The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-19
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CONGRESS.
wAsH1NaroS, June Is.
SENATE,

Military Affairs, reported with an
amendment the bill to establish rules
and articles for the armies OF the United
States.
Elementary to the act to allow the
United States to prosecute appeals and
writs of error, without giving security,
which was passed.
Mr.. Trumbull also called up the bill
relative to the Supreme Court OF the
United States. It deyolveS upon the
senior Associate Justice, the ONCE OF
the Chief Justice, in case of the tnabit-
ty of the latter, Rntil the Inability De
removed. The bill was passed.
Mr.. Chandler, Chairman OF the Com
mittee of Commerce, called up the fol-
lowing bills, which were passed: A bill
to amend the act to prevent and punish
poses, approved March 1st, 1858; q Bib
to extend the collection district of the
State of Michigan; bill repeating Sec
ton of an act concerning registry and
recording of ships or vessels, approved
December SIst, 1892.
Mr.. Howe called up from the Com
mittee on Indian Affairs bill TO ap-
propriate money to sustain the Indian
Commission, and carry out the rules
made thereby. whichwas passed.
A bill for the relief of certain export
ers of distilled spirits was called up by
Mr.. Morgan, and was rejected. II re-
lieved rum and acohol contracted for
prior to the act of January IL, 1868.
Mr.. Cattell;' from the Committee on
Finance. reported back the bill, re-
Gently published, to provide for the
further issue of temporary loan for the
purpose of redet ming and retiring the
remainder of the outstanding COM
amendment.
The Senate went into executive ses-
sion, and soon adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Bingham called up the motion
to reconsider the vote by which the
joint resolution was passed giving 20
per cent. additional compensation to
Washington.
Mr.. Washburhe. of Illinois. moved to
lay the motion to reconsider on the
table.
The House refused, and then the
vote passing the resolution was recon-
sidered. The resolution was then ta-
bIed.
Mr.. Clark, of Kansas, from the Com
mittee on Indian Affairs, made n re-
port on the subject of the treaty re-
Gently made with the Great and Little
Usage Indians for cession to the Lea
venworth, Lawrence and Galveston
Railroad Company of 5000, ,00O acres of
land in Southern Kansas at about
nineteen cents an acre. The report,
after reeitiuR the facts, concludes that
the treaty is in violation of the rights
of settlers and justice to the Indians.
and recommends the adoption OF the
following resolution:
ReSolVed, AS the sense of the House
of Representatives, that the treaty con-
cluded on the 9th of May, 1868, with
the Great and Little Usage tribes of
Indians, both In its express terms and
stipulations, and in the means eLa-
plOyed to procure their acceptance by
the Indians, is an outrage on their
rights; that in transferring to single
| railroad corporation 5000, 600 acres of
| land, il not only disregards the rights
and interests of other railroad corpora
tions in the State of Kansas and builds
up a frightful land monopoly in de-
fiance of the just:rights of settlers and
| of the people OF the United States, but
1t assumes the authority, repeatedly
denied by this House, TO dispose of
those lands by treaty otherwise than
| by absolute cession to the United
States, and for purposes for which
Congress alone Is competent to pro-
vide.
Resolved, That this House does here
by solemnly protest against the ratiti-
cation of said pretended treaty by the
Senate, and will feel bound TO refuse
any appropriations in its behalf, or
/ recognizes llS VAllulLJ III any AOELhs
RESOLVED, That copy OF the torego-
| ing resolutions be transmitted to the
Senate of the United States.
| Mr.. Clark addressed the House In
| justification of the report and resolu-
tions.
sMr. Schofield, member of the Com
| mittee on Indian Affairs, took the
ground that the treaty-makinR-po power
| did not give to the President and Sem
ate the right to ALLEVIATE any part OF the
national domain to which these Indian
lands belonged. 1t required the action
of Congress to do SO.
Mr.. Julian denounced the treaty.
The Commissioners who made it. n. G..
Taylor, Thos. Murphy, A. G. Roane
and Major Snow, agents of the Osages;
he said instead of it being an Indian
| Commission it was thieving commits
sion. Every act in the transaction
branded the parties to it as thieves, and
| he (Julian) branded them in the name
/ of honest people everywhere as thieves
| appointed by the President, and who
| were doing their work with skill and
workmanship :that transcribed any
thinEin his experience. This commits
sion must not be confounded with the
Indian Peace Commission. which had
| gone out on a noble erFand, commits
sion appointed to negotiate this swim
die. a sWindle he understood was
| shaped up in Washington city year
ago. These pretended commissioners
| had lent themselves to thieving Rail-
road corporations for the purpose OF
cheating the Indians out of their rights
and cheating the United States and
honest settlers on those lands. He de-
nounced it as an act which makes the
ordinary inmates of penitentiartes de-
cent and respectable men, if not chris
tianS, in comparison with these COM
missioners. Hedenounced and brand
ed them and invoked the action OF the
House, in the name of decency and
common justice, to adopt the resolu-
tioDs.
treaty as one of those things that stamp
with infamy all the proceeds of the nc
cursed administration.
| Mr.. Shellabarger argued against the
ability of the treaty making power to
aIeniate part of the national domain.
/ Mr.. Cary declared himself in favor
of the resolutions.
Mr.. Clark, of Kansas, by instructions
from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
modified the second resolution SO as to
substitute the following for it.
Resolved, As the sense of the House
that the object, terms, conditions and
stipulations of the aforesaid pretended
treaty, are not within the treaty ma
king power, nor are they authori-
zed to either by the Constitution or
laws of the United States, and, there
fore, this House does hereby solemly
condemn the same, and does earnestly,
but respectfully express the hope and
i expectation that the Senate will not
raftfy the said pretended treaty.
The resolutions were agreed TO with
out division.
Mr.. Cook, IRON the Committee on