New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-19
JOBBERY AT FLASHING TON

Nina chances in ten when there is trouble IA that
State great land monopOlies are at the bottom OIL ~
and in all cases the Indians have been the suueIoi'
This time an attempt to force settlers and Indians 10
comply with the terms of the treaties secuieu "
fragrant fraud has caused the difficulty
THE ORIGINAL RAsCAIITY DISCOVERED.
The general features of the Usage Treaty, when
was denounced by unanimous vote in the house
will be remembered 1t is still pending before tne
Senate and three Senators specially interested III
IT, Mr.. Parton to the contrary nOtwthstand ny ~
proposed to sell tract of land so miles wlue anu
$50 long large portion Of which is as good as any Ill
Kansas, to a railroad company at 10 cents an acre
The manner in which the treaty was extorted from
the Indians has never before been iully known Inc
details as about TO be given, were ascertaneu Oy MI
Clarke during late visit to the Osages, ana nave
been by him communicated TO Commissioner Farker,
Tba text of the treaty was prepared here We'll
known lobby men, and well known officials were
parties to it. The Commissioner OF lndian Ahans'
Col Taylor himself took the paper out 10 secure Ine
consent Of the Indians On arriving in the Usage
couptrr a council was called. and the terms of the
nroposed treaty explained The Indians persistently
refused 70 agree to them. An attempt was made to
use the regular Interpreter against them, and upon
his refusing TO be so used he discharged ny C0m-
| missioner Taylor and a new one appolnted. Ing
railroad men interested. with a crowd OF stflkeIs,
AS Mr. Parton would style them were he called upon
to defend great railroad frauds were all present anu
were all at work among the various bands. o,out
Finally after the council had been III session ABOUT
IS davs without accomplishing anything Col lhyl0r
issued an order that all white men, except the ran,
road officials and their friends, should DO eAcluue9
| from the councl ground. When this was executed
| he made speech to the Usage councillors telIlhg
them in direct terms that the treaty he had Dr9ngnt
was the words of the Great Father that the GIeat
| Father had fully determined to move the Indlans
that the Governor of Kansas was Just north OF the
reservation with as many men ,o al t nnme dawn
and dri We them from the reservation out upon INC
| Plains among their enemies, the hostile ln9lahs
where they would surely be eXtermlnated ana that
! wos the last attempt which would be made to
get them to sign treaty Meahtime, scyeral Oh to
tribe had been approached 10y, DIiDGs, the annuity 1
| goods had been withheld and lay about the Cou-
mssioners quarters rapidly spelling the provisions
| aireadv spoiled, with the declaration regarding
them from Col. Taylor that they should not DC ue
! lIyered till the treaty was signed - 49,,
| Thus set upon, the Indians were hnally driven Dy
sheer necessity to agree to the Infamous traud inns
| ,yos an To sneak the field work of the Government
The attempts to secure its rathcaon by the senate
have been fully disgracetuI as the proceedings
in council, ali Washington writers except MI
d '0A THE COST OF A TREATY.
The exposures made last Winter regarding the
Cherokee Treaty attracted very general attention r.
Somo new facts have been detailed here, which 1t
would be well for Mr. Parton to investigate before he
writes his next defense of Congress.
IL will be remembered that sale OF Cherokee
lands for cash was authorized by treaty. that the
| Secretary of the Interior sold them on time to an
| Emigrant Company that succeeding Secretary set
| the sale aside and agreed TO sell 10 Mr. JOY.
| At this point agents of the Emigrant Company
among them member OF the House, attempted 70
obge Mr. Joy to pay that company dor CERTAIN nn, ~ VI
assume sum already paid into the Treasury by the
company Oh account of the land, this was refused.
For the rest, the statement OF the Prlncpal party
| 70 the treaty to a gentleman well known In the
North West and in this city, and repeated by the
latter here TO the effect that persons in this Con-
| uecticut EmigTant COmpanys JOD had urea IN VAIN
| TO blackmail him; that he absolutely refused the
demands they made upon him; that they subse-
quently offered TO get a supplemental treaty through
! the Senate allowing him TO make time payments
| instead of cash. To this he replied that such an
offer was a matter of business. II no could make
such terms with the Government, of course no could
afford to pay good sum difference between a
cash sale and long credit. The supplemental treaty
was pushed through the Senate. and last year ac-
corlipR to the statement referred TO- 10 the person
indicated, he paid about $4,000 TO late member OF
Congress- for securing the supplemental treaty, Inc
statement further was, that upon the latter DelhB
asked how much of that went 20 a certain Senator,
or Senators he replied, About scyen-tenths"
| Now this statement Is made wholly upon the au-
thorty of "A gentleman well known in political cir
cles aud who repeated il carefully second time,
with the understanding that II was 20 he published
Yonr correspondent could have no means of verify
ing it here The fact that the eXCongressman, both
while member OF Congress ana since mas nsen ah
known here, and IS IN accord with such TRANSACTION
PARTON IN ROC.
The consideration OF such subjects inevitably calls
ND long series of land frauds with which those who
have watched Congress for years are familiar. Be
sides, these innumeTable jobs which have been
sprung here from time 10 time, press upon the mind.
and these naturally bring up the almost inexplicable
efforts of Mr.. Parton TO all these phantoms OF a
| corrupt past down with his quill. When he diyed
into the clouds of Pittsburgh smoke and told OF hor
people, mines great furnaces, huge black machinery
and all the wonders of her mighty working, he really
brought light for thousands Of readers out OF that
thick darkness
But when he plunged into the fogs of Washington
IT would if all error walked there before him
distorted into truth.
phases for years, and especially 10 those who have
made the jobbng of Senators aud members a mat
ter of constant Investigation, the paper of Mr. Par
ton will appear to deserve the term "a whtewashing
| document. as richly as any which has ever been
| written since the term was invented And yet Mr.
Parton was probably honest in all he wrote. lilo
came here to write up the Lobby In three days
everybody knew the object of his visit Senators
knew il, Members knew it, the Lobby knew 1t. ReD-
resentatives of each class put themselves on their
good behavior invited him To dinner ana asked INN
TO paint their portraits. 1t was ut time when each
| class very sensitive. The press OF the country
had been holding up the vail which had hidden them
All jobs were languishing. The spoils were slipping
ont of expectant hands. Senator's were suffering III
character. SO all classes had their grievances, and
| all iweTe ready to tell him. as they sat with HIM
around the well filled boards how irresponsible and
careless writer's filling Ithe couRtry with false
statements, and that all the trouble and all the SIN
| rested on the shoulders Of few low fellows, the
strikers of the lobby
And thus for three weeks he dined around among
the accused and coRStagtly eskeg tagm they We're T
| kulllS ao Vbd BCd', no CONSTANTLY
they not, and Of these assurances he took cop
ous notes. and after long reflection upon their mani
fest wrongs, brought in O verdict not only OF not
| guilty, but of wholly honest. And III the same
breath he pronounces the accusers guilty.
| Mr.. Parton states the precise proposition that
| Members of Congress do not sell their votes for
| money And having established to his own satisfac-
ton that they never put exact price upon their
votes which they receive in cash. ho attmpts TO draw
conclusion for his readers that these Members and
| Senators do not become interested in jobs.
The idea that Con gressmen receive certain sum OF
money which is agreed upon beforehand, for their
votes have never been Of sufficient prominence here