The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-30

months he wrote an elaborate opinion adverse TO the
claim, covering eighteen pages of foolscap, and set
aside The decision Of bse board Here was a pable
violation Of the Cherokee treaty; and that violation
was persisted in, until overrued by joint resou'
ton of Congress.
As have already shown, the board of commits
sioners first appointed was dissolved by an order
from the War Department in the spring of 1889.
Numerous claims, not acted on by that board, were
then presented to the War Department, and the re-
newal OF the commission urged upon the govern
ment. AT the instance of some of the Cherokees
still remaining in the States of the Mississippi,
the Hon. A. Ill. Sewer, on the It'll March, 1872 Of
fered resolution in the Senate, directing the Presl-
dent of the United States to appoint three commits
soners for the purpose Of adudlcatng the claims of
the Cherokees east of the Mississippi river, This
resolution was, IN the usual manner referred TO the
Committee on Indian Affairs; and on the 24th day Of
the same month, (March, 1922 the Hon. Mr..
Morehead, from that committee, made report as
follows:
THAT by the 7th article of the treaty referred TO-
provided that all the claims arising under provided for
by the several articles Of the treaty &c. eeitng The l
article the committee are informed that there are mpor.
tant claims arising under and provided for by the several
articles treaty which adjusted by the board
of heretofore appointed for that purposes and
is believed that Justice TO the claimants requires that
those claims should be examined and found to be just
that they should be paid But the committee already OF
opinion that the President OF the United States has full
power virtue oft aforementioned article OF the treaty,
te the commission at its pleasure until its objects are
carried into erect The committee, therefore,
from recommending any action the part OF the Senate
and ask to he discharged"
pursuance ofthis expression of opinion by the
Senate, the Cherokee board was renewed in Septem-
Der, 1872 by the appointment of General John FL.
Eaton, of Washington, and Hon. James lredell, Of
North Carolina, as commissioners Judge lredell de-
cned accepting the commission, and Judge HUI
bley of Pennsylvania, was appointed in his place.
They continued in session upwards Of year, when
they were dismissed. The manner in which their
proceedings embarrassed by the conduct of
the War Department, and the cause Of their dis
missa, will endeavor TO show hereafter. Their
places supplied by the appointment of Colonel
George C. Washington and General John T. Ma
son, who proceeded TO the Cherokee country west
of the Mississippi, last fall, collected the Cherokee
claimants, and made personal examination of the
claims, as far as they could go within the short
time allotted to them They were recalled by
communication from the Indian Bureau here, in
forming them that their term of service would expire
on the 18th Of June. The execution Of the Chero-
kee treaty is, therefore, again suspended but the
question of RIGHT TO suspend commission constituted
the Cherokee board and whether the President of
the United States does not possess the poirer, and
oeihe IL is not his TO exercise IT, in accordance
with the above opinion of the Senate, questions
too interesting to discuss the close Of thr number
and will reserve them for my next.
AN ADOPTED INDIAN.