The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-06-19
HOUSE.

reconsider the vote by which the JOINT
resolution was passed giving twenty
per cent. additional compensation TO the
civil employees of the government Mt
Washington.
Mr.. Washburne, of Illinois, moved to
lay the motion to reconsider on the Ia
BILE.
The House refused and then the vote
passing the resolution was recOnsidercd.
The resolution was then tabled.
Mr.. CLARK, of Kansas, from the com
mittee on Indian Affairs, made report
on the subject of u treaty recently made
with the Great and Little Usage for the
ccssion to the Leavenworth, Lawrence
l. Galveston Railroad Company of two
million acres of land III Southern
Kansas at about nineteen cents an acre.
The report, after rociting The facts, con.
cludes that the treaty is in violation Of
the rights of the settlers and of justice
To the Indians, and recommends the
adoption Of the following resolution:
ReSOlred, AS the sense of the House OF
Representatives, that the treaty con-
Guided OH the 9th of May, 1868, with
the Great and Little Usage tribes of In
dams, both i'll it's express terms and
stipulatomS and in the means employed
to procure their acceptance by the In
dams is IN outrage on their rights, that
in transferring to a single railroad cor
poration eight millions of acres
of land, it not only disregards
the right aud interest of other railroad
corporations in the State of Kansas, and
builds up frightful land monopoly in
defiance of the just rights of settlers
and of the people of the United States,
but it assumes the authority re-
pcatedly denied by this House to dis
pose of those lands by treaty, other
wise than by absolute cessi0n to the
United States, and for purposes for
which Congress alone is competent TO
provide.
RcSOlred, That this House hereby sol
emnly and earnestly protest against the
ratification of said pretended treaty by
the Senate, and will feel bound to re-
fuse any appropriations in its behalf, or
recognize its validity in any form.
ReSOired, That Il copy of the foregoing
resolutions be transmitted to the Senate
of the United States.
Mr.. Clark addressed the House in JUS
tilicatiOn of tho report and resolutions.
Mr.. SclOiicld, Il member of the COM
mittee on Indian Affairs, took the
ground that the treaty making power
did not give to the President and Sen
ate the right to ALLEVIATE any part of the
National domain to which these Indian
lands belong. 1t required the action of
Congress TO do so.
Mr.. Julian denounced the treaty. The
Commissioners who made it, n. G. Tay
lor, Thomas Murphy, A. G. Boone
and Major Snow, agent OF the
Osages, and he said instead of
it being an Indian commission it was a
thieving commission, and every act
in the transaction branded the parties
to 1t as thieves, and he (Juliau) brand
ed them, in the name of honest people
everywhere, as thieves appointed by
the President and who were doing their
work with n skill and workmanship
that Transcribed anything in his expe-
riencc. This commission must not be
COMPOUNDED with the Indian Peace Com
mission which had gone out on neble
errand. A commission appointed to ne
gotiate this Swindle, swindle which he
understood WAS shaped up in Washing
ton City year ago. These pretended
commissioners had lent themselves to
a thieving railroad corporation for the
purpose of cheating the Indians out of
their rights and cheating the United
States, aud the honest settlers denounce
it rs al act which makes the ordinary
inmates of penitentiaries decent and re-
spectacle men, if not Christians, in
comparison with. these Commissioners.
He denounced and branded them. and
invoked the action Of the House, in the
name of deceucy and common justice,
to adopt the resolutions.
Mr.. Sharks also denounced the trea-
ty as Que of those things that stamp
with infamy all the proceedings of the
cursed administration.
Mr. Shellabarger argued against the
ability of the treaty making power to
ALLEVIATE part of the national domain.
Mr.. Cary declared himself in favor of
the resolutions.
Mr. Clarke, of Kansas, by instructions
from the committee on Indian Affairs,
modified the second resolution so rs To
substitute the following for it:
LtSOFCuy IuC Scust vi IIlC
House that the object, terms, condi-
tions and stipulations of the aforesaid
pretended treaty are not withiH treaty
making power, nor are they authorized
either by the Constitution or laws of
the United States, aud therefore, this
House does hereby solemnly condemn
the same, and does also earnestly, but
respectfully, express the hope and ex-
pectatiOn that the Senate will not rati-
fly the said pretended treaty. The reso-
buttons were agreed to without divi-
sion.
Mr.. Cook, from the committee on
Elections, made report on the Mis-
souri, contested election case of Hogan
against Pile, with resolution that Pile,
the sitting member was daily elected.
Mr.. Chandler presented the minority
report and the reports were ordered to
be printed for future action.
The House ut half past two o'clock
proceeded to- business of the morning
hour.
Mr.. Boutwell, reported . bill to pro-
vide for an appeal from the Court OF
Iialms, modifying and essentially linn
lung the jurisdiction of that Court.
hr. Washburne, of Illinois, offered as
an amendment an additional section,
directing the Clerk of the Court OF
Claims to transmit to Congress at the
commencement of each December SEES.
sion n full and complete statement of
all judgments rendered, together with
brief synopsis of the claims.
The amendment was agreed to and
the bill passed. lee rnrag
. Mr.. Thomas reported q bill relieving
carrying companies from liability for
DOSAGE caused by the forces of the late
rebellion, or by the forces of the United
States.
I Mr.. Thomas explainedSths bill and
had letters read showing the necessity