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

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my attempting TO show that the testimony did not exactly
warrant the statement contained in the report. But my
ifiend thinks that the ground OF permission. and
the invitation and guarantee that the government shall
furnish protection, mean all the same thing think
there Is q great difference there Mr. President As we
conceive The Tact 10 stand, II is this The Messrs
Dean explored wilderness OF country, and found a
saline IN The Indian territory These Beans say TO them
selves, We can manufacture salt here advantage
They thea go 10 the commander OF Fort Smith, whose
duty il is 10 keep intruders oh from the Indians lands
and say to the commander II you will not drive away,
and II you will permit us TO come, will establish our
salt works there. The commander says. Very well if
you can gel the permission OF The Indians to come you
shall have my assent agree 10 all that. But il is
very different thing from telling them TO 10 there to put
up Their sa-woTks and telling them il they will go to
Work The protection Of their rights and their property by
the government shall be pledged to them.
Now, then, take it that agree 10 the fact that
Major Bradford assented that these men who had dis
covered this sane might 90 there and go work. and
whatever they might make they might put their pocket
All be said was hls-l will not drive you away, because
we want the sat They then entered the county, Dir,
and manufactured salt ttere from 1921 TO IS2Smakng
seven years. And when that country apart for
the use OF The Indians they had TO give up their works
Now, sir the compensation they claim is Tor the loss
OF Their works and the improvements they had made in
making this salt and the COMMITTEES have allowed them
$4,000 Tor this loss OF their kettles, improvements, &c
say, sir that all this at the risk of the Messrs
bsan II was an Indian country at the time they went
thee, lhough 1t was subsequently purchased admit, by
treaty aud when purchased it was subsequently opened
to the immigration OF the white people But when
apart afterwards Tor the benefit OF The Indians this gov
eminent paid, as have SAID, such compensation they
thought the settlers entitled TO- But, before all this,
you perceive that The Messrs Bean had entered the cou
Try and commenced the manufacture OF their salt upon
the Indian country All that the officers of the govern
ment did or said was, We will not drive you away.
Now, say that the Mcssrs Bean risked all the con-
sequence The government gave no guarantee TO them.
The government made contract with them. The
officers OF the government pledged the government for
nothing, and therefore not responsible Tor the
losses sustained by them. But, sir, il the government
was responsible, tor how much would they be RESPONSE
BILE That is the question In the first place. upon the
facts which have stated, the government not respon-
slbe; and II you look al the testimony in this case, sir,
think it will be perfectly manifest that the testimony
values what this whole property would have been worth
II the Messrs Bean could have been permitted retain
i-iand improvements salt-works and all, and all the
value which the salt well would impan TO the property.
think that il you look at The testimony you will find
that the Witnesses estimate the whole value of the prop
erly OF the Messrs Bean provided they could have
tanned il and secured themselves Therefore they
speak 10 this way: "We estimate The lossee of the
Messrs Bean at from $l5 900 $40 600" Some OF them
go so far as TO say that while these gentlemen
alacu,nS Their salt. The Indians passing 10 and fro
through The country in The habit of pIagng their
stock, committing depredaons upon their farms, and
great many other trespasses upon them by which they
suffered great oss Some Of the witnesses estimate ali
that IN their valuation. and say "We suppose the
Nessrs Beams loss was from $4,000 to 100000"
Now SIR, wish 10 show you what the manager OF this
says and II his statement is rue ii perfectly
evident that these people have been compensated doubly
and uebly Tor any expenditures which they might have
made y the erection Of works tor the manufacture OF
salt This manager, who says that he has superniended
these sat-works from their very first commencement
down to Their termination, when the Messrs Bean gave
their properly states that they made about thirty
bushels o. sat per gay ana De swe.ls, tnnk, lhat he
bushe and be also that they sold their salt Tor
81 per bushelleaying, Of course profit OF seventyfve
cents per bushel. Here, them they nutacturing
salt for years. and If the which this
age makes be true. they made 10 800 bashes per year
They were thus engaged years, making the whole
L.,sh II
which, be says, ihe expense This makes Sie
which they expended leaving profit for the seven years
OF S57 800
Now, SIR If that is no, satisfaction for the one hundred
kettles which they earned out and put up there in the
Indian country, do not know what would be But there
is the statement which the manager makes and his les
tnony relied upon 10 prove the value OF the prop
eryno doubt under the idea that when the value OF the
property be assessed, this productveness OF the
property woud show lis great valueunder the idea that
the government to pay the foil value OF IL, and the
Sl3, 900 or $4,000 would be allowed
But, SIR IN proving The property TO be 80 valuable, IL IS
made perfectly manifest that there very large profit
to there gentlemen These kettles were only carried
up and used then years. What would be the
value oi salt kettle, after years boiling. my in.
formation that subject does not allow 10 state pre-
cisey but think have knowledge enough 10 say that
II would be very small They speak, 10 be -ure OF some
expense and some diculiy getting up there. because
they say tha, they bad 10 be taken up in bages-pung
them Up BY the wndass, not having steam power TO hep
them at that time. They drawn up 10 that way at
some expense, but have no, into minute cacu.
alon what The expense of carrying these han
dred kettles, some in barges and the plains
some little distance 10 wagons have not the means OF
making such calculation therefore ! do not know
what the expense OF getting The kettles there amount,
et to, nor do | know precisely what they would be
worth after having been in for years But
do say, that II this maDager-who says be was there IRON
the commencement 10 the ends correct IN his statement
that they sold their salt al 81 per bushel, while II cost
them only 23 cents and they made the quantity which
he hey did make IT Is perfectly manifest that in
the seven years during which they In operation,
there profit oi tnsn $4,000. These the
facts, according 10 my examination
Now Mr. President, these people, IL is said, had two
farus which they had cleared and perhaps fenced IN
their operations there. II did not cost them much TO
clear the ground, because all The wood which they took
ron the ground necessary in boiling the salt The
los OF the trees down Tor rails could be benehcisy
used for purposes Of this sort. The clearing OF the
ground necessary operation to supply their salt
works with wood. The fencing OF the ground and the
making OF the rails perhaps the only unprod
labor, the balance being necessary TO supply wood
They have already received $40 OF land for that
III they entitled, because there two partners,
each to have $40 promised by the law Tor the
little plantation Improvement, the committee should give
them $40 more, and nothing else. They should
fare like everybody else But instead OF giving them
800 for The additional farm, propose 10 give
them nothing Tor the additional farm, and TO pay them
900 money, under the idea that they have los, all
this under such circumstances TO make the govern
mept liable
that aspect, and regarding it moneyed claim, i
ought to have been referred 10 the Committee oi Claims,
and they Ahoud have acted upon the moneyed aspect OF
tbe uusson But, regarding IL as land clam, we ought
TO have given these Messrs Bean, as partners two
farms there being two Matchmaking $40 acres more
they having only received $40 acres for one man THIS,
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