The true Democrat., 1854-06-20
MGR ES SIGNAL.
IN DEN A T E.
 MursdoY, April 27. 1854.
lECONSIDERATION OF A BILL.

MI. oOIlANbOAN. L lo OoIldCo OH | uoSOdy passed bill to amend an act, entitled "An ac togrant the right of pre-emption to certain pur chasers and settlers on the Maison Rouge grant in the event of the final adjudication of the ti. tie n favor of the United States'' It was dis. covered this morning that there is defect in the bill as passed, in consequence of which the wrong act is proposed to be extended by that bill That mistake should be corrected; and wish to move a reconsideration of the vote by which the bill was passed in order that the ne- cessary correction may be made This is the last day on which, by our rules the reconside- ration can be moved The bill is now, how ever, on the speakers table, in the other house and I wish to have it brought back to the Se- nate. Unless it be sent back to-day, before the House adjourns, I cannot move to reconsider I move therefore, now, that the Secterarv be directed to request the House ofRepresentative yes to return that bill.
 The motion was agreed to.
 Amessage was subsequently, received from the House of Representatives, by MT. McKeon chief clerk, returning the bill mentioned. in ac. cordance with the request of the Senate.
 Mir. JOHNSON. I move that the vote or the passage of the bill be reconsdered, and ask that the motion be entered on the iournal
 The President. It will be so entered
 INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL.
 On motion by Mr. Hunter the Senate as in committee of the whole, resumed the conside- ration ot the House bill making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty sti- pulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June 30, 1855.
 Mr. SEBASTIAN. The next amendment +1o 0r, Indian affairs is to insert under the "miscella- neous' heading the following
 For surveying and marking the boundary lines of such tract or tracts of land as may be provided under the stipulations of the amend ments of the Senate to the treaties of the 23d of July and 9th of August, 1851, with the Sioux Indians, $1 12OO;
 For expenses of negotiating the treaties of the 10th of September, 1853; with the Rogue River Indians, and of the 18th of September. 2653, with the Cow Creek band of Umpqua h. dians, 5000.
 The amendment was agreed to.
 Mir. SEBASTIAN. l have another amend ment from the committee on Indian affairs, to come Ill at the end of the second section That section provides that no existing provisions of law, prescribing the manner in which payment shall be made to Indians, shall be construed to repeal or cOntravene the seventeenth section of the Indian intercourse act. The amendment of the committee is to add to this provision the fol- lowing:
 Or to prohibit the payment of any claim or claims, other than those of agents or attorneys for bona tde services rendered to any Indian tribe in cases where the President may adiudge such services necessary, and the claim or claims therefor just and reasonable
 MT. Walker With the acquiesence of the chairman of the committee on Indian affairs, l wish to have a slight verbal alteration made in the amendment, in order more fully to carry out its design. move to amend it by inserting after the word attornevs'' the words |" for claims"
 Mir. SEBASTIAN. Iagree to the proprietv of that.
 The amendment to the amendment was agreed to; and the amendment as amended was adopted.
 Mr. SEBASTIAN. I have another amend ment from the committee on Indian affairs. as all additional section:
 SEC. g.. Aud De it further enactea, That the President be authorized, by and with the ad- vice and consent of the Senate, to appoint su- perintendent of Indian affairs for the territory of Utah, who shall receive an annual salary of S2,OOO, and whose duty it shall be to exercise a general superintendence over all the Indian tribes in Utah, and to exercise and perform all the powers and duties assigned by law to other superintendents of Indian affairs
 The amendment was agreed to.
 Mir. SEBASTIAN. The next amendment is to add an additional section:
 SEC. 4. And 6e at .tu,ther enacted, That so much of the act to establish the territorial go- vernment of Utah. approved 9th September, 1850 as requires the governor of said territory to perform the duties of superintendent of h. dian affairs, and authorizes him to receive sa- lary therefor, in addition to the salary allowed for his services as governor, be repealed, and that the governor of said territory shall hereaf- terreceive an annual salary of S2,5OO
 The object of this provision, Mir. President, is merely to separate the duties of superinten- dent of Indian affairs from the office of gover- nor in the territory of Utah. It is hardly ne- cessary, probably, to explain the considerations which have induced the committee to report this amendment. They are obvious in their cha ac,er, and such as will suggest themselves to the Senate at glance. We also propose to make provision for increasing the sa!ay of the governor in consequence of the separation of the duties of superintendent from his office, and to make his salary equal to that which we now allow to the governors of Washington and Oregon, who in their relations to our country, are situated about as remotely and inaccessibly, and the expenses of living in each are about the same. We thought it just therefore, to allow the executive of Utah the same salary as the governors of those other territories The main object was to separate the duties of super lntendent of Indian affairs from those of the executive of that territory.
 MT. Chase. I doubt the expediency of in creaslng the salary of the governor of Utah. 1 have heard no special reason assigned why it should be increased by this amendment- The office which has heretofore been paid $2,5OO as governor and as superintendent is to be divided into two, and one is to be paid S2,500, and the other S2,OOO, making s4, 800 for these services Unless the chairman of the committee can assign some good reason for it, Fl think the amendment ought to be rejected
 Mir. SEBASTIAN. The senator imagine is mistaken slightly in his facts The object only is to give to the governor of Utah, as go- vernon, salary of $2,5OO, in consequence of the separation of these duties. He now re. H1