The true Democrat., 1855-04-17

made. The amendment is as follows:
 For paying the expenses of one commission CT and two clerks, employed by the attorney general Tn the investigation directed by the re- solution of the Senate of the Sd of August 1854, TT dollars: Provided, That said reso luton, and any other since adopted relating to 2'the same subject, be, and the same are hereby repealed. The presiding officer. There is blank to be
 Mir. SEBASTIAN. I move to 6l] if with $2,OOO. ' HI U "''n ne motion was agreed to; and the amend. ment was adopted
 MT. SEBASTIAN There is verbal amend ment' to Which have already called the atten- .on oi 'he secretary. It IS in the amend ment Tn relation to the roll of the Cherokees wish to strike out D. W. Sler," and insert "John c. Mollov"
 The correction was made
 Mir. Brown offered an amepdment reouirino the second comptroller to determine what amount IS due by law and equity from the Me- nomonee Indians to Richard W. Thompson. for services rendered as an attorney.
 Mir. SEBASTIAN. shall vote against this amendment for investigating the claim, because, aithough apparently very fair on its face, in the asSertlon of general principle which is harm less, we know now, after the debate that it has speclal reference to the claim of Thompson; ana lt becomes necessary to say something about that clam. The law as it has been heretofore. m reference to the payment of Indian agents, IS as follows: The first was the act of 1847. which was intended to carry out the policy first lnaugurated by commissioner Medill for the political object of breaking down the influence of the chiefs among the Indians, which exist ed before the passage of the first law. reouir. Ing the payments to be made per capita instead Of to the nation. That, however, did not pre- vent the nation giving orders in council on the department for the payment of part of the money--antlcipating it before it passed to the individuals per capita; and that made it neces- sary Tn the Indian appropriation bill of 1852, and Tn almost every Indian appropriation bill since, to put provlso which looked especially 10 the preventing ot payment to the agents, and tor closing down such payments against all artltces and subterfuge to which they could re. sort for payment for their services
 Under the treaty of 1854, made with the Menomonae Indians and which dsposes of the S242,ooo sad to have been obtained in part by Thompson, the payment is to be made per CO., pta' III pursuance of that general policy, and it IS feature which is placed in all our treaties
 
 not to commence until 1867, and is to run through period of fifteen years. That is the position of the fund upon which it is proposed by this investigation to draw in advance The rights of the Indians under that treaty. are for the division of the fund per capita, and it is not to commence to be paid until 1867, because the lndlans have an annuity of 5000 year from thls tune until that period which is supposed to be amply sufficient for the wants of the present generation, so that if you make any attempt 10 appropriate in advance, that fund provided for the wants Of posteritv 1t iaises the question whether, without new treaty. that appropria- ton ot the money can be made. It is very certain that an act less solemn than the act of the natlon Tn open council would not be suff~ clent to give the authority, and would not dis pose of that money; so that, in any event. un- der that treaty, as to this amendment in the one case or the other, it would not be operative. Looking at 1t in the view that what is proposed to be attained by the investigation as entirely ilusory, shall vote against it.
 The amendment was rejected and without final action on the bill the Senate adjourned.
 HoUsE.-After lenghty debate on the Flo rida claim joint resolution it was rejected
 ThwsdaN Feb. 15th
 SENATE.-The bill to increase the salary of the justices of the supreme court, was passed yeas 3O nays 15.
 The lrdian appropriation bill was taken up and considered
 MT. SEBASTIAN I offered an amend ment for the creation of an additional agency for the klckapoo tribe of Indians, and fixed the salary at Sl,OOO. l stated in moving that amount, that had been informed by the dele ta fho kat +ao agency were of the second class have req son to believe that misunderstood that cen- tleman, and that the duties are those of the first class; I, therefore, now ask the unanimous consent of the Senate to fix the salary at Sl 500 instead of S1,OO0.
 By unanimous consent the correction was made.
 The question then recurred upon the follow ing amendment excepted by Mir. Hunter:
 SEc.-. And De at furt]ber enacted, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and required to cause to be paid to the North Carolina Cherokees, embraced in the roll of John c. Molloy or to the legal representatives, of such of them as have died since their enroll ment the sum of $53 33 respectively, for the expensesssof their removal and subsistence, now held in trust by the United States, accordingto to the terms of the fourth section of the act of the 18th of July, Anno Domini 184S; for which purpose there is hereby appropriated the sum of $42, ,29O 69: Provided That each and every Indian so receiving such payment in full shall give their assent thereto: d'ad provide tisrthe,, That said Secretary shall be first satisfied that the State of North Carolina has, before such payment, by some appropriate act, agreed that the said Cherokees may remain permanently in that State anything in the treaty of 1885 to the contrary notwithstanding.
 MT. Hunter. I wish simply to explain to the Senate that, that proposes to take the money out of the treasury to pay these Indians, while the act of 1848 contains this provso:
 Provided, That the amount herein required to be funded for the benefit of the said Chero kee Indians in North Carolina, and the amount required to be paid them, shall be charged to the general Cherokee fund under the treaty of New Echota, and shall be reimbursed there from"
 When it was passed, it was designed to be taken from the Indian fund.- 1 suppose. did not recollact this nrOvisO or ratbor bod no+