The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-06-27

from what he has presented and bring the mind to very
different conclusion
from Kentucky, any else, OF advocating ana Ia
vorng claims here against the government that are mol
Well founded ! generally considered, believe,
little too slIingenta little too apt TO 90 TOO lar en- Inc
other side But this has seemed 10 IRON the irs to
be pain-a claim so well founded-tbat II mas
really astonshed me when see gentlemen so noted as
the senator from Kentucky is for exact knowledge OF
facts, for habit OF Investigation, and Tor an ability 10
appreciate facts when he has discovered them am
asonlshed TO see gentlemen like him go so Tar m
opposition 10 what | think Is the true view OF the
case. The senator drew distinction between The
invitation from the ohceis o The army to the Messrs
Bean 70 80 apon& & Inc h land and me-
and practically they amount 10 the same thing. why,
sir, II the oceIs OF the army had sent thousand miles
by express for them to and perform this service the
very form OF authority by which they would have
gone upon the land would have been permission
u wond have been given in no other form because
General Arbucke. in his affidavit here, states what
was the fact--ihat they went there by permission OF
Major Bradford; and Il amounts to no more as TACT
Than TO the statement that they were there by authority
upon The government They were not there wronglully
lhey were entitled, as American citizens, to exercise
freely their rights They had right acquire property
by their labor, and TO claim to be protected 10 the ENJOY
without permiss Ihey would not only have been sub
eced Justly removal by the officers OF the army but they
would have had no night TO claim any compensation ior
the loss OF their properly; but. going there by permission
and lawful authority, they were placed upon The same
footing OF all other American citizens, whether there
any other portion Of the country, under the jurisdic
ton Of the United States, having right TO acquire prop
ery by labor claiming the protection OF The government
in the enjoyment of that property, holding the govern
men of the United States and all other persons at def
ance when that property which they had lawfully ac
CURED was to be taken from them.
But il the senator had read the memorial OF Mr.. Bean
and OF the officers of the army he would have seen thai
they went there not only by PERMISSION but because the
officers of the army believed il to be public benefit ior
them 10 go ihere-tha important and valuable services
would be rendered only to the army, but to the white
people occupying the country in that region. The report
OF the COMMITTEES has been before the Senate SO long
having been here two years ago, and being here now
again, that do deem necessary read the whole
of il, to recaptulae all the facts SETS orth-sup-
posing that It has been upon the tables OF senators so
long that they have 10 some extent al least made them
selves acquainted with it, But, Mr.. President, briefly,
these the facts which the report of the committee and
the statements OF officers OF the army OF the United
States, and of other respectable persons, made under
oath, will sustain
ln 1877 these gentlemen as the senator from Kentucky
has sad did discover this salt spring. and they dii desire
make salt it, Upon conference with officers OF the
army, Major Bradford being then in command on that
frontier. it was agreed between them and him that it
would be public benefit else the officer would not have
dared TO let them go there They did believe that they
would make money; that was the inducement for them
10 60 They did commence at very great expense per-
haps under greater difficulties and more extraordinary
hardships than any set OF men would have dared TO
counter in pushing forward into the wilderness and be-
coming the pioneers OF civzaiion-as great perhaps as
any people have encountered. II IS SAID by those
who know them that II is doubtful whether IN the hls
tory OF the country any other than Mark and Rich
ard IL Bean would have accomplished what they did
They are OF that old pioneer stock known TO many IN
Tennessee who pushed forward through the wilderness
IN advance OF civilization, and establishes that point
long known the Bean station, lnheriting from their
father that hatdihood and spirt OF adventure, they
pushed still further entered the wilderness country
and settled in the western wilds OF Arkansas, whence,
after they had entered into an arrangement with the
commanding officer, they returned TO Tennessee, pro-
cured their salt kettles and other apparatus necessary
q q ee boats,
rled them down the Cumberland the Ohio, and the Mis-
slsspp rivers 10 the mouth OF The Arkansas river,
pulled them up that stream by the limbs OF trees, and
then carried them sixty seventy miles packed upon the
backs OF mules, and not upon wagons as the senator
says, through the wilderness to thu salt springs
The senator speaks OF the value of single saltkellle
Now be Certainly must know that they had a very large
number OF lhem together with the fixtures necessary Tor
the manufacture OF salt, which must have cost very
large OF money, to say nothing OF The losses they
sustained of life and property, and the hardshps they
encountered being, MAJOR Bradford says, on the war
path OF two tribes OF Indians then at with each other
But SIR, this all applies to their being in this country,
the senator would say by permssion ap 10 1916. As
the advocate OF this bill and OF the claims OF these gen
tlemeD, might throw all that aside might not ask a
particle OF attention TO all the hardship and expenses they
incurred 1926 then The county thrown
open 10 white settlers, and every white man thai was
there there afterwards, prior to the treaty with
ihe Cheokees IN 1928, carried all the rights o. citizen
ship all the rights OF property and could mol by any act
OF this government be deprived OF their property without
the government being responsible to them for it, Now,
the senator VIII not question hat they were thce by Jaw
ful auihory--as much any other citizen OF this
Union after 1925 and up to ls2s, and thai they required
permission OF MAJOR Bradford anybody else TO be
there The question rs, did they acquire the right OF
property IN that country after S25 II Is IN the proof
here that they were then IN possession OF this property,
and that II valuable property. IL - proved by
number OF officers oil the army and by large number Of
most respectable persons, who had personal knowledge
OF the facts that they io possession oil property,
some estimating II as high as $40 900. and all concurring
IN swearing, from their knowledge and belief derived
,ha hat ham
worth less than $4,000. That was their situation be-
tween ls28 and fs2S up TO 1926, they stale in their
affidavit and II may he inferred from all the state
mens OF all the officers an witnesses here, they bad
made money upon their investment The harlships,
difficulties and losses that they sustained bad been
sufficient to countebaance all the money they had re-
ceved from the sale OF their salt. But after 1896, az
these PERSONS had anticipated they did begin 10 make
money, because then the white people poured into the
country and settled around them, creating very large
demand for the salt. and al the same time protecting
them against the depredaions OF the Indians They
then free from losses they made salt in peace, and
sold II at profit Then they began to make money and
realize some profit though still very lillle IRON their
labor investment expenditure, and hadship but, just
they began To do sous they began To bod II profit
able business, the United States made treaty with the
Cherokees by which every white persons in that country
required forthwith to remove. BY that treaty the
whole country put IN possession oi the Indians
That IN 1928 and there were settlers then upon
that land except Mark and Richard II Bean, who had
any property OF any market value The rest OF the set
ters were mere squaiters. They bad Just gone in. and
there is 10 believe that there was any OF
them who owned property Of any value. These per-
sons were required. however forthwith to abandon their
whole property and remove back into The interior OF Ar
kansas They did in obedience 10 law and the In