Indian appropriation bill debate over Indian trust funds
Senate long discussion on the Indian appropriation bill centered on Bard disclosures about trust fund disbursements and efforts to remove restrictions on Indian property. Amendments sought to permit education payments to non government schools and debated potential Catholic influence and trustee safeguards amid calls for tighter control of tribal funds.
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Bard
California
Spooner
Congress Condensed Senate Debates Indian Appropriation Bill
Senate spent nearly eleven hours on the Indian appropriation bill with a lengthy debate over a prohibition on Trinity funds for sectarian schools. Senator Kearns of Utah attacked Mormon Church influence, denied paying Lorenzo Snow for Senate support, and several steam-vessel inspection bills progressed amid delaying tactics. House adjourned early after unanimous consent passes. later, lingering floor action focused on citizenship and Osage oil lease extensions, with debates on appeals to the US Supreme Court and tribal funds management in Indian Territory.
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Bailey
Senate
Stone
Gallinger
Bards
Scharf
Kearns
Utah
Mormon Church
Ste
Lorenzo Snow
Llocum
New York
House
South Dakota
Colorado
McCumber
Heyburn
Indian Territory
Citizenship Court of the
Chickasaw and Choctaw Nation
Supreme Court of the United States
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E H Bounds
Supreme Court of
Stewart
Riley
C N Vann
Wilam P .Aduff
Mrtt
Connecticut
Pretty Bear
Julia Wright
Spooner
Berry
Long
Senate debate on land and education amendments in Oklahoma Indian Territory
The Senate considered an Oklahoma Indian Territory statehood plan with amendments on dispossession and Catholic church land grants in Montana. Amendments increased land set asides for religious orders, debated education funding for Hayward Indian School and Lemhi agency, and drew up reservoir land withdrawals in Minnesota. The Post-office appropriation bill moved to committee, and the session adjourned at 1 50.
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Secretary of the Interior
Clark
Montana
Society of Jesus
Sisters of Charity
Providence
Ursuline
Bailey
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Spooner
Hayward
Wis
Heyburn
Lemhi
Idaho
Senate
Fulton
Newlands
Minnesota
Funds for Church Schools Transmitted to House by Secretary Hitchcock
Secretary Hitchcock sent to the House a detailed statement from Indian Affairs Commissioner Leupp on Indian funds used for sectarian Indian schools. It lists 1904 and 1905 contracts with schools including St Louis Boarding School Pawhuska and St John’s Grayhorse Oklahoma, with per pupil rates and total amounts. Additional contracts with Holy Rosary Pime Ridge, Immaculate Conception Crow Creek, St Francis Roeebua, St Louis Pawhuska, St John’s Homing Creek, St Sabres Tongue River, and St Marys Quapaw are described with pupil counts and totals. Funds come from various appropriations and none used for meals. totals for 1905 estimated at $0100 (likely 100).
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Hitchcock
House
House of Representatives
F E Leupp
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Leupp
St Louis
Pawhuska
St John's
Grayhorse
Oklo
St John’s
Congress
Osage
Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions
Holy Rosary
Pime Ridge
Immaculate Conception
Crow Creek
St Francis
Roeebua
Okla
Homing Creek
St Sabres
Tongue River
Mont
St Mary’s
Quapaw
Indoer
St Johns
St Mary's
Decoration for John Hay Bill in Senate
Senator Cullom reported a Foreign Relations Committee bill authorizing Secretary Hay to accept the Grand Cross of the National Order of the Legion of Honor from the French government through the State Department. Spooner objected to consideration after inquiry, protesting the measure despite committee action. No response followed the question of when it was considered.
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Cullom
Senate
Committee On Foreign Relations
Hay
States Department
State Department
French Republic
Wisconsin
Spooner
Cullam
Inspection of steamships and other Senate bills pass
Senate passed bills to regulate inspection of steam vessels including annual meetings of inspectors, penalties for noncompliance, tests for boilers, and crew standards. Also approved clerks for Federal courts in North Carolina, lands in forest reserves, a dam on Rocky River, and soldier pensions. Conference actions on Morocco minister salary and diplomatic bills reported.
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Ginster
Morocco
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United States
Mr. Hale
Shirt-sleeve diplomacy and reforms in Congress
The House debated naval and Treasury deficiencies totaling 14,960,776 and 37,192,945 dollars, urging tighter control of contracts. A plea to raise the President’s salary and to fund diplomats more generously highlighted discussions about American legations abroad and the broader push to curb unauthor ized expenditures. Bills on homestead land in South Dakota and Colorado were advanced, with debate over fraud prevention and settlement impacts.
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