The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-08-25

The PRESIDENT, The senator is aware that the
Chair is obliged 10 entertain motion to take up bill
The question being then taken upon the motion to take
up the bill il agreed to and said bill was considered
in committee OF the whole, reported to the Senate
without amendment ordered be engrossed for third
reading and was read third time and passed.
INTERCOURSE INDIAN TRIBES.
The PRESIDENT The time has arrived for the spe-
Mr. BRADBURY hope the Senate will take up the
resolution that offered yesterday II is resolution
for information only, and therefore hope that will be
The PRESIDENT 1t canno, be done The time has
arrived for the special order.
of the Senate to take up the resolution.
Mr. RUSK. The special order will take up no time.
and hope the senator from Maine will withdraw his
Mr BRADBURY will withdraw it, then
Mr. FOOTE. am opposed to having the order taken
up have important business to come up this
morning We have resolution with regard to the print
ing Of SEINE books which am very anxious to have dis
posed Of
cal order in very few moments We have agreed upon
the amendments.
The PRESIDENT The special order is under con-
7h section OF the act TO regulate intercourse with the
Indian tribes and preserve peace the frontiers, APP
proved the Sd of June 1884, TO the people of the State OF
Texas, and Others"
Mr. FOOTE | was about to move that it be post
poned for the present. TO let the battle Of the books come
Mr. RUSK hope my friend will not make the
ton
MIR YULEE. would state that the gentleman from
Kentucky and the friends OF the bill have agreed upon
amendments which will do away with all the difficulties
connected with the bill move TO strike out all after the
enacng clause, and insert what will send to the Chair
wil simply state that is but extension OF the pro-
visions OF the act OF 1894 to the contemplated in
this law. is amendment drawn up IN consultation
with the senator from Kentucky, [Mr. UNDERwooD,l
who has given his attention to the matter, and which
believe will be satisfactory on all hands.
The amendment was read as follows:
Strike out nil after the enacting clause and insert
That tie provisions OF the entitled An regulate
trade intercourse with the Indian tribes and 70 pre-
peace the fonter approved June >, 1884 shall
all 10 cases Of Indian depredatons committed in
Alabama, Georgs and Florida subsequent the lstdsy of
PROVIDED, That whom there has been
peutendent agent. snbsgent 70 whom the party in:
such party vi may be examined and allowed in the same
IL they had been regularly acted on by such
be satisfactory the injury sustained otherwise
within the pnrview OF said act
Mr. RUSK think the honorable senator is little
mistaken because the law contains statute of limia
tons The claims in Alabama and Florida will be un-
touched because the prov sons OF the law OF 1884
such that ii an application is not made before three
years, the demand on account OF depredalons IS de.
barred
Mr CLEMENS. They have made their application
Mr. RUSk. In Texas there has been no application,
because there has been no law
Mr. YULEE The senator did not hear the proviso
that attached which provides that il there has been no
superintendent, agent, subagen all the benefits ofthe
act shall 10 the party.
Mr. RUSK | should much prefer that should be ap.
pended to the present bill Alabama and Georgia are
stricken out and the honorable reach his OBJ
ject by appendng that as an additional section.
Mr. NULEE | am willing.
The PRESIDENT The Chair is reminded by the
Secretary thai there proposition pending TO strike
out the third section The amendment, therefore, by the
from Florida cannot be received until that IS dis
Mr. UNDERWOOD This amendment offered by the
senator from Florida certainly does provide Tor every
thing that ought to be provided for II applies this law
without change TO Texas Florida Alabama, and te those
countries about which there has been difficulty hereto
fore And then there proyiso added to IT, that where
there superintendent Indian agent or sub agent
and consequence OF the want OF this officer, the claim
Tor depredaons committed by Indians could not be reg
ularly examined the situated in that way may be
presented, looked into. and paid precisely as II II had
passed regularly through the hands OF the subagent
The PRESIDENT That IS not the question before
the Senate. The question is upon the motion made by
the honorable senator himself 10 strike out the third sec
uop.
Mr. UNDERWOOD I then withdraw my notion
and give place TO the modification of the senator from
Florida.
The PRESIDENT stated the question on the motion
Of the senator from Florida TO strike out and insert
Mr.. UNDERWOOD. | have nothing further TO say.
THIS amendment applies IN the broadest terms the inter
act of 1894 to all these countries and provides Tor
all that may have heretofore originated 10 Indian
depreds,ions, where sub-agens not provided for
investigation, and it opens the door Tor all OF them with
out limitation. think it right TO. place the whole coun
try upon the same footing and foundation under The inter-
course Law OF 1884
The question being then taken upon the amendment 1t
was adopted.
Mr. CHASE. ] ask that the bill be read as i now is.
The bill read accordingly.
Mr.. CHASE. do not see that this bill - materially
changed from the provisions OF the former bill
| Mr.. AICHlSON, lin his seat) Certainly IT Is not
Mr.. CHASE. II appears TO me, as the senator from
Missouri has suggested, that this bill IS in substance and
effect the same as a former bill And this question
presents itself Are the Senate prepared TO change the
law regard TO the intercourse with Indians, as 10
responsibility The oil those Indians who
not under the control OF The government OF the United
Saies' The act OF 1894 defines the limits OF the Indian
territory aud excludes in distinct terms from this provs
| ION all those Indians within the limits Of any State 1t
true, as have before remarked, that when the United
States have the control hem they become RESPONSE
BILE for their acts and when they have not the direct control
over Them they are not responsible for their scts IL -
now proposed to assume responsibility where we nave
no controo assume responsibility for the acts Of IN.