The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-05-11

~ would be iust as well for the Indians that they
should be tried by the local courts OF California as that
they should be tried ia the federal courts do not there
fore see that the beneficial purposes OF the reservations
there 4 any necessity for having exclusive jurisdiction
over the territory
Nc can place the Indians there aud have them taught
All the arts necessary 10 enable them TO gain their own
support He comedies that have right 10 do this with
an consulting California about it. in favor Of doing
il Ii 100000 be necessary for the purpose let us vote
that DO not let in the language of the senator
from California have the blood of these murdered Indians
upon hands Do not let permit il TO be len 20 Cal
itorua determine whether they are 10 be murdered on
not II Is the duty Of this government TO protect he
We have placed them upon land belonging 10 US where II
is conceded they protected, and where IL Is CON
ceded they taught Let us gave the necessary
money If 100000 be needed for the purpose let
il but let us keep the Indians own land and keep
them beyond the control OF those who desire 10 interfere
with them.
Several have suggested that the vote last taken
was not understood by the Senate The Char will resta
the question: and again take the vote. The amendment
as offered by the Committee Indian Affairs provides for
the payment of Sl25O00 The senator from California
mr. WELLER TO strike out that sum- and insert
100000.
amendment there were, dyision-ayes l6, noes IA
no quorum voting
Mr. BELL hesitated to vote in the affirmative on this
question after the suggestions which have been thrown out
but wish TO ask honorable senators il II would not be
very easy matter place this amendment IN such form
rs to perfectly safe for the public Interests do not
understand that it necessary place this whole sum
Of money any time at the disposal OF the supern-
tendent
take Il for granted the department will not pay over any
portion Of the money appropriated to the present
superintendent until he shall have accounted for the money
he has already received.
Mr. BELL Would the department place 100000 at
any time at his disposal
Mr. WELLER. No, sir of course not
Mr. SEWARD called for the yeas and nays on the amend
ment to the amendment; and they ordered
Mr. WALKER. | wish to inquire precisely on what
call lodi uppu tn yOt
The PRESIDING OFFICER u is on the amendment Of
the senator from California Mr. WELLER TO the amend
of the committee to strike out Sl25ooo and insert
Mr.. WALKER. Then the Senate viii understand that
it the proposition to increase the amount re-
ported by the committee.
Mr. WELLER have a remark to make in to
the suggestion of the senator from Tennessee under
stood from the Secretary Of the Interior that the whole
amount Of the preceding appropriation was placed In the
hands of assistant OF the United States at San
Francisco Instructions were then given TO the supern-
tendent not to draw over $4,000 at any one time.
Mr. BELL consider that the officer hereis responsible
The places the money in the hands of the superintendent
improydenty; and long have confidence in him
do not any great objection to increasing the sum az
Mr. DAWSON should be glad if the chairman of the
Committee on Indian Affairs would inform me how many
Indians have been located on the reservation IN Caornia
for the purpose of learning agricultural?
Mr. SEBASTIAN. According to the latest reports o
the superintendent-and may refer to private iette
which have from him. which received about the com
of the sessionthere about two thousand
three hundred Indians the The con Pass
That the only which has been located under tn,
authority of the law year. which authorized FIVE &c
be located The superintendent has succeeded in locating
but one in consequence of the difficulty OF finding as large
an amount Of the public domain in one body would
make up twenty-five thousand On that reserve
he has congregated about thousand three hundred In
dams and opened last year some seven or eight hundred
acres to cultivation and he expects 10 have between two
thousand and two thousand five hundred acres in cuya
ton this year.
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and them in the arts of agriculture Two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars is very large sum of money
appropriate 10 make commencement of system and
now without any report satisfactory TO this body for
have seen none asked make additional appro
priatiou OF 100000; making altogether S45o.ooo
Mr. BELL Not for this one reservation.
Mr. DAWSON. But for another reservation
Mr. BELL. For others
MIR DAWSON. We now in the month OF May, anC
of course there be arrangement clearing,
something Of kind during the remainder of this year
yet are called upon to make this appropriation
when we have no data statement upon the part OF thu
ypant officer engaged in the disbursement of the money
showing the necessity Of making further appropra
ton.
Sir this is a great system which are trying and W
are met in the beginning with what is called consitu
tional question Stato-rghis question: to whether
take lands in the heart of sovereign State and
them off for the Indians in reservations of TWENTY-FIVE
thousand There may be citizens who own the sol
under the laws Of Mexico when California belonged to tina
nation and are we surround those people with Indians
Are we plant Indians directly in their midst withou
any consultation with them and give TO the Indians it'll
In The lands around these white peopo2 Sir this is grea
movement which are making.
The chairman Of the Committee on Indian Affairs makes
statement which Ia doubt true, that ii IS difficult L
find body Of land sufficient TO place these people upon
and why? There is abundance Of land, but IL is aker
up by prior titles hence the embarrassment arising out
the very mode and manner Of appropristing the public
lands We too precpitae in this matter These In
dams have been there through all time so far hav,
any knowledge They came into this country with thai
portion Of II which is known California They wer,
subssng there and maintaining themselves
pants OF the soil Has the OF the United States
destroyed their occupant rght2 Has il driven them from
the position which they occupied Has this been done by
the power Of this government II not has II been done
by the power Of the State government OF California Not
ct all.
But sir these Indians said 10 be strays and wa
upon the land Why, they just as they when
found them The soil s just rs II when took il
and they entitled 10 all the rights which they
oyed then. We propose TO subsst them by large APP
preparations annually from the federal treasury when there
their lands and their hunting grounds when there
the gold mines Of the country in which they dig il they
choose II they labor in the soil for agricultural pur-
poses they certainly labor in the mines but yet
making appropriation TO convince these people that
they need not labor that they the wards Of the govern
ment and that they viii nc suhsisted from the treasury
without the necessity of labor their part This is the
education which VIC giving thcm--an education well
calculated 70 destroy them and debar them from all pro-
gross whatever
The senator from New York has mentioned the course
which his State has pursued towards the Indians that
there They have been settled for the last seventy ye
years immediately within the limits Of that State but in
stead Of prospecting, they dwndng in numbers IL s
true that OF them intelligent ana learned now
but the tribes arc dwindling away every day
Now, sir my idea on this question is that had better