The New York herald., 1868-06-19
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WASHINGTON, June IS, 1856
APPOINTMENTS ON COMMITTEES.


The SPEAKER announced that he had appointed
Mr.. Delano, of ohio to I'LL vacancy ON the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs and Mr.. Knott, Of Ken
tucky, to fill vacancy on the Committee Of Expen-
ditures in the Interior Department, instead Of Mr
Morgan, Of Ohio.
On motion OF Mr.. BINGHAM (rep) Of Ohio, there
was call of the house. and one hundred and twenty
members answered to their Names
ADDITIONAL PAY TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.
MI BINGHAM called up the motion to reconsider
the vote by which the joint resolution was passed
giving twenty per cent additional compensation to
the civil employees Of the government at Washington
MT WAsnBuRN, rep9 OF Ind, moved to lay the
motion to reconsider on the table.
Mr.. ELIOT, (rep.) Of Mass suggested that the last
clause Of the joint resolution had not been under
stood by many members who voted for the reso-
Mr.. WAsHBURN, of Ind, offered to Mr.. Bingham
to have the bill recOnsidered and left open to amend
ment.
Mr. BINGHAM declined to enter into any stipu-
lation.
The House refused to lay the motion to reconsider
the tabe-yeas 46, nays SO. The vote passing the
joint resolution then reconsidered, and the joint
resolution before the House TOR action.
The SPEAKER said that he had been requested by
committee representing the clerks IN the depart
ments TO state that the applause on the passage OF
the resolution few days since was disapproved by
them. They desired the statement to be made lest
the occurrence might prejudice them in the eyes of
the House OF Representatives.
Mr.. BINGHAM moved to lay the joint resolution on
the table.
Mr.. WAsHBuRN, of Ind, desired first to have the
bill amended
Mr.. BINGHAM declined to make any such conces-
The vote was taken and the joint resolution was
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THE PROPOSED TREATY WITH THE GREAT AND LIT
TIE OsAGE INDIANS.
Mr.. CLARKE, Qep.) OF Kansas, from the Committee
on indian Affairs, made report upon the subject OF
the treaty recently made with the Great and Little
Usage Indians for the cession to the LeavenwOrth,
Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company OF eight
million acres OF land in Southern Kansas at about
nineteen cents an acre. The report, after recting
the facts, concludes 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 resO-
lutions:-
That the treaty concluded on the ah Of May sss with the
Great and Little Usage tribes Of Indians both In its
their acceptance BY the Indians an outrage their rights
on. @ Of scrss Of lands not only dsssards the rights
and interests of other railroad corporations in the
Of rights Of settlers and % the Of
denied by this House dispose Of those lands 6y treaty
otherwise than BY absolute session to the United States and
p1Ge ISG Tor which Congress alone competent to
Resolved That this House does hereby soemny and car
nesy protest agans. the ratification of said pretended
by the Senate and will feel bound to refuse appropra
Resolved, That copy OF the foregoing resolutions be
Mr.. CLARKE, OF Kansas, addressed the House In
justification Of the report and OF the resolutions
Mr.. SCoriELp, trepD OF Pa, member of the Com
mittee on Indian AlIairs took the ground that the
and the Senate the right to ALLEVIATE any part OF the
national domain, 70 which these Indian lands really
Belonged 1t required the action OF Congress TO do So
Mr.. JULIAN, (rep.) Of Ind, denounced the treaty
and the commissioners who made il, name,y:-N. c.
Taylor, Thomas Murphy, A. g. Boone and Major
Snow Agent OF the 0sages. He said that instead of
Its being an Indian Commission 1t was q theving
commission every act in the transaction branded
the parties as thieves, and he (Mr. Julian branded
them in the name OF honest people every
where as thieves appointed by the President,
and who were doing their work with a
IN his experience. This commission must not be
confounded with the Indian Peace Commission
which had gone out on a noble errand IL was a
special commission appointed by the President to
negotiate this swindle-a swindle that he under
stood was cooked and shaped up In Washington CITY
a year ago. These pretended Indian Commissioners
had lent themselves to thieving railroad corpora
tions for the purpose of cheating the Indians Of
their rights and OF cheating the United States and
the honest settlers on those lands. He denounced it
act which makes the ordinary inmates OF jails
and peuitentaries decent and respectable men, II
not Christians In comparison with these commits
siOners. AS such he denounced and branded them,
and invoked the action OF the House. in the name OF
decency, IN the name OF common justice, to adopt
the resolutions
Mr.. SBANKs, (rep.) OF Ind, also denounced the
treaty as one OF those things that stamp with infamy
ell the proceedings OF this accursed administration.
Mr. SmELABAReER, irepl OF Ohio, argued against
the ability OF the treaty making power to ALLEVIATE
part OF the national domain.
Mr. CARY, rep.) OF Ohio, declared himself in favor
OF the resolutions. IL was the duty Of the House. 80
far as possible To arrest the gigantic swinde AS to
the assertion made by the gentleman from Indiana
(Mr Shanks) that the treaty an act OF this in
fernal administration, he had only to say that the
President the senate and the Usage Indians had had
bad precedents established. This was but another
OF the swindes practsed on the people in reference
to the public lands. IL had precedent In the Pa
cihc Railroad to which, besides money subsidy
nearly large enough to build the road, Congress had
given land enough to make four such States az
New York, Pennsylvana, ohio and Indiana and have
enough left TO make two States like Massachusetts.
No wonder, then, that the untutored savages, with
such an example before them, were willing to give
away eight million acres OF land to little contempt
ible railroad which did not come near the land. The
whole system was swtnde.
Mr.. CLARK, OF Kansas, by instructions Of the Com
mittee on Indian Affairs modified the second resou
tiou 80 as TO substitute the following for IT.
Resolved the OF the House. That the OBJ terms
conditions aud puatiens of the Aforesaid pretended treaty
are not within treaty making power nor they authorized
therefore this House does hereby soemny the
and does also earnestly but respectfully the hope and
expectation that the Senate will not ra the said pretended
treaty.
The resolutions were agreed TO without division.
CONTESTED ELECTION CASES.
Mr.. Cook (rep.) Of ILL.,, from the Committee on Elec-
tions, made report on the Missouri contested cleo
tion case OF Mr. Hogan against Mr. Pile with reso-
luton that Mr. Pile tthe sitting member) was duly
elected.
Mr.. CHASLER, tdem.) Of N. y, presented minority
report.
The reports were ordered to be printed for future
action.
Mr. COOK gave notice that he would on Saturday
next cali up the Kentucky contested election case OF
Mr.. Mckee against Mr.. Young, RS be understood that