i& of it. . Mr. JONES of Arkansas. No, sir; Government schools. In I am aware that there is a veTy general impression that the Government schools the attendance has been 600 more than the Government haH absolutely obligated itself, as was stated by the reported capacity of the schools. chair.man of the committee, not to continue the.se appropriations Mr. THURSTON. I will ask the Senator, is not that the enroU- beyond certain years. I propose to read the exact language of the ment in the schools? statutes that have been adopted from time to time, and to show Mr. JONES of Arkansas. The- enrollment. that this "is an erroneous impression; that, according to my own M.r. THURSTON. And not the average attendance? view, it is not borne out by the law. I know that things may Mr. JONES of ATkansas. Of course it is not the continuous have been said on the floor in the course of the debate that proba attendance, becauS'e you could not take care of any more tbnn tho bly might bear that construction, but, after all, we must look at schools would hold. But there is an enrollment which shows moro the law to determine what has· been nassed and what is the law. people wanting to go to school and intending to go to school than I have had made up a. list of some schools, showing the conditions the capacity of the schools admitted. The schools are certainly existing. kept full all the time, because there is an em·ollment exceeding tho Coour d'Alene, Idaho, for instance, has a school population of capacity. 03. There is no Government school, either boarding or day, at Mr. THURSTON. The records of the schools show- that place. There are 95 people not provided for in a Government 1\11:. KYLE. The Commissioner tells us that he has ::tmple school. At Ren Lake, White Earth Agency, there are, according room-- to the report of the Commissioner cf Indian Affairs. 1,909 Indians Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I think Senators had better come on of school age. and the capacity of the boa.rding schools for that one at a time. · reservation is 275J leaving 1,634 children for whose education there Mr. THURSTON. The records of all schools show that tho is no adequate arrangement made by the Government. At BJack enrollment considerably exceeds the attendance, and it happens feet, Mont., there are 421 children of school age, and 150 is the in all of our schools that the real capacity and the practical ca capacity of the school. At Crow Agency, in Montana, there are pacity of the schools are not to be measured by the enrollment, 295 children and a capacity of 150 in the schools. At Fort Bel but rather by the daily attendance. knap there are 322 and a capacity of 100 fu the Hchools. At Fla~ M!" JONES of Arkansas. True, Mr. President, but wheu we 1900. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 3879 are discussing the capacity of the schools and the enrollment J And. toward that end we have been constantly going. If we shows there are more pupils really to go to those schools than they have reached it, then my amendment will be absolutely inopera have capacity, we either- ought to provide a lld.itional schools or tive, because it will not amount to anything. If we have not allow the Secretary to make contracts with contract schools. reached it, then it will provide for the education of these children, This amendment of mine does not compel the Secretru.·y to send for whom no proper provision has been made. a single pupil to a contract school. It does not say that it shall be Mr. ALLEN. What is the total number? his duty. under any conditions, to send a single one of these pupils Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I do not know the total number. to conti·act schools. It merely provides that, if the Government There are about 20,000 children. schools are not sufficient at any of these agencies, he may make Mr. KENNEY. There are about 2,000 of these Indian children contracts with contract schoo~ s. It is a matter addressed to his who are educated in the contract schools, and by the. last report discretion, and it is limited in ihe la.st paragi-aph so that no mat- of the Indian (jomm ~ ssioner it is shown that there are about UOO ter what conditions exist he can not make contracts for any more unaccommodated above that number. So there are a.bout 2,600 pupils than are now in contract schools. who would not find a~ commodations if the amendment of the l\fr. KYLE. I should like to ask the Senator if he desires to go Senator from Arkansas should not be agreed to. back to the old system-- . Mr. GALLINGER. But, if the Senator from Arkansas will Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I do not. permit me, the Senator mu.at bear in mind that the report of the Mr. KYLE. Of mixing church and state again? We have got Commissioner was made some little time ago, and, of course, some :rid of that. other schools have been constructed probably during the interval. Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I do not think there has ever been. a Mr. JONES of Arkansas. There has l. een very little addit10n. 13ystem of mixing church and state~ The increase in the capacity of the schoo~ s bas been about 4 or 5 Mr. KYLE. Pretty nearly that. • · per cent a year, while the decrrnse has been about 20 per cent in l\fr. JONES of Arkansas. The Senator may have his own opin- the amount that was appropriated for contract schools. The in ion about that. I know nothing about it. I do not believe there c1mase last year was only about lt to 2 per cent~ in the capacity of has been any mixing about it. It is a matter of educating these the schools, less than it has been before. I think I can hunt up children. I be:ieve that the contract schools did a grand and a those figures without much trouble and give them to the Senate noble work when they were at this work. This system of edu- if they a1·e desired. eating the Indians began as a private enterprise. Certain philan- Mr. VEST. I should be very glad if the Senator from Arkan· thropists in Philadelphia and the East have built up these institu- saS", or some other Senator who bas given his attention to this tions of learning in the West. They have been maintained at mattei-, would ~ive us the figures showing the boarding schools very great expense to them. The attention of the Government that are provided for by the Govei·nment or have been since the was called to the necessity of this action by their conduct. The time when this reduction of 20 per cent went into effect, and the, Government after a whHe began to take it up. They have built day schools. My experience is that that is the most material the schools. I believe we ought to provide ample school facilities question in this whole case. I should like to know how many for all these children; but until ample school facilities are p.ro- boarding schools there are by the Government, and how many day vided by the. Government, I believe we ought to avail ourselves schools. of the facihties that ara at hand to educate those children who Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I can not answer the question. can not be accommodated in the GoveTnment schools. There are about 20,000 Indian pupils in schools, as I understand, I have not proposed that it ah.all be compulsory~ I want to re- and I have a. list heie of schools which accommodate-- peat to the Senate. I simply propose that the Secretary of the blr. VEST. Day schools or boarding schools? Interior shall ha•e the opportunity to do this if he sees a condition Mr. JONE3 of Arkansas. I have a list of boarding schools here- of things that makes it necessary. one at White Earth. one at Blackfeet1 one at the Crow Agency, I wish to call attention ve1·y briefly and for only a Yery few Mont.; one at Fort Belknap, one at Umatilla, Or~.; one at Pine minutes to the exact facts about the legislation had in this matter. Ridge, one at Rosebud~ one at La Pointe, Wis.; one at Green Bay I believe in keeping faith in all these thmgs and in carrying out andoneatShoshone, in Wyoming, and these were selected because all the agreements that are made at any time and everywhere. I they were located .in reservations where there is not an adequate know the understanding has been-I myself so oelieved at the time capacity to take care of all the pupils. this arrangement was enternd into of reducing these- appropria- Mr. VEST. That is not all. tions20 percentaye~r-thatW'ewould have ample ·facilitiesto Mr.JONESofArkansas. Notbyanymeansall. Inmanyplaces take care of all these children by the time this thing was con· the- capacity of the boarding schools is entirely sufficient to take eluded. care of all the Indians, but I have no li:st of those. In the list I But if it has not been done-I do not say it has not been-I would have the capacity of the boarding schools is 1,600 pupile. They have no hesitancy in saying so, but I do not say for the sake of have day schools in those same re ervations with a capacity of this argument as bearing upon this question that it has not; but 2,387. Thexe are many places where the boarding schools exist all I say is, that if it has not been and the Secretary finds that where there is no provision for day ~chools, and in some there are there are not ample facilities for ta.king care of these Indian provisions for day schools and boarding scbools. In some otbers children in Government schools, then that he may, if he believes there are provision for day schools but not for boarding schools. the best interests of the general public require it, make confracts Mr. ALLEN. I should like to ask the Senator, who has given for taking care of these Indians in contrnct schools, not exceeding much attention to this matter. whether in taking into considera in number those who are now in contract schools. tion the schools established by act of Congress he includes the But I want to call attention to the law. The policy of reducing schoo~s whose capacity is inadequate to the number of children? contract-schoolappropriationsgrewoutof thefollowingprovision Mr. JONES of Arkan_as. I have just read a number of them. in the Indian appropriation act for the fiscal year 1895, approved Mr. ALLEN. And 'what is the number of children who are August 15, J8 94: practically deprived of education in addition to the number men· Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to inquire tioned by the Senator from Delaware? into and investigate the propriety of di scontinuin~ contra.ct schools, and Mr JONES of Arkansas. There are about 3 500 children in whether, in his judgment, the same can be done without detriment to the tr' "t h ls h t th b G ' t d Th education of the Indian children; and that he submit to Congress at the next con a..., sc oo W Oare no . ere Y overnmen O! er. e session the result of such investigation, including an estimate of the addi- Government now has 2~000 children who are cared form contract tional cost,.if any, of substituting_ Government schools for contract schools, schools. The official reports of the Commissioner show that the together Wlthsuch recommendations as he may deem proper. em·ollment in Government schools is 600 in excess of the capacity. In his annual report for 1894 the Secretary of the Interior, hav- So if these children would attend, there would be an ove1'flow of ing in view this action of Congress doubtless, says: 600, with 2,000 who are now in contract schools, which would The contract schools are now the subject of general di-:cnssion. I agree make 2,600, and then in addition there are 3,500 in contract schools fn~y with those who op_pose the_ use of public moue.Y for the support of sec· who are taken care of by private charity-no charge upon the tarlllll schools. But this question shoul~ be con~ere_d practicfill:y. The Government and for whom it is not undertaken to provide schools have grown up. Money has been mvested m then· construction at a . . · time when they were recognized as wise instrumentalities fo1· the accom- Mr. ALLEN. Does the Senator, m fixmg the number who are pl.ishn:e_nt of good.. I do not ~hink it. pr~per to ~llo~ the intense feeling of deprived of school facilities at Government schools, take into con- 0PJ?O ition to sectanan educatio~, which lS !'h?wmg it~e!f all over the land, sideration those who are deprived of school privileO'es where a to mduce the Dellartme.nt to disregard existing conditions. We need th-0 . . fl · schools naw, or else we need a. large appropriation to build schools to take Gove1:nment school IS established m consequence of t~e lack of their place. . . . . capacity of the schools to take care of a~d educate them? I~ would be scarce~y Just to abolish them e~tITe!y-to abandon mstantly a Mr; JONES of Arkansas. I do ndt quite understand the Sena· policy so long e tablLShed. My own suggestion is that they sh')nl CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 7, . number of children who are deprived of school privileges, take into in contract schools out there who can not be put in contract consideration the latter class? schools unless some provision of this kind is made in tnis bill, and Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I do, t hi'3 simply authorizes tlie Secretary of the Treasury to do that if .Mr. ALLEN. ln fixing the number. What would be the total the c:rcumstances surrounding him at the time shall satisfy him number of those who are thus deprived, where there are no Gov- that it ought to be done. ernment schools at all, and in those cases where schools are estab· Mr. TELLER. I think, if we are practical about this matter, lished, but of inadequate capacity? we will see some difficulties ahead of us m reviving the contract- Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I can not state that number. All I school system. Without meaning to violate any of the rules of know is that of those who are enrolled-- the Senate, I think the Senator from Arkansas will see that the Mr. KENNEY. I wish to suggest to the Senator that there are chances are nine to ten that if we put anything of this kind in the many children of school age who are not actually enrolled. bill, it will not be allowed to remain there. It seems to me that Mr. JONES of Arkansas. That is true. we might make a provision in this bill by t he way of further ap- Mr. KENNEY. That would still increase the number. propriation thatmight avoid this difficulty to some extent possibly, Mr. JONES of Arkansas. The point I am making now is that if not entirely. there are actually enrolled 2,600 Indian pupils in excess of the Mr. JONES of Arkansas . . rrhe Senator does not understand capacity of the Government to take care of them. and there ought that this is a revival of the contract system? to be some arrangement made to take care of t hese pupils who are 1\Ir. TELLER. It looks so to me. But thenimaybe mista"ken actually enrolled as pupils. That takes no account of others who . about it. are of school age and who ought to be in school, but who are not. Mr. JONES of Arkansas. Will the Senator allow me again to Mr. ALLEN. The Senator's amendment, as I understand it, read the propo$ed amendment? contemplates that as soon as the Government .furnishes adequate Mr. TELLER. Yes; l will. school privileges for the children who are deprived of an educa- Mr. JONES of Arkansas. It is as follows: tion the contract system shall cease? • P1·ovided, That the ~ecretary of the Interior may make contrncts with Mr. JONES of Arkansas. Absolutely. That is the intention. present contract schools for the educatfon of Indian pupils during"the fiscal ·11 ll th tte t' f th S t · t th t year ending June 30, 1901, but shall only make such cont racts at places where N ow I Wl ca e a n ion ° e ena e aga,in ° e exac the Government has not provided school facilities for all the children of language of the provision. I hope the Senator from Nebraska will school age residing thereat, and to an extent not exceeding the number of pay attention to the language, and he will see how conservatively children in attendance at said contract schools at the close of the fiscal year it bas been drawn: . • ending June 30, 1900 . .Prot:ided, That the Secretary of thelnteriormaymake contracts with pres· Mr. ALLEN. That I unders•and is simply to last until the ent contract schools for the education of Indian pupils during the fiscal year Government schools are opened. ending June 30, 1901, but shall only make such contracts at places where the M JONE • f A k OE h S t ill Governmenthasnotprovidedschoolfacilitiesfor all the children of school age r. :::; 0 r ?ansas. course t e ecre ary w not do residing thereat, and to an extent not exceeding the number of children in it unless there is necessity for it at any particular place, and he attendance at said contract schools at the close of the fiscal year ending June can not exceed the number that are now in those schools. · 30, 1900. Mr. TELLER. What I am concerned about is that whatever So it can not be increased above what it is now, and it is less we do shall be something practical and shall secure something. now than the needs of those who are enrolled. I am very confident that that provision will never be enacted into But I was interrupted in statrng the extracts from the law a law in this bill. I make that statement without going into any which I have had compiled to show what the facts are in this of the reasons why. I want the- Senate, if possible, to provide case. In the appropriation act for the fiscal year 1800 there is the some method that will meet what is admitted to be a difficulty following: and almost a disgrace unless we turn these children out. Let it The Secretary of the Interior may make contracts for tho Pduca.tion of be done in some other way, if possible. I do not know what it is. Indian pupils during the fiscal year endin~ June 30, 1890, to an extent not ex- Is there a law which prohibits the Secretary from contractint>CY any ceeding 80 per cent of the amount so used for the fiscal year 1 95, and each succeeaing year he shall proportionately so reduce the amount thus used further? . . . that at the end of five years from the date on which this act goes into effect Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I suppose he would construe the law all confracts for such education shall cease. . that way unless there is a certain provision of this hind made Had this provision become law, it may be noted a policy of an here. annual reduction_of 20 per cent would have been settled upon. Mr. TELLER. Why can he not establish temporary schools, That wns put into the appropriation bill by the House. The life renting these buildings for the Indian children, or something of of contract schools would end on the 30th day of June, 1900, but that kind? · it was not enacted into the law, or it was not accepted by the Sen- Mr. JONES of Arkansas. The Government, of comse, in many ate, and was amended in the Senate to read as follows: pla::es where it has day school:; may rent buildings, and it may Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall make contracts, but only organize other schools as it may see fit. This has been done in a with present contract schools, for the education of Indian pupils dnrinf the good many cases, no doubt. We haye in this bill an appropria fiscal year ending June 30, 18!JS, to an extent not exceeding 80 per cent 0 · the tion for all and more than bas been asked for by the CommIS· Sl·oner·. amount so used for the fiscal year 1895, and the Government shall, as early as practicablcl.make provision for the education of Indian children in Govern· L\l r. TELLER. As to the 2,000 children that are now ltable t-0 ment schoo s. · be droppetl out, can not the Government rent buildings and em- If the provision as it came to the Senate in the House bill had p!oy teachers in that way, if we increase the appropriation? been adopted, it would have been a law settling this matter; and .l\lr. JONES of :A.rkansas. The Secretary has full authority to no matter how gross would have been the injustice to the Indian do so. - · · children, we would have been bound by it. But we struck that out l\lr. TELLER. But has he a sufficient ·appropriation for that and made the provision which I have just refld. This provision as I purpose? - have read it was incorporated in the bill in 18 9 ~and became a part Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I think so. of the law. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in his report Mr. TELLER. Then I think he ought to do that. I think he dated November 19, 189-1, said: should establish temporary ~chools without waiting to erect By gradually reducing the contracts year by year and placing the pupils buildings. in Government schools, or. better still, in public chooL<1, the contract schools Mr. JONES of Arkansas. It may be impracticable to do that can be entirely done a.way with in the course of five or six years, and.this · t f th 1 without doing any great injury to the parties who have their money invested in a grea many 0 ese paces-- in contract schools, and at the same time provide adequate facilities for the l\ir. PETTIGREW. I should like to reply to the Senator from Indian pupils. • Colorado. Showing that in these reductions it was the intention all along The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Arkansas to see that there were adequate provisions for the Indian pupils vield to the Senator from South Dakota? before there was an absolute withdrawal of the appropriation on ~ l\Ir. JONES of Arkansas. Certainly. I yield the floor; I am the part of the Government. about through. Mr. TELLER. Mr. President- Mr. PET'TIGREW. In South Dakota there are about 22,000 The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. B.ACON in the chair). Does Indians, and the two largest contract schools are on reservations, the Senator from Arkansas yield to the Senator from Colorado? one at Pine Ridge and the other one adjoining the Rosebud Res· :Mr. JONES of .Arkansas. Certainly. ervation. These schools are full of children, and if the contra.cts Mr. TELLER. I should like to ask what prevents us now from are abolished there are no Government schools that you.can take making amp!e provision in thfo bill? If there has not been ample them to and no buildings fit for that purpose except the contract provision made for the schools, why not make it in this bill? Why school buildings bmlt by the Catholw Church. I think the educa· • 1·evive the contract system? ' tion of the-'e children ought to be conducted in tho3e schools. J l\ir. JONES of Arkan as. I should think it would be impossi- There is no other remedy except the passage of the Senato1·'s ble to provide for the buildings necessary to carry the schools on amendment in order to take care of them. because there are no ~ duringthesucceeclingyear. TheCommissionerhas askedforcer- buildings that can be rented. There are no settlements and no tain money to be used in building schoolhouse , and there are towns- . liberal appropriations made in this bill for that purpose. Yet Mr. TELLER. Why can we not rent the buildings of the peo- after the iJOth day of June next there will be 2,000 Indiari pupils ple who are to close their .. chools? Of course if they are not to be ...... - 1 t 1900. CON GR.ES, 1IONAL RECORD-SENATE. 3881 paid any longer and close their schools, I should think we might priation of the bill last year there was a provision made saying rent their buildings, or they might sell their buildings to the Gov- tltat that was the last of the appropriations for contract schools. ernment. · That was done -0n the basis, of course. all along that tlie Govern.- Mr. PETTIGREW. I do not know but that they might sell ment would provide adequate accommodations for these Indian their buildings to the Government. I do not think they would children. . rent to the Government. The Catholic Church has never done Now, I do not think the Secretary pas the right to provide for that. these children at all unless there is a provisibn made giving him ~fr. JO~ES cf Arkansas. Oh, there have been some sales. authority, if he sees fit to do so, if circum&tances lead him to be- 1\Ir. TELLER. I t ll ink we should provide money for the pur- lieve it ought to be done, to take care of these children for the chase of those buildings. . coming year. That was all I desired to say. Mr. PETTIGREW. I think there is a fund. Mr. TELLER. Will the Senatorfrom South Dakotapermitme Mr. TELLER. These buildings were erected for this purpose, to ask him a queMion? and if we cut them off it is no more than equity that the Govern- Mr. PETTIGREW. Certainly. ment should buy the buildings. I am trying to deal with this. Mr. TELLER. We were told last year by lile Indian Depart question practically. I know you will not enact this provision ment, as I recollect, that they would be ready to take care of these into a law, and if we rest on this and let the bill go into confer- children this year. Is not that the fact? ence with this provision in it we shall get nothing. I want to get Mr. PETTIGREW. Oh. yes: they have told us that every year something that will relieve the children, and if it is necessary to for the last four years right straight along, and recommended it. buy the buildings I think we should authorize the Secretary to Mr. TELLER. Have we anything from the Department which buy them and give him the money for that purpose. indicates that they are not ready to take charge of these children Mr. PETTIGREW. I think a provision directing the purchase now? of the school buildings where they are not fit for any other pur- Mr. KYLE. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs stated before pose would be very appropriate. · the eommittee that he is now ready to receive aJl; that he can take Mr. TELLER. So do I. care of them. Mr. PETTIGREW. For instance, we induced those people to Mr. JONES of Arkansas. Mr. President-- build the school at Pine lUdge, in South Dakota, and near the Mr. PETTIGREW. I know that the Senator-- Rosebud Reservation, in South Dakota. Years ago we induced Mr. JONES of Arkansas. Let me explain that. I tbink we had them to erect the buildings; we encouraged their erection; we just as well be candid with each other and have the facts under made a contract with them, and they went on and expended many stood. When the question was asked him how he would take thousands of dollars, because these· are brick school buildings, care of them, he said the Government had schools in other places, excellent in every respect; and now we propose to abandon the to which children could be taken; for instaµce, taking them three policy which we inaugurated and which induced them to erect or four hundred miles away and putting them in scQ.ools at-some the buildings. and we are to leave the buildings on their hands. other place, perhaps down here in Norfolk or somewhere up in· Therefore an appropriation requiring the purchase of the buildings Pennsylvania where that can be done. I do not think that was-in would be very appropriate. the contemplation of the bill. It was the intention of Congress As the law now stands the Department will not purchase the that these people should be educated on the reservations. buildings, because they have said for the last four years that they Mr. TELLER. With the consent of the Senator from South had sufficient capacity to take care of ail the school children, and Dakota, I want to say just one word. yet every year we have added to the number of school buildings :Mr. PETTIGREW. I yield to the Senator from Colorado. and each year the Indian Department has come before the com- Mr. TELLER. I am not one of those who have been disturbed mittee and said they had plenty of room. But to-day the report of about contract schoo.s. I know there was a good deal of feeling 1898, which I believe is the latest report on that subjeot, shows got up over them and there was a determination to cloEe them out,· that the capacity of the Government schools is rn,874 pupils. This and I yielded to that in the Appropriations Committee by provid-· includes the day schools, the reservation, and the nonreservation ing for a gradual closing out of contract schools, as we thought;· boarding schools. The enrollment is 19,~99-more than f;be ca- on such terms and for such a length of time as would surely secure pllcity of the schools. · the ability on the part of the Department to take care of these The capacity of the contract boarding schools is 4,245 and the children so that none of them would be denied the opportunity of emollment 2,509, the average attendance being 2,245, a much g·oing to school, who were already in school, or who wanted to go greater percentage than the average attendance at Government to' school. · schools, showing, then, that the Government schools are full to Now, I feel that it is useless to attempt to re-create the condi more than their capacity, and that there·are 2,509-in the contract tion .which existed before. I know it will not be done. I know boarding schools, ~6 in the contract day schools, and in boarding that this provision if put upon the bill will .not be enacted into schools specially appropriated for, 394. That is in Hampton and la.w. That is the way I feel about it; and I feel very much as if in Lincoln, I think, at this time, Lincoln having been dropped the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or rather the Secretary of from the present bill. It was the school near Philadelphia. There the Interior, more properly speaking, is not now prepared to take were in public schools 315 Indtan children; in the mission board- care of them, and that if we do not make some provision in ad ing schools 897 Indian children, and in the mission day schools dition to what we have done they will not be taken care of. . That 215 Indian children, making nearly or quite 4,000 Indian children is why I wanted to put in some more money, if necessary, now, who were accommodated m schools not Government schools. The so that· the Department could rent or buy these bui dmgs or do Government. schools were overcrowded; · · something. I should be willing that they should buy the build· What can be said, then. of the comment of the Department that ings that these people have built, as the Senator from South they have plenty of capacity to take care of all the children when Dakota suf{gests. They are of no use to them now for this pur tht>ir own report shows that their own schools are overcrowded pose if they closed them, and I think the Government should buy and that there are .4,000 children ba:ng taken care of in the con- theI!l at a reasonable rate and establish schools there instead of tract schools? They told us that they had plenty of capacity last building schools somewhere else. year, and the year before, and the year before. I do not have any control in this matter; I am not on the Indian Now, I do not care to discuss this question, but I do wish to say Affairs Committee, and IIJ.Y attention has not been called to thjs that while we have been reducing the amount which is appropri- subject; but at the same time, as a practical question, we can put ated for contract ecboo1'5 each year, there has been no agreement into the bill some more money and authorize the Secretary of the to that effect. The people who have desired to stop contracting Interior to proceed summarily, if he sees fit. to buy the buildings or with these sectarian schools have acknowledged the fact that rent them, or to do a~ything he sees fit with t1.at money, so that there was no agreement to that effect by trying, at every session there will be no discharge of the children from the schools. of Congress for the last four years, in this bill to strike out the Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President-- appropriation. Speech after speech has been made here trying The PRESIDING OFFlCER. The Senator will suspend for a to cut off the appropriation for conti·actschoo1s, and the advocates moment. The hour of 2 o'clo~k having arrived, the Chair lays be of that policy in this body have pronounced decidedly against the fore the Senate the unfinishe~ business, which will be stated~ proposition that there was any agreement. because they have re- The SECRETARY. A bill (S. 2355) in relation to the suppression fused to keep an agreement if there was one.. TJ:ierefore I argue of insurrection in and to the government of the Philippine Islands, that there could have been no such understandrng. ceded by Spain to the United States by the treaty concluded at Mr. JONES of Arkansas. Will the Senator yield to me just a Paris on the 10th day of December, 1898. moment? 1\fr. GALLINGER. I ask unanimt us consent that the un.fin- Mr. PETTIGREW. I yield to the Senator. ishea business be temporarily laid aside. Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I was just concluding my statement. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Hamp- I remember now that 1 did not finish the statement I was making shire asks that the unfinished business be temporarily laid aside. in reply to the Senator from Colorado [Mr. TELLER]-and which 11"Cnless there be objection, it will be so ordered. wish to make now. He asked the question as to wh~ther the Sec- Mr. ALLEN. .Mr. President, I wish to say jnst a word on the retary could not now take care of these schools. By the appro- amendment of the Senator from Arkansas. I do not intend to . . 3882 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 7, refer to any statistical matter in connection withthis subject or to children who will be deprived of school privileges to such time as deal in anything of the kind. The s1mple question before the the Government itself may estabJish schools for their education~ Senate, dive. ted of all its verbiage, is whether these children who That is not a revival and can not be construed i;nto being a revival will be deprived of educational privileges should enjoy those priv of a settled policy to subsidize or encourage private schools, and ileges until such time as the Government furnishes them school I believe that course is proper. privileges of its own. The Senator from Colorado asks, Why not buy up their schoolsr There has been a -good deal of unnecessary discussion in this If their school property is practically valuele s in consequence of Chamber· heretofore respecting the contract system.of schools. the policy the Government has thus pursued and the Governmept It seems to have taken on at times a partisan, if not a sectarian, would seek under those circumstances to purchase these school tint, which, in my judgment, is altogether wrong. General buildings and the school property, would not that be virtuallvthe Grant, when President of the United State , congratulated him confiscation of the property? ~ self that he was the author of a system of conht-dct schools. He l\1r. TELLER. No, Mr. President, I do not suppose that the encouraged it. He induced the various churches of the United Gov~rnment is to buy the property at confiscating prices. The States to go out among the Indians and erect mission schools and Government \vill need school buiidings somewhere. and very likely conduct them, and to enable them to do so he encouraged Con those places are quite as valuable as any other. The Government • gress in making appropriations from time to time to assist them. should pay a reasonable sum for them if they buy them at all. I It is due, in my judgment, largely to that policy that we see the am sure the holders would not be very likely to sell them unless present march of civilization among the different Indians of the the Government does pay a fair valuation. I do not desire that United States and the disintegration of the tribal relation. the Government shall take advantage of the fa~ t that the holders Now, :Mr. President, I do not myself believe-although th.is may may not have any use for the property in order to beat down the not be particularly germane to the subject-that it is possible price. I think the Government-could not afford to do that. to hire teachers at Government expense in the way the teachers Mr. ALLEN. IftheGovernmentpursuesapolicythatcloses the are hired for these schools, who will have the disposition to care doors of the schools and makes the buildings empty, and there-by for these little wards of the nation as they ought to be cared for. reduces the value of the property, and then asks to fix a value upon There must something more go with the teacher than the mere the property in that condition, would not tha.t be virtually a con salary and mere educational qualifications to impart the hjghest fiscation, I ask the Senator from Coforado? education to the e children. There must be a love of the profes Mr. TELLER. The Government might do that, but then the sion in which the teacher is engaged, and a strong and controlling Government should take into consideration the condition unde:r desire on his or her part to lift these benighted children into a which the buildings wei:e constructed, what they cost, and the higher state of civilization, and that must be a constantly sustain- value that they will be to the Goverm;n.. ent. They are all of just ing influence. • as much value to the Government as to the people who built them Now, we adopted the policy, I think, in the Fifty-fourth Con if the Government chooses to make schools there, and the Gov ·gress, if I recollect rightly, of reducing the appropriations 20 per ernment wrn not buy buildings anywhere unless it is going to cent every year until the aid to the contract schools should be en have schools at that place tirely destroyed. No one objected to that at the time, because it Mr. ALLEN. But the Government has not pursued that policy was supposed that that would give the sectarian schools an oppor heretofore. tunity to dispose of their property and to prepare for the changed Mr. TELLER. I understand the Government has bought some policy of the Government, and that it would afford ample time buildmgs. I do not know anything about the price, whether it to enable thos_e in charge-of the Indian affairs of the nation to es was reasonable or not. tablish schools and to provide teachers adequate to the edti.cation Mr. ALLEN. As I ·understand it, the Government proposes of the Inman children. But it would seem that that has not been that these schools shall remain clo ed and that the children shall done. Some 2,600, I think that is the minimum. and from that, go uneducated until such time as the Government, in its own de according to the guesses expressed here in the li"1lamber. running liberations may see proper to erect or purchase schools and open ·up to 3,0UO or 4.00Q. Indian· children of the United States are en them for the benefit of them children. Now, I think that is tirely without the means of edncatiou. wrong. I do not care who owns the property. I do not care Now, what is there in this proposed amendment? where the money comes from that constructs tne build.in~. :Mr. KYLE. Will the Senator from Nebraska allow me to say What we are interested in and what the people of this country are there. not a great many more than that? There is a school at are interested in is the education of the Indlan children, the lift Santee; one, l thin k, at Oahu. I think there are several in differ ing up of this class of our people, their civilization, that they may ent parts of the State of South Dakota. become of value to themselves and in tim9 become valuable citi Mr. ~i\LLEN. I think the nnmberismuchhigher. That is my zens; and any .change that will be productive of such results judgment about it. · ought to be welcomed by the Congress of the United States. We Mr. KYLE. And the question occurs to me whether these chil can not afford, in a little matter like this, to accommodate two or dren would.attend the Government schools in case we make pro three thousand children with school privileges for a year or so, to vision for them. bicker and split hairs and chop logic upon subjects that are not Mr. ALLEN. Yon must make some provision, Mr. President, germane tO the mat er under discmsion. for compulsory education when yon come to deal with this Indian Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President- question. Mr. THURSTON. I ask the Senator to yield to- me fo1· a mo Mr. KYLE. There is no such provision, as I understand it. ment. Mr. ALLEN. They doexercisein my State a compulsory power Mr. GALLINGER. I yield to the Senator from Nebraska. over Indian children. Mr. THURSTON. Mr. President, it is perhaps fair, before the Mr. KYLE. They send teachers to them to try to persuade discu..."Sion proceeds further, that I shoulrl make an additional them to come in when they will not come of their own accord. statement with reference to these contract schools. Mr. GEAR. So they do in Iowa. · · The contract schools, for the most part, like the mission schools Mr. ALLEN. Let an agent send out and ~ave them brought in. established in some parts of our country, were constructed in Mr. GALLINGER. Will the Senator permit me? pursuance of a great missionary plan by the Catholic Church. In The PRESIDING-OFFICER. Does the Senator from Nebiaska my judgment, they were established by the Cath6lic Church for yield to the Senator from New Hampshire? a great Christian purpose, for the purpose of carrying on mis Mr. ALLEN. Certainly. sionary work among the Indians of the United States. 1\Ir. GALLINGER. If theSenatorwill pe~·mit me, I will say to It is true that we welcomed the construction of some of those him that I think l shall be able to show from the statistics that contract schools on our Indian reservations, and that for many the statement that 2,600 Indian children are unprovided for is en years we provided or contracted for the education of our Indian tirely erroneous, and that the attendance of Indian children, both pupils therein. When we reached the point where it wan pro in contract aud Government schools, very slightly exceeds the posed by a great reduction to eliminate the contract plan for present accommodation. educating the Indian children, it was stated from the floor of the Mr. PETTIGREW. Mr. President, will the Senator allow me? Senate repeatedly. it was authorized by the Secretary of the There are 250,000 Indians in the United States under the Govern Interior and the Indian Commissioner repeatedly, thattbe Govern ment charge. and one in five of those undoubtedly are children of ment of the United States was ready and willing and had the school age, which would make 50,000; and yet the total capacity available appropriations to bny all these schools from the church of all the Government schools is for only 25,000. I think that that and make them Government schools. lack of accommodation can not be overcome at present and that · But, Mr. President, why has that not been done? Not bec3.use those figures are. below the fact; that the number is more than one of any unwillingness on the part of the United States, but be child of school age to five of population. cause the owners of those school buildings have refused to sell. Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President, I was pi-oceeding to say that I The Commissioner of Indian Affa1rs has his appropriation to-day, can see nothing in this amendment that looks like a revival of the and stands i:eady to buy any of those.schools at fair and reason contrnct system of schools. The amendment simply contemplates able prices. W"'p.y will they not sell? They will not sell because that the Government shall contract for the education of these as to those scho9l.s they have not sold-for we have bought two 1900. C0NGRESSIONAL RECORD-· SENATE. 3883 or three of them....,...they do not propose ta gi-ve up the schools to report of the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending th.e United States or to anybody else, and that is the proposition June 30, 1899, and under the liead of Indian affairs, on page :595, to-day. there is a recapitulation regarding thelndfa.n schools. That reca The idea that. the 2,DOO pupils in these religious contract schools pitulation shows that in the Government schools there is a capac are to be turned back thlli year upon the United States for educa ity of 19,874; that there is anenrollmentof 19,899, w:th an average tion is a myth. The church carrying on these schools, as I say. attendance of 16,165; in other words, that in the Government in pursuance of a. great, wise, and beneficent missionary pla.n~ does schools we have accommodations fo1· 3,'i09 children more than not propose to give the schools up; it does not propose to sur attend them. Turning to the contrnct schools, I find that there render the pupils to the United States: and, as a matter of fact, 1s an. attendance of 2,639, and in the mission schools, 1,111, mak1ng ,. there is not a pupil now who is being educated in one of the con a,750. Deducting from that the provis:on for 3,709 in excess of tract schools who will be turned over to the United States for those who attend the Government schools, there is only a lack of education next year if this amendment is not adopted.. school facilities for 41 Indian children. I do not know whether The Go-,·ernment of the United States has always. properly an Il,nt I do not suppose any Sen~tor wocld stand here and seri- 1 wonid be e;ceedingly cruel to do this ·instantly. I remember ously contend that became we can not, or have not, provided everybody finally agreed that to instantly cut off that relation accommodations for those 2,000 children in the city of Washing- would be a great hardship. So the determination was ubstan ton that we ought to put them in sectarian schools at Government tially this: That the arrangement should end as soon as the Gov expense. I do not believe that any Senator would argue that that ernment could put up schoolhouses; but that when it did not put ought to be done. · up schoolhouses it might· continue to educate young Indians in In a hea l'i n ~ before the Committee on Indian Affairs two gen- these various religious schools, proceeding, if they determined to , tlemen, members of the House of Representatives, appeared and do this, with as much energy as they could to supply the places argued that this contract-school system should be continued. of such religious schools. It was simply a humane, jnst, and Tbe)t bear the same name, bnt they represent two different 8tates. generous provision. It was thought that a year or two would an Tbey made a very earnest argument in behalf of the continuance swer, when the relation would be entirely severed and the Gov of the appropriations for contract schools. One of those gentle- ernment would have provided new schoolhouses. It has not men last year appeared in the city where I live, and in a public turned out to be so. address denounced me as a bigot because I opposed the use of I shut my eyes to the question of denomination. I would rather. public money for se•· tarian education. Mr. President, that did a child of mine, and.of course you would r·ather your child, should not disturb me at all then, and it does not disturb me now, no be educated in any one of these denominational schools than not matter what his Of· inion of me personaily may be. to be educated at all. If the condition yet remains so that the I simply wish to say that 1 am not a bigot. The last relic of Government can not put the children in school anywhere, let them religious intolerance in the constitution of the State of New Hamp- hire somebody else to impart education to these children; and if shire went out on my motion in the constitutional convention. I it is religious establishment, so much the better. am certainly as free from bigotry in religious matters as any man Mr. VEST. Mr. President, I shall very gladly support the who lives, but I have been for a long time of the opinion that we amPndment proposed by the Senator from Arka111as [Mr. J ONES]. have no right to appropriate the money of the people of the United I think it is just, proper, and humane. The only obj !:ction I States for the purpos~ of educating children in sectarian schools. could posssibly make to it is that the amendment does not go far I have stated that over and over again in the Senate. I state it enough. I shall not take the time of the Seriate in discus ing this again to-day, and I congratulate the counti·y that at length we oft-ue bated question as to the contract·schools. My opinious~ have have come to the end of this practice, which is in violation of the been so emphatically .and repeatedly expressed that it is hardly -spirit if not the letter of the Constitution of the United States, necessary for me p.ow to give information on that subject to any and I do profoundly regret that the Senat::>r from Arkansas has one who has taken any interest in the matter. seen fit, even in the guarded manner in which the amendment is There are people in this country, unfortunately, who believe drawn, to reopen this question. that an Indian child had better ·die an utter unbeliever, an idolator I trust, Mr. President, that the Senate will think it wise not to even, than to be educated by the.Societyof Jesus or in the Catholic adopt the amendment, for I quite agree with the Senator from Church. I am very glad.to say that I have not the sligbte ·t sym Colo:rado [Mr. TELLER] that even if we should take action of that pathy with that sort of bigotry and fanaticism. I was raised a, kind here to-day it will not go. into the law; it will not become a Protestant; I expect to die one; I was never in a Catholic Chru·ch statute. It simply keeps up an agitation that can do no possible in my life, and I have not the slightestsympathy·with many of its good. · dogmas; hut! above all, I haye no respect for this insane fe:ir that I wish that the Senator from Arkansas might see his way clear the Catholic Church is about to ov.ertnrn this Govemment. I to withdraw the amendment, and that we· might all agree with should be ashamed to ·call myself an American if I indulged in the Committee on Indian Affairs, who, after patiently and care- any such ignorant beli~f. · ·· fully considering this question, have presented a bill that ends l look upon this as a man of the world, practical, I hope, in all his vexed question. things, and especially in legisla~ion, where my'sphere of duty now Mr. HAWLEY. Mr. President, I should like to hear that is. Unfortunately, I am not connected with any religious organi- amendment read. zation. I have no such prejudice as would prevent me from doing The PRESIDENT protempore. The amendment will be stated. what I believed to be my duty. I would give' this question of the The Secretary again read the amendment proposed by Mr.JONES education of Indian children. the same sort of consideration that I of Arkansas, on pag~ 54, line 14. would if I were build1ng a house or having any other mechanical Mr. HAWLEY. Mr. President, I remember very well the or expert business carried on. I had infinitely rather see these lively discuEsion which took place here three or four years ago Indians Catholics than to see them blanket Indians on the 'Plains, upon this question. · ready to go on the war path against civilization and Christianity. The Senator from Nebraska [Mr. ALI... ENJ stated very correctly I said a few minutes ago that I was a Protestant. I was reared the position which General Grant took when he invited the reli- in the old Scptch Pre.sbyteria.n Church; myiatherwas an elder in gious people of the country, without regard to their church or it, and my earliest impressions were that the Jesuits hacl horns denomination, to come forward and take hold of the subject of and hoofs and tails, and that there was a faint tinge of sulphur in Indian education. He was justly proud of it and of the very large the circumambient air whenever one crossed your path. Some degree of success that the scheme attained. It was considered a years ago I was assi~ed ·by the Senate to duty upon the Commit credit to the country as proving that the Government of the tee on Indian Affau·s. and I was assigned by the committee, of United States was really a kindly, a fatherly, and a just Govern- 'Yhich _Mr. Dawes was then the very zealous chairman, to exam~ ment. But the cons.equence of it by and by was that there were ine the Indian schools in Wyoming and Montana. I did so under here Baptist schools, there Methodist schooJs, there Episcopalian great difficulties and with labor which I could not now physically schools, and there Catholic schools, and that the Go\·ernment was perform. I visite.d every one 9f tl;lem. · I crossod that great buf apparently identifying itsel~ W'ithecclesiastical organizations, be- falo expanse of country, .where.you c~ nowsee~ only the wallows cause it paid them for the education of the Indian children. It and trails of those extinct anim.als. and I went to all these schools. did not ay those churches as Catholics, or Baptists, ·or Metho- I wish to say no\V what I have said before in the Senate, and it is dists; it paid them as Christian organizations that were willing to not the popular side of this question by any means, that I did not ass1st in the education of those forlorn people. see in all my journey, which lasted for several weeks, a single By and by a great cry came up against any connection of the school that was doing any educational work worthy the name of state with the church-with any kind of a church-and the wave educational work unless it was under the control of the J esuits. sm-ged up against these walls! demanding that there be a com- I did not see a single Government school, especially these day plate. total, and' instant severance of all relations between the schools, where there was any '\vork done at all. · Government and the chm·ches. I do not think there was a re1a- Something has been said here about the difference between en· tion between the Government and the churches; but no matter, rollment and attendance. I found day schools with 1,nOO Indian the arrangement was unsatisfactory. The discussion went on. children enrolled and not ten in attendance. except on meat days, The demand was imperative and instant that the Government as they called it, when beeves were killed by the agent and dis shonld cease paying anything to a school conducted by a denomi- tributed to the tribe. Then there was a full attendance. I fo'll;n~ nation. The result of that then-very much more so than now- schools where there were old, broken-down preachers and pohti would have been to turn many thousands of Indian children onto cia.ns receiving $1,200 a year and a house to live in for the purpose the prairie, with no schoolhouses and no places in which to be of conducting these Indian day schools. and when I cross-examined educated, except as the1·e might be here and there an attempt by t hem, as I did in every instance. I found that their actual attend some generous citizen or some particular church to build a school- ance was about three to five in the hundred of the enroll ment. I house and carry it on without the aid of the Government. do not care what reports are made, for they generally com e from I remember jnst how I felt then. and just what I said, and I interested parties. You can not educate the children with the day think I am about in the same position now. I said that if the schools. . . _ . Government' decided to sever this relation it was in duty bound In 1850 Fathl3r D~ Smet a s elf-sacr~ficin g Christian J esuit, went to im:1tantly begin with the greatest energy the erection of strictly ·at the solicitation ·of the· Flatheads to their resenation in Mon Government schoolhouses. Then I said-and a very large ma- tana. The Flatheads sent two rururnrs, young men, to bring the jority of the.Senate finally said, I only following the rest-that it bJackrobes to educate them and teach them the religion of C~rist. , 1900. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 3885 Both of those r_unners were killed by the Blackfeet and never Iof .~t struck down the appr9priation.- There are now: 400 Indian r eached St. Lams. They then sent two more. One of them was cb1 dren upon that reservat10n without one dollar to give them an ld led , and the other made his way down the 1\lissouri River after I hour"s instruction of any kind. That is the teaching of many incredible hardships and reacbe The Government stands ready to take the rest. They a.re not taken the Senator has pictured as having been done by a certain other because. as has been said here, those who have them do not want religions denominat10n in this country. "" to g.i ve them up. We have carried out the legislation as agreed I have, Mr. President, not one particle of doubt in my mind on l;('tween the Houses, and we have given a year over, and now that if we agree to-day that this question is settled, as it was we are met with the fulfillment of that agreement, with the termi agreed one year ago that it was settled, the Government will be nation of that policy. It seems to me a very great mistake to re abundantly able to take care of the education of all the Indian open this old question and to have it fought out again, as it will children. The Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner be fought out; forrl\lr. President, there are some of us who, despite of Indian Affairs say they cnn do it to-day, and that they can do all that is sa1d about bigotry and intolerance, feel that there is it without Government aid, thns obviating the necessity of OID' something in the urinciple that taxes should not be levied on one making appropriaiionH for sectarian purposes. man to support another man's faith. and who propose to stand on It does seem toip.e,as I expre sed it a moment ago. that we ought that principle and make such poor fight for it as they can. not to revive this questiont which has given rise, perhaps, tosome :!\Ir. GALLINGER. Mr. President, we were all charmed with feeling other than might be desirabfo in this Chamber that we the speech of the Senator fro.m :Missouri [Mr. VE T). and I qui~e should agree that the Committ&e on Indian Affairs has reached a agree with the Senator from .M as achusetts lM:r. LODGE] that bis wi e conclusion-pass the bill as it came from that committee, and Yoice is heard quite too seldom in this Cham er. But I want to le~ this question rest~ · di sent from two pxopositions which the Eenato1· advanced'.r if l .Mr. President, I appreciate eve!y sentiment that fell from the understooo hlm correctly. lips of the Senator from Missouri. We know that he is sincere; One is that action on the part of Senators who have opposed we know that he 'believes precisely what he says; but after all I these appropri~ tions has been because of intimida?an from acer am Eatisfied that the policy of the committee is one that we can tain organization .k nown as the A. P.A. Certamly I have not safely adopt, and that it will be better. all things considered1 that been influenced by any such consideration, nor do I believe that it should be adopted and this vexed question settled. any other Sena.tor has been. - Mr. VEST. l\lr. President, I apologize for saying another word The other observation I wish to make is that I dissent entirely about this matter, but I do not care to have the Senator from from the view t he Senator stated as regards our Government .Ma sachusetts put me in the attitude of advocating the taking of schools. If 1 understood him correctly, he sain that we might as tax money from any citizen of the United States in order to ad well take thi, money that we appropriate to Government schools vance the interests of any religious organization. I have at and destroy it, bum it up, or throw it into the Potomac River as tempted with my feeble n se of language to make it plain that I to appropriate it in this way. was not prejudiced in favor of the Roman Catholic Church or Mr. VEST. M.r. President, I beg pardon, but the Senator is desued to advance any of its doctrines~ tbat I simply would em mistaken I distinctly stated that I referred to the day schools, ploy the Jesuits as I would employ a mechanic to do work that I and that if the Government would adopt the boarding-school sys did not think could be done as well by anybody else, and that is tem, as has been done by the JesuitR, they might have some hope my honest opinion. of teaching these Indians, but they never could do it with the aid . There is something about the ceremonial of the Catholic Church of the day schools. I repeat that statement. that attracts the Indian. I found on that trip through Wyoming l\Ir. GALLINGER. Well, the Government has adopted board anc1 Montana everywhere that the Indians wanted the black robes ing chools. The criticism of the Senator does not have certainly back on the:ir reservations, for they had been driven off by the a universal application. agents of the Government, by these.Protestant teachers who were Now. Mr. President, I have visitPd some Government schools not teaching, but who were drawing money out of the Govern for Indian children, and I have seen exactly the condition there ment fo1· these day schools. I was at the Blackfoot Reservation, existing that the Senator bas pictured in the Jesuit schools. I near Fort Shaw, where General Brooke, late military governor of had an opportunity of visiting the Government school on the old Cuba, was then in command, and I spent two nights with him. Fort Totten Reservation, on the shores of Devils Lake, in North I found there an old, broken-down Baptist preacher, from Rhode Dakota, and I wish every Senator conld visit that school. TherP, Island, who had been assaulted by the war chief of the Blackfeet he will find a large number of Indian children learning the trades. but a few days before, and would have been killed but for the They have a harness shop, a blacksmith shop, and a shoemaking intervention of his daughter. because he had driven the· black shop. The girls are taught cooking and sewing and all the u eful robes off the reservation .. They had been compelled to go j11st arts of civilized life. The Senator says that he was met on a certain outside of the line of the reservation and establish their school occasion by a brass band, the instruments being in the hands of there. When I asked this old gentleman-he was over 74 years Indian chiiJ.ren, when he visited a Jesuit scho.ol. I had exactly old-why he had done this, he said, because they had stolen his the same -e.xperfence at Fort Totten, and they played very well childre~ referring to two o.r three Indian children who had gone indeed-much better music than we get in New Hampshll:e at the to the Jesuit school rather than to the day school, where, as I ordinary political rallies. said, there were some twe!Ye hundred enrolled and in daily attend Mr. VEtiT. I ask the Senator whether that was a boarding ance except on ration days. when there are only about a. dozen. school or a day school? One thing else and I am done. The Senator from New Hamp l\1r. GALLING ER. It was a boarding school. shire [M.r. GALLINGER] appeals or rather cites that extraordinary Mr. VEST. A boarding school is all right. caseof Metlaka.htla. lwenttoMetlakahtlainperson upinAlaska Mr. GALLINGER. Mr. President. that is precisely what the and saw the Indians whom Dnnca~ the Scotch lay preacher of Government is doing now. It is establishing these schools and the Church of England, had weaned away from cannibalism, and teachinu: the children trades and useful occupations. out of wham he bad made Christians. I never saw a man beforcr Mr. PLATT of Connecticut. Four-fifths of the Government whom I stood in more earnest admiration than this man, who had schools are boful"ding schools. risked his life repeatedly in order to reclaim these savages from Mr. GALLINGER. The Senator from Connecticut suggests the terrible condition in which they had been put by the smcerers that four-fifths of the Government schools are to-C!ay boarding who had full command of them. schools, and I presume that the remainder will be boarding schools When I wGnt to that island whme those Indians had been in a very brief time if we carry out the present policy of the Gov taught to erect houses and churches and schools by this s&lf-sac ernment. rificing young Scotchman, then an oid man, the Indians were Now, the Senator has paid a very eloquent and I presume a very then taking off the doors from the houses and the sashes out of deserved tribute to the Jesuits who have done the great work that the windows and their scanty domestic furniture and putting he has pictured. I know something of their history and I join them fa their great canoes, made out of the immense trees that with him in admiration for what they have done for civilization grow in that latitude, and they were sailing away to a home and fo:r Christianity. But there ai·e some-men whoarenotJesuits within the jurisdietionof the United States. this land of freedom, · who have done as much as they. I presume the Senator has been religious and civil. It was the most pathetic scene that I have · to New Metlakahtla, in Alaska. He will find a Prote tant mis ever witnessed in all my life, where they were taking thetrscanty sionary there who left England more than forty years ago, and household goods and leaving their· homes in order to seek protec went into the wilderness o.f British North America. where the tion under the Stars and Stripes of my country. Indians were all savages and some of them cannibals;took his life Why was this? Because religious bigotry and fanaticism had in his hands and devoted himself to their interest and the princi invade cl even that di.stan t island. This man Duncan had taught ples of Christianity and civilization. Not many years ago he those Inruans every dogma of our religion except the Lordfs Supper. came aver to Ame1·ican territory, and on an island in Alaska he His great work had been to win them from cannibalism, taught has around him 1,000 Indians who have been Christianized and them by the sorcerers. It had been the practice of the different civilized, who have their brass bands, their schools, their churches, tribes to make war upon each other in order to capture human and their indu tl'iesr and who have made internal improvements, beings, that they might be roasted and devoured like the meat of the bonds for which are held by the Indians. Mr. Duncan (God oxen. Duncan was afraid to teach them this sacrament, because bless him!) has never asked Congress to make an appropriation for they would turn on him and say, "Why, you tell us it is. wrong the work he is doing there. I do not know tba.t he would accept to eat each other, and yet you want us to eat our Godr You want it if it were offered him. He is doing just the kind of .work that us to eat the- meat and mink the blood of the Saviour whom you . l . - . 3888 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· SENATE. APRIL 7, bring to us !" Duncan could not answer that proposition, and schools, all of which must be paid for out of the taxes taken from was afraid that wit.h their untutored minds they would come to the people. the conclusion that be was an impostor, and immediately return Mr. JONES of Arkansas. For the education of the 2,000 pupils to the sorcerers and their infernal dominion. .who are this year in contract schools we are paying $216,000, and The governor of the eastern province of British America (Van that includes everything. If they were put in Government couver) and the established church (the English Church), through schools next year, we would pay $334,000, and in addition to that its bishop, demanded that he should administer the sacrament of the cost of lighting, heating, and fuel, and all of those other ex the Lord's Supper, and when he told them why he could not do it penses. So there will be a saving of $118,000 on this particular the bishop said: " Then you can not remain a lay minister of the item-that is, the contract schools would perform for $108 the Church of England, but you must give up this charge." Duncan work which in our own schools costs us $167 for each pupil; and appealed to the church in England. He went over there and ap yet Senators stand up here and talk as if we were making a dona peared before the highest ecclesiastical authorities in Great Brit tion of 5108 per pupil to each of these organizations. ain, and they affirmed the judgment of the bishop of Vancouver. In the appropriation bill of last year these words appear: He came back and told these Indiami, amounting to twelve hun This is the final appropriation for sectarian schools. dred, what had been the result of his mission. and he said, "Now I The amendment I have proposed is not an appropriation. I leave it to you, either to go wit• me to the domain of the United have not proposed any appropriation. The approprfations are al· States or to remain here," and all but about three hundred-for ready made. The amendment I have proposed is simply this: It they had voted a few days before I was there-concluded to go puts the matter in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior. 1vith Duncan. If he finds that there are not sufficient Government schools to He came here one year ago, perhaps eighteen months, for I saw take care of the Indians at a particular reservation, he may, if he him here, to ask authority from the Secretary of the In ~ erior chooses to do so, have them taken care of in the.contract schools, and the President to occupy some of the vast domain which we where, instead of paying :)167 for each pupil, it will cost but 108 have aequired from Russia in order to plant there the new Metla each to do it. There is no appropriation in it;. there is no viola- kahtla as a place of refuge from the bigotry and fanaticism and tion of any agreement ever before made. It is simply a humane ignorance of the ecclesiastical authorities tb,at had attempted to proposition to prevent the 2,000 children who are now in the con· degrade him before his people because he would not aclminister the tract schools by the action of the Government from being de sacrament of the Lord's Supper in accordance with their views. prived of school facilities. Mr. President, there could not be a more conspicuous example As to the increase in the capacity of the Government schools, I of how men, conscientious and good men, under the dominion of have had a compilation made from the reports of the Department, religious prejudice and fanaticism, can be induced to commit a from which it appears that in 1895 the capacity was 16,950; in great outrage like this. 1896 it was 17,806; in 1897 it was 18,610; in 1898 it was 19,874; in Mr. SHOUP. Mr. President, I desire to ask the Senator from 1899 it was ~0,126. This is the rate ap which the capacity of these Mi~ souri a question. schools has mcreased: There was an mcrease of 4 per cent in the Mr. VEST. Certainly. capacity of the schools from 1894 to 1895; an increase from 189:5 Mr. SHOUP. The Senator from Missouri bas referred to the to 1896 of 6 per cent; from 1896 to 1897 of 4 per cent; from 1897 to Indians of Metlakahtla, under the control of Professor Duncan. 1898 of 6 per cent; but from 1898 to 1899 an increase of only l i Let me ask the Senator if those Indians have ever received one per cent. This shows the reason why there is not a sufficient dollar from the Government for the maintenance of their school capacity in these schools. children? Mr. TELLER. Mr. President, I want to offer a substitute for I, too, have visited Metlakahtla. I admire Professor Duncan the amendment of the Senater from Arkansas. . for what he bas done. He has built up a people taken almost The PRESIDENT pro tempore. 'l'he Senator from Colorado from a state of cannibalism, and that without one dollar of appro proposes an amendment to the amendment, which will be read. priation from this Government. To-day they have a cannery Of Mr. TELLER. I will read it myself, for fear the clerks may their own; every Indian lives in a house; he has his heating stove have some trouble with it. I propose the following as a sub and his cook stove, his furniture; he bas comfortab!e chairs, bed stitute: steads, bedding, and everything much better than many white The Secretary of the Interior shall take such mea..,ures as he may con people. They have t~eir own compan~ store, their :fisheries, and sider necessary to provide educational facilities for all the Indian children their sawmil1. now in Government and contract schools, especially those who may be dis They provide all their own sustenance and educate their own charged from contract schools. children, and they have not invited or asked the United States Mr. JONES of Arkansas. I am perfectly-willing to accept that Government for one dollar in the way of education. They have substitute if the Senator will change it so as to authorize the Sec· built a church edifice there that would be a model building in any retary of the Interior to place the Indian children in contract one of our inland towns throughout the United States, and every schools if he deems it advisable or believes it to be best to do eo. ' particle of work about that building, from the cutting down of Mr. TELLER. I think this gives him pretty general authority. the tree, thesawingof the lumber, and the putting of it into place, Mr. JONES of Arkansas. The last Indian appl'opriation law has been done by the Indians. They have used their cedar wood, said that was to be the last appropriation for contract schools. I with its variegated colors, and they have ornamented it; as I said want it to appear that the Secretary of the Interior has a right, if before, they have their own sawmill, their own fishei·y. Mr. he believes it to be necessary, to make contracts for the education Duncan deserves an immense amount of credit; but he has never of Indian children in contract schools; yet asked the United States for one dollai· for the education of Mr. TELLER. I think I would leave that matter in the discre those Indian children. ·· tion of the Secretary of the Interior. I am not myself one of those Mr. JONES of Arkansas. Mr. President, I shall detain the who have ever been disturbed about the contract schools. The Senate but a moment. There were some suggestions made by the contract school system grew up because the Government did not ·Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. LODGE] and the Senator from furnish sufficient appliances in the way of buildings and teachers New Hampshire [.Mr. GALLINGER] that I think ought· to have a for the number of Indian children who were anxious to go to reply to. -· . . school, and it grew up largely after 1880, which was about the The Senator from Massachusetts expressed himself as being op first of it. It increased during the years 1882, 1883, 1884, and 1885 posed to levying taxes for the purpose of S?pportiug sectarian quite rapidly, and increased because the Government appropri schools, and the Senator from New, Hampsh1re spoke of_the ap ations were considerably larger than the facilities furnished by propriations which have been heretofore made as being appropria the Government. The Government had not the facilities, had not tions in aid of contract schools. The fact is that the Government the schoolhouses, to take up and use the appropriation. It was · · of the United States pays $167 for each one of the pupils for a year my duty at that time, having connection with the Interior De· in all the Government boarding schools; that is the rate at which partment, to provide facilities for those children. I found this sys· appropriations are made to take care of those pupils; whereas tem in vogue. I had never heard its usefulness questioned, nor · those that are taken care of in the contract schools are taken care had there been any complaint up to that time that it was an un· of in the very same way for $108. American system. I was exceedingly anxiol;J.S, as were, I think, Now, how itcan besaid to be a donation to oneofthesecontract the public, to have all the Indian children who would go to school schools to give them $108 for doing what we pay the Government furnished an opportunity to do so, and a ln.rge number of.them school $167 for doing passes my comprehension. were put in schools. . · - Mr. PETTIGREW. Right in that connection I should like to It has been complained on the part of some people that the suggest to the Senator also that in the Government schools the Roman Catholic Chlll'ch got more than their share. If. they did, buildings are heated and lighted and cared for by the Govern Mr. President, it was simply becaus~ they were prepared to take ment at a cost in addition to the 8167 for each pupil, while in the charge of and afford facilities for.the education of a greater num contract school the $108 covers the whole expense. ber of children than any other branch of the Christian church; that Mr. JONES of Arkansas. · That is true. was all. It wa.a through no favoritism either then or.sub equently, Mr. PETTIGREW. So that we pay ;rl:>,out half for etlucatin~ but the Catholics were better prepared with theh' church system the children in the contract schools \){'~ we do in om· own than all the others put togethe1-. The result was that they got "'7' . -~ ,, \'